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Island Life is a best-of compilation by Grace Jones released in December 1985 to capitalise on the success of [m=56303] released earlier that same year. It sums up the first nine years of her musical career and includes songs from all her albums, except [m=56274]. Some of the songs appear in edited forms, and a remix of "Love Is the Drug" is included. The same tracklist was used for all versions except: • Australian LP - [r=628129] - including a bonus 12" containing four additional tracks, "My Jamaican Guy", "Pull Up To The Bumper", "On Your Knees" and "Warm Leatherette"; • 1986 UK cassette - [url=https://www.discogs.com/Grace-Jones-Island-Life/master/45107?country=UK&filter=true&format=Cassette&sort=country&sort_order=]Island Life[/url] - including three bonus tracks, "Demolition Man", "Nipple To The Bottle" and "Grace Jones Musclemix". In France, the compilation was re-released in 1990 as [m=36583], then again in 1996 under the title [m=1583808], with four additional tracks, "Pars", "Feel Up" and two versions of the 1993 single "Sex Drive". Singles from the album: • [m=67444] / [m=1123839] • [m=297330] • [m=67468] • [m=1123836] • [m=1610635]

Widely hailed as being the first digitally recorded album, it has never been given a master-tape sourced CD release. Several songs from the album are scattered across CD singles, which are from the masters, but the whole album has only even been given vinyl sourced CD releases. The final album credits are sang through a vocoder, which commonly get mistaken. The correct credits are as follows: This album was produced by: Giorgio Moroder and Harold Faltermeyer. All keyboards and programming by: Harold, with a little help from Giorgio. On drums and percussion: Keith 'Foot' Forsey, recorded live-to-digital, at Rusk sound studio. Digital system by: Sound Stream, incorporated. Roland's Micro-composer programmed by: Harold, assisted by Brian Gardner. Engineered and mixed by: Harold, Giorgio and Juergen Koppers 'The Floppers'. Second engineer: Steven Smith, assisted by Carolyn Tapp and Roman Olearczuk. Keyboards played on piano-coder, engineered by: 'Merlin' Bogan. Tea and coffee by: Laurie Kanner. Energy equals MC squared. Thank you Albert.