Where is the love for all these bands from my vinyl 12-inch "K" shelf who have rarely if ever been mentioned on ILM?

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Please inpsire me to pull them off my shelf and listen to them!

Kano
Kaoma
Katrina and the Waves
The Kendalls
King Kooba
Jimmy Kish the Flying Cowboy
Kissing the Pink
Klein and M.B.O.
Leila K with Rob 'n' Raz
Robert Klein
Frankie Knuckles Presents Satoshi Tomiie
Kongas
Kon Kan
Kraan
George Kranz
Krokus
Tonio K.

― xhuxk, Friday, 13 May 2005 14:37 (twenty-one years ago)

Kano/Klein/Kranz looks like my weekly setlist when I DJ.

― PappaWheelie (PappaWheelie), Friday, 13 May 2005 14:39 (twenty-one years ago)

Play 'Got to get' by Leila K next time you're out DJing. And 'Rock the nation' has 'Mean! Like S&M bondage!'

― Affectian (Affectian), Friday, 13 May 2005 14:43 (twenty-one years ago)

Oops xposted. Pappa, surely there's a place for Leila in there too?

― Affectian (Affectian), Friday, 13 May 2005 14:43 (twenty-one years ago)

Tonio K's first album has some really good stuff on it. Especially the title song and "H-A-T-R-E-D" with the immortal lines: "I wish I could be mellow, like for instance, Jackson Browne, but 'Fountain of Sorrow' my ass, motherfucker, I hope you wind up in the ground."

― Not Thaat Chuck, Friday, 13 May 2005 14:44 (twenty-one years ago)

Katrina and the Waves are surely memorable for helping make ex-Soft Boy Kimberley Rew very very rich?

― shine headlights on me (electricsound), Friday, 13 May 2005 14:45 (twenty-one years ago)

Kraan - kinda krap Krautrock kombo (but if they're so crap and I'm so smart, why do I own THREE of their albums?!?!??!). Kind of jazz rock, good bass player and guitarist is nifty but the music is blah. The title track of "Andy Nogger" is groovy (and might have fitted into the "gay artists" thread - if Kraan were indeed gay) and it's got a nice sleeve. What else? Oh yeah, incredibly SKINNY band, honestly if they're not junkies they must have been the world's first jazz rock/ eating disorder fusion outfit...

― Dadaismus (Dada), Friday, 13 May 2005 14:46 (twenty-one years ago)

The nice sleeve:

http://images.amazon.com/images/P/B00004VX78.01._SCMZZZZZZZ_.jpg

The skinny band:

http://www.danbbs.dk/~m-bohn/kraan/images/wintrup.jpg

― Dadaismus (Dada), Friday, 13 May 2005 14:50 (twenty-one years ago)

>eating disorder fusion outfit. (Iced coffee snorts out nose!) Yeah, they were rail thin, huh? I own "Andy Nogger", and I've actually been listening quite a bit to the bassists' (Helmut Hattler) recent acid-jazz/fuzak project "Tab Two."

I associate Kissing The Pink with New Construction Time-era Depeche Mode, as I had a friend deeply into both around that time. Interesting synth-rock, a bit dark in spots.

― Daniel Peterson (polkaholic), Friday, 13 May 2005 14:56 (twenty-one years ago)

Kano's "Queen Of Witches" is one of my fave Italo tracks. It's um, well, very melodic.

Kaoma's "Lambada" brings back, um, mixed memories.

Katrina & The Waves: B-side to "Walking On Sunshine" is the pleasantly jangly "Going Down To Liverpool", which The Bangles covered... it's a glimpse of what they could have been. "Love Shine A Light" soundtracked one of the best weekends of my life, in 1997: Conservatives kicked out of government AND the UK wins Eurovision! Nirvana! We were young.

I've had people enthusing about Klein & MBO's album. To be honest, I didn't think much of "Dirty Talk" at the time; it didn't make sense to me until Italian house music came along in 1989. But I saw the error of my ways eventually. Anyway, it inspired "Blue Monday" and is therefore beyond criticism.

Can't imagine that Leila K has dated well; I think she rather lost the plot after that brief taste of fame... there was a rather lurid newspaper article, I seem to recall. Could be wrong. Often am.

Knuckles/Tomiie's "Tears" and "And I Loved You" are about as perfect as early deep house gets. I love them more than life itself.

Kongas "Anikina-O" is tribally chanted, organ riffed, toot-toot-beep-beeped funky proto-disco, to be mentioned in the same hushed reverential breath as Barrabas "Woman". It's great.

