Kinky Afro

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One of the band’s most well known singles, as well as an anthem for the Madchester movement of the late 1980s and early 1990s, Kinky Afro sees Shaun Ryder tackle the theme of dysfunctional families through the dialogue of an estranged, deadbeat father and his untrusting son.
“Kinky Afro” was our biggest hit in the US, but people still go crazy wherever we play it. It started off with us just jamming. We’d moved into this massive rehearsal space, and our kid [singer Shaun Ryder] turned up with a big fridge full of beer. We got stuck in. I’d been listening to Hot Chocolate’s greatest hits, so played a bassline with a similar feel, and Gaz [Whelan] came up with a drumbeat. We had a title – “Groovy Afro” – but changed it after the Farm had a hit with “Groovy Train”. At that point, though, it was just one of several unfinished ideas that we took to Los Angeles to work on with producers Paul Oakenfold and Steve Osborne for our third album, Pills ‘n’ Thrills and Bellyaches .
– Paul Ryder, The Guardian

Album: Pills 'N Thrills And Bellyaches ( 1990 )
This song about a dysfunctional inner city family borrows the vocal melody from Labelle's 1974 hit song " Lady Marmalade ," substituting "yippie yippie ya ya yeah yeah" for "voulez-vous coucher avec moi."
Vocalist Shaun Ryder told NME that the idea for this track came from the Hot Chocolate song " Brother Louie ." Said Ryder: "We just wanted to do a groovy song like that. We were gonna call it 'Groovy Afro' but we changed it to 'Kinky' after The Farm came out with 'Groovy Train.'"
Bassist Paul Ryder told The Guardian he thinks the song's opening line - "Son, I'm 30, I only went with your mother cos she's dirty" - is about him, as he had a child young. He explained: "Because I'm Shaun's younger brother, he was always observing me up close. When he sings, 'I had to crucify some brother today,' he points right at me." "And the line 'Dad, you're a shabby, you run around and groove like a baggy' has got to be about our dad," Paul Ryder added. "He was on tour with us all the time, let loose from Manchester, and enjoying himself all over the world." "'I don't have a decent bone in me' could be Shaun singing about himself,'" he continued. "For a while, he was called Evil Uncle X. He was up to a lot of bad things at that point. 'I never help or give to the needy' is another line like that."
This was The Happy Mondays' only chart-topper in the United States hitting #1 on the Billboard Modern Rock chart. Their most successful song was " Step On ," which peaked at #57 on the Hot 100.
An afro is a hairstyle in which naturally short, curly black hair is allowed to grow out in a bush around the head. The style became popular in the late 1960s and early 1970s among the African American community. Jimi Hendrix, and members of The Jackson 5 and The Supremes all adorned large afros during that period.
Johnny Buckland of Coldplay says this was the first song he learned to play on guitar.
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