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 limbođź“ą
― 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 (four 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 (four 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 (four 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 (four 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 (four years ago) link
oooh
― TikTok to the (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Sunday, 24 May 2020 20:12 (four years ago) link