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Their first studio material in twelve years, ''Downtown Rockers'', was released in 2012 on Nacional Records and featured guitarist Pablo Martin and keyboard player Bruce Martin.
Their first studio material in twelve years, ''Downtown Rockers'', was released in 2012 on Nacional Records and featured guitarist Pablo Martin and keyboard player Bruce Martin.
== Influences ==
In an interview with Paul Cashmere, Weymouth said that "''We were very much inspired by [[Kraftwerk]], but equally by [[The B52's|B52's]]. It had something to do with electronica, something to do with hip hop, something to do with reggae. Starting in 1981 there was something in the air going on and we beamed into it just by luck.''"<ref>Noise11.com. “Talking Heads Tina Weymouth – the Noise11 Interview Archive Series (2002).” ''Noise11.com'', 5 Aug. 2024, www.noise11.com/news/talking-heads-tina-weymouth-the-noise11-interview-archive-series-2002-20240806. Accessed 12 Aug. 2024.</ref>


==Discography==
==Discography==
{{Main|Tom Tom Club discography}}
===Studio albums===
===Studio albums===
{| class="wikitable" style="text-align:center;"
*''[[Tom Tom Club (album)|Tom Tom Club]]'' (1981)
|-
*''[[Close to the Bone]]'' (1983)
! rowspan="2"| Year
*''[[Boom Boom Chi Boom Boom]]'' (1988)
! rowspan="2" style="width:250px;"| Album
*''[[Dark Sneak Love Action]]'' (1992)
! colspan="7"| Chart positions
*''[[The Good, the Bad, and the Funky]]'' (2000)
! rowspan="2" | Certifications
*''[[Downtown Rockers]]'' (2012)
|- style="font-size:smaller;"
! style="width:30px;"| US<br />
! style="width:30px;"| US R&B<br />
! style="width:30px;"| AUS<br />
! style="width:30px;"| CAN<br />
! style="width:30px;"| NZ<br />
! style="width:30px;"| SWE<br />
! style="width:30px;"| UK<br />
|-
| 1981
|align=left| ''[[Tom Tom Club (album)|Tom Tom Club]]''
* Released: June 23, 1981
* Labels: Island (UK), [[Sire Records|Sire]] (US)
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| 51
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| 18
| 32
| 78
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* [[Recording Industry Association of America|RIAA]]: Platinum<ref name="RIAA">{{cite certification|region=United States|artist=Tom Tom Club|access-date=July 16, 2022}}</ref>
|-
| 1983
|align=left| ''[[Close to the Bone (Tom Tom Club album)|Close to the Bone]]''
* Released: August, 1983
* Labels: Island (UK), Sire (US)
| 73
| 49
| —
| 96
| 31
| 42
| —
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|-
| 1988
|align=left| ''[[Boom Boom Chi Boom Boom]]''
* Released: 1988
* Labels: [[Fontana Records|Fontana]] (UK), Sire (US)
| 114
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| 60
| —
| —
| —
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|-
| 1992
|align=left| ''[[Dark Sneak Love Action]]''
* Released: May 26, 1992
* Labels: [[Warner Music Group|WEA]] (UK), Sire (US)
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| —
| —
| —
| —
| —
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|-
| 2000
|align=left| ''[[The Good, the Bad, and the Funky]]''
* Released: September 12, 2000
* Labels: [[Rykodisc]]
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|-
| 2012
|align=left| ''[[Downtown Rockers]]''
* Released: September 4, 2012
* Labels: [[Nacional Records|Nacional]]
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|-
| colspan="10" style="text-align:center; font-size:9pt;"| "—" denotes releases that did not chart or were not released in that territory.
|}


===Live albums===
===Live albums===
* 2003: ''Live @ the Clubhouse''
*''[[Live @ the Clubhouse]]'' (2003)
* 2010-09-28: ''Genius of Live''
*''[[Genius of Live]]'' (2010)


