Grace Jones’ Warm Leatherette gets hotter with extensive deluxe sets

Grace Jones fans have been well served by Universal Music in recent years with an excellent Nightclubbing reissue in 2014 and last year’s Disco box set which brought together Portfolio, Fame, and Muse in one smart package. This trend continues in 2016 with deluxe editions of Jones’ 1980 album Warm Leatherette due in June…

The first album in her critically-lauded ‘Compass Point Trilogy’ saw Jones working with an all-star session group (rhythm section Sly Dunbar and Robbie Shakespeare, plus percussionist Uziah Thompson, along with keyboardist Wally Badarou, and guitarists Mikey Chung and Barry Reynolds) and leave ’70s disco well behind.

The eight-track album included covers of The Pretenders‘ Private Life, Roxy Music‘s Love Is The Drug and Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers‘ Breakdown.

The newly-remastered deluxe editions, bringing together the entire Warm Leatherette album, b-sides and rare in-era mixes and instrumental versions. The physical formats available are as follows

• • two-CD deluxe edition (27 tracks)
• • 4LP box set (27 tracks)
• • Blu-ray audio (32 tracks)

All editions have 19 bonus tracks, except the hi-res blu-ray audio which has five additional bonus remixes including the Francois Kevorkian Remix of the title track. Full track listings (and timings for all the bonus tracks) can be found below.

The packaging looks good with these deluxe editions appropriately encased in Leatherette packaging!

Warm Leatherette deluxe editions will be issued on 17 June 2016.

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CD 1

WARM LEATHERETTE: ORIGINAL

• 1. WARM LEATHERETTE
• 2. PRIVATE LIFE
• 3. A ROLLING STONE
• 4. LOVE IS THE DRUG
• 5. THE HUNTER GETS CAPTURED BY THE GAME
• 6. BULLSHIT
• 7. BREAKDOWN
• 8. PARS

Bonus Tracks : LONG VERSIONS:

• 9. WARM LEATHERETTE (LONG VERSION) 5.35
• From WARM LEATHERETTE cassette ICT 9592 and b-side of 12” single
  12WIP 6645, released September 1980.
• 10. PRIVATE LIFE (LONG VERSION) 6.17
  From WARM LEATHERETTE cassette ICT 9592 and a-side of 12” single
  12WIP 6629, released June 1980.
• 11. A ROLLING STONE (LONG VERSION) 5.43
  Issued as a-side of 12” single 12WIP 6591, released April 1980.
• 12. LOVE IS THE DRUG (LONG VERSION) 8.38
  From WARM LEATHERETTE cassette ICT 9592 and a-side of 12” single 600
  198 (Germany/Netherlands), released May 1980.
• 13. THE HUNTER GETS CAPTURED BY THE GAME (LONG VERSION) 6.44
  From WARM LEATHERETTE cassette ICT 9592 and a-side of 12” single
  12WIP 6645, released September 1980.
• 14. PARS (LONG VERSION) 5.41
  From PRIVATE LIFE: THE COMPASS POINT SESSIONS, released June 1998.

CD 2: LONG VERSIONS, SINGLE VERSIONS AND REMIXES:

• 15. PRIVATE LIFE (LONG VERSION 2) 7.55
  Previously Unreleased Mix.
• 16. PRIVATE LIFE (DUB VERSION) 8.04
  From PRIVATE LIFE: THE COMPASS POINT SESSIONS, released June 1998.
• 17. SHE’S LOST CONTROL (LONG VERSION) 8.23
  Issued as the b-side of 12” single 12WIP 6629, released June 1980.
• 18. SHE’S LOST CONTROL (DUB VERSION) 8.38
  From PRIVATE LIFE: THE COMPASS POINT SESSIONS, released June 1998.
• 19. LOVE IS THE DRUG (SINGLE VERSION) 4.41
  Issued as the a-side of 7” single 101.819 (Germany/Netherlands), released May 1980.
• 20. PRIVATE LIFE (SINGLE VERSION) 4.37
  Issued as the a-side of WIP 6629, released June 1980.
• 21. SHE’S LOST CONTROL (SINGLE VERSION) 3.46
  Issued as the b-side of WIP 6629, released June 1980.
• 22. THE HUNTER GETS CAPTURED BY THE GAME (SPECIAL SINGLE VERSION) 3.21
  Issued as the b-side of WIP 6645, released September 1980.
• 23. BREAKDOWN (U.S. SINGLE EDIT) 3.00
  Issued as the a-side of IS 49603 (US), released October 1980.
• 24. PARS (SINGLE VERSION) 4.24
  Previously Unreleased Mix.
• 25. PARS (DUB VERSION) 4.41
  Previously Unreleased Mix.
• 26. LOVE IS THE DRUG (12” SINGLE REMIX) 7.23
  Remixed by Paul “Groucho” Smykle at the Fallout Shelter.
  Issued as the a-side of 12” single 12 IS 266, released February 1986
• 27. PRIVATE LIFE (12” SINGLE REMIX) 7.04
  Remixed by Paul “Groucho” Smykle at the Fallout Shelter.
  Issued as the a-side of 12” single 12 IS 273, released May 1986

Bonus Tracks – Blu-ray Audio only

• 1. SHE’S LOST CONTROL (LONG VERSION 2) 6.45
  Issued as the b-side of 12” single 12WIP 6629, released June 1980.
• 2. SHE’S LOST CONTROL (LONG VERSION 3) 5.45
  Issued as a b-side of 12” single 12 IS 273, released May 1986.
• 3. LOVE IS THE DRUG (SINGLE REMIX) 3.21
  Remixed by Eric “ET” Thorngren.
  Issued as the a-side of 7” single IS 266, released February 1986.
• 4. PRIVATE LIFE (SINGLE REMIX) 4.04
  Remixed by Paul “Groucho” Smykle at the Fallout Shelter.
  Issued as the a-side of 7” single IS 273, released May 1986.
• 5. WARM LEATHERETTE (FRANCOIS KEVORKIAN REMIX) 6.32
  Remixed by Francois Kevorkian at Right Track Recording, NYC, May 1985.
  Previously Unreleased Mix.