C'mon Kids

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C'mon Kids

Studio album by The Boo Radleys

Released

September 9, 1996

Recorded

January-February 1996

Genre

Indie rock

Label

Creation Records CRECD 194

Producer

Paul Q. Kolderie, Sean Slade, The Boo Radleys

Professional reviews

All Music Guide link
Twisted Ear link

The Boo Radleys chronology

Wake Up!
(1995)

C'mon Kids
(1996)

Kingsize
(1998)

C'mon Kids is the fifth album by The Boo Radleys, it was 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

The album was less successful than its predecessor, charting at #20 on the UK albums chart. It did however spawn three UK top 40 singles "C'mon Kids" at #18, "What's In The Box? (See Whatcha Got)" at #25, and radio edit of "Ride The Tiger" made #38.