Tom Tom Club

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* Audio CD (October 25, 1990)
* Original Release Date: 2000
* Number of Discs: 1
* Label: Sire / London/Rhino
* Catalog Number: 3628
* ASIN: B000002KN3
* Other Editions: Audio Cassette
* Average Customer Review: based on 26 reviews. (Write a review.)
* Amazon.com Sales Rank: #6,444 in Music (See Top Sellers in Music)
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1. Wordy Rappinghood Listen Listen
2. Genius Of Love Listen Listen
3. Tom Tom Theme Listen Listen
4. L'Elephant Listen Listen
5. As Above, So Below Listen Listen
6. Lorelei Listen Listen
7. On, On, On, On... Listen Listen
8. Booming And Zooming Listen Listen
9. Under The Boardwalk Listen Listen
10. Lorelei (Remix) Listen Listen
11. Wordy Rappinghood (Remix) Listen Listen
12. Genius Of Love (Long Version) Listen Listen
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Talking Heads drummer Chris Franz and bassist Tina Weymouth formed Tom Tom Club to continue exploring the polyrhythmic experiments conducted on the Heads' Remain in Light release. On this self-titled debut, the husband-and-wife team mixed urban and arty new wave elements, generating two mammoth dance-floor hits. "Wordy Rappinghood" is a study in art-school rap as it percolates along with the help of funk beats and synthesized bleeps. The brilliant "Genius of Love" gives props to James Brown. A slow, slinky funk masterpiece, it includes call-and-response vocals, a rap, and a lilting melody. "L'Elephant" is a pure delight, rollicking like a nursery rhyme from some ultrahip daycare center. The band also tackles the doo-wop standard "Under the Boardwalk," though it feels like a mere novelty item. Still, Tom Tom Club proves that David Byrne wasn't the only genius in Talking Heads. --Steve Gdula
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5 of 5 people found the following review helpful:
WAY AHEAD OF ITS TIME...where is CLOSE TO THE BONE on CD??, November 27, 2004
Reviewer: G. Mitchell "greggmitch" (Los Angeles, CA United States) - See all my reviews
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I remember buying the 7" 45 of GENIUS OF LOVE in junior high school and playing it until it literally wore out! The rest of this seminal, funky, ground-breaking "side project" is actually more groovy than many TH albums...TOM TOM CLUB was WAS and still IS way ahead of its time - so much so that people STILL sample tracks of this to score "hits" today...BUT I must ask, since the debut is on CD and all of Talking Heads CDs, WHY WHY WHY won't WB re-issued the SECOND and sadly OOP CD from TTC -"CLOSE TO THE BONE" - with equally infectious cuts like THE MAN WITH THE FOUR-WAY HIPS, PLEASURE OF LOVE, and more - this album NEEDS to be on CD, PLEASE!! (Amazing endearing kooky cover art on both LPs!)

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9 of 10 people found the following review helpful:
'80's soul electrolysis "side project", April 25, 2000
Reviewer: Allan Harrison (Buckingham, UK.) - See all my reviews
Self-confessed "night-club band" Tom Tom Club's finest hour. The opening sound of a typewriter sets the scene for an album that veers from rhythm-based world music-influences to electro-funk, to primeval hip-hop, to doo-wop standards, to pure, simple pop. It's a great '80s album, free of pretension and full to bursting with great artistic vision and talent for pop infliction. The not-guilty homage of "Genius Of Love" is the finest moment, a timeless piece of funky pop music with its brilliantly shambling girl rap that pretty much encapsulates everything that was savvy about the era. Elsewhere, the chorus singing of "L'Elephant" is quirky but not overdone, while "Wordy Rappinghood" extends the hip-hop element of "Genius Of Love" to almost comic levels. Overall, it's a still-fresh and funky album. Highly recommended, if only for the reason that it makes you realize that the 80's weren't that bad after all.… (meer)