| Kool-Aid | |
| Type: | studio |
| Artist: | Big Audio Dynamite II |
| Cover: | BAD Kool-Aid.jpg |
| Released: | 22 October 1990[1] |
| Recorded: | 18 June 1990 |
| Genre: | Rock, alternative dance, alternative rock, dance-rock |
| Length: | 51:15 |
| Label: | Columbia |
| Producer: | Mick Jones Oliver "Olimax" Maxwell André Shapps |
| Prev Title: | Megatop Phoenix |
| Prev Year: | 1989 |
| Year: | 1990 |
| Next Title: | The Globe |
| Next Year: | 1991 |
Kool-Aid is an album by Big Audio Dynamite II.[2] It was their first album under this name and with this line-up, which had been changed by band leader Mick Jones in 1990.[3] It was only released in the UK, Europe and Australia.[4] Several of the songs appeared on the group's next worldwide release, The Globe, albeit in reworked form. Among them is "Change of Atmosphere", which was reworked into the group's number 1 hit "Rush".
Trouser Press wrote that "with a relatively loose feel and concept, Kool-Aid is Jones' most diverse outing ever, a limited-edition eight-song stopgap offering two acoustic ballads, acid-dance, techno-rock, Kraftwerk samples and even Laurie Anderson-styled poltergeist vocals, as well as a remixed (and retitled) version of "Free," the band's contribution to the Flashback soundtrack."[5]