Muse

A dream finally come through !!! Gold Legion FINALLY released Garce's Muse on CD!!! Fame was available before for high price ( now that one is also available through Gold Legion ) but this is the first time ever that Muse is on cd!!! What a treat it is, sounds excellent , nice sound quality and the music is one of Grace's finest!For a Grace fan this is a must have as all her other cd's! She is such an underrated original , excellent artist! When I met her she was super sweet!!!The song On Your Knees is my favourite from this one , but all the other ones are great!Don't think twice , just get it now!

Side A"Sinning" (Grace Jones, Pierre Papadiamandis) - 5:06"Suffer" (Tom Moulton, Thor Baldursson) - 4:17"Repentance (Forgive Me)" (Grace Jones, Pierre Papadiamandis) - 3:50"Saved" (J. Robinson, J. Bolden, V.S. Robinson) - 7:13Non-stop medley: total time - 20:26[edit]Side B"Atlantic City Gambler" (Tom Moulton, D. Williams) - 5:46"I'll Find My Way To You" (S. Cipriani, H. Shaper) - 5:14"Don't Mess With The Messer" (Grace Jones, Pierre Papadiamandis) - 4:50"On Your Knees" (D.C. LaRue, Jerry Corbetta) - 6:20

There has been enough written about Grace and Tom Moulton on other sites for me to go into too much detail here but I will say that of her three disco albums she did in the late 1970's, this is my favourite. Although "Fame" comes pretty close...Opening with "Sinning", with a solid disco beat, Grace's unique vocals are given the Philly treatment and it was the combination of the amazing John "Monster" Davis and the Philly musicians who made this album great: Grace is a presence, but you wouldn't want an acapella album from her..."Sinning" is part of a medley that comes into "Suffer" with vocals by Thor Baldurrson which, as the liner notes will tell you, weren't originally intended to be part of the finished project. However they work and there are some great flourishes of strings on this track. "Repentance" is the third and has a fantastic intro and is probably my favourite out of this four song suite. Grace's vocals strain to the max, yet against the drama of the music it works. And finally, "Saved", a gospelly kind of number rounds it out and I must confess is a bit of a let down. On the "b side", the slower more cooled funk of "Atlantic City Gambler" opens it up and as on the whole album, the Sweethearts of Sigma provide much needed back up vocals. "I'll Find My Way To You" is either a re-recording or new version of an earlier song by Grace and continues in the laid back approach of the first song, and it is a beauty: glorious strings, and an ethereal feel, combine to make this dreamy. "Don't Mess With The Messer" is also great, the keyboards are a little odd though it has lots of glorious instrumentation to support it. And finally, the killer DC La Rue written "On Your Knees", the most commercial and competitive song on the album, full of frantic vocals, energy and a perfect way to end the album. The liner notes are interesting and the packaging is nice. There are no bonus tracks. Gold Legion have a very bad reputation but their finished product is great; so buy it from somewhere reputable like here.

Muse is the 3rd album of a disco trilogy., Portfolio, Fame, and Muse. She sounds wonderful and you can hear how she's starting to break away to become the performer we know and love. Highly reccommended!

I bought the vinyl back in the 80's of this album. I am not able to play it anymore since I do not have the turntable. I have been waiting a long time for this album to be reissued on cd. I am glad that I purchased this cd. I still love all the songs on it!

Grace, grace GRACE!! This happens to be one of my favorite CDs of all time and one of my favorites from Miss Jones! LOVE it and have played it a blue dozen times and with each play it only gets better!!!

back to the 80's

I am so excited that this album is available. I found the vinyl back in the 80's at a used record store in New Orleans and that's the only copy I've had all these years.