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"Genius of Love" is a 1981 (see 1981 In Music ) song by Tom Tom Club from their eponymous debut album, '' Tom Tom Club ''. SONG "Genius of Love" was Tom Tom Club's second single. Although the album had not been released in North America , over a hundred thousand copies of the single sold as imports from Island Records 's UK, at which point Sire Records made a deal to release the single and the album in North America in late 1981 . With the dreamy, sighing, yet curiously flat and emotionless lead vocals of Tina Weymouth and sister Laura Weymouth , "Genius of Love" was a huge hit all around, in the clubs and on the R&B and dance charts, soon earning the ''Tom Tom Club'' LP a Gold Sales Award in 1982 . This song was one of the most sampled rhythm tracks in all of hip-hop with dozens of unsolicited remixes and versions, as . In 2000, the song was sampled again in rapper Redman 's song "Brick City Mashin!" Rocky Morton and Annabel Jankel produced the animated Music Video based off of James Rizzi drawings, which took off from the cartoony style of the ''Tom Tom Club'' album cover. The song makes arguably its most notable appearance during the Tom Tom Club's section of the Talking Heads concert film '' Stop Making Sense ''. The song's narrator implies that her boyfriend is a "maven of funk mutation" and compares him to James Brown , Bob Marley , Smokey Robinson , Hamilton Bohannon , George Clinton , Bootsy Collins , Sly And Robbie , Kurtis Blow . SINGLES
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