Kool-Aid (album)

Kool-Aid
Studio album by
Released22 October 1990[1]
Recorded18 June 1990
GenreRock, alternative dance, alternative rock, dance-rock
Length51:15
LabelColumbia
ProducerMick Jones
Oliver "Olimax" Maxwell
André Shapps
Big Audio Dynamite II chronology
Megatop Phoenix
(1989)
Kool-Aid
(1990)
The Globe
(1991)
Professional ratings
Review scores
SourceRating
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".

  1. ^ "New Albums" (PDF). Music Week. 20 October 1990. p. 36. Retrieved 18 October 2022.
  2. ^ Ruhlmann, William. Review: Kool-Aid. Allmusic. Retrieved 27 May 2011.
  3. ^ Larkin, Colin (2011). The Encyclopedia of Popular Music. Omnibus Press. p. 2600. ISBN 978-0-85712-595-8.
  4. ^ Thompson, Dave (2000). Alternative Rock. Miller Freeman Books. p. 193. ISBN 978-0-87930-607-6.
  5. ^ Buckley, Peter (2003). The Rough Guide to Rock. Rough Guides. p. 97. ISBN 978-1-84353-105-0.
  6. ^ "Big Audio Dynamite II – Kool-Aid". Discogs.