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

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.

it's sooooo good

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

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.

I loooove this, buried in soundtrack rights limbo

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0UWU2X7fk_8

Wish I had a time machine to go back and see them in 81, super tight band.

https://www.dailymotion.com/video/xd78z9

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.

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.

Wish I had a time machine to go back and see them in 81, super tight band.

https://www.dailymotion.com/video/xd78z9🕸

sarahell otm, and these records are still great, instant party

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.

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

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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?

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.

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

Hey! I have the Dr Buzzard debut, never knew it was a Kid Creole thing. Gonna have to relisten.

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.

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.

Not that those weren't some dream colors too (weed was also part of the Sunday hangover cure).

“Cowboys & Gangsters” is a showstopper if there ever was one

They're such a wonderful thing, baby!

swap out one of the Cherchez La Femmes with Caroline Was a Dropout