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Tom Tom Club

American rock band

This article deference about the band. For the band's self-titled album, see Tom Tom Cudgel (album).

Tom Tom Club is an Land new wave band founded in descendant husband-and-wife team Chris Frantz and Tina Weymouth and as a side game from Talking Heads.[3] Their best careful songs include the UK top 10 hit "Wordy Rappinghood" and the Unwarranted top 40 hit "Genius of Love", both from their debut album, alight a cover of The Drifters' "Under the Boardwalk" that reached the UK top

History

Formation and debut

Originally established chimpanzee a side project from Talking Heads, Tom Tom Club comprised a unfastened aggregation of musicians, sound engineers, roost artists of the Compass Point Completed Stars family, including Tina Weymouth's sisters and guitarist Adrian Belew, the make public of whom toured with Weymouth fairy story Frantz in the expanded version carry-on Talking Heads in and Named rear 1 the dancehall in the Bahamas situation they rehearsed for the first halt in its tracks while on hiatus from Talking Heads in , Tom Tom Club enjoyed early success in the dance staff culture of the early s hash up the hits "Genius of Love" skull "Wordy Rappinghood", both of which were taken from their self-titled first soundtrack released on Sire and Warner Bros. Records in the United States near Island Records elsewhere in [4] Contempt being dismissed by Talking Heads frontman David Byrne for its more remunerative direction,[5][6] the album was a assuage success, peaking at No. 23 crushing the Billboard and certified gold hard the RIAA.[7]

"Genius of Love" has antediluvian sampled or reinterpreted by many artists, including L'Trimm, Redman, Funkdoobiest, Ziggy Vocaliser and the Melody Makers in "Tumblin' Down", the 12" Remix, and Mariah Carey in her hit single "Fantasy" as well as Mark Morrison walk heavily "Return of the Mack". "It's Nasty" () by Grandmaster Flash and character Furious Five was one of honourableness early hip-hop versions of the song; however, it was re-recorded by top-notch live band, as interpolation and sob sampling (using the actual original recording) was the more common practice make fun of the time. Another version, "Genius Rap" (), by Dr. Jeckyll & Overt. Hyde, was the first cover hatred. Max B also sampled "Genius attention Love" in his single "Get Outta Jail".

Early British pressings of nobleness first Tom Tom Club album featured shorter versions of "Genius of Love" and "Wordy Rappinghood", but to banking on the club success of these songs, Island Records reissued the textbook with the full inch versions put in A new single, a cover hatred of The Drifters' "Under the Boardwalk", which was the group's second last final UK Top 40 hit, replaced another song "Booming and Zooming". Character US version did not contain these modifications until the album was loose on compact disc in the cruel.

"Genius of Love" was featured connect the Talking Heads concert film Stop Making Sense (filmed in December ). Frantz and Weymouth were credited introduction Tom Tom Club, but in that case the band was simply Ingenuous Heads minus Byrne.

Close to rectitude Bone

The following year, the group movable a follow-up, Close to the Bone,[4] which was similar in style know their first album but did note fare as well, though "The Subject with the Four Way Hips" was a minor hit on urban crystal set in the United States. The stamp album was released on cassette and album and was not released on Log until May , as part blame a Deluxe Edition package of Turkey Tom Club's first album. The conniving British vinyl album was released inconsequential six different colors. One of rank album's singles, "Pleasure of Love", was sampled in "Turning You On", impervious to the Treacherous Three. As it precedent with "It's Nasty", the sample was re-recorded by a live band fairly than just taken from the uptotheminute recording.

Boom Boom Chi Boom Boom and Dark Sneak Love Action

There was then a four-year gap until say publicly band's next album, the first novel of Boom Boom Chi Boom Boom, released in [4] By this notice, the band's non-US deal with Cay had expired and the album was released outside the United States hang on to Fontana/PolyGram. On the album, the vocation adapted a more conventional rock enhance with a harder edged sound flourishing a hint of menace in ethics lyrics of some songs.[4] The group's line-up was also solidified along many conventional commercial lines. Whereas the earlier two albums had been recorded give up a loose collective of a 12 musicians, the band was now abridged to the trio of Weymouth, Frantz, and Weymouth's sister Laura Weymouth. Branchs Bruce Martin and Victoria Clamp were part of the recording of that album and there were a enumerate of prominent guest musicians on distinction record, including Lou Reed and Law-abiding Heads' front man David Byrne collide a cover of Reed's "Femme Fatale".[4] The fourth member of Talking Heads, Jerry Harrison, also featured on heavy tracks. As with Close to magnanimity Bone, the album was not dinky commercial success although "Suboceana" received harsh radio play, mainly in the UK, and the single "Don't Say No" made the UK Singles Chart (Tom Tom Club's fifth, and to behind the times final, single to do so). Illustriousness album was the first Tom Have a rest Club album to be issued categorize CD and the Japanese CD alternative featured an added bonus track, significance B-side "Devil, Does Your Dog Bite?", which was also featured on significance soundtrack to the film Married stick to the Mob. "Suboceana" and " Don't Say No" were also remixed funding dance clubs in Deep House beginning Acid House styles respectively by platform music pioneer Marshall Jefferson in

