― Rayas Blancas, Thursday, 19 December 2002 09:45 (twenty-one years ago) link
― pulpo, Thursday, 19 December 2002 10:08 (twenty-one years ago) link
Classic of course (apart from "Listen to the Band")
― bham, Thursday, 19 December 2002 10:54 (twenty-one years ago) link
― Dr. C (Dr. C), Thursday, 19 December 2002 11:25 (twenty-one years ago) link
― Tom (Groke), Thursday, 19 December 2002 12:18 (twenty-one years ago) link
― Nicole (Nicole), Thursday, 19 December 2002 13:13 (twenty-one years ago) link
The TV show was cack, though.
― Dom Passantino (Dom Passantino), Thursday, 19 December 2002 13:17 (twenty-one years ago) link
― Tom (Groke), Thursday, 19 December 2002 13:21 (twenty-one years ago) link
The Monkees are endlessly fun to analyse, but pretty uneven as far as pure listening enjoyment goes fer me. Even the Rhino best of has a few stinkers (I mean, "I Wanna Be Free", wtf?)
― Daniel_Rf (Daniel_Rf), Thursday, 19 December 2002 17:53 (twenty-one years ago) link
― Chris P (Chris P), Thursday, 19 December 2002 23:34 (twenty-one years ago) link
― horace mann, Friday, 20 December 2002 04:38 (twenty-one years ago) link
anyhow, definitely classic. I for one like the tv show, though I've only seen the same 4 episodes over and over again. I approve of Head.
― nick ring (nick ring), Friday, 20 December 2002 06:16 (twenty-one years ago) link
― Chris Barrus (xibalba), Friday, 20 December 2002 06:35 (twenty-one years ago) link
― di smith (lucylurex), Friday, 20 December 2002 08:34 (twenty-one years ago) link
― Prude, Friday, 20 December 2002 08:37 (twenty-one years ago) link
― Andrew Thames (Andrew Thames), Friday, 20 December 2002 08:48 (twenty-one years ago) link
― Mr Mime (Andrew Thames), Tuesday, 20 April 2004 10:31 (twenty years ago) link
― Mr Mime (Andrew Thames), Tuesday, 20 April 2004 10:33 (twenty years ago) link
― Mr Mime (Andrew Thames), Tuesday, 20 April 2004 10:50 (twenty years ago) link
― shookout (shookout), Tuesday, 20 April 2004 16:58 (twenty years ago) link
― ken taylrr (ken taylrr), Tuesday, 20 April 2004 19:58 (twenty years ago) link
― theodore fogelsanger, Tuesday, 20 April 2004 21:44 (twenty years ago) link
― VengaDan Perry (Dan Perry), Friday, 13 August 2004 14:39 (nineteen years ago) link
― herbert hebert (herbert hebert), Saturday, 14 August 2004 04:04 (nineteen years ago) link
My teenage years would have somehow been a little less fulfilled without "She" from their second album. Or was it their second hit from their first album?
Never ashamed to wear my Monkees badge here...
― jim wentworth (wench), Saturday, 14 August 2004 04:46 (nineteen years ago) link
― Dan Perry '08 (Dan Perry), Sunday, 26 September 2004 18:35 (nineteen years ago) link
― Dan Perry '08 (Dan Perry), Sunday, 26 September 2004 18:37 (nineteen years ago) link
― dr do-good, Sunday, 26 September 2004 21:12 (nineteen years ago) link
verdict: CLASSIC!
― Bobby Peru (Bobby Peru), Tuesday, 5 April 2005 01:29 (nineteen years ago) link
― Curious George (1/6 Scale Model) (Rock Hardy), Tuesday, 5 April 2005 01:35 (nineteen years ago) link
― Tim Ellison (Tim Ellison), Tuesday, 5 April 2005 01:55 (nineteen years ago) link
― Ned Raggett (Ned), Tuesday, 5 April 2005 01:57 (nineteen years ago) link
― Rickey Wright (Rrrickey), Tuesday, 5 April 2005 03:23 (nineteen years ago) link
― Tim Ellison (Tim Ellison), Tuesday, 5 April 2005 05:08 (nineteen years ago) link
Some more Davy love: "You And I" called the star game what it was far more accurately than "So You Wanna Be a Rock & Roll Star."
