― the bellefox, Tuesday, 1 November 2005 13:58 (eighteen years ago) link
Only for the second season, though I think they changed it to this for both seasons in reruns.
― Joseph McCombs (Joseph McCombs), Tuesday, 1 November 2005 19:22 (eighteen years ago) link
― J.D. (Justyn Dillingham), Tuesday, 1 November 2005 20:16 (eighteen years ago) link
Anyone seen "Head"?
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JOI-SDYGviM
"You should spend more time on it (music) because the youth of America depend on you show the way." - Zappa
― gigabytepicnic, Thursday, 20 December 2007 07:03 (sixteen years ago) link
Yes. It's the best.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=glwYXCOMKto
― Eric H., Thursday, 20 December 2007 07:26 (sixteen years ago) link
"Circle Sky" rocks so hard. Just listen to that shrieking mass of hysterical Mormon jailbait!
― Myonga Vön Bontee, Thursday, 20 December 2007 08:38 (sixteen years ago) link
Only more than almost any other film in the history of cinema <--- saddo
― Tom D., Thursday, 20 December 2007 09:47 (sixteen years ago) link
Just saw a bunch of bands pay tribute to the Monkees at Southpaw in Brooklyn tonight. Made me all shades of happy. Especially the ones who did "Cuddly Toy" and "Porpoise Song" and "Steppin' Stone."
― Joseph McCombs, Saturday, 26 January 2008 08:19 (sixteen years ago) link
Giving a listen to Headquarters today. It's a perfect summer album, and was number one right behind Sgt. Peppers during the summer of 1967 for two months or so, though maybe it should be slotted more alongside Odessey and Oracle, 5th Dimension and Da Capo. The album should get more overall credit -- the sole single off it was the fairly atypical (for the album, not for the Monkees) "Randy Scouse Git" aka "Alternate Title" but the net result means that the whole stands on its own pretty nicely as perfectly in-the-moment pop, especially given that it was pretty much the only album where the four called most of the shots and did most of the performances down the line, aside from a bit of bass from Chip Douglas and some brief horn/string parts.
Anyway, "You Just May Be the One" should be more famous than it is.
― Ned Raggett, Tuesday, 30 June 2009 21:05 (fourteen years ago) link
"You Just May Be the One" should be more famous than it is
Def in my top five of Monkees tunes.
Has anyone else seen that new Monkees doc on Smithsonian On Demand? Straight up, Don Kirshner was a royal a-hole. What I didn't know is that the boiling point for his relationship with The Monkees was the song "Sugar, Sugar". The band refused to perform it, so Kirshner threw a fit and then formed the fictional The Archies so they wouldn't argue with him.
― Johnny Fever, Tuesday, 30 June 2009 21:27 (fourteen years ago) link
Headquarters is such a touchstone for me I almost can't put it into words. In 1966/67, the Monkees TV series (and from there, the records) ruled my life. I replayed their first three albums COUNTLESS times. So obsessed was I that I really don't remember much other contemporaneous music (hello, Beatles) until "Quick Joey Small" by Kasenetz-Katz became my favorite record (fall of '68.)
― Such A Hilbily (Dan Peterson), Tuesday, 30 June 2009 21:53 (fourteen years ago) link
Never mind the furthermore, the plea is self defense
― Stop wishing death on people just for the cool thread titles (Myonga Vön Bontee), Tuesday, 30 June 2009 22:06 (fourteen years ago) link
Hey hey, we're the bitter dudes who hate each other. Or at least Davy is.
― Ned Raggett, Friday, 9 October 2009 20:01 (fourteen years ago) link
In fairness, Mike has hated the others for at least two decades now.
― as strikingly artificial and perfect as a wizard's cap (HI DERE), Friday, 9 October 2009 20:03 (fourteen years ago) link
In addition to my comment over here, it's worth pointing out that Jones is kinda really super-jealous of his former bandmates because they've all been successful at other ventures, while the only way he gets an audience aside from occasional acting gigs is through Monkees reunions or singing Monkees songs. Nesmith obviously has his legacy income from Liquid Paper and his business ventures, and Tork tours quite a lot both on his own and with his blues band. Don't really know what Dolenz does, although I do know he does some painting. Jones also hates that Dolenz sang more of their big hits than he did.