Sigh, Kon Kan! Low rent New Order copyists meet Lynn Anderson's "Rose Garden" underneath the multi-coloured rope lighting of a late 80s gay disco in a shopping centre in Gran Canaria. It doesn't get better than this.

George Kranz was a right mad old hippy, you know. He fluked "Din Daa Daa" big-time.

― mike t-diva (mike t-diva), Friday, 13 May 2005 15:02 (twenty-one years ago)

Krokus = Swiss heavy metal band................... let's just leave it at that

― Dadaismus (Dada), Friday, 13 May 2005 15:04 (twenty-one years ago)

Mike T-Diva, Leila is still ok! She's dated like Roxanne Shante, ie. a bit but still great. What's the lurid article?

― Affectian (Affectian), Friday, 13 May 2005 15:09 (twenty-one years ago)

Oh, I wish I could remember. Maybe it was Rob or Raz who lost the plot... there was some fair degree of criminality involved. But I wouldn't have compared her to Roxanne Shante, who is on a whole different level: "Queen Of Rox" still sounds amazing.

― mike t-diva (mike t-diva), Friday, 13 May 2005 15:18 (twenty-one years ago)

my fave klein + MBO track is the LP cut The Big Apple. Look for it on the upcoming Crazy Rhythms mix cd.

― Dan Selzer (Dan Selzer), Friday, 13 May 2005 16:03 (twenty-one years ago)

Kano "I'm Ready".. probably one of my favorite singles ever.

George Kranz "Din Daa Daa".. probably one of my favorite 12"'s ever.

Tonio K. .. getting into currently. I have that one album from 1978.. is that their debut? I need to give it more listens, but I liked it enough previewing it to buy it.

― donut debonair (donut), Friday, 13 May 2005 16:26 (twenty-one years ago)

Also on the Kano tip.. "Holly Dolly" was an awesome b-side.

― donut debonair (donut), Friday, 13 May 2005 16:26 (twenty-one years ago)

Can't imagine that Leila K has dated well; I think she rather lost the plot after that brief taste of fame... there was a rather lurid newspaper article, I seem to recall. Could be wrong. Often am.

The only "scandal" I remember being associated with Leila K was the fact that her parents were Islamic, hated her rap career, and were threatening to disown her around the time that "Got To Get" was hitting the charts. So she may have had a bit of a meltdown after that.

― Tantrum The Cat (Tantrum The Cat), Friday, 13 May 2005 16:31 (twenty-one years ago)

Tonio K.'s anti-nuke version of "La Bamba" was pretty funny. These days he's a collaborator-for-hire, I think, which makes the Jackson Browne line seem wonderfully ironic.

Robert Klein used to do a routine about white men singing the blues which, if memory serves, proved he wasn't half bad on harp.

Also: Wasn't Leila K living in Stockholm when she hit? Great single, "Got to Get," as others attest. Also Satoshii Tomie is pretty fine even without Frankie Knuckles.

― J.D. Considine, Friday, 13 May 2005 17:21 (twenty-one years ago)

!!!! OTM !!!!

― john'n'chicago, Friday, 13 May 2005 17:23 (twenty-one years ago)

Krokus, we won't just leave it to Switzerland. Krokus probably spent more time on undercards in middle to large arenas than in Der Schweiz. "Long Stick Goes Boom" is their best AC/DC cop, one of a handful. And they're still around, a new double live album being a not bad sampler. Made generally excellent choices in cover material.

― George Smith, Friday, 13 May 2005 17:27 (twenty-one years ago)

!!!! OTM !!!!

Classic tune, and Canadian to boot!

― Tantrum The Cat (Tantrum The Cat), Friday, 13 May 2005 17:33 (twenty-one years ago)

Kano's "She's a Star" is a great great 80's Boogie, one-finger melody jam too.

Nice plug Dan...

― PappaWheelie (PappaWheelie), Friday, 13 May 2005 20:16 (twenty-one years ago)

maybe you should play Kano at this saturday's edition of the Beat Club party at Capones, n. 9th st btw driggs and roebling in Williamsburg, Brooklyn? An affiliate of the famous Alldisco parties, http://www.alldisco.net featuring excellent guest djs, self-deprecating resident djs, open red stripe bar from 10 to 11 and free pizza all night long!

how's that for a plug!

― Dan Selzer (Dan Selzer), Friday, 13 May 2005 20:29 (twenty-one years ago)

i'm ready. i'm ready. yes i am.

