What music do you want to play really loud?

Lately it's been "Kid Creole - Live" on the way to work. Loud enough to keep me awake on the commute. Loud enough so that - if I don't turn it down when I lower the window to swipe the card key reader for garage access, the attendants look at me kind of funny. Like: Who's the guy with the blaring Latin Jazz/Disco/Funk thing going on?

Ca Plane Pour Moi- Sonic Youth cover
Cinnamon Girl- Neil Young
Bad Day-R.E.M.
In Rainbows- Radiohead
Symphony No. 7- all of it- Beethoven
Symphony No. 8- Scherzo- Bruckner
Piano Concerto No. 2, 2nd Mvmt- Brahms
Danse Macabre-Saint-Saens

Marty,

What is the album title - is it "Kid Creole & the Coconuts Live"?

Shadorne,

That is the title. Pickwick records CD#706052.

I don't know if you know this band, but there's a fair chance that they are right up your alley. They are probably my alltime favorite live act, mixing disco danceability, ferocious funk energy, screaming horns, latin dance rythms, perfect pop song constructions, extremely clever (if somewhat juvenile) humor from August Darnell and some of the funniest staging you'll ever see. That combo is right up my alley, anyway, but that may say more about my juvenile sense of humor than anything else!

This particular set is really, really good (most of his best originals and covers of Sly Stone, Harry Belafonte, The 4 Seasons, and The Holmes Brothers) - although the recording is hardly SOTA. By the way, the band played at my 50th birthday party and tore the roof off the sucka (so to speak).

Pretty confident that you'll dig it.

Marty

Marty,

I recall you telling the story of KC playing your birthday - now that's a hell of a present! They're all good, but the first two or three Kid Creole studio recordings are absolute must-owns - "Off The Coast of Me"; "Fresh Fruit in Foreign Places" and "Tropical Gangster" are just incredibly musical recordings. LP, of course!!

Why do so few people seem to know of this band??