just because people dress like idiots doesn't mean they're not nice.
― Catsupppppppppppppp dude 茄蕃, Wednesday, 23 April 2008 15:58 (sixteen years ago) link
calling a woman you are attracted to "mamma" is just fucking weird.-- Tracer Hand, Wednesday, April 23, 2008 11:57 AM (22 seconds ago) Bookmark Link
-- Tracer Hand, Wednesday, April 23, 2008 11:57 AM (22 seconds ago) Bookmark Link
That's racist
truth bomb-bitty
― chaki, Wednesday, 23 April 2008 15:58 (sixteen years ago) link
http://www.kathygarver.com/mlovet.jpg "step off, mama"
― chaki, Wednesday, 23 April 2008 16:00 (sixteen years ago) link
(Q)- You co-wrote "Kokomo" along with the late "Papa" John Phillips. (In 1988, The Beach Boys had their largest sales hit single, titled "Kokomo." The song, "Kokomo" was a featured in the motion picture "Cocktail" and "Kokomo" really put The Beach Boys back into the international spotlight. Mike Love- I did indeed. John Phillips came up with the concept for the song in the verse and then I came up with the chorus. (Mike Love begins singing "Kokomo".) That was my contribution. I changed two words in the first verse and I rewrote the second verse in a little less, half a verse. So it was a true collaboration between John Phillips, myself and Terry Melcher, who produced the song. "Kokomo" went to Number One in 1988. Now that song, really, we're talking had a multigenerational appeal. It really helped to rejuvenate The Beach Boys career.
― dell, Wednesday, 23 April 2008 22:36 (sixteen years ago) link
I was listening to some tracks from his unreleased "Unleash the Love" recording from several years back. It's actually pretty good in parts. Plenty of the Kokomo-ish vibe, for those who are so inclined.
― dell, Wednesday, 23 April 2008 22:39 (sixteen years ago) link
I really love this song.
― jim, Wednesday, 23 April 2008 22:40 (sixteen years ago) link
Well, okay, but a really weird one that has five recent, emphatically non-hit songs. If Magical Mystery Tour counts as an LP surely this does?
Magical Mystery Tour is a compilation too! (if in LP form)
― energy flash gordon, Thursday, 24 April 2008 04:02 (sixteen years ago) link
i'm pleasantly surprised that a thread that i started with at best a half-serious intent has generated this much passionate debate.
carry on ;_;
― Eisbaer, Thursday, 24 April 2008 04:29 (sixteen years ago) link
and everybody's right, it's not like it's a big deal, it's just kind of an infantile thing to do and makes the people doing it look like fuckin morons, so i thought one of 'em might wanna know
― gershy, Thursday, 24 April 2008 04:37 (sixteen years ago) link
that song, really, we're talking had a multigenerational appeal that song, really, we're talking had a multigenerational appeal that song, really, we're talking had a multigenerational appeal
― St3ve Go1db3rg, Thursday, 24 April 2008 05:36 (sixteen years ago) link
so does anybody know where I can score an a cappella of this track
― El Tomboto, Thursday, 24 April 2008 05:39 (sixteen years ago) link
right here: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oyei99D1Mq8
― chaki, Thursday, 24 April 2008 05:41 (sixteen years ago) link
ilx: solutions
― roxymuzak, Thursday, 24 April 2008 19:14 (sixteen years ago) link
I wouldn't have expected any better from Mike Love, but it was kind of sad to see John Phillips sink this deep musically.
― Geir Hongro, Thursday, 24 April 2008 23:56 (sixteen years ago) link
Best Concert Ever.
― James Redd and the Blecchs, Friday, 25 April 2008 00:38 (sixteen years ago) link
I think the objectionable thing about this entire endeavor is the transformation of the "Beach" in the Beach Boys' identity from a sort of plausibly "universal" (ie teenagered) conception of sun, surf, fun, and all that...through the wistful-but-still-adult-reconsideration-of-same ("All Summer Long," "Surf's Up" etc)....to this boomer retiree scenario of "I scored a great deal on a time-share!" [...] The threat posed by "Kokomo" is that it will ruin all those other, less commodified beaches of yesteryear.
