Fresh Fruit in Foreign Places [Original recording remastered] [Import]

1. Going Places

2. In the Jungle

3. Animal Crackers

4. I Stand Accused

5. Latin Music (Que Pasa)

6. Musica Americana

7. I Am

8. Schweinerei

9. Gina, Gina

10. With a Girl Like Mimi

11. Table Manners

12. Dear Addy

13. Table Manners [Remix Version][*]

14. Que Pasa/Me No Pop I [Coati Mundi 12" Mix] [*]

Editorial Reviews

Product Description
Digitally Remastered Reissue of the 1981 Second Album from August Darnell's Critically Praised Band of Musicians Took the Band's Concept to New Artistic Heights. One Cannot Listen Without a Smirk Or a Laugh as Darnell Further Proved Here his Mastery Double Entendre and Clever Word Play. These Great Songs Are Set to an Exciting Musical Backdrop of R&B Funk, Ska, Calypso, Soca and Just Plain Fun. Includes Updated Liner Notes, Rare Photos, an Interview with August Darnell and the Great Bonus for Collectors Are the Two Bonus Tracks; The 12" Versions of "Table Manners" and Coati Mundi's (Andy Hernandez) Solo Disco Hit "Que Pasa/Me No Pop I" (Coati Mundi 12" Mix).

Tracks:

Going Places
In the Jungle
Animal Crackers
I Stand Accused
Latin Music (Que Pasa)
Musica Americana
I Am
Schweinerei
Gina, Gina
With a Girl Like Mimi
Table Manners
Dear Addy
Table Manners [Remix Version][*]
Que Pasa/Me No Pop I [Coati Mundi 12" Mix][*]

Album Details

Digitally Remastered Reissue of the 1981 Second Album from August Darnell's Critically Praised Band of Musicians Took the Band's Concept to New Artistic Heights. One Cannot Listen Without a Smirk Or a Laugh as Darnell Further Proved Here his Mastery Double Entendre and Clever Word Play. These Great Songs Are Set to an Exciting Musical Backdrop of R&B Funk, Ska, Calypso, Soca and Just Plain Fun. Includes Updated Liner Notes, Rare Photos, an Interview with August Darnell and the Great Bonus for Collectors Are the Two Bonus Tracks; The 12" Versions of "Table Manners" and Coati Mundi's (Andy Hernandez) Solo Disco Hit "Que Pasa/Me No Pop I" (Coati Mundi 12" Mix).

Customer Reviews:

Classic Kid Creole.......2006-12-04

Kid Creole & the Coconuts were one of the most innovative and underrated bands of their era. They were probably way over the heads of most listeners despite their commercial potential. Their first albums combine some of the best aspects of disco, new wave and early jazz. Not to mention the fact that their albums were uncommonly consistent and solid, listenable from start to finish. The genuinely funny and outré lyrics make even the less hooky songs fun. Their 1981 album Fresh Fruit in Foreign Places is an exhilarating and hypnotic listen. The All Music Guide reviewer called it 'esoteric' and 'an acquired taste', but this ignores the immediacy and catchiness of the material. Kid Creole seems to be a sort of living transportation of Cab Calloway to the disco era, with the same sort of manic energy, charisma and naughty feel. The music is quite similar to the wonderful work of Dr. Buzzard's Original Savannah Band (part of that group went on to form the Coconuts).
Kid Creole didn't suffer from the chunky, dated production values of his contemporaries, however, (at least not until his next album, 1983's Tropical Gangsters, which had strong melodies but was comparatively underwhelming) and his music sounds fresher than any other pop group of the era. Some highlights: the infectious Table Manners, the clever Animal Crackers, With a Girl like Mimi and In the Jungle.

