Kool-Aid | ||||
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Studio album by Big Audio Dynamite II | ||||
Released | 1 November 1990 | |||
Recorded | 18 June 1990 | |||
Genre | Rock, alternative dance, alternative rock, dance-rock | |||
Length | 51:15 | |||
Label | Columbia | |||
Producer |
Mick Jones Oliver "Olimax" Maxwell André Shapps |
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Allmusic |
Kool-Aid is an album by Big Audio Dynamite II. It was their first album under this name and with this line-up, which had been totally changed by the band leader Mick Jones himself in 1990. This was a UK-only release. Several of the songs appeared on the group's next worldwide release, The Globe, albeit in reworked form. Among them is this album's lead-off song "Change of Atmosphere", which was reworked into the group's number 1 hit "Rush".
Trouser Press, said that, "with a relatively loose feel and concept, Kool-Aid is Jones' most diverse outing ever, a limited-edition eight-song stopgap offering two acoustic ballads, acid-dance, techno-rock, Kraftwerk samples and even Laurie Anderson-styled poltergeist vocals, as well as a remixed (and retitled) version of "Free," the band's contribution to the Flashback soundtrack."