― James Blount (James Blount), Friday, 4 October 2002 01:02 (twenty-one years ago) link
Sorry to hear about any Michael Jackson collaboration. That's never a good thing.
― Alex in NYC (vassifer), Friday, 4 October 2002 02:34 (twenty-one years ago) link
― michael (michael), Friday, 4 October 2002 09:11 (twenty-one years ago) link
― unknown or illegal user (doorag), Friday, 4 October 2002 10:52 (twenty-one years ago) link
― dek1, Friday, 4 October 2002 12:15 (twenty-one years ago) link
As Dirty Vicar pointed out recently, Search: Kid Creole's appearance on 'No Problem'.
― PJ Miller (PJ Miller), Sunday, 6 October 2002 07:51 (twenty-one years ago) link
I'll have to track down a comp of their stuff...Are they still around?
― Joe (Joe), Monday, 17 February 2003 03:52 (twenty-one years ago) link
Actually, the best thing that August Darnell has been associated with is the very first Dr. Buzzard's Savannah Band LP. I believe De La Soul sampled some of this on "3 Feet High."
In my opinion, "Wise Guy" is the definitive Kid Creole record.
Coati Mundi's "Que Pasa/Me No Pop I" is incredible--on this Ze records comp, "Seize the Beat." I'm envious of the above poster who found Coati Mundi's LP with "Tropical Hot Dog Night."
Of the later stuff, I still like "You Shoulda Told Me You Were..." from '91--"Consequently" is a classic track, and it's a good album. The one before that, "Private Waters in the Great Divide," also has some cool shit.
― frank p. jones (frank p. jones), Monday, 17 February 2003 19:52 (twenty-one years ago) link
I've had 'Stool Pigeon' in my head for a while and can't put my finger on which (90's probably) track sample the "upside down" part of the chorus. Anybody?
― Baaderoni (Fabfunk), Monday, 10 May 2004 07:56 (nineteen years ago) link
The Avalanches?
― Michael B, Monday, 10 May 2004 08:03 (nineteen years ago) link
― Baaderoni (Fabfunk), Monday, 10 May 2004 08:04 (nineteen years ago) link
(To be fair, the trib acts doubled/trebled up on a day, KC was headline act a diff day)
― mark grout (mark grout), Monday, 10 May 2004 08:06 (nineteen years ago) link
http://www.ohwhatanight.com/
― Michael B, Monday, 10 May 2004 08:09 (nineteen years ago) link
― lovebug starski, Monday, 10 May 2004 21:18 (nineteen years ago) link
― stockholm cindy (Jody Beth Rosen), Monday, 10 May 2004 21:44 (nineteen years ago) link
― Ned Raggett (Ned), Monday, 10 May 2004 21:46 (nineteen years ago) link
Ultimately Pierre became so embarassed he was forced to leave the academy. But of course, this is not a meaningless tale of sheer human degradation, the point, and what I learned from this, was that a ridiculous name begats ridicule.
― Jean-Luc (Jean-Luc), Monday, 10 May 2004 21:52 (nineteen years ago) link
This was Starfleet Academy, Captain Picard?
― Ned Raggett (Ned), Monday, 10 May 2004 21:53 (nineteen years ago) link
― Jean-Luc (Jean-Luc), Monday, 10 May 2004 21:58 (nineteen years ago) link
― J0hn Darn1elle (J0hn Darn1elle), Monday, 10 May 2004 22:14 (nineteen years ago) link
― PJ Miller (PJ Miller), Tuesday, 11 May 2004 08:12 (nineteen years ago) link
― lovebug starski, Tuesday, 11 May 2004 10:17 (nineteen years ago) link
― Naive Teen Idol (Naive Teen Idol), Tuesday, 11 May 2004 13:31 (nineteen years ago) link
a much more complete website than i woulda expected
ahttp://www.kidcreole.com/
― Confounded (Confounded), Friday, 14 July 2006 16:49 (seventeen years ago) link
― s1ocki (slutsky), Friday, 14 July 2006 17:02 (seventeen years ago) link
― edd s hurt (ddduncan), Friday, 14 July 2006 17:06 (seventeen years ago) link
― Rev. PappaWheelie (PappaWheelie 2), Friday, 14 July 2006 17:10 (seventeen years ago) link
http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/51c61uB4kGL._SS500_.jpg
<a href="http://www.amazon.com/Going-Places-Kid-Creole-Coconuts/dp/B0013UL4G0/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&s=music&qid=1205724090&sr=1-1">New comp on Strut</a> soon. No tracklist yet though.
― Telephone thing, Monday, 17 March 2008 03:22 (sixteen years ago) link
GOT DAMMIT BBCODE WHY YOU MAKE ME HURT YOU
(and don't ask how I remembered to use BBCode for the image but not the link, because I honestly don't know)
― Telephone thing, Monday, 17 March 2008 03:23 (sixteen years ago) link
awesome! i love august darnell. there is such a playfulness in what he did ... "brilliant polyglot music and theatrical flair" is probably the best summation that i wouldn't ever have come up with.
one thing that i never hear people talk about is the coconuts' "solo" record. it's rad!
