Genius Of Love [Original Club Mix] - Tom Tom Club (1981)

"Genius Of Love" is a 1981 song by Tom Tom Club from their eponymous debut album, "Tom Tom Club". Although the album had not been released in North America, over a hundred thousand copies of the single sold there as imports from Island Records UK, at which point Sire Records made a deal to release the single and the album in North America in late 1981. "Genius Of Love" was a huge hit, peaking at #31 on the U.S. Billboard Hot 100, all the way to #2 on the R&B/Hip-Hop chart and #1 on the Hot Dance/Club Play chart, soon earning the "Tom Tom Club" LP a Gold Sales Award in 1982. The song is one of the most sampled rhythm tracks of all time, particularly within the rap/R&B/hip-hop genre, with dozens of unsolicited remixes and versions, by artists such as Grandmaster Flash & The Furious Five, Mariah Carey, Mark Morrison, The X-Ecutioners, Public Enemy, Redman, Cam'Ron, 2Pac, Busta Rhymes, P.M. Dawn, 50 Cent, Dream Warriors, and T.I., just to name a few. Tom Tom Club is an American new wave band founded in 1981 by husband and wife team Tina Weymouth and Chris Frantz, both also known for being bandmembers of the group Talking Heads. Originally established as a side project from Talking Heads, Tom Tom Club comprised a loose aggregation of musicians, sound engineers and artists of the Compass Point All Stars family, including Tina Weymouth's sisters and guitarist Adrian Belew, the latter of whom toured with Weymouth and Frantz in the expanded version of Talking Heads in 1980 and 1981. Named after the dancehall in the Bahamas where they rehearsed for the first time while on hiatus from Talking Heads in 1980, Tom Tom Club enjoyed early success in the dance club culture of the early 1980s. This channel is dedicated to all the great 'old school' R&B music I grew up with, the stuff that originally made me tap my feet and want to be a DJ. Funk, soul, disco, R&B, dance, hip-hop, pop . . . 60s, 70s, 80s . . . whatever you call it, it's all 'Old School' and it's all here!

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[vivalaminion]

for no fuckin reason...JAMES BROOOWWN...JAMES BROOOWWN...JAMES BROOOWWN...

[JokerDon1]

I loved this song when this song first came out when I heard the first lyric.. " What are you going to do when you get out of jail? I'm going to have some fun " . I of course was in jail at the time and thinking of my release and the fun that I'll have. And I did and land ed back in jail. Ahh, my misguided youth.

[MrNativeman]

classic dj , don,t matter how old you are . the good fuckin thing you like this song man ; i myself i 50 year old and i love this song . i listen back in 81 i was 16 year old then .thanks a million to tom topm club .for their music is awesome . adios amigos .atte diablo.

[CLASSICDJs]

I'm 247 years old and I like this song

[grizzlyfan41]

This song is funkier than 3 day old neckbones and turnip greens.....

[lowbudgetmillionaire]

I got in trouble playin this on school bus with my boombox remember we use to carry them around I didn't we was jammin and it still jammin

[djbango]

CLASSIC...nuff said

[susan21869]

a great tribute to their musical inspirations...thats what this is about- inspiring music- I'm in heaven

With the maven of funk mutation

Clinton's musicians such as Bootsy Collins

Raise expectations to a new intention

No one can singQuite like Smokey, Smokey Robinson

Wailin' and shakin' to Bob Marley Reggae's expanding with Sly and Robbie

[SlowUrRoll212]

What do you consider crabs!?

[joyceannpumpkin]

~~Whachu gonna do when u get outta jail? SSSmoke a cigarette, then get with my boyfriend..bahahaha~~

[gusrod9]

Fantasy Mariah Carey Brought Me Here!!

[atozzerotoninedude]

Bohannon, bohannon, bohannon...