An amazing record - period........2005-01-24

After hearing August Darnell (Kid Creole)'s production work on Cristina's debut album (and also helped along by memories of my father playing "Don't Take my Coconuts" a lot when I was a kid) I decided to give this band a real chance, and picked up all four of the ZE releases on vinyl. Though they are all worth picking up, "Fresh Fruit" really stands out to me as the best of those four. There is not one song on here that I can say I dislike. What really grabs me about it is that every song is different, stylistically, but still maintains a "sound" that connects all of them. Among the tracks, "Animal Crackers" (a reggae-ish number about customs denying entrance of such things as frosted flakes and coffee cakes), "Going Places", "I Am", "I Stand Accused" and "Table Manners" are my personal favorites, but this is not to discount the other amazing tracks. Darnell's lyrics are astounding once you pay attention to them, and the fusion of latin/r&b/disco/rock/caribbean/reggae is just unequalled by anyone else. Also, the bonus tracks make this worth buying alone. The 12" version of Table Manners is a godsend -- and the Coati Mundi track "Me No Pop I" is quite possibly the best thing to come out of Andy Hernandez. The remaster quality is insanely wonderful - so much detail brought out that the LP format tended to bury. I feel like I'm mumbling here - but this is just a landmark in modern music and it should be in everyone's collection regardless of their musical inklings. Intelligent, funny, groovin' -- just try to not be happy when listening to this. Awesome.

One of my Top 10 Desert Island discs........2004-11-02

In a way, a concept album about the difficulty of staying in love. I bought the LP when it first came out, recorded it to tape, and played that cassette on just about every highway in Arizona way long ago. Not a misfired song in the bunch. Hard to pick a favorite one, but "Table Manners" and its read-between-the-lines lyrics comes close. If you happen to be "rediscovering" old music, beyond what Billboard deemed popular in the last several decades, the early albums of this group are worth adding to your collection.

Latino Si, Yanqui No!.......2002-11-05

Finally! Too bad it took Universal U.K. to re-release this long-lost "mutant disco" classic (Sire had the U.S. rights way back when). The logical successor to Off The Coast Of Me and the first part of Creole's extended concept album series stands as the ultimate disco concept album (which works superbly well without the story line either...) thanks to a veritable diaspora of sound: Latin American, disco, rock, pop, even a slight trace of - dare we say it - punk! This is still fun stuff. And though it doesn't contain as big a hit as "Endicott" or "My Male Curiosity", it's every bit as lovable, dancable, groovable, skankable. Key tracks include "In The Jungle", "Animal Crackers", "I Stand Accused" (a witty little throw-away that spoofs weepy seventies soul ballads a-la "Coldest Days Of My Life"), "Musica Americana" (with its infamous "latino si, yanqui no" chorus), "I Am", "With A Girl Like Mimi" and "Table Manners". Toss in two great bonus tracks (the essential "Que Pasa/Me No Pop I" especially), great sound and Kid Creole-interview liner notes and you've got a first-class reissue. Manic fun to be had for all! Listen and groove! Memo to Universal: please try to release more Ze Records stuff! I especially miss Don Armando's 2nd Avenue Rhumba Band and their cool remake of Irving Berlin's "I'm An Indian, Too" (which Creole produced).

Average customer rating:

Fresh Fruit in Foreign Places
Kid Creole & the Coconuts
Manufacturer: Wounded Bird Records
ProductGroup: Music
Binding: Audio CD

New Wave | New Wave & Post-Punk | Alternative Rock | Styles | Music

Disco | Dance & DJ | Styles | Music

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ASIN: B000FDFRSW
Release Date: 2006-06-13

Tracks:

Going Places
In The Jungle
Animal Crackers
I Stand Accused
Latin Music
Musica Americana
I Am
Schweinerei
gina, Gina
With A Girl Like Mimi
Table Manners
Dear Addy

Album Description

Kid Creole is actually August Darnell Browder who used to be in Dr. Buzzard's Original Savannah Band. In the early 1980's he formed The Coconuts with his wife, Adriana "Addy" Kaegi and Andy "Coati Mundi" Hernandez. They have maintained a loyal fan following for a couple of decades. Wouded Bird proudly presents three of their best albums for the first time anywhere on CD. "Fresh Fruit In Foreign Places" hit theBillboard charts in 1981.