defend the indefensible: "kokomo" by the beach boys

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.)

Everyone else was driving

i was walking down the highway, baby
i'm just a rebel with nothing to lose
you know i hate to leave you lonely, lady
but the hard life is calling and i just can't refuse-ah

this is a cool piece https://www.stereogum.com/2006749/kokomo-beach-boys-story/franchises/sounding-board/

and this is some video https://youtu.be/Z8JqzFg1OGs

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― Tape Store (Tape Store), Friday, December 30, 2005 5:02 PM (twelve years ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

we'll get there fast and then we'll take it show makes sense

they want to get there (Kokomo) fast (b because they are excited for vacation)

then they'll take it show (chillax on vacation)

fun fact: 'kokomo' is good

not bad

UMS: compare "Body Like a Back Road," specifically the line "I'ma take it slow just as fast as I can."

I get more requests to write about this song than any other, and I have to say, "But it's not bad."

^ this guy fuckin' gets it

it's bad

I don't dislike it.

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"

Best thing Stamos was ever involved in.

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, 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

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.

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.

60% of people are pretty dumb tbh

I think of the bit where Mark says "c'mon, feel it feel it!"

aruba jamaica oh I want to take you to
bermuda bahama let’s leave it up to fema
key largo montego baby my state’s a frozen igloo
oh I want to take you down to
cancun-o we'll get there fast and then I’ll shitpost slow
that's where mr. trump would go way down in cancun-o

— kilgore trout, back in some form (@KT_So_It_Goes) February 18, 2021