A number of years ago there was a stall in Glasgow's Barras market which sold huge posters which were designed to be put on advertising hoardings by Mr Bill Posters. It may well still be there for all I know.
Anyhow, I had a pretty much life sized poster of Grace Jones which hung proudly on my bedroom wall for a good few years and which scared the bejesus out of any tradesman popping in to carry out some maintenance!
All of which is somewhat of a preamble to sharing with you a couple of tracks from her 1981 Nightclubbing album on the Island label.
Grace Jones - Pull Up to the Bumper
Grace Jones - Nightclubbing
A life-size Grace Jones on your bedroom wall? How did you sleep, man? How did you sleep???
ReplyDeleteNervously!
DeleteThe life size poster is a somewhat terrifying thought. Fine pair of tunes though.
ReplyDeleteAs in above comments, I was just thinking what a great burglar deterrent the poster would be. Every home should have one...
ReplyDeleteI remember having the cassette of that album and playing it on my Walkman when I was at college, oh how that puts it in a timeframe! It was an odd addition to my collection at the time which was mostly post-punk/early goth/tribal stuff. But somehow it fitted. Still sounds good.
It was only very recently that I realised what Pull To The Bumper is actually about.
ReplyDeleteI was such an innocent child...
You and me both Rol
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