TS: Kokomo vs. Margaritaville

I feel like the “creep factor” of Kokomo is being slightly overstated ITT

yKokomo is the soundtrack to an evening of seducing a friend’s daughter while on vacation.

Kokomo may be worse than that terrible movie Blame it on Rio.

There is no way anyone is getting anywhere fast in the Florida Keys. Goddamn liars.

xxp yeah kokomo is like an old couple getting excited about their vacation

off the florida keys
there's a place called dry tortugas
that's where you wanna go to see an abandoned naval base

Kokomo - I have had lots of fun trolling friends by claiming this is my favourite Beach Boys song.
Margaritaville - only heard this for the first time recently via the McElroys, and I kind of enjoyed it? Might have different feelings if I'd been subjected to it loads throughout my life, though.

Still, Kokomo wins this for the lol factor.

I long for the moment Mike Love serenades 45 with Kokomo.

Kokomo is not creepy per se; it’s more treacly bordering on queasy.

I go back and forth on "Margaritaville" — it's a great song! But the lyrics of the first verse are so viscerally repellant to me. Plus in its cultural context, Margaritaville sounds to me like rich white retirees who own beach houses trying to slum it. Whereas Kokomo sounds like rich white retirees who own beach houses in their element.

I ended up voting Margaritaville FWIW.

nothing wrong with owning a beach house

also sunscreen smells good

i read the lyrics to remind myself what you were reacting to and now i remember how it goes

havjng grown up in a beach town i feel like my youth was saturated in these two songs so its hard to pick but i come back to kokomo on grounds of pure hookiness

To me, « kokomo » is so much more in your face and effective in whatever it tries to do. It’s an epic... (evil) something !
Whereas « Margaritaville » is just a bit boring.
Also for years, during parties, we would have limbo dance contests on « kokomo » with my friends.
Obvious winner (like Mile Love).

best alt kokomo lyric is still "ah, martinique / the mounds of rotting steak"

best alt kokomo lyric is still "ah, martinique / the mounds of rotting steak"

― |Restore| |Restart| |Quit| (Doctor Casino)

i think you've misheard it, the lyric actually goes "your mom's a rotten steak"

growing up on the Florida coast, in a beach town, Margaritaville was onminpresent like roaches and retirees. it made kid me sad for the tourists covered in oil. now I can’t separate it from nostalgia for a place and people i mostly hated.

later I’d end up driving through Kokomo IN once a year, always singing the song as we took it slow through interminable red lights.

voted Margaritaville with extreme prejudice

Automatic thread bump. This poll's results are now in.

I didn't expect it to be this close!

imagine being kept in drugged incarceration by your abusive therapist and then your old band releases "Kokomo"

lol that’s waaay too good not to steal

important follow-up q: where would you rather go? tbh i'd rather go to kokomo.

Kokomo - I have had lots of fun trolling friends by claiming this is my favourite Beach Boys song.

prefer it to all other beach boys songs

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a segment/ of quince/the moist folds in my blimps

https://www.npr.org/2019/05/04/720062310/the-birthplace-of-country-musics-first-hit-is-being-threatened-by-modern-constru

At 152 Nassau Street in Downtown Atlanta, an unmarked two-story rose brick storefront houses a piece of Atlanta's music history. This was the site of a pop-up recording studio in 1923.

"Recording executives from New York came down to the South to record jazz, gospel, blues and country music," architect Kyle Kessler says as he stands outside the building.

Kessler is part of Historic Atlanta, a preservation group trying to stop the planned demolition of this building to make way for a Jimmy Buffett Margaritaville high-rise hotel restaurant.

listening to 'everyone's gone to the movies' makes me think that jimmy was inspired by it when recording 'margaritaville.' which is the superior song, for sure -- it's not at the same level but it's sort of a 'deacon blues' for key west.

I hope everyone here is aware of the terrible movie "Club Dread," which features a washed-up singer whose song "Pina Coladaburg" was written and released slightly before "Margaritaville," and was eclipsed by its fame, and it's a very sore point.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dPn33kAtdLU

want to be clear that I was responding to the thread premise and garbled my sentence. margaritaville is better than kokomo for sure, not everyone’s gone to the movies.

Kokomo is obviously the superior song.

I hope everyone here is aware of the terrible movie "Club Dread," which features a washed-up singer whose song "Pina Coladaburg" was written and released slightly before "Margaritaville," and was eclipsed by its fame, and it's a very sore point.

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