― jaime, Monday, 17 March 2008 04:08 (sixteen years ago) link
oh i just found this article about that comp:
"During the 80s, Kid Creole was the zoot-suited ‘Tropical Gangster’, a Latino Cab Calloway mixing pop, p-funk, big band swing and Latin rhythms for a series of global chart smashes, from ‘Stool Pidgeon’ and ‘Annie, I’m Not Your Daddy’ to ‘Endicott’.
Under his real name, August Darnell, Kid Creole had developed his feel for unusual music fusions and intelligent, acerbic life stories since 1974 through a series of projects as a prolific writer, musician and producer. Starting as a key member of Dr. Buzzard’s Savannah Band alongside his brother, Stony Browder Jr. in 1974, Darnell then masterminded Machine’s disco anthem ‘There But For The Grace Of God’ before becoming the in-house producer for Ze Records in New York. There, he helped fashion the grungy Ze sound through Cristina’s trash disco debut album and groundbreaking genre-bending work for Aural Exciters, James Chance and more.
Taking the name from the Elvis Presley film, Darnell created Kid Creole in 1980 and alongside his three female singers, The Coconuts, led by his Wife Addy, and a band including Dr. Buzzard’s Coati Mundi, he began honing his alter ego.
With today’s DJs consistently championing Darnell‘s early work, this exclusive Strut release covers 1974 to 1983 and features rare extended versions and album tracks released on CD for the first time. Compilation by DJ Guido of Paris DJs with extended sleeve notes by legendary New York journalist Vivien Goldman.
1. Dr. Buzzard’s Original Savannah Band – Sunshower 2. Don Armando’s Second Avenue Rumba Band – Goin’ To A Showdown 3. Kid Creole & The Coconuts – Going Places (Zemix version) 4. Cristina – Is That All There Is? 5. Gichy Dan’s Beachwood No. 9 – On A Day Like Today 6. Machine – There But For The Grace Of God Go I (LP version) 7. Don Armando’s Second Avenue Rumba Band - I’m An Indian Too (12” version) 8. Aural Exciters – Marathon Runner 9. Coati Mundi – Pharaoh (Can’t Take It To The Grave) 10. Aural Exciters – Emile (Night Rate) 11. Kid Creole – He’s Not Such A Bad Guy After All (12” version) 12. Ron Rogers – Don’t Play With My Emotions 13. Kid Creole & The Coconuts – Double On Back 14. Aural Exciters – Paradise 15. Kid Creole & The Coconuts - Off The Coast Of Me
- August Darnell has been a cult favourite with many different DJs over the last 10 years from leading names in disco (Danny Krivit, Muro, Dimitri, the D.I.R.T.Y. crew) to DJs as diverse as Prins Thomas, Trevor Jackson and Derrick Carter."
― jaime, Monday, 17 March 2008 04:15 (sixteen years ago) link
(or press release, rather)
― jaime, Monday, 17 March 2008 04:18 (sixteen years ago) link
wow cool. i put together a homemade version a couple years ago! i always thought something like that or a box set even was in order.
― s1ocki, Monday, 17 March 2008 04:53 (sixteen years ago) link
"grungy Ze sound"
― Telephone thing, Monday, 17 March 2008 06:06 (sixteen years ago) link
excellent. strut back in bidness.
― That one guy that hit it and quit it, Monday, 17 March 2008 09:01 (sixteen years ago) link
'New York Journalist' Vivien Goldman?
Saw KC yesterday - mid- afternoon slot at a fest in Dublin, rain threatening, muddy field, (not much of a) crowd waiting for Maximo Park/ N*E*R*D, and he was still cool; great players, and vision intact
― sonofstan, Sunday, 24 August 2008 10:35 (fifteen years ago) link
i love "annie i'm not your daddy"
― the next grozart, Sunday, 24 August 2008 11:17 (fifteen years ago) link
Odd, just played "Mr. Softee" this morning.
― Alex in NYC, Sunday, 24 August 2008 11:25 (fifteen years ago) link
they're such a wonderful thing, baby.
― Alfred, Lord Sotosyn, Sunday, 24 August 2008 12:32 (fifteen years ago) link
Was just reading about the Cristina version of "Is That All There Is?" in the Franklin Bruno article about that song in the EMP book.
― James Redd and the Blecchs, Sunday, 24 August 2008 12:41 (fifteen years ago) link
-- the next grozart, Sunday, 24 August 2008 11:17 (4 hours ago) Link
― PappaWheelie V, Sunday, 24 August 2008 15:51 (fifteen years ago) link
because if i was in your blood then you wouldn't be so ugly
― James Redd and the Blecchs, Sunday, 24 August 2008 16:15 (fifteen years ago) link
Finally found a used copy of Tropical Gangsters, so now I have all first four of his albums. I had the compilation since 1990 or so and was so frustrated the individual albums weren't available. Overall none of them are very consistent, but it's still great to hear all the album tracks finally, filler and all, even if there's nothing that would replace the hits that have been included in my party mixes of the last 18 years.
― Fastnbulbous, Thursday, 18 September 2008 04:22 (fifteen years ago) link
That comp looks awesome.
― Naive Teen Idol, Thursday, 18 September 2008 11:35 (fifteen years ago) link
Yes it does. So awesome I've just ordered it, along with the Strut Funky Nassau comp.
