- C'mon Kids
Infobox Album
Name = C'mon Kids
Type = Studio album
Longtype =
Artist =The Boo Radleys
Released =September 9 1996
Recorded = January-February 1996
Genre =Indie rock
Length =
Label =Creation Records CRECD 194
Producer = Paul Q. Kolderie, Sean Slade, The Boo Radleys
Reviews = *Allmusic Rating|3.5|5 [http://www.allmusic.com/cg/amg.dll?p=amg&sql=10:3n8j1v7ozzpa link]
*"Twisted Ear" Rating|5|5 [http://www.twistedear.com/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=473&Itemid=43 link]
Last album = "Wake Up! " (1995)
This album = "C'mon Kids" (1996)
Next album = "Kingsize" (1998)"C'mon Kids" is the fifth
album byThe Boo Radleys , it was released in September 1996. The album is considered to be purposely difficult and uncommercial. The band were said to have wanted to distance themselves from the commercial image they had cultivated because of the unexpected successes of the album "Wake Up! " and their top ten hit single "Wake Up Boo!". However, this was not the intention of the band as explained by Sice in an interview in 2005:cquoteThe album was less successful than its predecessor, charting at #20 on the
We didn't want to scare away the hit-kids, we wanted to take them with us to somewhere that we'd not been before. All we wanted to do was make a different type of album than Wake Up... All we wanted to do was try something new - to keep ourselves fresh and interested. We were very surprised to find that it was seen as a deliberate attempt to scare away newly created fans. That would have been an extremely foolish thing to do.
Sice UK albums chart . It did however spawn threeUK top 40 singles "C'mon Kids" at #18, "What's In The Box? (See Whatcha Got)" at #25, and radio edit of "Ride The Tiger" made #38.Track listing
# "C'mon Kids" - 4:07
# "Meltin's Worm" - 4:20
# "Melodies for the Deaf (Colours for the Blind)" - 3:45
# "Get on the Bus" - 3:12
# "Everything Is Sorrow" - 4:38
# "Bullfrog Green" - 4:41
# "What's in the Box? (See Whatcha Got)" - 3:29
# "Four Saints" - 4:26
# "New Brighton Promenade" - 3:05
# "Fortunate Sons" - 3:58
# "Shelter" - 2:00
# "Ride the Tiger" - 6:38
# "One Last Hurrah" - 4:20
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