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Song · 1988 · Pop

Kokomo

1988

★ 2.6 editorial score

Mike Love's chorus of island names over Ry Cooder's guitar, and the Beach Boys' first number one in twenty-two years.

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Genre

Subject

Escape The beach

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Quote · 1867

“Listen! you hear the grating roar Of pebbles which the waves suck back, and fling, At their return, up the high strand, Begin, and cease, and then again begin, With tremulous cadence slow, and bring The eternal note of sadness in. Sophocles long ago Heard it on the Aegean.”

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Quote · 1955

“The edge of the sea is a strange and beautiful place. All through the long history of Earth it has been an area of unrest where waves have broken heavily against the land, where the tides have pressed forward over the continents, receded, and then returned. For no two successive days is the shore line precisely the same.”

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Quote · 2007

“I just want to lie on the beach and eat hot dogs. That’s all I’ve ever wanted.”

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