Kool-Aid (album)
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| Kool-Aid | ||||
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| Released | 22 October 1990[1] | |||
| 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 | |||
| Big Audio Dynamite II chronology | ||||
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| AllMusic |   [2] |
| The Encyclopedia of Popular Music | [3] |
Kool-Aid is an album by Big Audio Dynamite II.[4] It was their first album under this name and with this line-up, which had been changed by band leader Mick Jones in 1990.[5] It was only released in the UK, Europe and Australia.[6] Several of the songs appeared on the group's next worldwide release, The Globe, albeit in reworked form. Among them is "Change of Atmosphere", which was reworked into the group's number 1 hit "Rush". The Kool-Aid track "Kickin' In" is a significantly reworked version of "Free," a song Big Audio Dynamite previously recorded for the soundtrack of the 1990 film Flashback.
Trouser Press wrote 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."[7]