I would add to the above that it also moves the Beach of the band's name from any beach, your favorite beach, the beach at Lake Lanier Water Park, whatever....to a private resort beach for couples on tropical getaways. Sort of implicit in the above, but the place-d-ness of this bugs me, perhaps even moreso than the decision to firmly re-establish the Beach Boys as a Hawaiian-shirted beach-themed novelty act instead of a band that could, in theory, sing about all manner of things.
― Doctor Casino, Saturday, 3 January 2009 05:48 (fifteen years ago) link
And yet I can't bring myself to really hate this:
― Doctor Casino, Saturday, 3 January 2009 05:52 (fifteen years ago) link
i can practically set my watch by how this thread revives at opportune moments in my life o_O
― Mad Vigorish (Eisbaer), Saturday, 3 January 2009 12:02 (fifteen years ago) link
This is a bit of a banger, this one.
― Dom Passantino, Saturday, April 19, 2008 11:43 AM (1 year ago) Bookmark
you can't front on that
― rip sarah silverman 3/19/10 never forget (history mayne), Wednesday, 31 March 2010 09:56 (fourteen years ago) link
this song reminds me of my grandparents' garage
― bodacious cowboy (hobbes), Wednesday, 31 March 2010 10:26 (fourteen years ago) link
http://www.sporcle.com/games/kokomo.php
I know all of you will get the first six but the last three are for KOKOMO PROS only.
― skip, Wednesday, 31 March 2010 12:37 (fourteen years ago) link
i got eight/nine but call foul because it didn't allow the florida keys. smh.
― rip sarah silverman 3/19/10 never forget (history mayne), Wednesday, 31 March 2010 12:40 (fourteen years ago) link
one of the first earworms I ever remember getting
― ain't no thang but a chicken ㅋ (dyao), Wednesday, 31 March 2010 12:43 (fourteen years ago) link
ok, this is playing on oldies radio. i realize it's a band whose popularity peaked 20 years before i was born, but still hearing a song released within your own lifetime on an oldies station for the first time is depressing beyond belief :(
― The Reverend, Wednesday, 11 August 2010 03:15 (thirteen years ago) link
it's really not that bad a song
― iatee, Wednesday, 11 August 2010 03:18 (thirteen years ago) link
hot sax
― "goof proof cooking, I love it!" (Z S), Wednesday, 11 August 2010 03:22 (thirteen years ago) link
saw this performed by faux-hawaiian girl ukelele duo last week
― green chunder (w/ sax) (haitch), Wednesday, 11 August 2010 03:42 (thirteen years ago) link
I don't have a problem with the song itself, per se, but hearing it inspires mental images of John Stamos and the rest of the Full House gang, which I'd prefer not to have.― Pillbox, Sunday, April 20, 2008 2:57 AM (2 years ago) Bookmark
― Pillbox, Sunday, April 20, 2008 2:57 AM (2 years ago) Bookmark
Yes! And then I want to smash those images in the face with a bat.
― fuck ya law! (Spinspin Sugah), Wednesday, 11 August 2010 04:26 (thirteen years ago) link
Good record for playing at the wrong speed.
― billstevejim, Wednesday, 11 August 2010 04:38 (thirteen years ago) link
I have good memories driving down to Lafayette to see the Beach Boys w/ America at the Cajun Dome with my Dad. We played the Beach Boys Greatest Hits cassette that finished with some Fat Boys track and Kokomo. That was a good road trip.
― brotherlovesdub, Wednesday, 11 August 2010 04:53 (thirteen years ago) link
Bermuda, Bahama, come on pretty mama Key Largo, Montegobaby why don't we go
not surprising John Phillips wrote this
― buzza, Thursday, 18 August 2011 20:39 (twelve years ago) link
The only piece you'll ever need to read on it
http://blogs.villagevoice.com/music/2012/06/beach_boys_kokomo_worst_song.php
― Ned Raggett, Friday, 22 June 2012 14:41 (eleven years ago) link
"Kokomo" is not even on a list of the Top 20 Worst Beach Boys Songs. (Anyone who prefers to hear "Salt Lake City" to "Kokomo"? Anyone?)
