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    Fela Kuti Expensive Shit

    Knitting Factory Records
    African
    • Fela Kuti – Expensive Shit
    • Fela Kuti – Water No Get Enemy
    • 1. Expensive Shit
    • 2. Water No Get Enemy

    'Expensive Shit' is one of Fela's most notorious albums! This killer afro-beat LP was originally release in 1975 and now gets a reissue on Brooklyn-based Knitting Factory Records! 

    Other Releases by Fela Kuti

    Fela KutiIkoyi BlindnessKnitting Factory Records
    Fela used the cover of ‘Ikoyi Blindness’ to announce his change of middle name from Ransome, which he now considered a slave name, to Anikulapo, which...
    • – Ikoyi Blindness
    • – Gba Mi Leti Ki N'Dolowo (Slap Me Make I Get Money)
    Fela KutiOriginal SufferheadKnitting Factory Records
    This edition of ‘Original Sufferhead’ is a major event. With the release of ‘Box Set #5’, and now on this reissue, the title track of this magnificent...
    • – Original Sufferhead
    • – Power Show
    • New LP (Coloured Vinyl) KFR2039-3£23.99
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    Fela KutiO.D.O.O. (Overtake Don Overtake Overtake)Knitting Factory Records
    ‘Overtake Don Overtake Overtake’ was the penultimate album of newly recorded studio material released by Fela before he passed in 1997.Like its immediate...
      Fela KutiKalakuta ShowKnitting Factory Records
      The ‘Kalakuta Show’ album was Fela Kuti’s undaunted manner of extracting revenge on the military regime that attacked and brutalized him in 1974....
      Compilations
      • – Kalakuta Show
      • – Don't Make Garan Garan
      • New LP (Coloured Vinyl) KFR2020-3£23.99
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      Fela KutiWhy Black Man They SufferKnitting Factory Records
      ‘Why Black Man Dey Suffer’, recorded in 1971, was originally deemed too controversial for release by EMI, his label at the time. Having recently been...
      Compilations
      • – Why Black Man Dey Suffer
      • – Ikoyi Mentality vs Mushin Mentality
      • New LP (Coloured Vinyl) KFR2012-3£23.99
        In stockAdd to Bag
      Fela KutiGentleman: 50th AnniversaryKnitting Factory Records
      “Gentleman is the last of Fela's early 1970s albums recorded with the Africa 70. The title track can be interpreted literally or as a metaphor concerning...
      African
        • New LP (Coloured Vinyl) KFR2009-8£23.99
          Limited smoke coloured vinyl edition
          In stockAdd to Bag
        Fela KutiRoforofo Fight (50th Anniversary Edition)Partisan Records
        By 1972, when Music of Fela: Roforofo Fight was originally released (on two vinyl albums, Music of Fela Volume One and Volume Two), Fela was becoming one...
        African
        • – Roforofo Fight
        • – Go Slow
        • New 2×LP (Coloured Vinyl) KFR2006-8£26.00
          Limited yellow & green vinyl edition
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        Fela KutiUpside DownKnitting Factory Records
        African
          Fela KutiArmy ArrangementKnitting Factory Records
          Fela Kuti stories Nigeria’s attempt at ‘democracy’ in 1979 after more than a decade ofmilitary rule told through this album, originally released...
          African
          • – Army arrangement (vocal)
          Fela KutiCoffin For Head Of StateKnitting Factory Records
          Fela Kuti made some frantic albums in his career--ones that popped with his enthusiastic political disobedience and ones that roared with fury at the Nigerian...
          African
          • – Coffin For Head Of State part 1
          Fela KutiJ.J.D (Johnny Just Drop!!) Live!! At Kalakuta RepublikKnitting Factory Records
          Originally released in 1977, ‘Johnny Just Drop (J.J.D.)’ features Fela lampooning Nigeria’s ‘been-tos’, people who had been to Europe or America...
