Kinky Afro

This song about a dysfunctional inner city family borrows the vocal melody from Labelle's 1974 hit song "Lady Marmalade," substituting "yippie yippie ya ya yeah yeah" for "voulez-vous coucher avec moi."

Vocalist Shaun Ryder told NME that the idea for this track came from the Hot Chocolate song "Brother Louie." Said Ryder: "We just wanted to do a groovy song like that. We were gonna call it 'Groovy Afro' but we changed it to 'Kinky' after The Farm came out with 'Groovy Train.'"

Bassist Paul Ryder told The Guardian he thinks the song's opening line - "Son, I'm 30, I only went with your mother cos she's dirty" - is about him, as he had a child young. He explained: "Because I'm Shaun's younger brother, he was always observing me up close. When he sings, 'I had to crucify some brother today,' he points right at me." "And the line 'Dad, you're a shabby, you run around and groove like a baggy' has got to be about our dad," Paul Ryder added. "He was on tour with us all the time, let loose from Manchester, and enjoying himself all over the world." "'I don't have a decent bone in me' could be Shaun singing about himself,'" he continued. "For a while, he was called Evil Uncle X. He was up to a lot of bad things at that point. 'I never help or give to the needy' is another line like that."