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Song of the week

by DougJ|  September 9, 20114:31 pm| 19 Comments

This post is in: Music, Readership Capture

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As always, from Can’t Explain.

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Kid Creole & the Coconuts, “Dear Addy” (1981)
I like just about all the Kid Creole & the Coconuts stuff, particularly through the ’80s悠 saw them live in 1986 and they were way, way better than I had any right to expect. Probably Fresh Fruit in Foreign Places is my favorite album, with its whacked-out concept about a sea voyage whose songs borrow rhythms and various stylings from all the ports in which the traveler stops, including elements of Broadway, calypso, cha cha, disco, funk, Latin, reggae, rock, and more, all served up in bite-size pop songs. “Dear Addy” is the the album closer, a very lovely ballad about sailing the world ’round only to find that the one waiting for you at home is the one you love and want. Or you hope she’s waiting for you anyway, the source of the song’s bracing tension.

First foreign place: “Going Places”
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  1. 1.

    Bago

    September 9, 2011 at 4:34 pm

    I was up all night helping to debug this
    http://www.infoworld.com/t/saas/blow-blow-another-microsoft-cloud-outage-172298

    Then we just had an earthquake.

  2. 2.

    Raven (formerly stuckinred)

    September 9, 2011 at 4:40 pm

    I can’t stop watching Garfunkel and Oates!

  3. 3.

    JGabriel

    September 9, 2011 at 4:44 pm

    While we’re talking about lovely ballads, see Marion Cotillard on last night’s Daily Show for a visual definition of the phrase ridiculously beautiful.

    .

  4. 4.

    Amir Khalid

    September 9, 2011 at 4:47 pm

    It’s already September 11 on my side of the International Date Line. This song, from an album that seems to be on a lot of people’s minds as the anniversary comes up, made me weep the first time I heard it. Sometimes it still does.

  5. 5.

    Raven (formerly stuckinred)

    September 9, 2011 at 4:52 pm

    If This is Goodbye is a 9/11 song too.

    My famous last words
    Could never tell the story
    Spinning unheard
    In the dark of the sky
    But I love you
    And this is our glory
    If this is good bye
    If this is good bye

  6. 6.

    handy

    September 9, 2011 at 4:54 pm

    Wow. Kid Creole and the Coconuts. That’s a name I completely forgot about.

  7. 7.

    Brachiator

    September 9, 2011 at 5:05 pm

    Related music thingie, for Spotify users

    The tech writer Andy Ihnatko offered up a little challenge not too long ago:

    I wanna try something I’ve tried a couple of times on Twitter, to great satisfaction:
    __
    Recommend one and only one music track.
    __
    One, not two. A track, not a band or an album. You don’t get to ask “well, what kind of music do you like?” Go through your music library and pick just one track that you can proudly and confidently recommend, based on any criteria that you like.
    __
    Explain your choice if you absolutely can’t stop yourself, but ideally, let the track speak for itself.

    One of the responders took the songs, about 400 or so, and turned it into a Spotify playlist. If you have the service, you might want to check it out, here.

    http://open.spotify.com/user/phidauex/playlist/2yO4TEVNFxRXRMi0GSwIO8

    BTW, I got no interest in Spotify other than as a casual user of the free version of the service.

  8. 8.

    trollhattan

    September 9, 2011 at 5:16 pm

    O/T ACLU publishes a summary of photographer and videographer rights. Good stuff to know!

    http://www.aclu.org/print/free-speech/know-your-rights-photographers

  9. 9.

    trollhattan

    September 9, 2011 at 5:18 pm

    @Amir Khalid:

    It’s already September 11 on my side of the International Date Line.

    You sure about that? Beause if it is, I’m two global spins behind ya.

  10. 10.

    Amir Khalid

    September 9, 2011 at 5:27 pm

    @trollhattan:
    Oops. Still only Sept 10 over here. My bad. But the anniversary is coming up, and Into The Fire is an appropriate song; besides, next week’s SOTW post will be after the anniversary.

  11. 11.

    MikeJ

    September 9, 2011 at 5:35 pm

    Didn’t feel the Vancouver quake. Learned of it from William Gibson’s twitter feed.

  12. 12.

    Datacine

    September 9, 2011 at 5:41 pm

    Saw Kid a few times, notably with Winston Grennan on drums and Carol Colman on bass. Coati Mundi and the rest too! Quite a show.

  13. 13.

    urizon

    September 9, 2011 at 6:02 pm

    God, I love this band.

  14. 14.

    Montysano

    September 9, 2011 at 6:03 pm

    @JGabriel:

    see Marion Cotillard on last night’s Daily Show for a visual definition of the phrase ridiculously beautiful.

    Boy howdy…

    Thanks, DougJ: I hadn’t listened to Kid Creole in years!

  15. 15.

    Southern Beale

    September 9, 2011 at 6:08 pm

    I’m assuming this is an open thread? If not, sue me.

    Do you shop at Overstock.com? Don’t! Their CEO is a right wing misogynist asshole who gives money to groups like the Swift Boat Veterans.

  16. 16.

    trollhattan

    September 9, 2011 at 6:17 pm

    @Amir Khalid:

    Drat the luck. I was hoping for stock tips. :-)

  17. 17.

    trollhattan

    September 9, 2011 at 6:20 pm

    @Montysano:

    My teevee service just added CC to their hi-def lineup, so Win!

  18. 18.

    trollhattan

    September 9, 2011 at 6:21 pm

    @Southern Beale:

    Aren’t they HQd in Utah? Always cause for suspicion.

  19. 19.

    sistermoon

    September 9, 2011 at 6:28 pm

    Love me some Kid Creole, especially “Stool Pigeon”.

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