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''Que onda Jose?''
''Que onda Jose?''
See the vegetable man in the vegetable van with a horn that's honking like a mariachi band.
In the middle of the street, people gather around, put the dollar-dollar-dollar in the can.
Ay wey, que onda?
T.J. cowboys hang around, sleeping in the sidewalk with a Burger King crown,
Never wake 'em up -- mas cerveza -- til the rooster crows, vatos vergallos.
Que onda guero?
Que onda guero?
Que onda guero?
Que onda guero?
Mano blancos roll with crowbars, sing rancheras on cheap guitars,
Abuelitas with plastic bags walking to the church with the Spanish candles.
Dirty borracho says 'que putas!', ondele, Joto, your popsicle is melting,
Run, better run, da-doo, run, run... in the midnight sun...
Guero, where are you going?
Que onda guero?
Guero, where are you going?
Que onda guero?
Rampart boys with loaded rifles, Guatemalan soccer ball instant replays,
Mango ladies, vendedoras at a bus stop sing a banda macho chorus.
Que onda guero?
A donde vayas.
Que onda guero?
A donde vayas.
''Que ??? es ese?
Alla en la en Pico, la Pico y Vermont
Hey vamos a jugar futbol hay en el Griffith park...
Hey, Lacoro...
Yeah, now I'm going to LACC, man... I'm taking a ceramics class.
See the vegetable man...
James Joyce, Michael Bolton!''
Que onda guero?
Hey, where are you going?
Que onda guero?
Hey, where are you going?
''Hey, what's up, guero? You doing pushups?
No te veo guero! El guero!
Que pasa, otra vero guero?
I dunno, I saw a puppet at Tang's with a mullet and a popsicle.''
''Hey, guero, que locura! Chico...''
''Hey, guero? Yeah, Bro?
Hehehe, footlong?
Let's go to Cap'n Cork. They have the new Yanni cassette.''
| cchris_47 (jackson ms) | Posted: Apr 04, 2013 - 14:25 I really like this song!!!! |
| BMTR | Posted: Mar 04, 2013 - 02:57 @ Ballzak DITO!!!!  F*** the scientologist! |
| Ballzak | Posted: Jan 31, 2013 - 19:04 Hell yeah! Kick it, Beck! |
| old_shep (Iowa) | Posted: Dec 31, 2012 - 10:53 I gotta say it again....genius. |
| Stingray | Posted: Sep 28, 2012 - 06:20 Switching off for a song: SCIENTOLOGIST! |
| Hannio (Austin, TX) | Posted: Jul 28, 2012 - 09:50 mmoyer wrote: This song is brilliant. It's like an aural painting of an L.A. neighborhood. It's also hilarious. Last year I was visiting friends in Orange County, and decided to just drive straight up through the middle of LA from Long Beach to Pasadena without taking any highways. There were times I felt I was in a foreign country. I have to agree, the flavor of some of the neighborhoods is captured perfectly with this song. |
| iam_overlord (Brighton, MA) | Posted: Jul 27, 2012 - 08:17 Stop that! It's silly. |
| jen3005545 (Fort Worth, TX) | Posted: Apr 23, 2012 - 07:23 Love to the tiny man! |
| shellbella (so california) | Posted: Mar 23, 2012 - 15:51 Love it !!!  |
| mmoyer (Silicon Valley) | Posted: Mar 22, 2012 - 14:39 This song is brilliant. It's like an aural painting of an L.A. neighborhood. It's also hilarious. Let's go to Cap'n Cork. They have the new Yanni cassette! |
| Groogrux69 (Auburn, CA) | Posted: Mar 22, 2012 - 14:21 Whitey likes this song. |
| oldsaxon (Wales via Vancouver, BC.) | Posted: Mar 22, 2012 - 14:20 bobringer wrote: Pretty much any time Beck comes on, I have the same reaction. Hard to believe this is the goofball that everybody thought was a one hit wonder joke with Loser. Not only does Loser hold up 15 years later, he turned out to be one of the best songwriters of this generation. Yeah. I admit I had written him off as a one hitter...I was wrong...this guy keeps surprising me, time and again. |
