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 (sixteen 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 (sixteen years ago) link
prefer it to all other beach boys songs
― J0hn D., Saturday, 19 April 2008 14:34 (sixteen years ago) link
Mike Love does it good.
― Thus Sang Freud, Saturday, 19 April 2008 15:09 (sixteen 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 (sixteen years ago) link
insanity
― roxymuzak, Saturday, 19 April 2008 15:37 (sixteen 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 (sixteen years ago) link
good tune
― Curt1s Stephens, Saturday, 19 April 2008 17:47 (sixteen years ago) link
In a sense, this horrible makes other songs sound all that much better, so 'kokomo' acts as a palette cleanser of sorts, like the sprig of parsley between salad and entre, or the prune slivovitz between courses.
― Chelvis, Saturday, 19 April 2008 18:00 (sixteen years ago) link
they are selling "15 Big Ones" for a buck around the corner from me. fuck, i should go pick that up; it's a great record.
― dell, Saturday, 19 April 2008 18:00 (sixteen years ago) link
crutis if you love it so much, why don't you nom it for 1p3 top 100 songs
― roxymuzak, Saturday, 19 April 2008 18:04 (sixteen years ago) link
http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/0/00/15BigOnesCover.jpg
best album cover artwork, ever, to boot. fuckit, i'm buying this posthaste and gonna slam it up on my walls
― dell, Saturday, 19 April 2008 18:07 (sixteen years ago) link
I think you get the meaning from my badly worded previous post: kokomo makes other music sound a little bit better.
― Chelvis, Saturday, 19 April 2008 18:14 (sixteen years ago) link
secretly about this guy: http://www.afropop.org/img/world_music/african_music/escaping/Kokomo.jpg
― ian, Saturday, 19 April 2008 18:21 (sixteen years ago) link
Never minded "Kokomo" -- it's exactly how I would have envisioned the BB's sounding in the eighties had I been a littlet deuce coupe in the sixties.
― Alfred, Lord Sotosyn, Saturday, 19 April 2008 18:58 (sixteen years ago) link
http://www.beachboysband.net/BBBNEWS/MikeLove_Kokomo.gif
― dell, Saturday, 19 April 2008 21:04 (sixteen years ago) link
quelle douche
― roxymuzak, Saturday, 19 April 2008 21:08 (sixteen years ago) link
The 1p3 Top 100 Songs of All Time
― Curt1s Stephens, Saturday, 19 April 2008 21:09 (sixteen years ago) link
Mike Love died for your sins!
― Joe, Sunday, 20 April 2008 02:34 (sixteen years ago) link
Kevin Love declared early for Mike Love's sins.
― briania, Sunday, 20 April 2008 02:35 (sixteen years ago) link
I like this song. I'm kind of relieved the see the hate is not universal.
― daavid, Sunday, 20 April 2008 02:40 (sixteen years ago) link
It's true! Wait and see...
― dell, Sunday, 20 April 2008 02:43 (sixteen years ago) link
let's see, what would I prefer - "teenage symphonies to God" or a pop song that goes well with a rum & coke? no fuckin contest yo, Dom I got the next round
― J0hn D., Sunday, 20 April 2008 02:51 (sixteen 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, 20 April 2008 02:57 (sixteen years ago) link
my ding a-ling >>>all other chuck berry songs
― gershy, Sunday, 20 April 2008 05:38 (sixteen years ago) link
mikin' love out of nothin' at all
― electricsound, Sunday, 20 April 2008 06:37 (sixteen years ago) link
i just remembered that my family tree includes people with the surname 'love'.. maybe i'm related to mike?????!
― electricsound, Sunday, 20 April 2008 06:38 (sixteen years ago) link
i know someone who is related to him and met him in person; no joke. He was every bit as cheesy in the flesh as you'd imagine, from the story my friend related to me.