― Jamie T Smith, Thursday, 18 September 2008 12:37 (fifteen years ago) link
it is awesome
― ban deeznuts (The Reverend), Thursday, 18 September 2008 12:54 (fifteen years ago) link
I found the Coati Mundi record thanks to this thread, I need to listen to that again.
my radio station got Funky Nassau, sounds really good on first listen.
― sleeve, Thursday, 18 September 2008 15:49 (fifteen years ago) link
Don Armando's Second Avenue Rhumba Band's 'Winter Love' is tremendously overlooked/underrated.
Easily one of the best.
― tony orlando and dawng (PappaWheelie V), Thursday, 18 September 2008 16:03 (fifteen years ago) link
I don't see this "Tropical Gangster" being a Chic ripoff thing. I mean, Chic, in their heyday were very puritans about using only "real" organic instruments, whereas Kid Creole used a lot of synths on that album.
― Geir Hongro, Thursday, 18 September 2008 20:27 (fifteen years ago) link
I didn't know this existed.
I have no objectivity when it comes this clan. Especially Cory Daye.
Cory Daye & Coati Mundi
― (temporary) ilxor (goon) (PappaWheelie V), Friday, 5 December 2008 18:37 (fifteen years ago) link
This has always been a gem I wish wasn't overlooked:
Cory Daye - City Nights / Manhattan Cafes
― (temporary) ilxor (goon) (PappaWheelie V), Friday, 5 December 2008 18:38 (fifteen years ago) link
hearing 'me no pop i' followed by 'i'm an indian too' on a big system on the weekend was a bit of a "woah!!" moment, i gotta say.
― resident advice whore (haitch), Tuesday, 27 January 2009 04:22 (fifteen years ago) link
AUGUST & ANDY Episode 1 - Essence TV Show - Kid Creole & The Coconuts
AUGUST & ANDY Episode 2 - MTV Basement Tapes - Interview Kid Creole & The Coconuts
― i like to fort and i am cozy (PappaWheelie V), Tuesday, 27 January 2009 04:38 (fifteen years ago) link
"Dancin' at the Bains Douches" is marvelous, sly fun.
― I'm crossing over into enterprise (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Monday, 4 May 2009 16:26 (fourteen years ago) link
I adore this comp.
― Bud Huxtable (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Thursday, 11 June 2009 02:42 (fourteen years ago) link
Just watched "Against All Odds" this week (don't ask), and enjoyed every nanosecond of the club scene wherein Kid Creole & the Coconuts play "Male Curiosity."
― Alex in NYC, Thursday, 11 June 2009 12:15 (fourteen years ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cXPzWI5k3Ss
― Alex in NYC, Thursday, 11 June 2009 20:49 (fourteen years ago) link
Love the "Tropical Gangster" album. A lot of great music. And the lyrics to "Annie I'm Not Your Daddy" are great too. :)
― Geir Hongro, Thursday, 11 June 2009 20:50 (fourteen years ago) link
"Part of My Design."
― Bud Huxtable (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Thursday, 11 June 2009 21:00 (fourteen years ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tLNc5Kk3YKc
― Alex in NYC, Thursday, 11 June 2009 23:36 (fourteen years ago) link
http://web.me.com/a_kaegi/Site_18/Welcome.html
― stirmonster, Thursday, 26 November 2009 08:03 (fourteen years ago) link
at the first i thought he opened a hotel.
― meisenfek, Thursday, 26 November 2009 08:49 (fourteen years ago) link
Finally got I, Too, Have Seen The Woods, most of which sounds like he's competing with Scritti Politti and True Blue-era Madonna, and succeeding half the time.
― My mom is all about capital gains tax butthurtedness (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Saturday, 30 April 2011 13:40 (twelve years ago) link
give a minute and the other half'll work too. dude is seriously one of the smartest ever to play the game in my opinion.
― five gone cats from Boston (underrated aerosmith bootlegs I have owned), Saturday, 30 April 2011 15:10 (twelve years ago) link
one of the oddest experiences of my life was being phoned up on xmas eve by bongo eddie out of the coconuts to thank me for giving his daughter's album a good review. (his daughter being binkie out of electrik red.)
― lex pretend, Saturday, 30 April 2011 15:31 (twelve years ago) link
The girly vocals on "Consider Me" and "Agony...Ecstasy" are just perfect.
― My mom is all about capital gains tax butthurtedness (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Saturday, 30 April 2011 16:11 (twelve years ago) link
Just found out the Coconuts released one record of their own (with Darnell pulling the strings, of course):
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iehIMLGnMik
― Johnny Fever, Wednesday, 31 August 2011 01:42 (twelve years ago) link
The new album is better than anyone could have expected.
― a 'catch-all', almost humorous, 'Jeez' quality (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Wednesday, 31 August 2011 01:45 (twelve years ago) link
Had missed that there's a new album, but I'm about to go hunt it down.
― Johnny Fever, Wednesday, 31 August 2011 01:47 (twelve years ago) link
― jaime, Monday, March 17, 2008 4:08 AM (3 years ago)
i buy a copy every time i find one in a dollar bin. the version of maladie d'amour on that record is so good.
― JS, Wednesday, 31 August 2011 06:28 (twelve years ago) link
Yeah, used to use "Ticket to the Tropics" in a show...
― Mark G, Wednesday, 31 August 2011 09:47 (twelve years ago) link
hunting will fare better in about two weeks when it comes out.
