But the brooding, minimalist track inherently lacks the sheen of Studio 54, and on all of Nightclubbing, Jones was actively stepping away from disco-associating the radical avant-garde artist with only that era is extremely reductive, really. After all, it’s not Iggy Pop who’s emblematic of the most famous nightclub of all time. And the title track, a cover from Iggy Pop’s 1977 solo debut, improves upon the original. ![]() Her sound and image is as majestic as it is threatening. The album cover didn’t need to do much work because Jones is a literal walking piece of cubist art. ![]() The album’s melding of left-field pop, New Wave, reggae, dance-pop and funk sent a shockwave through the music world, and it was unbelievably cohesive, stark and burly. Grace Jones’ fifth studio album, Nightclubbing is just as musically multifaceted as it is visually.
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