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Downtown Rockers album for sale by Tom Tom Club was released Sep 11, 2012 on the Nacional label. Spinning off from Talking Heads in the early '80s, Chris Frantz and Tina Weymouth gave their parent band a run for its money as far as killer party bands went with Tom Tom Club. Downtown Rockers CD music Their rock-solid rhythms and skeletal grooves were more concerned with getting down than getting artsy, and their limited discography yielded a few of the most timeless dance-rock tracks of all time. With the five-track EP Downtown Rockers, the band offers its first new studio material since 2000's mixed-bag The Good the Bad and the Funky. At first blush, the title track sets the listener up for disappointment. "Downtown Rockers" is a spoken list of key players from the gritty early days of New York's Lower East Side rock scene, with Frantz ominously uttering "The Ramones! Television! Suicide! Blondie!" and the like over a backdrop of decidedly unfunky hard rock guitars and borderline cheesy keyboard flourishes. Somewhere in the middle of the song, however, it stops feeling like an out-of-touch vie for a comeback and becomes genuinely fun. Its B-52's-like affectations on the singsongy chorus and just enough of that patented N.Y.C. mystery meld into an unexpectedly catchy party jam. The song goes on a little longer than the run-of-the-mill rehash from any given reunited '80s group, establishing the sense of groove that made Tom Tom Club brilliant to begin with. ...See Full Description

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Won't Give You Up See All 2

You Make Me Rock and Roll See All 2

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CD Universe Part number	8801432
Label	Nacional
Orig Year	2012
Catalog number	20084
Discs	1
Release Date	Sep 11, 2012
Studio/Live	Studio
Shipping Units	3