Sugar Candy Taxi

Kevin Coyne | Format: Audio CD

Product Details

• Audio CD (April 20, 1999)
• Original Release Date: April 20, 1999
• Number of Discs: 1
• Label: Ruf
• ASIN: B00000ILWO
• In-Print Editions: MP3 Download
• Average Customer Review: 4.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (4 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #317,581 in Music (See Top 100 in Music)

Track Listings

1. Sugar Candy Taxi

2. Porcupine People

3. Highway of Dreams

4. Happy Little Fat Man

5. The Garden Gate Song

6. I'm into Your Game

7. My Wife's Best Friend

8. Little White Arms

9. Rusting Away

10. Bird Brain

11. Tiger Lilian

12. Fly

13. Almost Dying

14. Normal Man

15. It Hurts

16. Lancashire Song

Customer Reviews

Most Helpful Customer Reviews

18 of 18 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Finally a New CD!, March 14, 2000

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John (Canada) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Sugar Candy Taxi (Audio CD)

After years of recording a number of albums on an obscure German label not distributed in North America, Kevin Coyne finally releases a new collection of songs on a new, more widely distrubuted label. It's about bloody time! I was unsure whether to give it 4 or 5 stars, but this stuff is so far beyond most pap recorded nowadays, I went with the latter. Kevin states that this CD was like a return to roots for him, and it really does seem like a blast from the past (it sounds alot like the songs on the Peel Sessions CD). About 1/3 of the songs are recorded with a 'rock' band including his sons, and they - to me - are often the strongest of the bunch. Another 1/3 or more are solo acoustic, and these are almost uniformly excellent too. The final third or so are acoustic with either a discordant sax or flute wailing behind Kevin: these don't always work, although 'Porcupine People' and 'Lancashire Song' are stand-outs. Kevin Coyne does it again here: he provides excellent lyrics and melodies, a very idiosyncratic guitar style, and a voice that - like Van Morrison's - has become more emotive and powerful with age. This really is a strong CD, with some patented Coyne touches and more than an occasional hint of discordance which forces you to listen carefully. This is intellegent folk/rock (for lack of a better term) music made for - if I may be so bold - a discerning audience, which is probably why he is almost unknown in North America. Like, for example, Graham Parker or Roy Harper, it's a crime this singer/songwriter isn't better known and appreciated. If you are familiar with his work, definitely buy this record; if you aren't, take a chance, I think you'll like it!

4 of 4 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Masterpiece, November 18, 2003

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liam firmager (Melbourne) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Sugar Candy Taxi (Audio CD)

This is the type of album that seperates the cloth eared from the clued-in.
It's a masterpiece and anyone who tells you different is a musical philistine who thinks Kenny G is great music.
Buy it now.

3 of 3 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars SUGAR CANDY TAXI MAN DIED, April 17, 2005

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HOTEMETOOT "FLAPPIE" (HOLLAND) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Sugar Candy Taxi (Audio CD)

KEVIN DIED LAST DECEMBER 2004, SO THIS WAS ONE OF HIS LAST CD'S.
i WISH YOU COULD BUY BABBLE WITH DAGMAR KRAUSE BECAUSE FOR ME IT'S HIS BEST ALBUM EVER, BUT IT'S NO MORE FOR SALE.
sO THE SHOW IS OVER AND WE HAVE TO DO WITH HIS BIG LEGACY OF OVER 35 CD'S.
I DRINK TO YOU KEVIN COYNE, ONE OF THE ORIGINAL ONES, WE WILL MISS YOU.