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The Good, The Bad and The Funky

Tom Tom Club's strength has always been its limitation: This is a band led by its rhythm section. With their nu-funk classics "Wordy Rappinghood" and "Genius of Love," Chris Frantz and Tina Weymouth -- formerly of Talking Heads -- laid down grooves sampled by everyone from Grandmaster Flash to Maria...

2000 RS: 3of 5 Stars

Tom Tom Club

1981

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Tom Tom Club was originally a side project for the husband-and-wife team of Chris Frantz and Tina Weymouth, the Talking Heads' drummer and bass player, who made three albums while waiting around for David Byrne to reconvene the band and a fourth after he pulled the plug. The self-titled debut (and the only one of the early albums still available) sounds like a delightful accident: funky beats coll...

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