Private Waters in the Great Divide

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Private Waters in the Great Divide
Kid Creole and the Coconuts Private Waters in the Great Divide album cover.jpg
Studio album by
Kid Creole and the Coconuts
ReleasedMarch 1990
Genre New wave, disco
Label Columbia [1]
Producer August Darnell
Kid Creole and the Coconuts chronology
I, Too, Have Seen the Woods
(1987)		Private Waters in the Great Divide
(1990)		 You Shoulda Told Me You Were...
(1991)
Singles from Private Waters in the Great Divide
  1. "The Sex of It" b/w "He's Takin' the Rap"
    Released: 19 March 1990
  2. "I Love Girls"
    Released: 13 August 1990
Professional ratings
Review scores
SourceRating
AllMusic Star full.svgStar full.svgStar full.svgStar empty.svgStar empty.svg [2]
Calgary Herald B+ [3]
The Encyclopedia of Popular Music Star full.svgStar full.svgStar empty.svgStar empty.svgStar empty.svg [4]
The Rolling Stone Album Guide Star full.svgStar full.svgStar half.svgStar empty.svgStar empty.svg [1]
Spin Alternative Record Guide 6/10 [5]
The Village Voice B+ [6]

Private Waters in the Great Divide is the seventh studio album by the American musical group Kid Creole and the Coconuts, released in 1990. [7] It includes the singles "The Sex of It" and "I Love Girls".

Contents

Production

The album was the band's first for Columbia Records. Always more popular in Europe, Kid Creole's August Darnell was asked by the label to try to create an album that would appeal to the American market. [8] After an estrangement, Darnell had started speaking to his brother and former Dr. Buzzard's Original Savannah Band's bandmate, Stony Browder, during the recording of the album, and asked him to play keyboards. [9] Prince wrote "The Sex of It", the demo tape of which he mailed to Darnell; the two did not collaborate in person. [10] Coati Mundi had left the band by the time production began. [11]

Critical reception

Trouser Press wrote: "Showing tons more imagination and inspiration, Darnell bounced back [from I, Too, Have Seen the Woods] to full artistic strength with the marvelously entertaining Private Waters in the Great Divide, a diverse party of singular wit and intelligence." [12] The Edmonton Journal called Private Waters in the Great Divide "an album that captures everything worthwhile and unique about [Darnell's] hard-working funk band." [13]

Track listing

All tracks are written by August Darnell; except where indicated.

Side one
No.TitleWriter(s)Length
1."I Love Girls" 3:46
2."(No More) Casual Sex"Stony Browder Jr., Darnell3:19
3."The Sex of It" Prince 3:32
4."Cory's Song"Browder Jr., Darnell4:17
5."Dr. Paradise" 4:38
6."Takin' a Holiday" 0:39
7."Lambada"Chico De Oliveira3:37
Side two
No.TitleWriter(s)Length
8."Funky Audrey and the Coconut Rag"Darnell, Carol Coleman, Andy Hernandez 4:13
9."When Lucy Does the Boomerang" 3:50
10."He's Takin' the Rap" 3:49
11."Pardon My Appearance"Darnell, Peter Schott3:15
12."Laughing with Our Backs Against the Wall" 6:18
13."My Love" 1:09

Charts

Charts (1990)Peak
position
Dutch Albums (Album Top 100) [14] 56
Swiss Albums (Swiss Hitparade) [15] 39

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References

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  2. ↑ "Private Waters in the Great Divide - Kid Creole & the Coconuts | Songs, Reviews, Credits | AllMusic" – via www.allmusic.com.
  3. ↑ Tremblay, Mark (24 May 1990). "Recent Releases". Calgary Herald. p. H3.
  4. ↑ Larkin, Colin (2006). The Encyclopedia of Popular Music. Vol. 4. MUZE. p. 812.
  5. ↑ Spin Alternative Record Guide. Vintage Books. 1995. pp. 208–209.
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  7. ↑ "Kid Creole & the Coconuts | Biography & History". AllMusic.
  8. ↑ Holden, Stephen (4 Apr 1990). "The Pop Life". The New York Times. p. C16.
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  13. ↑ Metella, Helen (20 May 1990). "Kid handles his humor well". Edmonton Journal. p. D4.
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