Over 40 years after Portland, Oregon's garage rock heroes The Kingsmen turned Richard Berry's jaunty little calypso tune about a Jamaican sailor pining away for his girl in a bar into a celestially perfect mess of rock 'n' roll noise and attitude, the song apparently still has the power to fog the administrative mind and chill the authoritarian soul.…
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26 - Eric Berlin
I think the Kingsmen have put out a bunch of great songs, though none with the timeless quality of old Louie, of course. They've got a fresh, twangy, surfer-on-the-edge-of-the-drug-movement sound that still gets to me some 40-ish years after it was released.
Maybe I just love mid-60s rock. Who knows?
27 - Eric Olsen
wow VH, that was mighty purdy
28 - Julie
REPUBLICANS.REPUBLICAN.REPUBLICANS.
29 - Phillip Winn
Yeah.
30 - Al Barger
I for one wish to speak up in defense of Superintendent Dawning. There's no excuse for encouraging our fragile little children to listen to, much less perform such FILTH.
There are plenty of appropriate, perfectly good songs for a school marching band. How about "Onward Christian Soldiers" for example?
31 - Eric Berlin
I read that first sentence, Al, and my stomach dropped.
You caught me good on that one -- funny. Nice job!
How about "The Chanukah Song" as performed in the style of Adam Sandler?
32 - Bennett Dawson
Nah, If you want a good Adam Snadler tune, it's gotta be "Forgetful Lucy"
(she's got a nice caboosey)
33 - Eric Berlin
I think the Thanksgiving Song (my fave holiday) might actually be my favorite.
34 - DrPat
How can you trust music from someone who played Satan's son? Those would be Satanic verses indeed!
35 - Eric Berlin
Yes, but it was a soft and cuddly Satan who was only punishing those (like Hitler in a tutu) who were sent to hell via God's rath.
36 - Bennett Dawson
Henry Winkler covered in bees!
37 - HW Saxton
"Louie,Louie" is a great political song.
Seeing as you can't understand anything
they say,which is the same case with any
of the politicians I've ever heard.
"Louie,Louie" is also the perfect party
song.I've DJ'ed this tune for the most
diverse crowds that you can imagine.I've
played it at Punk parties,Reggae parties
Wedding Receptions,60's Soul/R&B bashes
even to start off sets of old school Hip
Hop.It never fails to start things into
moving,no matter what.
It has that dead stop on the drums which
makes it very easy to have a clean segue
way from it to the following cut.I have
always followed it up with "Stupidity"
by Solomon Burke and "Shake" by Otis R.
It's a can't fail party starter. If no
one's dancing by the end of that trilogy
then you might as well just pack it in.
38 - WTF
Awright... nobody's said it yet...
What were the "words" everybody got torqued over...
Louie, Louie, oh baby... yougottawickedhole...
Anymore lyrical urbane legends?
Take off the gloves...
39 - Eric Berlin
As a child of the 80s... we had our Billy Idol version of "Mony Mony" (ride that pony...). Don't know if the "dirty version" came from the original or not.
40 - Douglas Mays
Interesting...they won't even let the kids play an intrumental version in a parade? Come on! That was the first song I ever learned to play on my guitar when I was about 8. That and Gloria.
Out here in the state of Washington (technically the band is from Tacoma WA) about 10 years ago or so the song was up in the legislature for becoming the official state song. It almost made it.
I would say that the folks in Michigan should listen to what the politicians had to say about it out here. I would like to hear the song as an icon after the 'Star Spangled Banner' at a football game or something.
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41 - The Proprietor
IMHO, the Kingsmen's best record was their version of "Little Latin Lupe Lu".