"“The idea from when we started the band was to be quite eclectic and open-minded,” says Luke Pritchard, Kooks’ barely-twenty singer. “The reason there’s a lot of styles and influences is more due to circumstance. No-one really rules the band, everyone’s into different styles of stuff so it gets pulled in different directions. We have a lot of reggae and funk and soul influences - there’s even some basic jazz in there, nothing too crazy though. That was what we always want to do. Even before we wrote the songs there was the intention of ‘what do we all like?’ and nobody could pin-point one because there’s so many bands we like.”

So after six weeks of “pain” in narrowing their massive canon of songs - they’d written literally hundreds since forming as a ‘school project’ in Brighton in 2003 - down to the handful they’d record for their debut album, The Kooks arrived at Konk unwieldy from Too Many Ideas. Were they funk? Acoustic pop? Future jazz? Psych-punk rebel rock? They were all these and so much more - the mythical explosion in John Peel’s record shed. Their stunning first single ‘Eddie’s Gun’ (a jerk rock ode to the humiliations of the malfunctioning lob-on) had been a rabble punk take on XTC being run over by The Beatles’ ‘I Need You’. Their soon-come Top Thirty hit ‘The Sofa Song’ was a jaunty La-esque moccasin-tapper. And jostling for position in their slipstream were songs with the names of Velvet Underground, Marvin Gaye, The Clash, The Kinks, Bobby Womack and Prince tattoo’d across their breasts with a rusty compass. Two years of voracious, prolific and eclectic songwriting had left The Kooks chomping at the bit but lacking focus or identity."

Extraído de musichead

"In the course of an hour The Kooks (Luke: vocals,guitar; Hugh Harris; lead guitar, Max Rafferty; bass, Paul Garred; drums) will happily rave about everyone from The Police to The Everley Brothers to Funkadelic to the component parts of medieval folk. Probe further and it turns out the first song they played together was The Strokes’ ‘Reptilia’."

Texto extraído de sing365.com, en algún momento se podrá traducir al castellano (agradecemos colaboraciones).

"Seaside"

Do you want to go to the seaside?
I'm not trying to say that everybody wants to go
I fell in love at the seaside
I handled my charm with time and slight of hand

Do you want to go to the seaside?
I'm not trying to say that everybody wants to go
I fell in love at the seaside
She handled her charm with time and slight of hand, and oh

But I'm just trying to love you
In any kind of way
But I find it hard to love you girl
When you're far away
Away

Do you want to go to the seaside?
I'm not trying to say that everybody wants to go
But I fell in love on the seaside
On the seaside
In the seaside