And when you dare take them out, what you're left with is the far-superior drum pattern from "Just Like Honey," . . .
Uhhhhhhhhhh.
― Julie Derpy (Phil D.), Friday, 22 June 2012 14:47 (eleven years ago) link
A friend just now on FB:
Kokomo is Jimmy Buffett calling out his hos in different area codes. Ahead of it's time.
― Ned Raggett, Friday, 22 June 2012 14:48 (eleven years ago) link
(raises hand)
"Salt Lake City" at least has great production going for it (the overall richness, the understated single bell-like vibe notes that start the instrumental bridge, the a capella closing section), whereas "Kokomo" couldn't be any more anodyne. And unlike any place name-dropped in "Kokomo", I can at least afford to go to SLC if I wanted to.
― Lee626, Friday, 22 June 2012 18:51 (eleven years ago) link
In 2006, Beach Boys member Mike Love recorded a critically panned Christmas remake of the song, titled "Santa's Going to Kokomo".
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N6U2ubpBd28
― Lee626, Friday, 22 June 2012 19:10 (eleven years ago) link
GREAT FUN FROM THE MASTER
SURF5UP 5 years ago
― fit and working again, Friday, 22 June 2012 19:15 (eleven years ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=g-x_FHj9yLo
^ worst
― am0n, Friday, 22 June 2012 19:25 (eleven years ago) link
we'll get there fast and then we'll take it slow
i have no beef with this song
― da croupier, Friday, 22 June 2012 19:44 (eleven years ago) link
"Kokomo" is awesome, but then i sort of grew up with it alongside the other classics.
― Emperor Cos Dashit (Adam Bruneau), Friday, 22 June 2012 19:47 (eleven years ago) link
I liked this song better when I thought the line was, "we'll get there faster if we take it slow." way too subtle and zen-like for a yacht rock era Beach Boys lyric, but I want to believe that's how it goes.
― starfish succulents (unregistered), Friday, 22 June 2012 19:48 (eleven years ago) link
i think people get too hung up on this being a "beach boys" song. as a random-ass mike love/john phillips '80s soundtrack collabo featuring carl and john stamos it's a shocking success
― da croupier, Friday, 22 June 2012 19:50 (eleven years ago) link
though, tbf, while i like the beach boys a lot more than i used to, i'm not too reverent about the whole wall-of-thumbsuckers gestalt
― da croupier, Friday, 22 June 2012 19:52 (eleven years ago) link
Does the new BB album have anything as catchy as this?
― Emperor Cos Dashit (Adam Bruneau), Friday, 22 June 2012 19:52 (eleven years ago) link
To Martinique, that Monserrat mystique
I just realized that I've been mishearing "Monserrat mystique" as "mounds of rotting steak"
if that was the real line, it's about the only thing that could make me like this song more than I already DON'T
― Peppermint Patty Hearst (VegemiteGrrl), Friday, 22 June 2012 20:22 (eleven years ago) link
This song taught me about places in the Caribbean
― Call me Ishmael (Ówen P.), Friday, 22 June 2012 20:23 (eleven years ago) link
― starfish succulents (unregistered), Friday, 22 June 2012 19:48 (34 minutes ago) Permalink
wtf is this not the lyric
― puff puff post (uh oh I'm having a fantasy), Friday, 22 June 2012 20:24 (eleven years ago) link
it makes me wonder what it would be like if Mike Love and Sammy Hagar wrote a song together
― Peppermint Patty Hearst (VegemiteGrrl), Friday, 22 June 2012 20:24 (eleven years ago) link
ah fuck it isnt
― puff puff post (uh oh I'm having a fantasy), Friday, 22 June 2012 20:25 (eleven years ago) link