          African
            • LP + Download Code KFR2026-1£23.99
              In stockAdd to Bag
            Fela KutiNo AgreementKnitting Factory Records
            ‘No Agreement’ is sometimes overlooked among Fela’s 1977 releases, eclipsed by albums such as ‘Johnny Just Drop (J.J.D.)’ and ‘Sorrow Tears...
            African
            • – No Agreement
            • – Dog Eat Dog
            • LP + Download Code KFR2007-1£23.99
              In stockAdd to Bag
            Fela KutiUnderground SystemKnitting Factory Records
            Reissue of one of Fela's later recordings, comprised of two extended tracks, the title cut and the classic, 'Pansa Pansa'.
            African
            • – Underground System
            • – Pansa Pansa
            Fela KutiFela's London SceneKnitting Factory Records
            Recorded at Abbey Road Studios in 1971. Essential Fela Kuti, featuring Tony Allen on drums!
            African
            • – J'Ehin J'Ehin
            • – Who're You?
            • – Buy Africa
            Fela KutiI.T.T.Knitting Factory Records
            'International Thief Thief' classic Fela from 1979
            African
              Fela KutiAlagbon Close Knitting Factory
              Unmissable classic afro-beat! Alagbon Close represents one of the first times anyone had directly taken on the Nigerian authorities in such a brash manner!   
              African
              • – alagbon close
              • New LP (Coloured Vinyl) KFR2011-8£23.99
                50th anniversary special - Jollof orange vinyl
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              • LP KFR2011-1£17.99
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              Fela KutiRoforofo Fight (2015 Reissue)Knitting Factory
              Essential afro beat! A dancefloor bomb! You need this!! KILLER REISSUE of Fela Kuti's 1972 album Roforofo Fight! HIGHLY RECOMMENDED!!!
              African
              • – Roforofo Fight
              • – Go Slow
              Fela KutiEverything Scatter (2015 Reissue)Knitting Factory Records
              Another killer gem from the undisputed 'King Of Afrobeat' Fela Kuti! Originally released in 1975. Expect nothing less than perfection. Sweet locked-in...
              African
              • – Everything Scatter
              • – Who No Know Go How
              Fela KutiTeacher Don't Teach Me NonsenseKnitting Factory Records
              In 'Teacher Don't Teach Me Nonsense', Fela explains the role of the teacher in any society with the concept that all the things we consider to be problems...
              African
              • – Teacher Don't Teach Me Nonsense
              Fela KutiHe Miss RoadKnitting Factory Records
              He Miss Road', also 1975, was produced by Ginger Baker. A deep and darker shade of afro-beat that is one of Fela's best.
              African
              • – He Miss Road
              • – Monday Morning In Lagos
              • – It's No Possible
              Fela KutiFela With Ginger Baker Live!Knitting Factory Records
              'Let's Start' - Seriously killer tune! and loads more. It's hard to go wrong with Fela Kuti's work from the 1970s, and LIVE!, which features the Afrobeat...
              African
              • – Let's Start
              Fela KutiOpen & Close / AfrodisiacKnitting Factory Records
              Two classic Afro-beat albums on one bargain price CD! All Fela Kuti's albums are superb! Highly recommended!
              African
              • – Open & Close
              Fela KutiYellow FeverKnitting Factory Records
              Yellow Fever’ was originally released in 1976, during Fela’s extraordinarily prolific 1975-77 purple period, when he released 24 albums in Nigeria...
              African
              • – Yellow Fever
              • – Na Poi ‘75

