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List Price: $9.98 | | Label: Island
Salesrank: 142043
Released: October 21, 2003 |
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20th Century Masters - The Millennium Collection: The Best of Grace Jones Track Listing:
1. Vie en Rose
2. Private Life
3. Love Is the Drug
4. Breakdown
5. Warm Leatherette
6. Walking in the Rain
7. Pull Up to the Bumper
8. I've Seen That Face Before (Libertango)
9. Demolition Man
10. My Jamaican Guy
11. Nipple to the Bottle [12" Version]
20th Century Masters - The Millennium Collection: The Best of Grace Jones Reviews:
Average, Not complete 
2009-09-30 - Only a few of Graces's hits appear on this CD, songs bring back memories, but you would be much better off buying a more complete collection. I missed the "next page" when looking..so if you must buy..get the 2cd set ultimate collection, that has all her big hits! So for me, to fill out her hit list..I have been purchasing what I am missing with MP3 downloads..
Skimpy Collection
2007-02-03 - Although all of these tracks are very good, there are many Grace Jones compilations that are more comprehensive. La Vie En Rose is the only track from her 1970s disco trilogy, from the debut album Portfolio. The albums Fame and Muse are not represented at all.
The other songs are from the 1980s albums Warm Leatherette, Nightclubbing and Living My Life. Brilliant albums like Bulletproof Heart and Inside Story are completely ignored although they contain some of her most melodious and memorable songs like Amado Mio, Someone To Love, I'm Not Perfect and Inside Story.
As regards the other compilations, I recommend The Collection or The Grace Jones Story and for Grace Jones completists, The Ultimate Collection, a 3-disc set. Having said that, this Millennium Collection includes great songs like the awesome Warm Leatherette, the evocative Walking In The Rain, the risque Pull Up To The Bumper, the charming Libertango and the rhythmically innovative My Jamaican Guy. It showcases only a very small part of the genius of this remarkable artist.
Grace Jones - sanitized and bubblewrapped 
2005-11-13 - The titles included in this CD are indeed a good representation of Grace Jones's work. The 'remastering', however, is not.
Every single track on this compilation has been reworked to dull down Grace's raw, edgy power. It's as though a roomful of suit-and-tie record executives lifted Grace's vocals and laid them across Lawrence Welk arrangements, the result being that everything that makes Grace Jones blow your mind has been comfortably pasteurized for the coffeetable chitchat set.
God forbid Grace should make anyone uncomfortable, or challenge their perceptions in any way. No, let's just turn down the volume and put a nice, safe audio bow on her.
Save your money, buy the original recordings, and pull up to the bumper, baby.
GRACE JONES PERSONIFIES ETHNIC BEAUTY LIKE LAURYN HILL & ERYKAH BADU "I LOVE THEM"!!!! 
2005-06-29 - GRACE JONES' & SADES' MUSIC IS SENSUAL... YOU CAN DANCE OR MAKE LOVE 2 THEIR MUSIC!! THEY MUST BE ON CRACK IF GRACES' MUSIC IS WEAK, HER PRESENCE & HER VOICE IS STRONG!!... SHE DEMANDS THE LISTENERS' "ATTENTION"! ON ALBUM COVERS OR ON SCREEN SHE DISPLAYS THAT IT'S COOL AT THE SAME TIME SEXXY 4 A FEMALE 2 BE "BOISTEROUS"! SHE MAY COME OF 2 SOME AS "scary" BECAUSE SHE'S MYSTERIOUS, BUT GRACE IS A "SEX-SYMBOL"!!
GRACE REPRESENTS "BEAUTY" SHE DOESN'T HAVE 2 BE "bleached-blonde" LIKE THAT LEAD SINGING CHICK FROM destinys' child!!!! SEEING & HEARING GRACE BRINGS BACK THE SAYING "THE BLACKER THE BERRY, THE SWEETER THE JUICE"! *(THAT'S 4 DAMN SURE)* GRACE JONES HAS PAID HER DUES DECADES AGO... SO IT'S LONG OVER DUED 4 HER 2 GET "HER RESPECT"!
GRACES' MUSIC IS DEFINENTLY "INFLUENCIAL" BECAUSE OTHER MUSICIANS HAS SAMPLED HER SONGS... SUCH AS LL COOL Js' "Doing it Wild" WITH GRACES' "MY JAMAICAN GUY" & SHYNES' "Bonnie & Shyne" WITH "LA VIE EN ROSE"! GRACE PRODUCE THOSE SONGS PROBABLY BEFORE HALF OF THE WORLD WAS CONCEIVED & THEY'RE STILL HITS TODAY!!!!
***WELL IF YOU DON'T HAVE GRACE JONES' COLLECTION THEN BUY A COPY A S A P!!!!***
Millenium Series is weak
2005-04-08 - BUT this one is relatively OK. Still, If you like Grace at all, "Island Life" Gives a more rounded portrait, with early disco tracks and also "Slave to the Rhythm." (Don't get both--too much overlap.)
I personally think that "Private Life: Compass Point Sessions" is a great deal--$15.00 for two CDs of the reggae influenced material. If you like the mood of those tracks, it's worth it.
"Nightclubbing" is also a great place to start. In my opinion, one cannot go wrong with that album, "Warm Leatherette," or "Living My Life"--all solid albums.
