Disco Not Disco >>>> Mutant Disco
there's a vinyl compilation called Dance Ze Dance circa 1981 that I recall as better selected than the Mutant comps. the selection on disco/not is fantastic, lotsa of stuff I didn't know the name or had never heard.
gotta admit the kid creole records haven't aged well for me at all. too high-concept or something.
― m coleman, Monday, 24 March 2008 13:14 (sixteen years ago) link
Was (Not Was), "Wheel Me Out" >>>> everything else on at least the first volume of Mutant Disco.
― Eric H., Monday, 24 March 2008 13:53 (sixteen years ago) link
there's a vinyl compilation called Dance Ze Dance circa 1981
Yeah, that's the one I called Seize The Beat a few posts up; the actual title on the label says Seize The Beat (Dance Ze Dance). In the UK in '81 a similar but slightly different vinyl comp came out called Mutant Disco, but I've never heard it; I assume the latter was expanded in to the CDs later? (Do they also contain tracks from A Christmas Record? Or are those long gone by now?)
Kid Creole's LPs were definitely concept albums, at least after the first and best one. And yeah, that made them seem tedious to me at the time, too (which is probably why I bought "No Fish Today" as a 45.)
― xhuxk, Monday, 24 March 2008 14:03 (sixteen years ago) link
The Kid Creole version of There But for the Grace seems pretty rare...I've never seen the vinyl. I also never said or implied that it was better then the Machine version...they are extremely different, which is what makes the Kid Creole version so interesting. The first time I heard it a friend played it very lout when we were DJing together and it blew me away.
― dan selzer, Monday, 24 March 2008 14:06 (sixteen years ago) link
TS: Fresh Fruit In Foreign Places vs. Fresh Fruit For Rotting Vegetables
― xhuxk, Monday, 24 March 2008 14:08 (sixteen years ago) link
The Kid Creole version of There But for the Grace seems pretty rare...I've never seen the vinyl
http://www.net3-tv.net/~woo-ze/kccoconuts.htm
Looks like there's a bunch of different vinyl configuations of it, though. (The one I have is the Ze 7-inch from 1981-- a "live" version of "There But For the Grace Of God Go I" on the "Z side" and "He's Not Such a Bad Guy (After All)" on the "E side.")
― xhuxk, Monday, 24 March 2008 14:26 (sixteen years ago) link
I think it's "with all the cards of fate that Mother Nature sends."
That makes the most sense even though it doesn't sound like he's actually saying that. He better write these down before he forgets them himself seeing as how not even his band members know what the hell he's singing.
It's never occurred to me that the Dolls lyrics I have trouble making out...should make me like those albums less than I do
Well, it works both ways. Imagine discovering that "Jet Boy" includes an insightful analysis of Foucault's Les mots et les choses. I'd learn how to do cartwheels and I just KNOW you'd love it even more, xhuxk!
I've never seen the vinyl. I also never said or implied that it was better then the Machine version
No, you pretty much implied it. J/k. I was just agreeing with the Strut choices.
The Kid Creole version of There But for the Grace seems pretty rare
it is indeed. I have the Antilles 12" with no picture sleeve. I don't recall finding it in the bins so I must have purchased it via mail order.
Definitely the former although I retain shreds of affection for the DKs.
― Kevin John Bozelka, Monday, 24 March 2008 16:31 (sixteen years ago) link
i've seen a ton of the creole 12" version of "there but for the grace" and passed on it every time, it isnt a patch on the ass of the machine one. i love august darnell, he is one of my favorite artists. he had a role in michel gondry's recent "be kind rewind" which was unexpected, but it makes sense considering his aesthetic.
― pipecock, Monday, 24 March 2008 16:54 (sixteen years ago) link
It's incredibly difficult to find copies of the DavidJo albums 'round these parts. I need to hear the first one.
