C'mon Kids

• Artist: The Boo Radleys
• Rating:
• Release Date: September 09, 1996
• Type: Lyrics are included with the album
• Genre: Rock

Review

Wake Up! brought the Boo Radleys pop success that they weren't sure what to do with. After embracing the album's number one success, the group eventually recoiled from the spotlight and Martin Carr wrote C'mon Kids as a direct response to the group's celebrity status in the U.K. Simply put, C'mon Kids is an attempt to scare away any of the fellow travelers who welcomed the sunny-sounding pop of Wake Up! It's a gnarled, twisted and disorted album, as dense as Giant Steps and as loud as the Boos' early EPs. And, if you can make it through the murky guitars, fragments of songs, altered vocals and tape effects, there's a number of melodies and creatively crafted songs that make the album nearly as rewarding as Giant Steps or Wake Up! However, it takes time to get into C'mon Kids, though. At first, it's disarming to hear Sice scream his vocals and the Boos play heavy riffs. After a while the melodies begin to reveal themselves, as do the clever song structures and inversions of the band's psychedelic hooks and folk tendecies. C'mon Kids might not be as accessible as even Giant Steps but it displays a feverish sense of purpose and a perverse willfullness to refashion their sound that makes it an easy album to admire, if not love. ~ Stephen Thomas Erlewine, All Music Guide

Tracks

Track Title	Composers	Performers	Time
C'mon Kids	Martin Carr	The Boo Radleys	(4:07)
Meltin's Worm	Martin Carr	The Boo Radleys	(4:20)
Melodies for the Deaf (Colours for the Blind)	Martin Carr	The Boo Radleys	(3:45)
Get on the Bus	Martin Carr	The Boo Radleys	(3:12)
Everything Is Sorrow	Martin Carr	The Boo Radleys	(4:38)
Bullfrog Green	Martin Carr	The Boo Radleys	(4:41)
What's in the Box? (See Whatcha Got)	Martin Carr	The Boo Radleys	(3:29)
Four Saints	Martin Carr	The Boo Radleys	(4:26)
New Brighton Promenade	Martin Carr	The Boo Radleys	(3:05)
Fortunate Sons	Martin Carr	The Boo Radleys	(3:58)
Shelter	Martin Carr	The Boo Radleys	(2:00)
Ride the Tiger	Martin Carr	The Boo Radleys	(6:38)
One Last Hurrah	Martin Carr	The Boo Radleys	(4:20)

Credits

Paul Clayton (?), The Boo Radleys (Producer), The Boo Radleys (Main Performer), Paul Q. Kolderie (Mixing), Paul Read (Assistant Engineer), Paul Read (Assistant), Sean Slade (?), Sean Slade (Mixing), Andy Wilkinson (Engineer), Steve Gullick (Photography), Tom Sheehan (Photography), Toby Egelnick (Design), Toby Egelnick (Layout Design), Marc Parnell (?), Geoff Bird (Poetry)

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