FUN LOVIN' CRIMINALS
100% COLOMBIAN
What's the album name about?
Well, FLC did get into some trouble with the Colombian government over the name of this album, and although in earlier interviews the meaning of the name was explained as "It's about drugs, man.", later explanations were slightly more obscure! "Colombian is a term we use, it's like a vernacular. If something's good, then it's Colombian. If it's really, really good, it's 100% Colombian. I know that a lot of people mix that up and put drug references on the end of it. But people are going to do that. So as long as they don't say I am sleeping with Webster (child actor), it's fine!"
The Songs
Up On The Hill
"I'm a Portarican kid from downtown New York you see,so life was pretty different for me.So it's basically just my interpretation of Budhisim."
Love Unlimited 
"Sure, well 'Love Unlimited' is about me becoming a man. I had this little babysitter and she used to be icky and then one moment she ceased to be icky and she became fabulous."
The View Belongs To Everyone
Korean Bodega
"'Korean Bodega' is about the store around my corner. Bodega is kind of a slang word for store and Korean is a guy who owns a store, so it's a "Korean Bodega." He's a nice guy. I owed him $2 and he said write a song about it and I'll let you off, so I did. So I'm clear."
Back On The Block
10th Street
Sugar
That's a song about my dog. I love my dog and I figure the dog deserved a song. Everybody thinks it's me being to some girl I know, but it's just that my dog doesn't lie because my dog doesn't speak [thought sugar spoke Spanish � LOL!]. Anyway. She's a mutt, like a pitbull/mutt kind of thing, a very beautiful, sweet dog.
Southside
"'Southside' is kind of like a weird murder mystery song about this guy Jimmy the psycho who lives on my block. Jimmy automatically attaches any predicament or situation he comes into with a female icon. So for him, the demise of the neighbourhood is actually the murder of a girlfriend he had. The story he told was so bizarre I just had to write a song about it."
We Are All Very Worried About You
"'We Are All Very Worried About You' is a song that I tried to write about a composite bunch of friends that I was worried about and I ended up doing something really stupid -- writing a song about myself -- which I had no intention of doing. But when we were recording it, I was asking Fast about the lyrics and he was like "Yeah man, I think that's really cool that you were really introspective on the song". I didn't notice up until that point that I had done it, so that's cool. Thank you, Fast, for bringing that up."
All For Self
"�All For Self� is a song about us just kinda buggin' out, like, thinking to ourselves. You see people in the music business they have so much money but it doesn't occur to them that they can help others out with that money. I mean how many Bentleys can you own, how many Rhinoceroses can you have sex with?"
All My Time Is Gone
Big Night Out
"There's a song on our record called "Big Night Out". Let me explain myself because people get the wrong idea. It's a song about these two friends of ours, one of who works for our garbage company in Brooklyn. They always wanted to see Hollywood. So they saved up their money and they said "You know the guys at the Viper, you've played there. Can you get us in there 'cos we've heard that's "the hot spot". So I said sure and called over there and said look let our boys in, you might not normally, but treat them like family. They did and they had this wild night and on their return they were telling us all about it. It was just making us laugh hysterically and we wrote a song about it. Y'know, when you hear a funny story you wanna tell your friends."
Obviously you had to change the title for radio.
"Well the title was always "Big Night Out". It's just that when people hear the chorus they assume that that's the name of the song. Which it is and it isn't. It's just with a lot of people, media's really important to them. When they meet someone who's like a celebrity or supermodel, just for the fact that they're iconic it makes their day. I think that's kind of funny and fucked up at the same time. But it happens and I guess the best thing you can do is just to explain a story without coming to judgement on it and we try to do that."
Any hints about which super model?
"I'm really not sure. Our guy said he'd point her out to me but he never got around to it. I guess it's just kind of his thing and that's cool."
Mini Bar Blues
"Well, BB King's definitely a hero of mine and of course he's a blues legend and one of the finest guitar players ever. Every time we meet him we cry. He did play on the record and he's a wonderful man, gracious for doing it. But we couldn't have him in the studio with us because we'd have just been crying on the mixing console and shorting everything out. But yeah he did it in Chicago, we sent him a tape, he sent it back. He played on a song called "Mini Bar Blues"."
Fisty Nuts
"It's actually a nickname for Fast that we use when he goes insane. That's kinda what the song's about - Fast going insane. "Fistynuts" is that crazy song about Fast and they kind of came together while me and Steve were playing a little Rockabilly thing. And we really didn't know if Fast could play the Rockabilly "dukadukaduka" bass line, when all of a sudden he started playing it and that was it."
If you find anymore quotes/information about the songs, especially the one's that I don't have information for, please mail me and I will credit you!
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