| jt1 | Posted: Jan 20, 2012 - 05:09 Once again RP introduces me to something different, and completely unexpected...and I quite like it. |
| eswiley2 | Posted: Dec 19, 2011 - 12:04 Ewwwww.. Not my taste at all... Bleeeech. |
| bobrk (Beautiful Downtown San Jose) | Posted: Nov 16, 2011 - 16:28 Just cranked this luscious song up to "9". — Ese Guero |
| Misterfixit (Nashville) | Posted: Sep 14, 2011 - 14:09 I love their innovative use of the Cloacoa instrumentals. |
| Smokinmaxwell | Posted: Sep 14, 2011 - 13:48 This is so bad I have to log off now. |
| kilroyjoe3 (Farmington, NM) | Posted: Jul 13, 2011 - 20:08 PLEASE! MORE HIP-HOP/BREAK BEATS!   |
| Bleyfusz | Posted: May 11, 2011 - 13:13 Este niño no para de sorprenderme, coño..... |
| anisbet (Sacramento) | Posted: Jan 05, 2011 - 20:04 Guero...roughly translated = white boy accpeted by his neigboring latino homies...so "Where are you going white boy" seems to pay homage to his East LA neigborhood...plus it has agood beat. |
| WonderLizard (2,755.46 mi. due east of Paradise) | Posted: Nov 03, 2010 - 12:20 BluEyes wrote: Not my guy...   Sorry, Blu. I meant the other Michelle. Hard to be specific without blowing folks' covers—if you dig. |
| bobringer (Wayne, NJ) | Posted: Aug 31, 2010 - 21:30 Segue wrote: What planet is this guy from? Friggin genius. Pretty much any time Beck comes on, I have the same reaction. Hard to believe this is the goofball that everybody thought was a one hit wonder joke with Loser. Not only does Loser hold up 15 years later, he turned out to be one of the best songwriters of this generation. |
| Nuance (Winnipeg) | Posted: Jul 30, 2010 - 21:21 Geecheeboy wrote: Picture this: retired Army intelligence officer, mid 60's, Brooks Brothers clothes, cruising in his Cadillac STS blaring this on the way to the golf course. I know it for a fact. He discovered this cd on Radio Paradise and loves it. you fucking rock man... i hope to be you |
| Nuance (Winnipeg) | Posted: Jul 30, 2010 - 21:19 Segue wrote: I like cake, I like beck... Beck owns the samples and great beats, cake owns the straight vocals. no comparison IMHO. |
| Segue (Almost Paradise) | Posted: Jun 29, 2010 - 00:38 joanie wrote: Cake is so Beck. But you probably knew that. ;>) This is so Cake. |
| Segue (Almost Paradise) | Posted: Jun 29, 2010 - 00:36 What planet is this guy from? Friggin genius. |
| helgigermany (Germany) | Posted: Jun 29, 2010 - 00:17 this guy is working with many different styles, so you never know, whats coming next! this tune, for me a 5! |
| nerakdon (Colorado) | Posted: Jun 29, 2010 - 00:15 Teehee. |
| Shaker (Canada) | Posted: Apr 26, 2010 - 11:33   |
| CWKeeney | Posted: Apr 26, 2010 - 11:33 God, I love this song. Actually, I love this album. Has anyone seen Beck's Musical Club? I highly recommend going to the website- he and his friends recently did an improvised remake fo Skip Spence's Oar, which is unbelievable. |
| BluEyes | Posted: Mar 25, 2010 - 20:42 WonderLizard wrote: Here's your guy, Michelle. Vaya con dios. Not my guy... |
| WonderLizard (2,755.46 mi. due east of Paradise) | Posted: Feb 22, 2010 - 07:02 Here's your guy, Michelle. Vaya con dios. |
| michaelgmitchell (Ontario, Canada) | Posted: Dec 21, 2009 - 11:04 malmquna wrote: This is essentially a guilty pleasure for me. I like this man's sound, and while this track may not be the best musically, it's just fun. 'Sactly. |
