― gear (gear), Friday, 30 December 2005 19:11 (eighteen years ago) link
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― cancer prone fat guy (dubplatestyle), Friday, 30 December 2005 19:13 (eighteen years ago) link
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― Redd Harvest (Ken L), Friday, 30 December 2005 19:14 (eighteen years ago) link
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― Rockist_Scientist (RSLaRue), Friday, 30 December 2005 20:32 (eighteen years ago) link
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― [use of street parade as pivotal set piece] (nordicskilla), Friday, 30 December 2005 20:38 (eighteen years ago) link
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― Joe McCombs, Friday, 30 December 2005 20:41 (eighteen years ago) link
― cancer prone fat guy (dubplatestyle), Friday, 30 December 2005 20:42 (eighteen years ago) link
...we'll kick some ass and then we'll kick some mo', that's where our bombs will go, way down in kosovo..."
it was stoopid, but i laughed
― andrew m. (andrewmorgan), Friday, 30 December 2005 20:49 (eighteen years ago) link
― frenchbloke (frenchbloke), Friday, 30 December 2005 21:59 (eighteen years ago) link
hated this thing when it was new and stuff, mainly because it was omnipresent and less so for being annoying. now, it's just there -- not even really annoying, but not anything special either. so i am always kind of amused that "kokomo" regularly shows up in "worst songs ever!" polls -- it's not good, but it's far from the worst thing ever recorded!
― Eisbär (llamasfur), Friday, 30 December 2005 22:57 (eighteen years ago) link
― gear (gear), Friday, 30 December 2005 23:00 (eighteen years ago) link
― Tape Store (Tape Store), Friday, 30 December 2005 23:02 (eighteen years ago) link
http://thighswideshut.org/videos/sax.gif
― Eisbär (llamasfur), Friday, 30 December 2005 23:04 (eighteen years ago) link
― phil d. (Phil D.), Friday, 30 December 2005 23:06 (eighteen years ago) link
― Stephen C (ihope), Friday, 30 December 2005 23:06 (eighteen years ago) link
― paulhw (paulhw), Friday, 30 December 2005 23:50 (eighteen years ago) link
― Rockist_Scientist (RSLaRue), Friday, 30 December 2005 23:58 (eighteen years ago) link
But, as it is, kinda indefensible.
― Guayaquil (eephus!), Saturday, 31 December 2005 00:04 (eighteen years ago) link
To Martinique, that Montserrat mystique
so 80s, esp. since montserrat is a steaming volcanic ruin now
and as a "wtf?" moment:
Port Au Prince I wanna catch a glimpse
do they REALLY wanna see probably the most run-down city in the islands?!?
― Eisbär (llamasfur), Saturday, 31 December 2005 00:39 (eighteen years ago) link
― Rockist_Scientist (RSLaRue), Saturday, 31 December 2005 00:43 (eighteen years ago) link
i have ALWAYS heard this as "mounds of rotten steak" which you gotta admit is pretty bad ass.
― geoff (gcannon), Saturday, 31 December 2005 01:07 (eighteen years ago) link
― deej.. (deej..), Saturday, 31 December 2005 01:08 (eighteen years ago) link
me too -- until i googled the lyrics, i didn't know what they really were.
― Eisbär (llamasfur), Saturday, 31 December 2005 01:22 (eighteen years ago) link
― Redd Harvest (Ken L), Saturday, 31 December 2005 01:48 (eighteen years ago) link
― Amateur(ist) (Amateur(ist)), Saturday, 31 December 2005 02:25 (eighteen years ago) link
― Freud Junior (Freud Junior), Saturday, 31 December 2005 08:27 (eighteen years ago) link
Not that far.
However, the picture of Mike Love/Disney's California Adventure = classic*(classic
― Joe (Joe), Saturday, 31 December 2005 13:36 (eighteen years ago) link
― Tracer Hand (tracerhand), Saturday, 31 December 2005 13:38 (eighteen years ago) link
― Naive Teen Idol (Naive Teen Idol), Sunday, 29 January 2006 06:58 (eighteen years ago) link
Throughout the '80s, the Beach Boys had placed several songs in films (The Big Chill, Lethal Weapon 2, Troop Beverly Hills, Soul Man). In '87 the amassed brain trust of Melcher, Love, ex-Papa John Phillips, and Scott McKenzie (of “San Francisco” fame) decided to try to write a song for the film Cocktail, derived from the scene where the Tom Cruise character moves from New York to Jamaica. Recalls Melcher, "We went into it to see if anyone could write a major hit for the band besides Brian. I figured a lot their hits had been travelogues like ‘Surfin' USA' and 'California Girls.'
“John Phillips had this idea about a kind of blues song about some place the band would go before they broke up. We changed all the words and chords around and I wrote the chorus. As far as the feel goes, I always loved Jimmy Buffett records, so I got a steel drummer, Van Dyke Parks played the accordion, Ry Cooder played the guitar and the slide, and Jim Keltner was the drummer, going for a 'Margaritaville' kind of thing.
