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
"Mom, how can someone get there faster if they take it slow?""I don't know sweetie but that dance you're doing looks really stupid please stop"
― Call me Ishmael (Ówen P.), Friday, 22 June 2012 20:26 (eleven years ago) link
xxphttp://media.tumblr.com/tumblr_lq14yhsnlq1qjhphb.jpg
― fit and working again, Friday, 22 June 2012 20:41 (eleven years ago) link
never forget:
Beach Boys songs off their Greatest Hits that sound worse to me that a crying baby on an airplane: "God Only Knows," "In My Room," their massacre of "Sloop John B.," the bridge to "Wouldn't It Be Nice," "I Get Around"― J0hn D., Tuesday, April 22, 2008 2:39 AM (4 years ago)
― J0hn D., Tuesday, April 22, 2008 2:39 AM (4 years ago)
― (The Other) J.D. (J.D.), Friday, 22 June 2012 20:49 (eleven years ago) link
I think this was the thread where I realized me and aero have certain irreconcilable differences
― a dense custard of infinity (Shakey Mo Collier), Friday, 22 June 2012 20:51 (eleven years ago) link
oh dear
and here I was thinking aero would forever remain on his pedestal
;_;
― Peppermint Patty Hearst (VegemiteGrrl), Friday, 22 June 2012 20:53 (eleven years ago) link
also that cartoon is fantastic
there's like a half dozen of those, they're all pretty funny
― a dense custard of infinity (Shakey Mo Collier), Friday, 22 June 2012 20:54 (eleven years ago) link
as a random-ass mike love/john phillips '80s soundtrack collabo featuring carl and john stamos it's a shocking success
this is why I play the game.
― Cunga, Friday, 22 June 2012 21:01 (eleven years ago) link
That piece on Kokomo reminded me SO MUCH of my own childhood. Wow.
Perfect until it demanded execution, anyway, which happened at Tween Hell, viz., a quilt exhibition. No—a quilt exhibition on a perfect summer day, and to be trapped in such, as a child, feels identical to what being slowly digested by a transparent worm must. Hours of cicada hum, stifling church air, polite yet impenetrable conversation; if I'd known state secrets, or what those were, I'd have begged to trade for clemency.
so otm, quilt shows are a godless void
― chupacabra seeds (Abbbottt), Saturday, 23 June 2012 02:24 (eleven years ago) link
kokomo as a code word is amazing
― Impetuous hybrid (Matt P), Saturday, 23 June 2012 19:25 (eleven years ago) link
How about as a safe word?
― Julie Derpy (Phil D.), Saturday, 23 June 2012 21:21 (eleven years ago) link
ooh I wanna take ya
― chupacabra seeds (Abbbottt), Saturday, 23 June 2012 21:23 (eleven years ago) link