08: "Kokomo" vs "Got My Mind Set On You"

Song Vs. Song

Todd Nathanson

Comedy, Music

4.7 • 752 Ratings

🗓️ 18 February 2019

⏱️ 28 minutes

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It's the battle of the '60s legends and their shameful late '80s sellout hits! Is former Beatle George Harrison's obnoxious "Got My Mind Set on You" the better song or is it a Brian Wilson-less Beach Boys and their irritating soundtrack smash "Kokomo"?

iTunes description: It's the battle of the '60s legends and their shameful late '80s sellout hits! Is former Beatle George Harrison's obnoxious "Got My Mind Set on You" the better song or is it a Brian Wilson-less Beach Boys and their irritating soundtrack smash "Kokomo"?

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0:00.0	Hi, I'm Todd Nathanson.
0:03.8	And I'm Danny Rob.
0:05.1	And we are going to do two of the best artists of the 60s.
0:09.5	And two of their best...
0:11.2	We're doing the Beatles and the Beach Boys, that storied rivalry.
0:14.6	No, wait.
0:16.0	Not the 60s versions, though.
0:17.5	We're doing George Harrison's Got My Mind Sit on You versus the Beach Boys'
0:22.7	Cocamo. It's song versus
0:24.8	song. It's suck versus suck.
0:27.7	Weird. Wow.
0:29.7	Yeah. Well, do you genuinely
0:32.1	dislike both? Wait, which song did you pick?
0:35.1	I was firmly on the side of Coquameomo, and I'm pretty solid on that one.
0:39.3	Okay. I am absolutely 100% on Cloud 9 with George Harrison. No question. Do you actually like
0:47.3	either of these songs? Do you actually like Kokomo? You know, I went back and re-listen to it.
0:53.3	I still got a little heart-twinged listen to that because that was like one of the few pop songs I knew as a kid.
1:01.5	And I still feel it a little.
1:03.3	I still do.
1:05.1	Kokomo is absolutely the one I'm on.
1:09.4	Although, God My Mindset on You was also one of the few I knew. And Although, got my mindset on you
1:11.0	was also one of the few I knew.
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