Koro

Koro may refer to one of the following:

Geography

  • Koro Island, a Fijian island
  • The Koro Sea in the Pacific Ocean
  • Koro, Ivory Coast
  • Koro, Mali
  • Koro, Wisconsin, United States, an unincorporated community
  • Languages

  • Koro language (India), an endangered language spoken in Arunachal Pradesh, India
  • Koro language (New Guinea)
  • Koro language (Vanuatu)
  • Koro, a variety of the Maninka language spoken in Ivory Coast
  • Nkoroo language (Nigeria)
  • Polynesian culture

  • 'Oro, a god in Polynesian mythology
  • Koro is a term of respect in the Māori language for a male Kaumātua (tribal elder)
  • Other

  • Koro (band), a hardcore punk band from Knoxville, Tennessee
  • Koro (incense burner), a Japanese incense burner
  • Koro (medicine), the syndrome in which someone believes his/her external genitals are retracting
  • KORO, a Spanish-language television station in Corpus Christi, Texas, USA
  • Musiliu Obanikoro, popularly known as Koro
  • Koro (band)

    Koro were a short-lived hardcore punk band from Knoxville, Tennessee. They released one self-titled 7" EP in 1983 and recorded a demo for an unreleased LP entitled Speed Kills.

    The EP consisted of eight short, furious songs in the vein of early Poison Idea and Deep Wound, clocking in at a cumulative total of just over six minutes, and was originally released with a pressing total of 500, although closer to 300 were actually sold. According to guitarist Carl Snow in an interview in 2002, the remainder were given to Jello Biafra when the band opened for the Dead Kennedys in Atlanta, and were subsequently lost. The band split up in 1984.

    The self-titled 7" was re-released several times by bootleggers, but did not see official reproduction until the mid-90s, on the US Hardcore label, in a substandard copy of the original. Sorry State Records re-released the 7" in its original format with audio remastering in 2006. The label later released the Speed Kills LP in its entirety in 2006, completely remastered for 12" vinyl.

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    Surgery

    by: Robyn Hitchcock

    You'll never have the damn thing out
    Or meet the pope and kiss his neck
    And like him more than you expect
    And in my mind the color red
    Is writ in blood above your head
    Tonight -- when the time is right
    You'll never wear the damned thing out
    Or meet the queen and kiss her throat
    And ask her where she hangs her coat
    And in my mind the color blue
    Will never be as dark as you
    Tonight -- when the time is right
    You'll never wash the damned things out
    Or meet the judge and kiss his figs
    And wonder where he keeps his wigs
    And in my mind the color pink
    Will do more damage than you think
    Tonight
    And in my mind the color green
    Is oh so lovely and obscene




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