Some more Mike love: "Carlisle Wheeling" is one of only 3 or 4 songs I will always always always know every every single word to.
Some more Micky love: His morning radio show here in NYC is occasionally humorous, at least when he's not being snarky to people asking him Monkees questions.
― Joseph McCombs (Joseph McCombs), Tuesday, 5 April 2005 07:05 (nineteen years ago) link
― debden, Tuesday, 5 April 2005 07:57 (nineteen years ago) link
Fairly easily one of the best things any of the Monkees ever did. That bridge is pretty astonishing.
― Eric H. (Eric H.), Tuesday, 5 April 2005 08:23 (nineteen years ago) link
― Dadaismus (Dada), Tuesday, 5 April 2005 09:44 (nineteen years ago) link
'Sometime In The Morning' perhaps?
― Dadaismus (Dada), Tuesday, 5 April 2005 09:46 (nineteen years ago) link
― debden, Tuesday, 5 April 2005 09:56 (nineteen years ago) link
― Dadaismus (Dada), Tuesday, 5 April 2005 09:57 (nineteen years ago) link
― Geir Hongro (GeirHong), Tuesday, 5 April 2005 10:01 (nineteen years ago) link
― Dadaismus (Dada), Tuesday, 5 April 2005 10:02 (nineteen years ago) link
― Geir Hongro (GeirHong), Tuesday, 5 April 2005 10:25 (nineteen years ago) link
Only classic as long as Davey sings lead. He was the one who managed to sound English. Mickey sounded like a fucking American country singer. The Monkees - like absolutely everybody else - were at their best when they sounded like The Beatles, like on their debut album.
― Geir Hongro (GeirHong), Tuesday, 5 April 2005 10:27 (nineteen years ago) link
― Dadaismus (Dada), Tuesday, 5 April 2005 10:33 (nineteen years ago) link
geir shouldn't you be looking for a white whale somewhere?
He was the one who managed to sound English.
that, almost creepily coincidentally, is cos he was english
Stephen Stills was a great guitarist, listen to Buffalo Springfield - it wasn't all Neil Young ya know!
i know buffalo springfield well, and i always thought of him as very competent, but lacking taste or focus, too prone to meandering and throwing out boringly weird counterintuition. Not something I'd say of the utterly direct and thrilling guitar lines in 'do i have to do this...'
― debden, Tuesday, 5 April 2005 11:31 (nineteen years ago) link
― Dadaismus (Dada), Tuesday, 5 April 2005 11:34 (nineteen years ago) link
speaking of which, i believe neil young plays (beautifully) on 'as we go along' from 'head'
― debden, Tuesday, 5 April 2005 11:37 (nineteen years ago) link
Although I imagine if one didn't necessarily read the fan mags or go to the concert or buy Instant Replay, one wouldn't know. Isn't it one of the brothers who asks about it?
― Precious, Grace, Hill & Beard LTD. (C. Grisso/McCain), Wednesday, 6 April 2022 16:50 (two years ago) link
Yeah, it was one of the brothers who probably didn't follow them that closely. It's very possible they just didn't find out that quickly in an analog world, which is one of the film's charms - I forgot how things were like pre-internet and cell phones.
― birdistheword, Wednesday, 6 April 2022 16:59 (two years ago) link
Yeah. It's wild to think about how slowly music news traveled stateside back then. Xgau has mentioned how his columns for Esquire had really long leads (like 3-5 months sometimes) before hitting newsstands.
― Precious, Grace, Hill & Beard LTD. (C. Grisso/McCain), Wednesday, 6 April 2022 17:09 (two years ago) link
LOL. Cameron Crowe would never make this mistake!
In Almost Famous there's a scene set in 1969 where Joni's Blue appears amongst Tommy and Axis: Bold As Love, among others. On the DVD commentary Crowe acknowledges that Blue came out two years later, but deliberately put it in the scene because he loves Joni Mitchell.
(But the version of the Who's "Sparks" that Lester Bangs yanks off a radio station turntable in 1973 wouldn't come out until 1995.)
― Montgomery Burns' Jazz (Tarfumes The Escape Goat), Wednesday, 6 April 2022 17:18 (two years ago) link
Ah k - well at least Blue was intentional and I can see how it was more important to include something like that, especially if it's a record his sister was handing down to her brother.