| h8rhater | Posted: Dec 21, 2009 - 11:03 Droidac wrote: What fresh hell is this?!? One that is apparently 4066 kms east of Paradise |
| joanie (Baltimore) | Posted: Dec 21, 2009 - 11:03 This is so Cake. |
| malmquna (Paris, France) | Posted: Nov 20, 2009 - 01:07 This is essentially a guilty pleasure for me. I like this man's sound, and while this track may not be the best musically, it's just fun. |
| Geecheeboy (under a crescent moon and palmetto tree) | Posted: Oct 19, 2009 - 14:42 Picture this: retired Army intelligence officer, mid 60's, Brooks Brothers clothes, cruising in his Cadillac STS blaring this on the way to the golf course. I know it for a fact. He discovered this cd on Radio Paradise and loves it. |
| Wizzuvvoz (Land of Nod. East of Eden on Route 66.) | Posted: Aug 17, 2009 - 13:21 lmic wrote: This crowd is surprisingly closed to rap. All it took was hanging around with some thinking kids in grad school for me to realize that, as with everything, there's the good and the bad of the genre. I love the intentful, hip-hop-shaded stuff, and despise the ridiculously adolescent gangsta/ho cr*p. agree. tons of cool rap. lots of junk, too. |
| lmic (Narrow Minded Couch Potato) | Posted: Aug 17, 2009 - 13:12 le_colonel wrote: What's with all the rap hate. Rap is great. This crowd is surprisingly closed to rap. All it took was hanging around with some thinking kids in grad school for me to realize that, as with everything, there's the good and the bad of the genre. I love the intentful, hip-hop-shaded stuff, and despise the ridiculously adolescent gangsta/ho cr*p. One of the coolest things about RP, to me, is that it helps keep me current with music, in my ever-advancing dotage. Some well-selected rap selections would round out the experience beautifully, but I suppose Bill has some well-reasoned logic for not including it. Oh well, RP is 99.99% perfect, I guess I can accept taking responsibility for managing the missing .01% myself.  |
| 99 (South Cackalacky) | Posted: Aug 17, 2009 - 13:08 Not as brilliant as I thought it was when I first bought the album but good nonetheless. |
| crockydile (I miss Excelsior!) | Posted: Aug 17, 2009 - 13:07 le_colonel wrote: Rap is great.  |
| Jared (South Central...MA) | Posted: Aug 17, 2009 - 13:07 Pure fun |
| Droidac (4066 kms east of Paradise) | Posted: Aug 17, 2009 - 13:06 What fresh hell is this?!? |
| le_colonel | Posted: Aug 17, 2009 - 13:05 What's with all the rap hate. Rap is great. Secondly, this is lightyears away from rap. |
| lmic (Narrow Minded Couch Potato) | Posted: Aug 17, 2009 - 13:05 I really love this album. I did notice that Bill has apparently stopped playing "My Sun Eyed Girl," which is for the better since its lyrics are so very, very, creepy. Beck is, nonetheless, the best! |
| crockydile (I miss Excelsior!) | Posted: Aug 17, 2009 - 13:04 Wizzuvv_oz wrote: most excellent Except for the part between where it starts and when it finishes.  |
| scraig (Santa Barbara, CA) | Posted: Aug 17, 2009 - 13:03 this is so good it blows my mind... |
| Wizzuvvoz (Land of Nod. East of Eden on Route 66.) | Posted: May 14, 2009 - 08:34 most excellent |
| steeler (Teetering on the abyss) | Posted: May 14, 2009 - 08:32 Rips off a bunch of stuff, and cobbles it together. I don't find it to be inspired or creative, although I give points for trying. |
| secretsauce (City of Angels) | Posted: Apr 12, 2009 - 18:16 Oh man ... this song is about me. I'm the guero playing futbol in Griffith Park with the vatos.  |