― dell, Sunday, 20 April 2008 06:40 (sixteen years ago) link
a pop song that goes well with a rum & coke?
since when did we start using "go well with" to spin "could curdle"
― El Tomboto, Sunday, 20 April 2008 13:59 (sixteen years ago) link
this song is mind torture from start to finish
― El Tomboto, Sunday, 20 April 2008 14:00 (sixteen years ago) link
this song might actually be why i hate the beach boys. my sister used to play it obsessively when we were young.
― ian, Sunday, 20 April 2008 14:17 (sixteen years ago) link
I guess the divide here is whether or not you had to withstand the song nonstop in 1988? I was 0 yrs old so back then all I ever heard was the Muppets version a couple of times
― Curt1s Stephens, Sunday, 20 April 2008 14:24 (sixteen years ago) link
this song is bullshit~
― omar little, Sunday, 20 April 2008 16:10 (sixteen years ago) link
best beatles song: free as a bird
― omar little, Sunday, 20 April 2008 16:11 (sixteen years ago) link
lol
― roxymuzak, Sunday, 20 April 2008 16:13 (sixteen years ago) link
cue some contrarian asshole saying "b-b-but it is!"
― roxymuzak, Sunday, 20 April 2008 16:14 (sixteen years ago) link
a pop song that goes well with a rum & coke
But to paraphrase what many have sung, some things go better with coke...like approx. 100,000 pop songs (and actually quite a few of those teen symphonies to God).
Actually, I just heard it again and the chorus features a more agreeable chug than I remember. But the rest of the song doesn't. I don't hear how the accordion makes it special at all. And it's still a song abut repressed homosexuality. No gay guys like it. I know - I asked them.
― Kevin John Bozelka, Sunday, 20 April 2008 16:15 (sixteen years ago) link
abut = Freudian slip
― Kevin John Bozelka, Sunday, 20 April 2008 16:16 (sixteen years ago) link
I give in.
― Dom Passantino, Sunday, 20 April 2008 16:20 (sixteen years ago) link
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ckQCvTqswUw
― gershy, Sunday, 20 April 2008 16:21 (sixteen years ago) link
for me the dividing line is I have always found Brian Wilson insufferable and his acolytes more so, so this song has the dual benefits of 1) not being a B.W. song and 2) trolling B.W. fanboys
― J0hn D., Sunday, 20 April 2008 16:49 (sixteen years ago) link
i find the beach boys pretty annoying in general, but this is like all the worst qualities of typical beach boys shit amped up to 11 with a dose of fresh hell in the mix
― roxymuzak, Sunday, 20 April 2008 16:50 (sixteen years ago) link
oops. sorry for posting it on the 1p3 list.
― Curt1s Stephens, Sunday, 20 April 2008 17:41 (sixteen years ago) link
dude that list is full of all kinds of crap, don't worry about it! haw
― roxymuzak, Sunday, 20 April 2008 17:55 (sixteen years ago) link
Tonight I celebrate mike love for you
― Joe, Monday, 21 April 2008 00:08 (sixteen years ago) link
watching.. waiting.. for you to justify mike love
― electricsound, Monday, 21 April 2008 00:40 (sixteen years ago) link
Terry Melcher
― James Redd and the Blecchs, Monday, 21 April 2008 00:50 (sixteen years ago) link
"do it again" (a late '60s BBs hit that i'm pretty sure has minimal BW involvement) is a pop song that goes well with a rum and coke. "kokomo" is a fuckin' piece of shit. raise yr contrarian standards, etc etc.
― J.D., Monday, 21 April 2008 01:15 (sixteen years ago) link
raise yr contrarian standards ^^this
― James Redd and the Blecchs, Monday, 21 April 2008 01:20 (sixteen years ago) link
Agree with whomever lists Carl Wilson as "Kokomo"'s sole saving grace - It's one of the last times he recorded with the band IIRC.
And attn J0hn: there are many non-BW BBs recordings that are enjoyable without the accompanying baggage. Sunflower and Surf's Up alone proved that.
― mike a, Monday, 21 April 2008 01:37 (sixteen 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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