Kid Creole & the Coconuts - Tropical Gangsters

It seems everybody involved creatively in this album thought it was cat shit. The label made August Darnell release it instead of a solo album, they sidelined Coati Mundi, they made it a much more R&B-leaning album than anyone wanted. It was a massive hit.

The biggies on this album: Annie, I’m Not Your Daddy, I’m A Wonderful Thing, Baby, and Stool Pigeon are such original and well-crafted songs. The rest of the album’s OK. Stylistically, they were perfect.

I can still remember sitting on a train in 1982, going to an away game, talking about how good they were with my mate Steve, who had been to see them at the Hammersmith Odeon the previous week.

Kid Creole & the Coconuts played live next to the Torrens in Adelaide for free a few years ago. They weren’t much cop.

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