― a wicked 60s beat poop combo (Pancakes Hackman), Friday, 9 October 2009 23:15 (fourteen years ago) link
Makes him sound like the Eric Idle of the band...
― Ned Raggett, Friday, 9 October 2009 23:17 (fourteen years ago) link
And in further proof that Facebook will soon be taken over by the AARP, Peter Tork, responding to Davy’s comments, said that he is on Facebook and slammed Nesmith saying: “We’re not even Facebook friends. But I do have more friends of Facebook that he does.”
lolz
― Roomful of Moogs (C. Grisso/McCain), Saturday, 10 October 2009 16:32 (fourteen years ago) link
haha, that is great. My wife's company re-published Mickey Dolenz's autobio a few years back. The worst thing I have ever read. Love the Monkees, though!
― tylerw, Saturday, 10 October 2009 16:38 (fourteen years ago) link
My wife's company re-published Mickey Dolenz's autobio a few years back. The worst thing I have ever read.
Details. Badly written, stupid stories, what?
― Ned Raggett, Saturday, 10 October 2009 16:39 (fourteen years ago) link
http://luvdavy.tripod.com/kissagod.html
― as strikingly artificial and perfect as a wizard's cap (HI DERE), Saturday, 10 October 2009 18:59 (fourteen years ago) link
And I just sat there,absorbing His essence,and smiling and smiling.
I hear it can happen that way.
― Ned Raggett, Saturday, 10 October 2009 19:02 (fourteen years ago) link
oh the Dolenz book is all of the above -- horribly written, delusional ... just dumb. "The concert tour was a box-office smash (it was the top grossing tour of 1986), we were the darlings of MTV, our new single had gone gold and our album, platinum. All of these accomplishments were unheard of for a group that hadn't released a record in 20 years. Offers were coming in from left and right, from movies to TV specials to megabuck commercials. The consensus of the press was, "It's the most amazing comeback in rock & roll history!" And so forth ...
― tylerw, Saturday, 10 October 2009 19:13 (fourteen years ago) link
That was then...
― Ned Raggett, Saturday, 10 October 2009 19:16 (fourteen years ago) link
the whole thing is padded out with a bunch of "screenplay" kind of segments, too. There are some good chapter titles, though"Lights - Camera - Madness!""The Long and Whining Road"
― tylerw, Saturday, 10 October 2009 19:22 (fourteen years ago) link
My grandfather worked for the Monkees in the 1960s, which means the only movie premiere my father ever went to as a boy was when he was ten and he saw "Head." He still talks about that movie, though he hasn't seen it since 1968.
― Cunga, Saturday, 10 October 2009 20:46 (fourteen years ago) link
I read that too quickly and thought your father was working for the Monkees when he was ten.
― Ned Raggett, Saturday, 10 October 2009 21:05 (fourteen years ago) link
The consensus of the press was, "It's the most amazing comeback in rock & roll history!"
I'm pretty sure this wasn't the consensus.
― Roman Polanski now sleeps in prison. (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Saturday, 10 October 2009 21:08 (fourteen years ago) link
Well, maybe that, too. A wonderful street team of third graders talking up your band at recess (getting your demo in the hands of the jr. high school hipsters) could've been the difference between being a rich monkee or a disbanding zombie.
― Cunga, Saturday, 10 October 2009 21:25 (fourteen years ago) link
"The Door Into Summer", from 1967, sounds like CSN two years before the fact. I know that Stills tried out for the band, and wondered for a moment if he'd written this song. But no, it's Douglas/Martin. It's a great song!
― Euler, Wednesday, 14 October 2009 19:57 (fourteen years ago) link
Three-piece reunion tour
― Your cousin, Marvin Cobain (C. Grisso/McCain), Friday, 4 March 2011 17:17 (thirteen years ago) link
Saw them yesterday at the Royal Albert Hall in London. Really liked it - as they dust off a lot of the album tracks, including from Head (the set list for the tour is on the net if you need to check). Davy recreates the dance sequence from Head, Peter looks really cool and clearly enjoyed himself, and Micky....Well, Micky was a bit quieter than I expected.
