Kimosabe

Label: Oasis
Category: Music

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Format: Import
Media: Audio CD
Number Of Discs: 1

UPC: 699057000127
EAN: 0699057000127
ASIN: B00003WGF1

Release Date: 2000-05-16

Kimosabe

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Tracks:

Monkey Shine
Stickin My Heart
Cellophane
Two Steps Home
Kimosabe
Blow Me A Kiss
Cold Reality
Over Me
Get Back What's Gone
Skinny Buddah

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Itch
Kim Mitchell
Rockland
Shakin' Like a Human Being
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Album Description

1999 solo album by the famous Canadian rock guitarist/ vocalist/ co-founder of Max Webster. 10 cuts ranging from hard rock to slow ballads to addictive pop. Standard jewel case.

Album Details

Includes Title Track, plus 'blow Me a Kiss'; Wistful Slow Dance Ballad 'two Steps Home' and a Straight Ahead Jolt Cola, Caffeine-supplemented, Sugar-addictive Pop Song 'stickin My Heart'. Kim Will Hit the Road Early in 2000.

Customer Reviews:

Grows on you quickly........2005-04-16

I have been a Kim Mitchell fan since about 1989 so had all of his albums and was awaiting the next. When Kimosabe came out in 1999 I had been separated from my husband for a few months and it didn't take long for the lyrics from the album to strike a chord with me. The opening of Monkey Shine grabbed and impressed me immediately. I too am still wondering about the lyrics in some of the songs, but I assume that they are very personal to Kim. Kimosabe is now one of my favourite albums and I am now, in 2005, eagerly awaiting the next Kim Mitchell album!

One of the most pleasant surprises..........2004-01-06

Like a lot of people, I was familiar with Kim's work through his work with Max Webster and his 80s party anthem "Go For Soda" (or as they seem to want to call it up North, "Go For A Soda")...so when I started to fill in the rest of the Mitchell collection, I was disappointed to see that there are limited quantities of this album still around (Oasis Entertainment is no more, and barring someone else picking this album up for distribution, once these copies are gone, that's it)...but I was also amazed at how this album grew on me with repeated plays. I have turned countless people on to this album. Some folks say it doesn't measure up to some of its predecessors for sheer party volume, but like Joe Walsh, some of Kim's best stuff ISN'T of the "I am a Wild Party" mentality (not to take anything away from some of his really fun stuff either). "Monkey Shine" grabs you by the neck and is a great start. "Stickin My Heart" and "Cellophane" are excellent musically and the lyrics, while we're not sure sometimes exactly what he's talking about, are vintage Kim. Likewise with the title track ...the more thoughtful tunes like "Over Me," "Two Steps Home" and "Cold Reality" are great for totally different reasons. "Blow Me a Kiss" is simply gorgeous and Walsh should cover this one! "Get Back What's Gone" is a fine blues number, and "Skinny Buddah" is up there with "Lemon Wedge" for sheer strangeness, but it's a fun kind of weird, and at the end of the day "Kimosabe" is one of the Mitchell discs I listen to more than most of the others -- indeed, get his Greatest Hits CD if you're not sure where to start, but by all means get THIS one while you still can!

Great Production,But where's the beef?.......2002-07-02

My reaction to this album was mild dissapointment. The production is absolutely the best, but I thought the quality of the songwriting was beneath what I have come to expect from Kim. I thought that the album started off kind of mellow, anad became more snoozy as the album progressed. The choruses sounded like Kim was reaching for a new progression of chords, and I thought it kind of fell flat. dont expect a real rocker song on this album like 'World such a wonder', or 'That's a man', there isn't one. The most rockin track on the album has to be Kimosabe, but even the chorus didn't move the way I'nm used to being moved by Kim. I deeply enjoyed 'Get back what's gone' but it is a solid blues number, not what I was expecting from reading other reviews of this album. If 'Fixations' was too mellow, don't count on this album to wake you up.

Another Gem from Mr. Max Webster!.......2002-06-03

This is the relatively unknown,WAY under-promoted newest release from the very gifted (under-appreciated?)former leader of Toronto's Max Webster.If you've heard & enjoyed Kim's other solo work,then don't be afraid of this one,because it's a great c.d.! All the tunes are in Kim's 'wacky' pop/rock groove and he continues to proove how negligent radio has become by not playing great music like this! Buy it-you won't be disappointed! And if all you've heard from Kim is 'Go For A Soda'-then what are you waiting for?! He's an excellent pop/rock artist! Enjoy!

Getting Back What's Gone.......2001-12-08

Kim Mitchell returned in 1999 after too many years of silence. Aside from a couple new tracks on a Hits album, and a cover of Stompin' Tom's "Sudbury Saturday Night", Kim had released no new material since 1994's Itch.

Apart from the dreadful title, Kimosabe is a breath of fresh air. Many fans were dissapointed with Itch (too weird?) and Aural Fixations (too mellow?). Kimosabe fixes those problems, and you know it from the get-go.

"Monkey Shine" kicks off the festivities with solid guitar playing, goofy lyrics, and a good rocking riff. "Stickin My Heart" sounds like classic Kim, circa 1989's Rockland album. "Two Steps Home" is the first ballad on the album, also with a sound straight off Rockland. You might compare it to that album's "Expedition Sailor". "Kimosabe" has a killer chorus with some singalong background vocals. Lyrics are weak, but this is a party track. From there, Kim takes you to easily the best ballad he's written since "All We Are": "Blow Me A Kiss", co-written with Coney Hatch's Andy Curran features a wonderfully simple piano backing before Kim takes us into an uplifting chorus. "Cold Reality" is an acoustic ballad, a good song, but perhaps two ballads in a row slow the album down a tad much. Shame, as it's a really decent song, similar to the slow stuff on Aural Fixations. Kim then rocks us again: "Over Me" has some neat distorted vocals and a funky feel. "Get Back What's Gone" is a cheesey blues, probably the weakest song on the album. Its only saving grace is a vocal from Lisa Dalbello. "Skinny Buddah" is weird party rocker that only Kim can produce.

Longtime Kim fans would be dissapointed by Pye Dubois' absence from the songwriting credits. Andy Curran fills the gap on most tracks, but Kim himself actually wrote the lyric for "Over Me"; a rare thing indeed. Longtime Kim fans will be happy to see that Peter Fredette is back in the band on bass and backing vocals. On drums, we have the underappreciated Randy Cooke. Cooke is best known for having the awkward job of replacing the late Dimwit Montgomery on the Four Horsemen's excellent final album. Cooke provides a solid rhymic backing for Kim's bizarre guitar soloing.

Also of note: Kim reported early in the writing sessions for this album that he had written a song with his old Max Webster bandmate, Terry Watkinson. That song never made the album, so don't expect it. Hopefully Kim plans to release it one day.

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