I went and listened to the song and I can't say I'd heard it before either. The riff sounds vaguely familiar, but I can't recall hearing it on the adult contemporary and rock stations of the various elevators and waiting rooms of the period. I'll consider it a glimpse of an alternate timeline of music popularity in…

Could somebody please explain the hate for Kokomo? When I was growing up in the 90s, and my primary source of music was the radio, Kokomo seemed like just another Beach Boys song, integrated with their back catalog. Today it seems no less a beach fantasy than anything else they recorded, just skewed toward the middle…

Could somebody please explain the hate for Kokomo? When I was growing up in the 90s, and my primary source of music was the radio, Kokomo seemed like just another Beach Boys song, integrated with their back catalog. Today it seems no less a beach fantasy than anything else they recorded, just skewed toward the middle…