===Singles===
===Singles===
{| class="wikitable" style="text-align:center;"
*''[[Wordy Rappinghood]]''
|-
*''[[Genius of Love]]''
!rowspan="2"|Year
*''[[Under the Boardwalk]]''
!rowspan="2" style="width:250px;"|Title
*''[[The Man with the Four Way Hips]]''
!colspan="10"|Chart positions
*''[[Close to the Bone]]''
!rowspan="2"|Album
*''[[Pleasure of Love]]''
|- style="font-size:smaller;"
*''[[Don't Say No]]''
!width="30"|[[Billboard Hot 100|US]]<br />
*''[[Boom Boom Chi Boom Boom]]''
!width="30"|[[Hot Dance Club Songs|US Dance]]<br />
*''[[Suboceana]]''
!width="30"| [[Kent Music Report|AUS]]<br />
*''[[Call of the Wild]]''
!width="30"|[[Ö3 Austria Top 40|AUT]]<br />
*''[[Sunshine and Ecstasy]]''
!width="30"|[[Ultratop|BEL]]<br />
*''[[Dark Sneak Love Action]]''
!width="30"|[[Syndicat National de l'Édition Phonographique|FRA]]<br />
*''[[You Sexy Thing]]''
!width="30"|[[Federazione Industria Musicale Italiana|ITA]]<br />
*''[[Love to Love You Baby]]''
!width="30"|[[MegaCharts|NL]]<br />
*''[[The Good, the Bad, and the Funky]]''
!width="30"|[[Recorded Music NZ|NZ]]<br />
*''[[Happiness Can't Buy Money]]''
!width="30"|[[UK Singles Chart|UK]]<br />
*''[[Mistletunes]]''
|-
 
| rowspan="2"| 1981
= Sources =
|align=left| "[[Wordy Rappinghood]]"
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| rowspan="2"| 1
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| 1
| 9
| 18
| 2
| 35
| 7
| style="text-align:left;" rowspan="3"|''Tom Tom Club''
|-
|align=left| "[[Genius of Love]]"
| 31
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| 26
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| 28
| 65
|-
| 1982
|align=left| "[[Under the Boardwalk]]"
| —
| 31
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| 6
| 3
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| 42
| 9
| 3
| 22
|-
| rowspan="2"| 1983
|align=left| "[[The Man with the Four Way Hips]]"
| 106
| 4
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| —
| —
| —
| 82
| style="text-align:left;" rowspan="2"|''Close to the Bone''
|-
|align=left| "Pleasure of Love"
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| 23
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|-
| rowspan="2"| 1988
|align=left| "Don't Say No"
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| —
| —
| 79
| style="text-align:left;" rowspan="3"|''Boom Boom Chi Boom Boom''
|-
|align=left| "Suboceana"
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| 4
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| —
| —
|-
| 1989
|align=left| "Call of the Wild"
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| —
| —
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| —
| —
| —
|-
| rowspan="2"| 1992
|align=left| "Sunshine and Ecstasy"
| —
| 9
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| —
| —
| —
| —
| —
| —
| —
| style="text-align:left;" rowspan="2"|''Dark Sneak Love Action''
|-
|align=left| "[[You Sexy Thing]]"
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|-
| rowspan="2"| 2000
|align=left| "[[Love to Love You Baby (song)|Love to Love You Baby]]"
| —
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| —
| —
| —
| —
| —
| —
| —
| —
| style="text-align:left;" rowspan="2"|''The Good, the Bad, and the Funky''
|-
|align=left| "Happiness Can't Buy Money"
| —
| —
| —
| —
| —
| —
| —
| —
| —
| —
|-
| 2007
|align=left| "Mistletunes"
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| —
| —
| —
| —
| —
| —
| {{n/a}}
|-
| colspan="13" style="text-align:center; font-size:9pt;"| "—" denotes releases that did not chart or were not released in that territory.
|}
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