― beta blog, Thursday, 1 September 2011 02:09 (twelve years ago) link
Yeah, figured that out not too long after posting.
― Johnny Fever, Thursday, 1 September 2011 02:11 (twelve years ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IeAjn6rTGxw
― ███★★★███ (PappaWheelie V), Sunday, 25 September 2011 11:53 (twelve years ago) link
weird. i spot this thread jump back into action, just as double on back drops on 6music.not heard it before, tis good.
― mark e, Sunday, 25 September 2011 12:13 (twelve years ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eOpxy2B2o10
― ███★★★███ (PappaWheelie V), Sunday, 25 September 2011 13:03 (twelve years ago) link
My piece on the man: http://www.villagevoice.com/2011-09-14/music/kid-creole-and-the-coconuts-fresh-fruit/
― beta blog, Sunday, 25 September 2011 19:15 (twelve years ago) link
Like I said last month, the album is quite vital.
You know what old Kid Creole comes to mind at least once a week? "Part of My Design" ("...was givin' the world some bonhomie").
― Anakin Ska Walker (AKA Skarth Vader) (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Sunday, 25 September 2011 20:42 (twelve years ago) link
Someone please tell me more about this Lori Eastside person:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G77dFrH-fiA
― Ford Cumlord (The Reverend), Sunday, 25 September 2011 23:52 (twelve years ago) link
Also, btw:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EuCxNlWWe3g&feature=related
― Ford Cumlord (The Reverend), Monday, 26 September 2011 00:00 (twelve years ago) link
nice piece, beta blog!
― pathos of the unwarranted encore (underrated aerosmith bootlegs I have owned), Monday, 26 September 2011 01:29 (twelve years ago) link
Oh shit, so this Coati Mundi album from last year is really good.
― Ford Cumlord (The Reverend), Monday, 26 September 2011 03:57 (twelve years ago) link
― lex pretend, Saturday, April 30, 2011 8:31 AM Bookmark
!!
― Ford Cumlord (The Reverend), Monday, 26 September 2011 03:58 (twelve years ago) link
yup i was at home in the countryside, barely any phone reception, had to lean out of the kitchen window in the snow to take the call while my mother yelled "who? who?" every time i said a name
― lex pretend, Monday, 26 September 2011 14:10 (twelve years ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MO06a2KNBOs
― fennel cartwright, Thursday, 29 September 2011 07:41 (twelve years ago) link
fuck, whats up with me and formatting tonite
Couldn't find another thread. I love The Gun Club and The Cramps - for some reason never really followed Kid Congo's solo stuff..... listening to Haunted Head - sounds excellent. Thoughts, recommendations etc.... Although I am not so keen on Nick Cave - he has been involved in some remarkable music plus he wears a moustache almost as well as John Waters.
― Hinklepicker, Sunday, 14 July 2013 11:25 (ten years ago) link
Sorry did not mean to post here - will start new thread if anyone is interested.
― Hinklepicker, Sunday, 14 July 2013 11:27 (ten years ago) link
I've listened to it many times, but I only just now got the "she had a ball or two" line from "Annie, I'm Not Your Daddy". U nasty Kid Creole!Lyrics sheets have it as "fall" but it sounds like ball to me and that makes more sense anyway.
― Dan I., Sunday, 21 July 2013 03:05 (ten years ago) link
STOOOL PIGEON! AH-CHA-CHA-CHAAAA
― this is just a saginaw (dog latin), Friday, 16 January 2015 15:16 (nine years ago) link
Tropical Gangsters is such a great record. I've been playing it all week.
2015 tourdates!:
Fri, Feb 27
The Clapham Grand, London, UK
Wed, Mar 25
B.B. King Blues Club and Grill, New York, NY, US
Thu, Mar 26
Howard Theatre, Washington, DC, US
― curmudgeon, Friday, 16 January 2015 15:30 (nine years ago) link
Woah... I could well be up for the London show.
― this is just a saginaw (dog latin), Friday, 16 January 2015 15:35 (nine years ago) link
Did anybody go to the show in Clapham???
― TracerHandVEVO (Tracer Hand), Monday, 6 April 2015 09:39 (nine years ago) link
Not that I know of.
Need to listen to more of the material I have not heard yet.
Was this close to posting a video of "Annie, I 'm Not Your Daddy" on Kenan's new thread, but thought better of it.
― Let's Take A CQ with Frankie Ford (James Redd and the Blecchs), Monday, 6 April 2015 11:22 (nine years ago) link
Missed the recent DC show, and when I listened to some of the material I had not heard before some of it was mediocre and other tracks too noveltyish. But I still like my fave ones--"Dario" (my kind of heaven, is club 57)
― curmudgeon, Monday, 6 April 2015 13:51 (nine years ago) link
I got the Tropical Gangsters LP last night for a pound, spent about a minute messing with the EQ until I realised it's simply mastered like ass :(
― TracerHandVEVO (Tracer Hand), Monday, 6 April 2015 14:35 (nine years ago) link
That's the same album as Wise Guy, right? My vinyl copy sounds fine.
― The Reverend, Monday, 6 April 2015 20:41 (nine years ago) link
Yeah. I don't know, Bob Blank produced it so it should sound pretty great!