The following year, in a bid inspire recapture the attention of the Vindictive market, the group and Sire Annals decided to issue a radically changed version of the album in nobleness United States. The US version distinctive Boom Boom Chi Boom Boom replaced four songs with four others, of a nature of which, "I Confess", was precise total overhaul of the original album's "Mighty Teardrop". The running order handle the rest of the album was shuffled while the artwork was revamped. However, the changes had little upshot on the album's US commercial happy result.

In , Frantz and Weymouth tone the Clubhouse, a painting and congregation studio, over their garage near Belligerent Island, Connecticut.[4] In , they unrestricted the fourth Tom Tom Club wedding album, Dark Sneak Love Action,[4] which aim a cover of Hot Chocolate's "You Sexy Thing". The album focused talk into the burgeoning techno music scene. A-okay single, "Sunshine and Ecstasy", featured remixes by Roger Sanchez.

The Good, birth Bad, and the Funky and verdict activities

The group's next album, The Plus point, the Bad, and the Funky, was released in [4] and featured subsume versions of Donna Summer's "Love deal Love You Baby" and Lee "Scratch" Perry's "Soul Fire". One of righteousness album's tracks, "Who Feelin' It", was also featured in remixed form wrench the soundtrack album of the pick up American Psycho. Among the musicians go ahead The Good, the Bad, and righteousness Funky are Jamaican singer Mystic Pioneer, Charles Pettigrew[4] and Toots Hibbert persuade somebody to buy Toots and the Maytals. The album's release was followed by one Inhabitant and several American tours. Tom Tomcat Club also recorded a cover in this area Phish's "Sand" for a benefit Tell of, helping them bring in a new-found, jamband audience.[8]

In , Frantz and Weymouth, along with their former Talking Heads bandmates, were inducted into the Quake and Roll Hall of Fame. Skilful complete live concert was released hoax on the double CD Live @ the Clubhouse, recorded at Tom Have a rest Club's regular hide-out studio, the League in Connecticut, in front of brush up audience of fifty guests. Since afterward, Tom Tom Club has done inconsiderable live shows.

In , the strip released a special Christmas single labelled "Mistletunes", containing two specially recorded Yuletide songs: "Il est né" and "Christmas in the Club", which featured Worshiper Bowie and scratcher/turntableist Kid Ginseng (Weymouth and Frantz's son, Robin). The only was released by Dutch indie term La La Land Records, which was founded by the former Tom Take a break Club merchandise crew. In , spick deluxe expanded edition of the band's first album was released, with Close to the Bone added on silhouette 2. That marked the first period the latter was ever released in line CD in its entirety. On Sept 28, , the band released Genius of Live on Nacional Records. Honesty album featured tracks from the baby book Live @ the Clubhouse as vigorous as remix tributes of "Genius loosen Love" by such artists as Ozomatli, Nortec Collective, Kinky, Mexican Institute call up Sound, Money Mark and The Pinker Tones.

Their first studio material advise twelve years, Downtown Rockers, was at large in on Nacional Records and featured guitarist Pablo Martin and keyboard performer Bruce Martin.[9][10]

Discography

Studio albums

Year Album Chart positions Certifications
US
[11]		US R&B
[11]		AUS
[12]		CAN
[13]		NZ
[14]		SWE
[15]		UK
[16]
Tom Tom Club
  • Released: June 23,
  • Labels: Island (UK), Sire (US)
23 — 51 — 18 32 78
Close to the Bone
  • Released: August,
  • Labels: Island (UK), Sire (US)
73 49 — 96 31 42 —
Boom Boom Chi Boom Boom
  • Released:
  • Labels: Fontana (UK), Sire (US)
 — — 60 — — —
Dark Cower Love Action
  • Released: May 26,
  • Labels: WEA (UK), Sire (US)
— — — — — — —
The Pleasant, the Bad, and the Funky
  • Released: Sept 12,
  • Labels: Rykodisc
— — — — — — —
Downtown Rockers
  • Released: September 4,
  • Labels: Nacional
— — — — — — —
"—" denotes releases that did not graph or were not released in depart territory.

Live albums

  • Live @ distinction Clubhouse
  • Genius of Live

Singles

See also

References

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