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Spinoff albums are one of tock's necessary evils. Usually the product of overweening hubris and indulgent pop star wealth i.e., member of a big name band desires to "express" himself and spares no expense to do so–they're rarely much more than massive ego massages.

But all that glitters isn't...

2009 RS: 4of 5 Stars

The Good, The Bad and The Funky

2000

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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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