― TracerHandVEVO (Tracer Hand), Monday, 6 April 2015 23:56 (nine years ago) link
i saw them at bb king's in ny. they were really good! only darnell & the sax player remain from the original band, but they get a nice full sound with the new guys. one of the coconuts is a veteran of something like 18 years with the band. set list hasn't changed much since the 80s, but everything was played with enthusiasm and the crowd was loving it. guest vocalists included stephanie fuller, fonda rae, and the amazing cory daye ("cherchez la femme"). i'd been hoping that andy hernandez might put in an appearance, but other than that i couldn't have asked for more. their previous gig in nyc was 14 years ago!
― Thus Sang Freud, Tuesday, 7 April 2015 00:09 (nine years ago) link
Wow, so is Kid living in the UK or France or something?
― curmudgeon, Tuesday, 7 April 2015 04:37 (nine years ago) link
according to wiki he lives in hawaii and sweden. he went through an "i'll never play ny again" phase. apparently part of the reason he was in town was to work on an autobiographical play that will be staged later this year at la mama. from their fb page: "Darnell plans on work shopping and showcasing the debut at the La Mama Theatre of his much-anticipated new musical, 'Cherchez La Femme,' co-written with NYU's Punk Professor, Vivien Goldman. It's inspired by the sounds of both Kid Creole and Dr. Buzzard's Original Savannah Band, the latter of which he co-founded with his late brother, Stony Browder."
― Thus Sang Freud, Tuesday, 7 April 2015 11:23 (nine years ago) link
this fucking song
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YGBDAxCDLs4
― wizzz! (amateurist), Wednesday, 7 October 2015 20:53 (eight years ago) link
indeed
― The burrito of ennui (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Wednesday, 7 October 2015 21:01 (eight years ago) link
You've heard the Gories version I hope :)
― illegal economic migration (Tracer Hand), Wednesday, 7 October 2015 21:08 (eight years ago) link
I have now! :)
― wizzz! (amateurist), Wednesday, 7 October 2015 21:11 (eight years ago) link
http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/51E5YSZARPL.jpg
every time I revisit it, miraculously, it's even better than I remember it
just incredible
― tremendous crime wave and killing wave (Joan Crawford Loves Chachi), Sunday, 8 November 2015 21:06 (eight years ago) link
the bass sound on this is so great
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BM6pUOfpoXY
― tremendous crime wave and killing wave (Joan Crawford Loves Chachi), Sunday, 8 November 2015 21:10 (eight years ago) link
sometimes I just want to listen to that I'm a Wonderful Thing riff or groove or w/e all day
― woof, Monday, 4 April 2016 17:14 (eight years ago) link
I feel very similarly about the 'Me No Pop I' riff or groove or whatever.
― I am very inteligent and dicipline boy (Old Lunch), Monday, 4 April 2016 17:16 (eight years ago) link
his musical opens in may.
http://lamama.org.previewdns.com/cherchez_la_femme/
― Thus Sang Freud, Monday, 4 April 2016 17:56 (eight years ago) link
for me it's 'I'm Corrupt'.actually every big track on that album is infectious
― draxx them sklounst (dog latin), Monday, 4 April 2016 18:24 (eight years ago) link
http://nypost.com/2017/08/03/kidd-creoles-fall-from-hip-hop-to-rock-bottom/
wtf!
― calzino, Friday, 4 August 2017 11:31 (six years ago) link
wait... this isn't the same guy?
― Shat Parp (dog latin), Friday, 4 August 2017 11:34 (six years ago) link
how can there be two guys called Kid(d) Creole?
Yeah, it should go on the Grandmaster Flash thread.
― calzino, Friday, 4 August 2017 11:37 (six years ago) link
But it isn't every day you read about a hall of fame inductee stabbing a homeless man to death.
― calzino, Friday, 4 August 2017 11:38 (six years ago) link
Man, Fresh Fruit in Foreign Places is going down well today.
― Naive Teen Idol, Friday, 3 April 2020 19:23 (four years ago) link
it's sooooo good
― she carries a torch. two torches, actually (Joan Crawford Loves Chachi), Friday, 3 April 2020 19:30 (four years ago) link
Man, haven't heard it in about a decade, but yeah, all those early Kid Creole albums are fantastic.
In case the version of the album you're listening to isn't appended with Coati Mundi's solo single, do yourself a major favor and hit 'play' below.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JqCqHgSHjMA
― Unparalleled Elegance (Old Lunch), Friday, 3 April 2020 19:38 (four years ago) link
so glad this thread got bumped for music appreciation reasons as opposed to why the Cristina thread got bumped the other day. R.I.P.
― sarahell, Friday, 3 April 2020 19:51 (four years ago) link
I loooove this, buried in soundtrack rights limbo
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0UWU2X7fk_8
― TikTok to the (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Friday, 3 April 2020 19:54 (four years ago) link
Wish I had a time machine to go back and see them in 81, super tight band.
https://www.dailymotion.com/video/xd78z9
― Dan Worsley, Friday, 3 April 2020 19:55 (four years ago) link
Truth be told, that news sent me back to Mutant Disco which sent me back to these guys.