"I just layered it until it all started to shimmer. What really made it was the out-of-tune accordion: it glued everything together, especially with the steel drum. Then we left the falsettos out of the harmonies rather than having somebody copy Brian." The song shot to No. 1 and led the Still Cruisin’ album to gold.
― Naive Teen Idol (Naive Teen Idol), Tuesday, 31 January 2006 01:28 (eighteen years ago) link
― AleXTC (AleXTC), Tuesday, 31 January 2006 11:51 (eighteen years ago) link
This is a bit of a banger, this one.
― Dom Passantino, Saturday, 19 April 2008 10:43 (fifteen years ago) link
Indefensible. With the sole exception of the aforementioned Muppets version. -- Stephen C (ihope), Friday, December 30, 2005 3:06 PM (2 years ago) Bookmark Link
Above posts make it appear that the Muppets covered the Imus version.
― If Timi Yuro would be still alive, most other singers could shut up, Saturday, 19 April 2008 10:55 (fifteen years ago) link
watching the muppets version on youtube, i notice that half of the lines are double entendres.
― abanana, Saturday, 19 April 2008 11:40 (fifteen years ago) link
I brought in a tape with "Kokomo" on it to show & tell in 4th grade, when everyone else brought Nirvana, Weird Al and Guns & Roses tapes. Damn you, Beach Boys. I tried to explain to my classmates that it was Van Dyke Parks unorthodox accordion playing that really made the song, but no one would listen...
― Z S, Saturday, 19 April 2008 14:17 (fifteen years ago) link
when I was in 5th grade, I wrote a pornographic version of this song while attending a performance of Jesus Christ Superstar with my grandma.
Cockomo?
― stephen, Saturday, 19 April 2008 14:21 (fifteen years ago) link
prefer it to all other beach boys songs
― J0hn D., Saturday, 19 April 2008 14:34 (fifteen years ago) link
Mike Love does it good.
― Thus Sang Freud, Saturday, 19 April 2008 15:09 (fifteen years ago) link
-- J0hn D., Saturday, 19 April 2008 15:34 (36 minutes ago) Bookmark Link
^^^real talk
― Dom Passantino, Saturday, 19 April 2008 15:10 (fifteen years ago) link
insanity
― roxymuzak, Saturday, 19 April 2008 15:37 (fifteen years ago) link
-- Thus Sang Freud, Saturday, April 19, 2008 3:09 PM (1 hour ago) Bookmark Link
love mike love
― dell, Saturday, 19 April 2008 16:48 (fifteen 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
safeword is always one of the locations listen in the song, so if you forget the safe word just hum a few bars
― Cunga, Saturday, 23 June 2012 23:01 (eleven years ago) link
^^It's all you can do when Mike Love's shoved a ball cap in your mouth.
― Electro-Shock Rory (C. Grisso/McCain), Saturday, 23 June 2012 23:35 (eleven years ago) link
let's not give Q. Tarantino any free scene ideas.
― Cunga, Saturday, 23 June 2012 23:38 (eleven years ago) link
I am from Kokomo.
(Indiana. USA. Auto town.)
Thus, I have heard this song more than everyone else in this thread. Combined.
Alas. Now it is playing in my head again.
― dronestreet, Sunday, 24 June 2012 00:07 (eleven years ago) link
actually WORSE than Kokomo! i don't know how they did it, but they did it. the worst band on the planet just keeps getting worser.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cuoIvNFUY7I
― scott seward, Monday, 22 February 2016 17:55 (eight years ago) link
huh. dancing baby aside, that's not bad. i always mean to check those guys out more, understand they're considered quite the big deal.
― shandemonium padawan (Doctor Casino), Monday, 22 February 2016 18:01 (eight years ago) link
yeah i think they were...in 2007.
― scott seward, Monday, 22 February 2016 18:04 (eight years ago) link
wrong thread guys
― Οὖτις, Monday, 22 February 2016 18:04 (eight years ago) link
port au princei wanna catch a glimpse
― Cornelius Pardew (jim in glasgow), Monday, 22 February 2016 18:09 (eight years ago) link
i stand by my earlier "kokomo" comments more or less - it's catchy and harmless despite a really metallic and inorganic choice of sounds for a band whose themes are very material (sun, sand, surf) or very heartfelt, and the real problem is that one must now imagine their "beach" as someplace you reach via cruise ship rather than by thumbing a ride (or turning on in your bedroom).
― shandemonium padawan (Doctor Casino), Monday, 22 February 2016 18:13 (eight years ago) link
"wrong thread guys"
soooooooo the right thread. there is no way i'm going on an animal collective thread.
― scott seward, Monday, 22 February 2016 18:14 (eight years ago) link
Good god, I've avoided any new Animal Collective this whole album cycle until you advertised that as worse than 'Kokomo' Scott. It did not disappoint.
Here I was thinking that they couldn't possibly name it something as stupid as 'Floridada' and make the mistake of actually saying the word in the song. Spoiler: not only they do it say it, they say it a lot.
Whoo boy, that was bad.
Thanks?