              Other Releases on Knitting Factory Records

              Fela KutiIkoyi BlindnessKnitting Factory Records
              Fela used the cover of ‘Ikoyi Blindness’ to announce his change of middle name from Ransome, which he now considered a slave name, to Anikulapo, which...
              • – Ikoyi Blindness
              • – Gba Mi Leti Ki N'Dolowo (Slap Me Make I Get Money)
              Fela KutiOriginal SufferheadKnitting Factory Records
              This edition of ‘Original Sufferhead’ is a major event. With the release of ‘Box Set #5’, and now on this reissue, the title track of this magnificent...
              • – Original Sufferhead
              • – Power Show
              • New LP (Coloured Vinyl) KFR2039-3£23.99
                In stockAdd to Bag
              Fela KutiO.D.O.O. (Overtake Don Overtake Overtake)Knitting Factory Records
              ‘Overtake Don Overtake Overtake’ was the penultimate album of newly recorded studio material released by Fela before he passed in 1997.Like its immediate...
                Fela KutiKalakuta ShowKnitting Factory Records
                The ‘Kalakuta Show’ album was Fela Kuti’s undaunted manner of extracting revenge on the military regime that attacked and brutalized him in 1974....
                Compilations
                • – Kalakuta Show
                • – Don't Make Garan Garan
                • New LP (Coloured Vinyl) KFR2020-3£23.99
                  In stockAdd to Bag
                Fela KutiWhy Black Man They SufferKnitting Factory Records
                ‘Why Black Man Dey Suffer’, recorded in 1971, was originally deemed too controversial for release by EMI, his label at the time. Having recently been...
                Compilations
                • – Why Black Man Dey Suffer
                • – Ikoyi Mentality vs Mushin Mentality
                • New LP (Coloured Vinyl) KFR2012-3£23.99
                  In stockAdd to Bag
                Fela KutiGentleman: 50th AnniversaryKnitting Factory Records
                “Gentleman is the last of Fela's early 1970s albums recorded with the Africa 70. The title track can be interpreted literally or as a metaphor concerning...
                African
                  • New LP (Coloured Vinyl) KFR2009-8£23.99
                    Limited smoke coloured vinyl edition
                    In stockAdd to Bag
                  Fela KutiUpside DownKnitting Factory Records
                  African
                    Fela KutiArmy ArrangementKnitting Factory Records
                    Fela Kuti stories Nigeria’s attempt at ‘democracy’ in 1979 after more than a decade ofmilitary rule told through this album, originally released...
                    African
                    • – Army arrangement (vocal)
                    Fela KutiCoffin For Head Of StateKnitting Factory Records
                    Fela Kuti made some frantic albums in his career--ones that popped with his enthusiastic political disobedience and ones that roared with fury at the Nigerian...
                    African
                    • – Coffin For Head Of State part 1
                    Fela KutiJ.J.D (Johnny Just Drop!!) Live!! At Kalakuta RepublikKnitting Factory Records
                    Originally released in 1977, ‘Johnny Just Drop (J.J.D.)’ features Fela lampooning Nigeria’s ‘been-tos’, people who had been to Europe or America...
                    African
                      • LP + Download Code KFR2026-1£23.99
                        In stockAdd to Bag
                      Fela KutiNo AgreementKnitting Factory Records
                      ‘No Agreement’ is sometimes overlooked among Fela’s 1977 releases, eclipsed by albums such as ‘Johnny Just Drop (J.J.D.)’ and ‘Sorrow Tears...
                      African
                      • – No Agreement
                      • – Dog Eat Dog
                      • LP + Download Code KFR2007-1£23.99
                        In stockAdd to Bag
                      Fela KutiUnderground SystemKnitting Factory Records
                      Reissue of one of Fela's later recordings, comprised of two extended tracks, the title cut and the classic, 'Pansa Pansa'.
                      African
                      • – Underground System
                      • – Pansa Pansa
                      Fela KutiFela's London SceneKnitting Factory Records
                      Recorded at Abbey Road Studios in 1971. Essential Fela Kuti, featuring Tony Allen on drums!
                      African
                      • – J'Ehin J'Ehin
                      • – Who're You?
                      • – Buy Africa
                      Fela KutiI.T.T.Knitting Factory Records
                      'International Thief Thief' classic Fela from 1979
                      African
                        Fela KutiEverything Scatter (2015 Reissue)Knitting Factory Records
                        Another killer gem from the undisputed 'King Of Afrobeat' Fela Kuti! Originally released in 1975. Expect nothing less than perfection. Sweet locked-in...
                        African
                        • – Everything Scatter
                        • – Who No Know Go How
                        Fela KutiTeacher Don't Teach Me NonsenseKnitting Factory Records
                        In 'Teacher Don't Teach Me Nonsense', Fela explains the role of the teacher in any society with the concept that all the things we consider to be problems...
                        African
                        • – Teacher Don't Teach Me Nonsense
                        Fela KutiHe Miss RoadKnitting Factory Records
                        He Miss Road', also 1975, was produced by Ginger Baker. A deep and darker shade of afro-beat that is one of Fela's best.
                        African
                        • – He Miss Road
                        • – Monday Morning In Lagos
                        • – It's No Possible
                        Fela KutiFela With Ginger Baker Live!Knitting Factory Records
                        'Let's Start' - Seriously killer tune! and loads more. It's hard to go wrong with Fela Kuti's work from the 1970s, and LIVE!, which features the Afrobeat...
                        African
                        • – Let's Start
                        Fela KutiOpen & Close / AfrodisiacKnitting Factory Records
                        Two classic Afro-beat albums on one bargain price CD! All Fela Kuti's albums are superb! Highly recommended!
                        African
                        • – Open & Close
                        Fela KutiYellow FeverKnitting Factory Records
                        Yellow Fever’ was originally released in 1976, during Fela’s extraordinarily prolific 1975-77 purple period, when he released 24 albums in Nigeria...
                        African
                        • – Yellow Fever
                        • – Na Poi ‘75

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