Biography
Tom Tom Club is an American new wave band founded in 1981 by husband-and-wife team Chris Frantz and Tina Weymouth as a side project from Talking Heads. Their best known songs include the UK top 10 hit "Wordy Rappinghood" and the US top 40 hit "Genius of Love", both from their 1981 debut album, and a cover of The Drifters' "Under the Boardwalk" that reached the UK top 30.
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Discography
Records they worked on — most-collected first.
Stop Making Sense
1984
Tom Tom Club
1981
Daydream
1995
The Grind Date
2004
#1's
1998
Close To The Bone
1983
The Message
1982
Phenomenon
1997
The Genius Of Love
1981
Doc's Da Name 2000
1998
Fantasy
1995
Genius Of Love / Yella
1981
Greatest Messages
1984
Under The Boardwalk
1982
Wordy Rappinghood
1981
Revolutions
2004
My Soul
1997
The Pleasure Of Love
1983
Grandmaster Flash & The Furious Five
1983
Girls Of The World (Genius Rap & Breaks)
1982
Scorpio
1982
Confessions Of Fire
1998
The Treacherous Three
1984
Credited work
393 releases · 67 albums · active 1981–2026
- Performance · 383
- Other credits · 30
- Engineering · 14
- Production · 2
Studios: Compass Point Studios · Record Plant, Los Angeles · Enterprise Studios · Sweet Mountain Studios
Frequent collaborators
- Various
- Mariah Carey
- Grandmaster Flash & The Furious Five
- LL Cool J
- X-Ecutioners
- Grandmaster Melle Mel & The Furious Five
- Treacherous Three
- The Treacherous Three