Close to the Bone (Tom Tom Club album)
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| Studio album by Tom Tom Club | ||||
| Released | July 1983 | |||
| Recorded | Compass Point Studios, Nassau, Bahamas | |||
| Genre | New wave, funk | |||
| Length | 37:32 | |||
| Label | US: Sire/Warner Bros. Records 23916 UK: Island/PolyGram Records (non US) Argentina: A&M |
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| Producer | Chris Frantz, Tina Weymouth, Steven Stanley | |||
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| Robert Christgau | C+ |
Close to the Bone is an album by the Tom Tom Club that was released in 1983. The Club's musicians are Wally Badarou; Tyrone Downie; Chris Frantz; Roddy Frantz; Rupert Hine; Raymond Jones; Steve Scales; Steven Stanley; Alex Weir; and sisters Lani, Laura, and Tina Weymouth. The album was released on compact disc for the first time on May 19, 2009, as a part of a two-CD deluxe package with the band's first album, Tom Tom Club, as part of Universal Music's deluxe editions series.
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The album spent 13 weeks on the U.S. Billboard album charts and reached its peak position of #73 in early September 1983.
Two tracks from the album were released as singles, "Pleasure of Love" and "The Man With The 4-Way Hips", the latter reaching number 82 in the UK Singles Chart in August 1983.
Recorded and mixed by Steven Stanley, Benjamin Armbrister, Frank Hanna and Kendall Stubbs
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