― Austin, Monday, 22 February 2016 19:38 (eight years ago) link
*not only do they say it
Jeez, it seems to have triggered a seizure that it warned me about and caused me to type nonsense.
Good god, I mean are they serious? It sounds like something Weird Al would do to make fun of them.
I mean, I'm astounded. Impressively bad.
― Austin, Monday, 22 February 2016 19:41 (eight years ago) link
port au princei wanna catch a glimpse*epic sax*
― Karl Malone, Monday, 22 February 2016 19:44 (eight years ago) link
i keep on listening to "floridada," at least once every couple days. i guess it's time i bought an animal collective record, huh.
― never ending bath infusion (Doctor Casino), Friday, 8 April 2016 05:27 (seven years ago) link
this song is like when the bad guys win in a movie
― fuck you, your hat is horrible (Neanderthal), Saturday, 9 December 2017 16:02 (six years ago) link
Hmm, "New Yorkork"
Let's do that..
― Mark G, Sunday, 10 December 2017 14:54 (six years ago) link
Compare "We'll get there fast and then we'll take it slow" from "Kokomo"
with
"Imma take it slow just as fast as I can" from "Body Like a Back Road."
(It's kinda like comparing how Whitesnake walked down a road alone, going down the only road they'd ever known, and then Green Day walked a lonely road, which was similarly the only road they'd ever known. Who was on those roads? No one. Because they were being walked alone.)
― didgeridon't (Ye Mad Puffin), Sunday, 10 December 2017 15:39 (six years ago) link
Everyone else was driving
― Mark G, Sunday, 10 December 2017 17:03 (six years ago) link
i was walking down the highway, babyi'm just a rebel with nothing to loseyou know i hate to leave you lonely, ladybut the hard life is calling and i just can't refuse-ah
― Karl Malone, Sunday, 10 December 2017 18:17 (six years ago) link
this is a cool piece https://www.stereogum.com/2006749/kokomo-beach-boys-story/franchises/sounding-board/
― niels, Tuesday, 24 July 2018 10:03 (five years ago) link
and this is some video https://youtu.be/Z8JqzFg1OGs
― niels, Tuesday, 24 July 2018 10:07 (five years ago) link
Derek Jeter's Taco Hole― Tape Store (Tape Store), Friday, December 30, 2005 5:02 PM (twelve years ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
― frogbs, Tuesday, 24 July 2018 13:01 (five years ago) link
we'll get there fast and then we'll take it show makes sensethey want to get there (Kokomo) fast (b because they are excited for vacation)then they'll take it show (chillax on vacation)
― The Desus & Mero Chain (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Tuesday, 24 July 2018 13:09 (five years ago) link
fun fact: 'kokomo' is good
― a Stupendous Leg of Granite (bizarro gazzara), Tuesday, 24 July 2018 13:13 (five years ago) link
not bad
UMS: compare "Body Like a Back Road," specifically the line "I'ma take it slow just as fast as I can."
― nonsensei (Ye Mad Puffin), Tuesday, 24 July 2018 13:23 (five years ago) link
I get more requests to write about this song than any other, and I have to say, "But it's not bad."
― morning wood truancy (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Tuesday, 24 July 2018 13:45 (five years ago) link
^ this guy fuckin' gets it
― a Stupendous Leg of Granite (bizarro gazzara), Tuesday, 24 July 2018 13:46 (five years ago) link
it's bad
― Οὖτις, Tuesday, 24 July 2018 15:47 (five years ago) link
I don't dislike it.
― Police, Academy (cryptosicko), Tuesday, 24 July 2018 15:48 (five years ago) link
I was born in 1986 and it wasn't until like 2003 that I found out that the Beach Boys had more songs than "Kokomo"
― frogbs, Tuesday, 24 July 2018 15:49 (five years ago) link
Best thing Stamos was ever involved in.
― i’m still stanning (morrisp), Tuesday, 24 July 2018 15:50 (five years ago) link
― nonsensei (Ye Mad Puffin), Tuesday, July 24, 2018 8:23 AM (two hours ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
i think it makes a lot more sense than this line
though "I'ma take it slow just as fast as I can." def has some "galaxy brain" appeal
― The Desus & Mero Chain (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Tuesday, 24 July 2018 15:59 (five years ago) link
song/verse is so so and just kind of there but the catchy chorus alone def makes it. if nothing else then Mike Love hit a homerun there. this is a fast food jingle level earworm.
― Hazy Maze Cave (Adam Bruneau), Tuesday, 24 July 2018 20:12 (five years ago) link
Yeah I have always liked this song while knowing (even as a kid) it was trash.And the verses are nice but indeed the most catchy part is Love’s.Actually I’m pretty sure if you ask 100 persons to sing « Good Vibrations », I’m pretty sure 60% will sing Mike’s chorus part.
― AlXTC from Paris, Tuesday, 24 July 2018 20:35 (five years ago) link
60% of people are pretty dumb tbh
I think of the bit where Mark says "c'mon, feel it feel it!"
― 16, 35, DCP, Go! (sic), Tuesday, 24 July 2018 22:18 (five years ago) link
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