Go see them if you get a chance.
― Bob Six, Friday, 20 May 2011 22:03 (thirteen years ago) link
saw Head for the first time in a long time last night at a local library. they played the 5.1 mix, decent volume. sounded amazing.
learned that davy's dance partner in that scene is toni basil. common knowledge i guess but news to me.
― Thus Sang Freud, Friday, 20 May 2011 23:56 (thirteen years ago) link
A fellow Monkee-maniac just shared this with me on FB. Someone's MIA.
― Mucho! Macho! Honcho!: Turn Off The Dark (C. Grisso/McCain), Friday, 24 June 2011 04:45 (twelve years ago) link
Part of what's so cool about Headquarters is that they pull off their usual range of styles like a normal band would have, but of course there really were no normal bands with an assortment of individuals like the Monkees were. So the range on that album is really wide.
― timellison, Friday, 24 June 2011 17:14 (twelve years ago) link
Rest of US tour cancelled due to "Business Reasons".
― Mucho! Macho! Honcho!: Turn Off The Dark (C. Grisso/McCain), Wednesday, 10 August 2011 17:31 (twelve years ago) link
damn you, US economy, DAMN YOU.
― tylerw, Wednesday, 10 August 2011 17:32 (twelve years ago) link
Lol Michael Nesmith is probably telling everyone within earshot today "I told you so" (and then, "Stop wearing my hat!").
― Mucho! Macho! Honcho!: Turn Off The Dark (C. Grisso/McCain), Wednesday, 10 August 2011 17:37 (twelve years ago) link
I've gotten hooked on "Sunny Girlfriend" recently. Got your pop, rock, and country mixed nicely in just 2:30.
― that's not my post, Friday, 13 January 2012 07:18 (twelve years ago) link
Wonder if OP DJP has learned to play "Stepping Stone" on his new guitar yet?
― TEH PNINFOX aka the veen driver (James Redd and the Blecchs), Friday, 13 January 2012 14:43 (twelve years ago) link
Learn *intro to "Valleri" by lunchtime and report back
(*cut from Dan's frowning face to someone else's hands a la Mike Nesmith)
― Then in walked Barbara Castle with the Lady Eleanor (Tom D.), Friday, 13 January 2012 14:46 (twelve years ago) link
lol all these ideas! guitars really are the best
― Bam! Orgasm explosion in your facehole. (DJP), Friday, 13 January 2012 15:19 (twelve years ago) link
I just want to state for the record that I was the guy Blount hyped re: singing "Goin' Down" at karaoke, but I'm pretty sure I did get out of breath and screw up somewhere along the way. Man that was fun though. Ssssssock it to me!
― Doctor Casino, Monday, 13 February 2012 20:56 (twelve years ago) link
My #1 favourite. (I think the guitars might be mixed up and Mickey's vocal down on the album.)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mvMP2ya_AGs
― clemenza, Tuesday, 14 February 2012 02:01 (twelve years ago) link
Tork turned 70 today.
― Mike Love Costume Jewelry (C. Grisso/McCain), Tuesday, 14 February 2012 04:04 (twelve years ago) link
Four days after Carole King turned 70--and "Take a Giant Step" is hers and Goffin's.
― clemenza, Tuesday, 14 February 2012 04:10 (twelve years ago) link
http://www.tmz.com/2012/02/29/davy-jones-dead-monkees/
― stet, Wednesday, 29 February 2012 17:56 (twelve years ago) link
damnnnnn
― tylerw, Wednesday, 29 February 2012 17:58 (twelve years ago) link
oh shit
― Artful Dodderer (Shakey Mo Collier), Wednesday, 29 February 2012 17:59 (twelve years ago) link
One of my earliest gay crushes, I think, from when Nickelodeon started rerunning eps. :(
― dead-trius (Eric H.), Wednesday, 29 February 2012 18:02 (twelve years ago) link
;_; for real
― Johnny Fever, Wednesday, 29 February 2012 18:10 (twelve years ago) link