I hope you made good on this. I hadn't listened to it in years and then we were talking about it a week or two back so I replaced my copy that's still back in California, and it came in the mail earlier this week and wow. Just wow. Such a wonderful album.
― J0hn D., Thursday, 24 April 2008 13:30 (sixteen years ago) link
I only just found out August Darnielle (ok, it's Darnell really), isn't his real name either!
I would've loved to see the Kid Creole version of There But for the Grace of God Go I.How hard is this to find these days, just out of curiosity? I've got it on a 7-inch, but it wasn't orginally on any of Kid Creole's albums, was it?
How hard is this to find these days, just out of curiosity? I've got it on a 7-inch, but it wasn't orginally on any of Kid Creole's albums, was it?
It was on: Free 7" single w/ Off the coast of me, w/ "He's not such a bad guy", Yellow "taxi" style label NME Cassette Free 7" single w/ 7" of "Stool Pigeon", same as the other 7" but with green "Z" label
I have all three, so it never seemed all that rare to me.
― Mark G, Thursday, 24 April 2008 13:47 (sixteen years ago) link
Of course I'm a sucker for this kind of eighties compromise between synths and sleaze, but, man, he's such a compelling singer:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=riyFR3hJTyo
― Filmmaker, Author, Radio Host Stephen Baldwin (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Thursday, 24 June 2010 01:59 (fourteen years ago) link
this thread is exhibit A in the case against poll threads
― get your bucket of free wings (underrated aerosmith albums I have loved), Thursday, 24 June 2010 02:18 (fourteen years ago) link
and exhibit B in the case for David Johansen's first solo album.
― Filmmaker, Author, Radio Host Stephen Baldwin (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Thursday, 24 June 2010 02:21 (fourteen years ago) link
You’re credited for really revitalizing the lounge-singer format, but today it seems more popular than ever. Does that make you feel like you need to find a new frontier in your work?
No, it doesn't make me feel like I need to do that, but if something occurred to me and I liked it, I would pursue it. Lately I’m thinking about a dance-band kind of a thing. I have this friend, Jonathan Toubin [of New York Night Train], he’s a disc jockey. Sometimes he’ll have guest disc jockeys at his dances. I’ll go to Brooklyn Bowl and play records with him, and I love the way that everyone is dancing. There’s a certain type of music that he plays that are B-sides of '60s boogaloo records or whatever they are, and I was thinking, It would be great to play this music live and have people dancing, because most of the time when you play you just stand there and have people look at you. People used to dance at the Dolls shows. Dancing is so good for you, spiritually, physically, and mentally.
http://www.vulture.com/2016/01/David-Johansen-buster-poindexter-cafe-carlyle.html
― curmudgeon, Monday, 29 February 2016 17:22 (eight years ago) link
A list. So many good songs and productions!
― the Rain Man of nationalism. (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Sunday, 21 May 2017 15:13 (seven years ago) link
Coati Mundi "Me No Pop I" is great. I wonder if Darnell wrote that one?
― curmudgeon, Tuesday, 23 May 2017 02:35 (seven years ago) link
No room there for Did You Have To Love Me Like You Did by The Coconuts? Great groove and lyrics - about the pitfalls of following through on bi-curiosity?
― everything, Tuesday, 23 May 2017 03:19 (seven years ago) link
I remember watching the Carson show when this happened
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EalIXbQsLCA
― ice cream social justice (Dr Morbius), Monday, 22 January 2018 21:41 (six years ago) link
I watched that clip on Saturday before posting my list.
― morning wood truancy (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Monday, 22 January 2018 21:49 (six years ago) link
always thought David Jo was hot as fuck
I first became aware of him circa '79 when he would lipsync his latest single on New Jersey's beloved UHF kiddie semi-parody The Uncle Floyd Show, on which he would grin and say "It's maaaahvelous to be here, Uncle Floyd" in his Staten Island croak.
― ice cream social justice (Dr Morbius), Monday, 22 January 2018 22:03 (six years ago) link