I'm not sure I was really ready for this when I got it when Fresh Fruit was reissued about 15 years ago ... it initially sounds like a sort of hodgepodge of garish island music but sort of reveals itself on closer inspection. And suddenly you realize "Schweinerei" is just a fabulously bonkers tune with this tremendously sexy slinky chorus, "I Stand Accused" is this remarkable seaswept Rogers & Hammerstein ballad and it goes on and on -- like the Odyssey on which it's based every track is kind of its own miniature set piece. Most songs have about 4 different melodies, the form is almost always surprising and Darnell and Hernandez's arrangements are terrific, revealing just a little dissonance and mystery to the proceedings. And the way "Dear Addy" closes the record by just kind of floating away on this melange of reggae and orientalism is utterly unique.
― Naive Teen Idol, Friday, 3 April 2020 22:59 (four years ago) link
Wish I had a time machine to go back and see them in 81, super tight band. https://www.dailymotion.com/video/xd78z9🕸
― A-B-C. A-Always, B-Be, C-Chooglin (will), Friday, 3 April 2020 23:21 (four years ago) link
sarahell otm, and these records are still great, instant party
― sleeve, Friday, 3 April 2020 23:26 (four years ago) link
Pulled out a Kid Creole cd for in-car listening yesterday, and I had forgotten how wonderful “I’m a Wonderful Thing, Baby” is. So much going on musically and lyrically, such an odd groove.
― Album Moods: Rambunctious; Snide (Dan Peterson), Friday, 3 April 2020 23:39 (four years ago) link
Utopia Parkway was Amplifier’s best album of 1999 – and deservedly so. For me, it’s almost a perfect record, the sound of growing up in the mid- to late-80s when there were no helicopter parents and kids wandered the suburbs aimlessly, observing their parents and their weird traditions while never really connecting with them, and hardly a thought about their future beyond how to land a pretty girl. With hindsight, it’s basically a concept record about how we idealize youth and exaggerate its trappings and small victories to justify the choices we make in adulthood. It could have been a recipe for snark. But what makes Schlesinger and Collingwood’s collaboration work is that they genuinely love the characters they write about and take no pride in escaping this life for themselves. That it ends on a song like The Senator’s Daughter—marrying your way into success as the ultimate way out—
I loooove this, buried in soundtrack rights limbo📹
― Naive Teen Idol, Saturday, 4 April 2020 15:42 (four years ago) link
was listening to dr. buzzard's debut the other day. still sounds great, too. it's the only one i've heard. anybody rep for either of their other 2?
― medicate for all (outdoor_miner), Saturday, 4 April 2020 16:30 (four years ago) link
They did three more, but the only one of those I've heard is James Monroe H.S. Presents Dr. Buzzard's Original Savannah Band Goes to Washington---does not sound like a marching band, just another left field joek I guess---enjoyed it when it first came out, in the late 70s, enjoyed the sounds without quite putting the whole thing together, then got distracted by well you know it was the late 70s, lots of compelling music, without so much of the in-crowd insinuations having to gradually sink in---but not s= much stiff competition these days, so maybe I should try it again. It was good, far as I got with it!Going forward, I was more of a Kid Creole fan, up through You Shoulda Told Me You Were in '90 or '91, don't think I heard any after that.For related, more on the relatively straight-fwd atmospheric art pop side check Gichy Dan, Gichy Dan's Beachwood No. 9, and Cory Daye's Cory and Me That Going Places mentioned upthread, pulling together lots of Darnell side trips, should be good too, from the tracks I know.
― dow, Sunday, 5 April 2020 03:08 (four years ago) link
thx for the tips, dow. found gichy dan on spotify and didn't make too much of an impression on cursory listen. maybe it was my mood. maybe i shouldn't've been looking for great songs a la Dr. B or Kid C. listening to what i could find on youtube of the sophomore Buzzard's and it's really enjoyable. i'm more a Kid Creole fan too i guess i just have a soft spot for the Buzzard's weirdness fwiw
― medicate for all (outdoor_miner), Sunday, 5 April 2020 19:20 (four years ago) link
Hey! I have the Dr Buzzard debut, never knew it was a Kid Creole thing. Gonna have to relisten.
― Cow_Art, Sunday, 5 April 2020 19:28 (four years ago) link
yeah stony browder, leader of dr. buzzard, was august darnell's brother. august was their lyricist, iirc.
kid creole were a treat in concert. even when they swung through in 2015 it was a party, with cory daye in the house for the ny show.
― Thus Sang Freud, Sunday, 5 April 2020 20:06 (four years ago) link
Sure I wish I could have seen that---will check youtube etc.xxp yeah no showstoppers on the Gichy Dan, it's more about slowly stirring the colors in an old movie on Ted Turner's Atlanta Superstation, in the early days of (mostly purloined) cable---back then, past a hard day's night at the Southern Collegetown arty dive bar, then afterparties blasting B-52s, Pylon, Ramones, James White & The Blacks---Gichy Dan was part of the Sunday hangover cure.
― dow, Sunday, 5 April 2020 23:38 (four years ago) link
Not that those weren't some dream colors too (weed was also part of the Sunday hangover cure).
― dow, Sunday, 5 April 2020 23:39 (four years ago) link
“Cowboys & Gangsters” is a showstopper if there ever was one
― No mean feat. DaBaby (breastcrawl), Monday, 6 April 2020 00:01 (four years ago) link
They're such a wonderful thing, baby!
― TikTok to the (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Sunday, 24 May 2020 01:01 (three years ago) link
swap out one of the Cherchez La Femmes with Caroline Was a Dropout
― doorstep jetski (dog latin), Sunday, 24 May 2020 02:32 (three years ago) link
They were fun live when I saw 'em in DC way back when ('81 I think)...
