Kill Your Darlings [Explicit Lyrics]

Kid Loco | Format: Audio CD

Product Details

• Audio CD (October 9, 2001)
• Original Release Date: 2001
• Number of Discs: 1
• Format: Explicit Lyrics
• Label: Atlantic / Wea
• ASIN: B00005OMHF
• Also Available in: Audio CD  |  Vinyl  |  MP3 Download
• Average Customer Review: 3.8 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (12 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #168,774 in Music (See Top 100 in Music)

Track Listings

1. Cocaine Diana

2. Lucy's Talking

3. Horsetown in Vain

4. Three Feet High Reefer

5. A Little Bit of Soul

6. I Can't Let It Happen to You

7. Gypsie Good Time

8. Here Come the Munchies

9. Going Round in Circles

10. I Want You

Customer Reviews

Most Helpful Customer Reviews

9 of 9 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Voices in my head, February 25, 2002

By 

Tom Douglas (Marlow) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Kill Your Darlings (Audio CD)

Kid Loco has been talking to me for some time now.

About 18 months ago I began exploring the whole downtempo/lounge/chill-out/wallpaper/call-it-what-you-will scene.

K&D, Fila Brazillia, dZihan & Kamien, anything on Ninjatune, Air... and on and on.

So far, so predictable. Most people reading this review will know the above names, and if there are any that are new to you, please go for a browse around Amazon...

This wonderful range of call-them-what-you-will artists border trip-hop, drum & bass, jazz, techno & house. They cross-over, switch back, mix and match, and generally make up their own rules.

Throughout this journey, a name kept being thrown up. Kid Loco. Again and again. The Kid is French, cue references to DJ Cam and Dmitri from Paris - not bad references to say the least.

So I finally took the plunge with three Kid Loco CDs. This one, Jesus Life, and DJ Kicks.

It might well have been three different artists, and thus I immediately understand how some people may have been disappointed with "...Darlings", but for me variety is not just the spice of life, its the very essence.

All three CDs are excellent and well worth an investment.

So, what is THIS one like?

Actually, Amazon's own review covers it very well. The Velvet Underground is all over this CD, and it evokes images of drug induced trances, mellow moments for the high, and lazy come downs.

Clearly this is a big change from Loco's previous work, but hey, keep your mind open. Kid Loco not only gets away with this change, he has created a marvellous opus.

The Kid did good.

5 of 5 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars French Tweak, January 30, 2002

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[e-mail] (los angeles) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Kill Your Darlings (Audio CD)

It was there all along. Echoes of Lou reed and the Velvet Underground, Bob Dylan's defiance,
and Serge Gainsbourg's 60's kitsch. You had to listen carefully under the electronic beat layers
of "Prelude to a grand Love Story"(Kid Loco's first album) to capture the mad blunted prodigy's
influences. "Kill your Darlings" offers no apologies for being a rock album, and mocks a
worldwide consensus that the French can't(rock). Kid Loco's "pastiche" humor saves "Darling"
from being self-indulgent and cliché, and never takes itself too seriously. But his genius lies in a grand fakery of sampling and knob tweaking, which with the enlisted help of singers Tim Keegan (Departure Lounge) and Louise Quinn, creates the perfect illusion of a great band lost in time.

4 of 4 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars A sultry, warm collection of "techno" ballads, October 15, 2001

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S. "mediaddict" (Jamaica Plain, Morocco) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Kill Your Darlings (Audio CD)

As the top of the CD wrapper reads: "Ten ballads for the t*ts, bums, and mickeys of beverly hills." Essentially what you are getting is an evokative downtempo disc, with relatively lush insturmentations (lots of accoustic guitars, live bass, very organic overall). The lyrics are completely forgettable overall, but the singing adds to the sultry, hot-summer night feel of the disc. The feelings of seduction are all over this disc, and it's easy to imagine this being played in the background of the "makeout room" at some house party somewhere in LA.