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The Kitchen Tapes

The Raincoats

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Album Review

Rough, loose-limbed, warm, and exciting, The Kitchen Tapes is everything you'd expect from the Raincoats on-stage. Bolstered by the heavy percussion of Richard Dudanski and Derek Goddard, this recording pulsates, while the band dances around the beat tossing in shards of guitar, vocals, and violin. The liner essay by Greil Marcus is excellent.

Customer Reviews

looking for Lola

iTunes... please.. where is the Raincoats first album with "Lola"? Heard it on a local station and really would like to buy....

This album is very, very good.

I bought this album on CD back in late 90's at a record store in Seattle's Roosevelt neighborhood. I used to smoke dope and walk around in the rain listening to this live album when I was 19.

Hey Apple, you've somehow screwed up the track listings above. Not only do the songs seem mislabeled, you also misnamed one. Why would someone name a song after a number?

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Pure crap

Biography

Formed: 1977 in London, England

Genre: Alternative

Years Active: '70s, '80s, '90s, '00s, '10s

One of the more unusual bands to rise from the British punk explosion of the 1970s, the Raincoats were post-punk before punk's first act had fully played out; they had little interest in the speed or velocity of the Clash or the Sex Pistols, instead embracing a more open and dynamic approach which incorporated purposefully chaotic arrangements that made the members' lack of instrumental experience a virtue rather than a drawback. They also occasionally employed acoustic instruments (particularly...
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