Watched Downtown 81 again recently and Kid is in that .
― curmudgeon, Sunday, 24 May 2020 04:50 (three years ago) link
Excellent list – I would def. add Schweinerei which, as noted upthread, is a fave (I also apparently posted some legacy shit from another topic from my Zing app, apologies). I’m having a hard time believing my revival of this thread was only six weeks ago. Feels like six months.
― Naive Teen Idol, Sunday, 24 May 2020 17:56 (three years ago) link
I forgot to mention that the Downtown 81 soundtrack has some reemarkable KC rarities: haven't found these performances of "K-Pasa-Bop" (with Coati Mundi) and "Mr. Softee" (also Coati Mundi's own "Palabras Con Ritmo") anywhere else, though it's been a while since I checked. May have been recorded just for this movie, as xgau says the excellent (live?) DNA tracks were. I like most of the rest better than he does, though yeah some I could live without, but overall quite the lively time trip. Oh, and who the hell is Pablo Calogero? Another KC associate? His "Tangita" is even more furnace room Downtown Latin rock etc.
― dow, Sunday, 24 May 2020 20:04 (three years ago) link
oooh
― TikTok to the (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Sunday, 24 May 2020 20:12 (three years ago) link
Yeah, and his site has two reviews; here's the more informative and relatively less neg:DOWNTOWN 81Recall
3 Stars
New York post-punk compilation unearths treasures along with garbage
With its Deborah Harry intro and Rammellzee envoi, this soundtrack to a quasi-documentary starring the late painter Jean-Michel Basquiat makes as if to encompass all the NYC music of its title's post-punk moment. Unfortunately, that moment was oft full of shit, as Walter Steding, Lydia Lunch, Japan's Plastics and a Basquiat band called Gray demonstrate. But sometimes it was anything but, and here you will hear not just all you need of Liquid Liquid, Suicide and graffitist Rammellzee (the indelible rap one-off "Beat Bop"), but--improbably--specially recorded versions that top the hard-to-find originals. The secretly funky avant-noise trio DNA sound more muscular on this "Blonde Redhead" and "Detached" than on the 2004 CD believed to contain all their recorded works. And the two numbers by August Darnell's suavely articulate Kid Creole and the Coconuts rock and/or disco harder than anything in their catalog.
Rolling Stone, Dec. 13, 2007 Do not agree re Liquid Liquid or several others, but duh do re rare KC and related (ditto DNA).
― dow, Sunday, 24 May 2020 20:21 (three years ago) link
Total mood lifter, this guy and his Coconuts.
― SQUIRREL MEAT!! (Capitaine Jay Vee), Tuesday, 7 June 2022 10:30 (one year ago) link
^this
― Double Elvis on the Dime (James Redd and the Blecchs), Tuesday, 7 June 2022 10:32 (one year ago) link
hey coconuts!
― Thus Sang Freud, Tuesday, 7 June 2022 14:00 (one year ago) link
Not to be overlookedhttps://i.discogs.com/zf9f2X2-hAgNa2tE37vVbfa5dCE7bT3fXr34NofROS4/rs:fit/g:sm/q:90/h:501/w:498/czM6Ly9kaXNjb2dz/LWRhdGFiYXNlLWlt/YWdlcy9SLTE1Mzgw/NzMtMTI5NzExODk4/MC5qcGVn.jpeg
― eatandoph (Neue Jesse Schule), Tuesday, 7 June 2022 16:58 (one year ago) link
these LPs can be had for like $5 still, some of the most fun for your money there is
― thinkmanship (sleeve), Tuesday, 7 June 2022 19:09 (one year ago) link
Since it's Prince's birthday today, everyone should listen to this song that he wrote for Kid Creole and The Coconuts. A totally amazing, hilarious composition that never saw the light of day. One of those things that Prince never intended for himself but put !00% into the demo. He loved August apparently.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q0T5PuF7foY
― kurt schwitterz, Tuesday, 7 June 2022 19:14 (one year ago) link
I guess August wasn't into it and only included it on the album on the insistence of the label. The Kid version not as good.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K8XC15JlgIY
― kurt schwitterz, Tuesday, 7 June 2022 19:15 (one year ago) link
the hell?
https://t2conline.com/unexpected-unanticipated-unparalleded-nothin-left-but-the-rest-a-new-album-from-kid-creole-and-the-coconuts/
― Thus Sang Freud, Tuesday, 7 June 2022 19:45 (one year ago) link
Anybody heard this? I noticed that Spotify has finally gotten the recent remasters/deluxe versions.
