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Review Score: (10/10)
Grace Jones - Inside Story

I actually find it a little amusing that Grace's Island records are considered the best, when my two favorite records are "Inside Story" and "Bulletproof Heart."
Don't get me wrong, I absolutely adore "Warm Leatherette", "Nightclubbing" and "Living My Life" but I also consider "Inside Story" and "Bulletproof Heart" to be her most personal to date, the reason is simple, on the two aforementioned albums Grace had a lot more room to develop and space to find her own sound through song writing and eventually co-producing the albums.
Inside Story followed after her powerhouse single "Slave to the Rhythm" and it was something new, the first single is the infectious "I'm Not Perfect (But I'm Perfect For You)" which is a very catchy tune, "Victor Should Have Been a Jazz Musician" is the second single and it was something completely new for Grace... the theme: Jazz.
The song is extremely good, the sound, the vocal and the production; I really consider this a Grace Jones classic. Besides the two main singles "Inside Story" has many shining moments like the electro-dance tune of "Party Girl" and "Crush" to the mind-blowing struggle of "White Collar Crime."
A great example the personal influence is the song "Scary But Fun" in which Grace shares her near-death experience while water-skiing; the song is about life, taking chances and living without any regrets, most personal indeed.
Even the most pessimistic reviewer can't deny a fate of pasture when it comes to songs like "Barefoot in Beverly Hills" which is a lush almost new-age like tune, or even the cheesy story-line of Chan's journey to Shanghai in "Chan Hitchhikes to Shanghai" most likely to be ignored? I think not.
When it all comes down to it "Inside Story" just might be her most appealing piece of work; while "Portfolio" created the basic rhythm of Jones' structure "Inside Story" evolved the fast rhythm of Grace's demonic charge, stunning; more than anything and most unlikely to ever be matched.

EMI issued two of Grace's finest work in 2004, Besides this one they reissued Bulletproof Heart as well.
So now there's no excuse for not getting Inside Story.


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