― donut debonair (donut), Friday, 13 May 2005 20:30 (twenty-one years ago)

[[[how's that for a plug!]]]

But who ARE these self-deprecating resident DJ's you speak of? Specifically, can you list the ILM'rs that should attend this party?

― PappaWheelie (PappaWheelie), Friday, 13 May 2005 20:58 (twenty-one years ago)

actually, quite a few ILX'rs have been to this party, stevem, tom, ally, philtwo, hstencil, jay vee, carey and others I'm sure. Some have even come more then once!

― Dan Selzer (Dan Selzer), Friday, 13 May 2005 21:34 (twenty-one years ago)

Kissing the Pink are always with me. That sounded dirty

― Morley Timmons (Donna Brown), Friday, 13 May 2005 21:37 (twenty-one years ago)

Klein & M.B.O.'s album IS great.

― Mike O. (Mike Ouderkirk), Friday, 13 May 2005 23:22 (twenty-one years ago)

I loved this song when it came out but I could never find the record because for some reason I always thought it was the Pet Shop Boys. I bought some PSB/Dusty Springfield 45 thinking that was the tune and I was so dissapointed.

― walter kranz (walterkranz), Friday, 13 May 2005 23:39 (twenty-one years ago)

naked by kissing the pink is one of my all-time fave 80's albums. and their first album ain't bad either. they kinda lost me when they turned into ktp though.

― scott seward (scott seward), Friday, 13 May 2005 23:55 (twenty-one years ago)

If you have Tonio K's Amerika, it's all worth it just to hear the beautiful "Say Goodbye" and the inane "Futt Futt Futt".

― jim wentworth (wench), Saturday, 14 May 2005 00:25 (twenty-one years ago)

Kissing the Pink are always with me. That sounded dirty

*laughs* Isn't that because "Kissing the Pink" is supposed to be a sexual-based reference? Oh well. Their Naked album is one of the greatest albums to come out in the New Romantic era, IMHO. Obv everyone knows "Watching Their Eyes", but "Frightened In France" and "In Awe Of Industry" are both other good reasons to listen to this alb-- crap, I need to listen to it now. Heh.

Oh! All of this before I see this post by Scott!

naked by kissing the pink is one of my all-time fave 80's albums. and their first album ain't bad either. they kinda lost me when they turned into ktp though.

Aw. I need to (a.) check out their debut album now and (b.) ignore their latter era. Um, what DID they sound like when they "turned into ktp"?

― Goodbye Indian Summer (Dee the Lurker), Saturday, 14 May 2005 00:55 (twenty-one years ago)

It had been a while since I thought of Kon Kan's "I Beg Your Pardon," but this thread inspired me to hunt down the MP3. It was a radio highlight from the winter of 1988-89.

― John Fredland (jfredland), Saturday, 14 May 2005 02:25 (twenty-one years ago)

Katrina and the Wave's "Walking on Sunshine" is officially the worst song ever, IMHO. Unforgivably horrible.

― John Justen (johnjusten), Saturday, 14 May 2005 03:12 (twenty-one years ago)

dee, it's been so long since i've heard that KTP album, who knows, it might be better than i remember.the hit off of it, certain things are likely, was cool, but the rest was kinda meh in comparison to the first two. there is a good interview here that explains things:

http://www.jeffgrote.com/ktp/interviews.html

― scott seward (scott seward), Saturday, 14 May 2005 12:10 (twenty-one years ago)

The Kendalls -- dad & daughter C&W duo. Jeannie & Royce (d.1998) search: "Heaven's Just A Sin Away."

― m coleman (lovebug starski), Saturday, 14 May 2005 12:19 (twenty-one years ago)

four years pass...

revive

― skogsturken, Thursday, 25 March 2010 02:57 (sixteen years ago)

revive

― karma chamillionaire (Whiney G. Weingarten), Thursday, 25 March 2010 02:59 (sixteen years ago)

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― karma chamillionaire (Whiney G. Weingarten), Thursday, 25 March 2010 03:00 (sixteen years ago)

are the threads revived?

― ksh, Thursday, 25 March 2010 03:00 (sixteen years ago)

bump

― skogsturken, Thursday, 25 March 2010 03:01 (sixteen years ago)

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― karma chamillionaire (Whiney G. Weingarten), Thursday, 25 March 2010 03:26 (sixteen years ago)

ruining yr thing

― call all destroyer, Thursday, 25 March 2010 03:30 (sixteen years ago)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hUxADCsPV8s

― revive, Thursday, 25 March 2010 05:04 (sixteen years ago)

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