Album Notes

-"You get a FREE KHALED COLORING BOOK WITH EVERY CD!!! Damn is khaled a dork!" Tim Smiley

-"A CD full of songs for the kid in everyone... since they are probably to intellegent, edgy and straight up terrifying for REAL KIDS!" - Herbert Tinsley music review

These are all songs that fans of Khaled insisted on having recorded. The Khaled Debut album (entitled Khaled... the bright blues also available on cdbaby.com) is a wondrous journey through the sonic universe with intensely personal lyrics and stunningly original musical concepts dealing with love, death, and all kinds of other pretentious stuff. BUT COME ON!!!! LIGHTEN UP!!! So the other half of Khaled... which is often much brighter and dare we say FUN, is celebrated here on an album made for the 12-82 year old fans that khaled affectionately calls..... "THE KIDS".

These are the songs that were made famous on the acoustic gigs when khaled only had a guitar, a kazoo, a stompin' foot and his voice. After the trippy, richly layered Bright Blues album, and before Khaled was playing with his band THE ZOU (www,thezou.com), khaled toured the from Denver to New York with a head full of songs and his black acoustic guitar.

Songs like "The Mythology Song" and "the Geologic Time scale Rap" are hilarious, artistic, and amazingly educating. The song "Wherever She Goes" sounds like a psychotic duet between the Carter Family and Buddy Holly and was reportedly written by Khaled while walking his Dalmatian 'Chili' . "Our House" (made famous by the Clancy Bros.) and "Pigeons in the Park" are Khaled's arrangements of traditional songs but are very unique interpretations on songs Khaled has had sung to him for years growing up. "Mr. Chicken's Opus" is a graphic musical description Khaled wrote at age 16 after experiencing the horrors of workin two weeks at a fast food fried chicken joint. Now the seventh song on the CD is called "Candleman (live and representin')" which sounds like it was recorded at a concert before thousands of screaming fans, (but we are not sure if khaled has ever played before thousands of screaming fans, and mysteriously it sounds like there is a home phone ringing in the backround,) and the album wraps up with a rendition of Shel Silverstien's poem "If we were a Rocknroll Band" Its an entertaining masterpiece, and the wonderful balance to "the bright Blues"

"This album gives the world a glimpse into my childhood... and i'm sure the world regrets I ever gave it that opportunity" - Khaled

"I never thought he'd amount to shit" - Miss Wetek, 6th Grade Math Teacher