Song Of the Day: November 14, 2005
The Coolies - Coke Light Ice
From the album Doug, DB Recs 1988
From the album Doug, DB Recs 1988
Taken From Trouser Press (and the liner notes of "Take That You Bastards"):
These Atlanta jokesters made an underground splash with Dig? a collection of goofy Simon and Garfunkel covers (plus a version of Paul Anka's "Having My Baby"). Amazingly, The Coolies followed the one-joke Dig? with the brilliant Doug, a trenchant "rock opera" about a skinhead who murders a transvestite short-order cook, gets rich by publishing his victim's recipes, falls into paranoia and substance abuse and ends up in the gutter. The sad tale is related through ingenious knockoffs of the Who ("Cook Book"), John Lennon ("Poverty"), The Replacements ("Coke Light Ice"), rap ("Pussy Cook") and metal ("The Last Supper"), and a comic book designed by Jack Logan of Pete Buck Comics fame. Doug is a work of demented genius.
The Coolies Take That You Bastards, which compiles Dig? and Doug (plus 3 bonus tracks) was released in 1995 on Casino Records.
-Michael Slawter
2 Comments:
I always thought "Coke Light Ice" was a parody of REM. Oh well, whatever, never mind. Doug was a great album, and there was something special about being in the crowd at a Coolies show, with fans holding lighters aloft as the band played their immortal "Crack Pipe". "Gotta use matches cuz my lighter exploded": rest in peace, Richard Pryor. -- jonhope
There was another Coolies before this one - a NYC no wave/Talking Heads-ish combo. If anyone has their "Government Time" EP, please post it ASAP!
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