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Tom Tom Club

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2012 - Downtown Rockers

2000 - The Good The Bad and the Funky

1992 - Dark Sneak Love Action

1988 - Boom Boom Chi Boom Boom

1983 - Close to the Bone

1981 - Tom Tom Club

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1981

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1981 to Present...

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Most Loved Tracks

Track	Last.FM Listens	Loves
Genius of Love	738,325	4 users
Lorelei	46,056	4 users
Tom Tom Theme	56,887	4 users
Under the Boardwalk	50,580	4 users
Wordy Rappinghood	241,726	4 users

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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 members of 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 with the hits "Genius of Love" and "Wordy Rappinghood," both of which were taken from their self-titled first album released on Sire in the US and Island Records elsewhere in 1981.