Kid Creole & the Coconuts: C o' D, S 'n' D

(or press release, rather)

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.

"grungy Ze sound"

excellent. strut back in bidness.

'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

i love "annie i'm not your daddy"

Odd, just played "Mr. Softee" this morning.

they're such a wonderful thing, baby.

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.

i love "annie i'm not your daddy"

-- the next grozart, Sunday, 24 August 2008 11:17 (4 hours ago) Link

because if i was in your blood
then you wouldn't be so ugly

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.

That comp looks awesome.

Yes it does. So awesome I've just ordered it, along with the Strut Funky Nassau comp.

it is awesome

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.

Don Armando's Second Avenue Rhumba Band's 'Winter Love' is tremendously overlooked/underrated.

Easily one of the best.

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.

I didn't know this existed.

I have no objectivity when it comes this clan. Especially Cory Daye.

Cory Daye & Coati Mundi

This has always been a gem I wish wasn't overlooked:

Cory Daye - City Nights / Manhattan Cafes

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.

AUGUST & ANDY Episode 1 - Essence TV Show - Kid Creole & The Coconuts

AUGUST & ANDY Episode 2 - MTV Basement Tapes - Interview Kid Creole & The Coconuts

"Dancin' at the Bains Douches" is marvelous, sly fun.

I adore this comp.

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."

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cXPzWI5k3Ss

Love the "Tropical Gangster" album. A lot of great music. And the lyrics to "Annie I'm Not Your Daddy" are great too. :)

"Part of My Design."

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tLNc5Kk3YKc

http://web.me.com/a_kaegi/Site_18/Welcome.html

at the first i thought he opened a hotel.

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.

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.

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.)

The girly vocals on "Consider Me" and "Agony...Ecstasy" are just perfect.

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

The new album is better than anyone could have expected.

Had missed that there's a new album, but I'm about to go hunt it down.

one thing that i never hear people talk about is the coconuts' "solo" record. it's rad!

― 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.

Yeah, used to use "Ticket to the Tropics" in a show...

hunting will fare better in about two weeks when it comes out.

Yeah, figured that out not too long after posting.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IeAjn6rTGxw

weird.
i spot this thread jump back into action, just as double on back drops on 6music.
not heard it before, tis good.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eOpxy2B2o10

My piece on the man: http://www.villagevoice.com/2011-09-14/music/kid-creole-and-the-coconuts-fresh-fruit/

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").

Someone please tell me more about this Lori Eastside person:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G77dFrH-fiA

Also, btw:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EuCxNlWWe3g&feature=related

nice piece, beta blog!

Ah...Thanks

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

duly noted, thanks for the tip. when I started picking up the LPs I was also amazed at the quality of that 80s run

Killer tip. Thank you!

Yeah, this looks great, thanks!

Been listening all morning.

I have had “My Male Curiosity” in my head since this thread was revived.

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

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

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.

Wow -- that vinyl edition sounds thick.

Bill Caprenter’s exceptional AMG review:

Musical gumbo of esoteric lilting, jazzy, laid-back disco, an acquired taste.

Nice work, Bill Carpenter.

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

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

This is not to elude the songwriting which goes w/o saying imo

-elide

looks like addy is starting a patreon account.

https://www.patreon.com/kidcreoleandthecoconutsarchives?fbclid=IwAR2K2QR7rfnU4lsUlRg3k-hrL6DJcnrHNAOS4SW47pDkYGT7kKp64MwLndQ