"Kinky Afro" is a 1990

1990 in music

This is a list of notable events in music that took place in the year 1990.-Events:*January 21 – MTV's Unplugged premieres on cable television with British band Squeeze...

 single by Happy Mondays

Happy Mondays

Happy Mondays are an English alternative rock band from Salford, Greater Manchester. Formed in 1980, the band's original line-up was Shaun Ryder on lead vocals, his brother Paul Ryder on bass, lead guitarist Mark Day, keyboardist Paul Davis, and drummer Gary Whelan...

. It was the second single from the band's third album Pills 'n' Thrills and Bellyaches

Pills 'n' Thrills and Bellyaches

Pills 'n' Thrills and Bellyaches was the third album by British band Happy Mondays. It was released in 1990 and was produced by Paul Oakenfold and Steve Osborne at Eden Studios in London....

. The song was the band's biggest hit in the United States

United States

The United States of America is a federal constitutional republic comprising fifty states and a federal district...

 hitting #1 on the Billboard Modern Rock chart

Modern Rock Tracks

Alternative Songs is a music chart in the United States that has appeared in Billboard magazine since September 10, 1988. It lists the 40 most-played songs on modern rock radio stations, most of which are alternative rock songs...

. It also hit #5 in the UK, tied with "Step On" as the band's highest charting single there. The song's chorus paraphrases the Labelle

Labelle

Labelle is an American all female singing group who were a popular vocal group of the 1960s and 1970s. The group was formed after the disbanding of two rival girl groups in the Philadelphia/Trenton areas, the Ordettes and the Del-Capris, forming as a new version of the former group, later changing...

 song "Lady Marmalade

Lady Marmalade

"Lady Marmalade" was also covered by Italian pop star Sabrina. It was released in 1987 as the album's second single by Baby Records. In some countries, including France and the Netherlands, the song was known as "Voulez-vous coucher avec moi? " and was released in 1988.-Track listings:7" maxi#...

".

Legacy

The single spawned a new phase of the Madchester

Madchester

Madchester was a music scene that developed in Manchester, England, towards the end of the 1980s and into the early 1990s. The music that emerged from the scene mixed alternative rock, psychedelic rock and dance music...

 era, where, unlike before, dance was the main focus instead of music. The music genre that included more of Bez's dancing was called "baggy

Baggy

Baggy was a British dance-oriented music genre popular in the late 1980s and early 1990s.The scene was heavily influenced by Madchester, although it was not geographically confined to Manchester. Many Madchester bands could also be described as Baggy, and vice versa...

". The genre of dancing fused with the improvised modern rock

Modern rock

Modern rock is a rock format commonly found on commercial radio; the format consists primarily of the alternative rock genre...

 and electronica

Electronica

Electronica includes a wide range of contemporary electronic music designed for a wide range of uses, including foreground listening, some forms of dancing, and background music for other activities; however, unlike electronic dance music, it is not specifically made for dancing...

 sound, influenced Paul Oakenfold

Paul Oakenfold

Paul Mark Oakenfold is a British record producer and a trance DJ.-Early Career: 1979–84:Paul Oakenfold's career was set to be a chef, after having hopes of becoming part of a band. He describes his early life as a "bedroom deejay" in a podcasted interview with Vancouver's 24 Hours, stating he grew...

 to set out to Ibiza

Ibiza

Ibiza or Eivissa is a Spanish island in the Mediterranean Sea 79 km off the coast of the city of Valencia in Spain. It is the third largest of the Balearic Islands, an autonomous community of Spain. With Formentera, it is one of the two Pine Islands or Pityuses. Its largest cities are Ibiza...

 and start his own genre of music. This genre of music changed the way music was forever, as Oakenfold had now created club scenes all over the island, and with his own music being popular enough in Britain, he and Danny Rampling

Danny Rampling

Danny Rampling is a British House Music DJ and is widely credited as one of the original founders of the UK's rave/club scene. His long career began in the early 1980s playing hip-hop, soul and funk around numerous bars and clubs in London.-Ibiza:...

 drew many teenagers from all over the world to the Balearic Islands

Balearic Islands

The Balearic Islands are an archipelago of Spain in the western Mediterranean Sea, near the eastern coast of the Iberian Peninsula.The four largest islands are: Majorca, Minorca, Ibiza and Formentera. The archipelago forms an autonomous community and a province of Spain with Palma as the capital...

. They started the influential genre Balearic Beat

Balearic Beat

Balearic Beat or either Balearic House and Balearic Trance is an eclectic blend of DJed dance music that originally emerged in the mid-1980s. It later became the name of a more specific style of electronic dance music that was popular into the mid-1990s...

, which spawned many sub-genres, like acid house

Acid house

Acid house is a sub-genre of house music that emphasizes a repetitive, hypnotic and trance-like style, often with samples or spoken lines rather than sung lyrics. Acid house's core electronic squelch sounds were developed around the mid-1980s, particularly by DJs from Chicago who experimented with...

, chill out and kicked off many big rave nightclub

Nightclub

A nightclub is an entertainment venue which usually operates late into the night...

s in the late 80's. The Ibiza scene is larger than it ever has been in the 2000's

2000s in music

For music from a year in the 2000s, go to 00 | 01 | 02 | 03 | 04 | 05 | 06 | 07 | 08 | 09This article includes an overview of the major events and trends in popular music in the 2000s....

, even after the Madchester scene died down.

CD1

1. "Kinky Afro" (Radio Edit) (3:58)
2. "Kinky Afro" (12 Mix) (5:08)
3. "Kinky Afro" (live) (6:38)

CD2

1. "Kinky Afro" (Euromix) (7:26)
2. "Kinky Afro" (Euromix edit) (4:15)
3. "Step On" (US Dub mix) (5:55)

"Kinky Groovy Afro" 12"

1. "Kinky Groovy Afro" (Peter Lorimer mix) (7:32)
2. "Kinky Groovy Afro" (live) (6:38)