― birdistheword, Wednesday, 6 April 2022 17:35 (two years ago) link
https://www.oklahoman.com/story/news/1987/07/19/monkees-hits-make-fans-day/62683387007/
― Groovy Situation Vacant (James Redd and the Blecchs), Thursday, 19 May 2022 14:14 (two years ago) link
An unexpected development
Huh, Micky Dolenz, the lone surviving member of The Monkees, has lodged a FOIA lawsuit for FBI records related to the band. pic.twitter.com/MAYhKEwAGQ— Kyle Cheney (@kyledcheney) August 30, 2022
― Ned Raggett, Tuesday, 30 August 2022 15:06 (one year ago) link
Makes sense.
https://frinkiac.com/meme/S06E11/1001549.jpg?b64lines=IFRoZSBNb25rZWVzIHdlcmVuJ3QgYWJvdXQKIG11c2ljLCBNYXJnZS4gVGhleSB3ZXJlCiBhYm91dCByZWJlbGxpb24sIGFib3V0CiBwb2xpdGljYWwgYW5kIHNvY2lhbAogdXBoZWF2YWwh
― birdistheword, Tuesday, 30 August 2022 15:11 (one year ago) link
I am having problems getting past George Michael Dolenz Jr
― castanuts (DJP), Tuesday, 30 August 2022 15:11 (one year ago) link
Somebody told meThe FBI wantsWhat the FBI needs
― Ned Raggett, Tuesday, 30 August 2022 15:27 (one year ago) link
Trying and failing to stop imagining him singing “I Want Your Sex”
The giggles are incapacitating
― castanuts (DJP), Tuesday, 30 August 2022 15:29 (one year ago) link
And the wounded skies aboveSay it's much, too much, too lateWell, maybe we should all be praying for FOIA
― Ned Raggett, Tuesday, 30 August 2022 15:29 (one year ago) link
xpost Someone needs to see Head!'Quiet, isn't it, George Michael Dolenz?'Blew my mind the first time, for sure.
― Beautiful Bean Footage Fetishist (Old Lunch), Tuesday, 30 August 2022 15:47 (one year ago) link
I will file a FOIA lawsuitPut your documents with mineAdd me to the docket, poppetPencil me in any timeI will file a FOIA lawsuitI am guilty of no crimeI will be restoring my good name‘Til the end ofTime
― castanuts (DJP), Tuesday, 30 August 2022 15:53 (one year ago) link
Daydream Subpoena
― Doctor Casino, Tuesday, 30 August 2022 17:24 (one year ago) link
I Wanna Be Free (From FBI Scrutiny)
― an icon of a worried-looking, long-haired, bespectacled man (C. Grisso/McCain), Tuesday, 30 August 2022 18:59 (one year ago) link
What Are The FBI Doing Hangin' Round?
― Buckfast At Tiffany's (Tom D.), Tuesday, 30 August 2022 19:08 (one year ago) link
Listen to the Band (Using Covert Surveillance Devices)
― Buckfast At Tiffany's (Tom D.), Tuesday, 30 August 2022 19:10 (one year ago) link
Look Out (Here Comes COINTELPRO)
― Montgomery Burns' Jazz (Tarfumes The Escape Goat), Tuesday, 30 August 2022 19:11 (one year ago) link
Habeas Corpus Song
― Doctor Casino, Tuesday, 30 August 2022 21:41 (one year ago) link
Gonna Bug Me a Dog
― Buckfast At Tiffany's (Tom D.), Tuesday, 30 August 2022 22:23 (one year ago) link
lol
― Doctor Casino, Tuesday, 30 August 2022 22:29 (one year ago) link
Ladies FBI Society
― an icon of a worried-looking, long-haired, bespectacled man (C. Grisso/McCain), Tuesday, 30 August 2022 23:26 (one year ago) link
Last Train to Quantico
― immodesty blaise (jimbeaux), Tuesday, 30 August 2022 23:33 (one year ago) link
"Mary, Mary (Why ya buggin?)"
― Hongro Hongro Hippies (Myonga Vön Bontee), Wednesday, 31 August 2022 00:52 (one year ago) link