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A-side
  
"Kinky Afro" (Mix)

Released
  
8 October 1990

Genre
  
Madchester

B-side
  
"Kinky Afro" (Live)

Format
  
7" 45 rpm, CD single

Length
  
3:55

"Kinky Afro" is a 1990 single by Happy Mondays. It was the second single from the band's third album Pills 'n' Thrills and Bellyaches. The song was the band's biggest hit in the United States hitting #1 on the Billboard Modern Rock chart. It also hit #5 in the UK, tied with "Step On" as the band's highest charting single there. "Kinky Afro" was the band's highest charting single in Australia, peaking at #63 on the ARIA singles chart in March 1991. The song's chorus paraphrases the Labelle song "Lady Marmalade".

Contents

7"

  1. "Kinky Afro" (3:55)
  2. "Kinky Afro" (live) (4:36)

12"

  1. "Kinky Afro" (12" mix) (5:07)
  2. "Kinky Afro" (live) (6:38)

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)

References

Kinky Afro Wikipedia
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