― Naive Teen Idol, Friday, 16 September 2022 12:46 (one year ago) link
oho--several KC etc. tracks stashed here on label page: https://soundcloud.com/2c2cmusicAlso--not strictly nec., but it's an opp:
We are very excited to announce this newly remastered release!Dr. Buzzard's Original Savannah Band is releasing the first single from the remastered third studio album!R.S.V.P., recorded and originally released in 1979, hails from the 'James Monroe H.S. presents Dr Buzzard's Original Savannah Band Goes to Washington' album.The single was written by Stony Browder Jr. and August Darnell. Lead vocals by the inimitable and unique songstress Cory Daye and band leader Stony Browder Jr. The album was originally released on Elektra Records in 1979. 2C2C is proud to present this single ahead of the newly remastered album set for release later this year.We're giving all our subscribers EXCLUSIVE EARLY ACCESS to the HD DOWNLOAD of R.S.V.P. ahead of its release on Feb 14. Click the link below to instantly download the single from 2C2C Music for just $1.29!The single is being released on all Digital Service Providers (Spotify, Amazon Music, iTunes etc) in the U.S. only but here you can download the single from anywhere in the world!https://www.2c2cmusic.com/buy-music/dr-buzzards-original-savannah-bands-rsvp
― dow, Friday, 10 February 2023 17:54 (one year ago) link
Ah...Thanks
― curmudgeon, Saturday, 11 February 2023 16:18 (one year ago) link
over the past few years he's released just an absolute ton of stuff from his archives under the title "Once Upon a Cassette" -- they're up under the name "August Darnell," not Kid Creole, and they span his entire career -- there's at least 12 volumes of them, you can buy them from his webstore but they're also on the streaming services. Over the years I've come to think of him as one of the best ever, his catalog is amazing, he was great from the minute his feet touched the ground -- albums I've been revisiting for almost twenty years continue to delight, the first four are really the main menu but there's just so much. for real if you ever loved this guy look up those once upon a cassette comps. 2nd song on the first one, "cry baby cry," is minimal funk at such a high level -- kid creole rules imo just rules
― J Edgar Noothgrush (Joan Crawford Loves Chachi), Monday, 25 December 2023 20:41 (three months ago) link
duly noted, thanks for the tip. when I started picking up the LPs I was also amazed at the quality of that 80s run
― out-of-print LaserDisc edition (sleeve), Monday, 25 December 2023 22:25 (three months ago) link
Killer tip. Thank you!
― Naive Teen Idol, Saturday, 30 December 2023 16:02 (three months ago) link
Yeah, this looks great, thanks!
― The Glittering Worldbuilders (James Redd and the Blecchs), Saturday, 30 December 2023 19:30 (three months ago) link
Been listening all morning.
― poppers fueled buttsex crescendo (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Saturday, 30 December 2023 19:35 (three months ago) link
I have had “My Male Curiosity” in my head since this thread was revived.
― Naive Teen Idol, Thursday, 4 January 2024 17:35 (three months ago) link
we're having a moment in my drive-the-kids-to-school CD player with Fresh Fruit -- this is sort of technically his first album, since the actual debut, Off the Coast of Me, was intended as a demo. (It's still great though imo.) The opening track, "Going Places"...like, this is the best, best music to me, the absolute best, just shockingly fresh and wonderful, so much character it's like a feast, and that chorus...like...you can never have set foot in NY in your entire life, and when he sings "Believe me, I know / when you leave New York, you go / nowhere" you'd still be like "You're right, Kid Creole, you're right."
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xIPfRdZmxl0
― J Edgar Noothgrush (Joan Crawford Loves Chachi), Thursday, 4 January 2024 18:38 (three months ago) link
and then three songs later you get a ballad this wonderful, this rich, this dense? this thing that sounds like a Rufus Wainwright ballad from 1982?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zzsMmC7N0t8
― J Edgar Noothgrush (Joan Crawford Loves Chachi), Thursday, 4 January 2024 18:42 (three months ago) link
like I'm not young any more but when he sings "If I choose to live my life / loving you / it's my right to" I am so young.
― J Edgar Noothgrush (Joan Crawford Loves Chachi), Thursday, 4 January 2024 18:43 (three months ago) link
Wow -- that vinyl edition sounds thick.
― poppers fueled buttsex crescendo (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Thursday, 4 January 2024 18:45 (three months ago) link
Bill Caprenter’s exceptional AMG review:
Musical gumbo of esoteric lilting, jazzy, laid-back disco, an acquired taste.
― Naive Teen Idol, Thursday, 4 January 2024 23:35 (three months ago) link
Nice work, Bill Carpenter.
― Naive Teen Idol, Thursday, 4 January 2024 23:40 (three months ago) link
the strut compilation is one of my favorite compilations ever:
https://www.discogs.com/release/1730975-Kid-Creole-Going-Places-The-August-Darnell-Years-1974-1983
― fpsa, Friday, 5 January 2024 04:20 (three months ago) link
Almost kind of a Chic thing happening on the unrelenting unappreciated greatness front (prolly not by now really but like as of uh, 10? + years ago) both in the rhythm section and the arrangements. Like the consistent airtight snap of the piano/rhythm guitar/background vox parts alone, just unimpeachable and fully singular
― Deverly (Bangelo), Friday, 5 January 2024 07:01 (three months ago) link
This is not to elude the songwriting which goes w/o saying imo
― Deverly (Bangelo), Friday, 5 January 2024 07:03 (three months ago) link
-elide
― Deverly (Bangelo), Friday, 5 January 2024 07:05 (three months ago) link
looks like addy is starting a patreon account.
https://www.patreon.com/kidcreoleandthecoconutsarchives?fbclid=IwAR2K2QR7rfnU4lsUlRg3k-hrL6DJcnrHNAOS4SW47pDkYGT7kKp64MwLndQ
― Thus Sang Freud, Friday, 5 January 2024 14:38 (three months ago) link