An extended version of Grace Jones' 1981 single is a good way to start the day even if this steamy, sweltering track seems most inappropriate for a Wednesday in late November. The bass is taut, the rhythm rolls, the guitars are choppy, the car horns are honking. Grace is sultry and insistent. Seven minutes twenty six seconds of New York in the early 80s. I've just noticed from the internet that we share a birthday, me and Grace Jones (May 19th).
Pull Up To The Bumper (12" Mix)
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Indeed a good start into this Wednesday.
Excellent...actually feels perfect for this very misty oddly mild November morning, I can just imagine the steam rising from the New York streets. Interesting how this era Grace Jones just fitted so naturally into a post punk record collection in 1981 too!
I was thinking exactly the same thing C. Excellent selection SA.
There is no such thing as an appropriate or inappropriate tiome to play Grace Jones. Every single day shouold be a Grace Jones day. Great tune.
Can I just say that I love the instrumental version of the song - "Peanut Butter" by the Compass Point All Stars -
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=to3bApYHqbs
You can say that FBCB- very good it is too.
There are some songs that I just immediately associate with Summer Saturday afternoons in Manhattan's Central Park. Pull Up To My Bumper is certainly one of them. Along with Good Times by Chic, Bad Girls by Donna Summers, He's The Greatest Dancer by Sister Sledge, Heartbeat by Taanna Gardner, Genius of Love by Tom Tom Club and others, they were the soundtrack to an ever changing choreography of skaters battling and intertwining in a street corner ballet on wheels.
It's a scene that's never really disappeared.
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