C'mon Kids

For the Australian children's television show, see C'mon Kids (TV series).

C'mon Kids
Studio album by
the Boo Radleys
Released9 September 1996
RecordedJanuary–February 1996
StudioRockfield, Wales
Genre
Length52:39
LabelCreation
ProducerThe Boo Radleys
The Boo Radleys chronology
Wake Up!
(1995) 		C'mon Kids
(1996) 		Kingsize
(1998)

C'mon Kids is the fifth album by the Boo Radleys, released in September 1996. The album is considered to be purposely difficult and uncommercial. The band were said to have wanted to distance themselves from the commercial image they had cultivated because of the unexpected successes of the album Wake Up! and their top ten hit single "Wake Up Boo!". However, this was not the intention of the band, as explained by Sice in an interview in 2005:

We didn't want to scare away the hit-kids, we wanted to take them with us to somewhere that we'd not been before. All we wanted to do was make a different type of album than Wake Up... All we wanted to do was try something new – to keep ourselves fresh and interested. We were very surprised to find that it was seen as a deliberate attempt to scare away newly created fans. That would have been an extremely foolish thing to do.

— Sice
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