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

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!

Oh shit, so this Coati Mundi album from last year is really good.

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, April 30, 2011 8:31 AM Bookmark

!!

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

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MO06a2KNBOs

fuck, whats up with me and formatting tonite

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MO06a2KNBOs

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.

Sorry did not mean to post here - will start new thread if anyone is interested.

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.

STOOOL PIGEON! AH-CHA-CHA-CHAAAA

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

Woah... I could well be up for the London show.

Did anybody go to the show in Clapham???

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.

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)

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 :(

That's the same album as Wise Guy, right? My vinyl copy sounds fine.

Yeah. I don't know, Bob Blank produced it so it should sound pretty great!

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!

Wow, so is Kid living in the UK or France or something?

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."

this fucking song

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YGBDAxCDLs4

indeed

You've heard the Gories version I hope :)

I have now! :)

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

the bass sound on this is so great

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BM6pUOfpoXY

sometimes I just want to listen to that I'm a Wonderful Thing riff or groove or w/e all day

I feel very similarly about the 'Me No Pop I' riff or groove or whatever.

his musical opens in may.

http://lamama.org.previewdns.com/cherchez_la_femme/

for me it's 'I'm Corrupt'.
actually every big track on that album is infectious

http://nypost.com/2017/08/03/kidd-creoles-fall-from-hip-hop-to-rock-bottom/

wtf!

wait... this isn't the same guy?

how can there be two guys called Kid(d) Creole?

Yeah, it should go on the Grandmaster Flash thread.

But it isn't every day you read about a hall of fame inductee stabbing a homeless man to death.

Man, Fresh Fruit in Foreign Places is going down well today.