i've been reading nesmith's new memoir called "infinite tuesday: an autobiographical riff" which gives you a pretty good idea of the tone/self-importance contained within
― na (NA), Thursday, 11 May 2017 14:30 (seven years ago) link
Glenn Tilbrook from Squeeze was on Iain Lee's radio show the other night where he said he's been asked to write a song for the next Monkees album
― PaulTMA, Thursday, 11 May 2017 21:54 (seven years ago) link
oh my god
― maura, Friday, 12 May 2017 14:52 (seven years ago) link
― Trelayne Staley (James Redd and the Blecchs), Friday, 12 May 2017 15:12 (seven years ago) link
i don't know, i'm not gonna read that shit.it's not as good as the recent mike love autobio. it's very light on actual stories, especially about the monkees. actually it's pretty bad overall.
― na (NA), Friday, 12 May 2017 15:33 (seven years ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U1KE2gEEYdI
this Instant Replay cut is bonkers, it sounds like Mickey Dolenz spent a lost weekend massively stoned listening to Piper at the Gates of Dawn on repeat. going back to the conversation we were having itt in january, i'd love to read a book about studio pros and bubblegum craftspersons in the late 60s/early 70s struggling to decide what to do with all this bizarre and dissonant nonsense. see also: Trippy Country-tinged Pop with AM radio hooks from the late sixties to mid-seventies
― Doctor Casino, Friday, 27 October 2017 02:50 (six years ago) link
it sounds like Mickey Dolenz spent a lost weekend massively stoned listening to Piper at the Gates of Dawn on repeat.
It's very likely hed I'd exactly this
― Moodles, Friday, 27 October 2017 14:00 (six years ago) link
*he did
either way
― my dreams in the hell-pits (GOTT PUNCH II HAWKWINDZ), Wednesday, 24 January 2018 02:30 (six years ago) link
With Sherman Hemsley?
― Who put all those zings in your thread? (James Redd and the Blecchs), Wednesday, 24 January 2018 02:33 (six years ago) link
"as we go along" is a treat
― reggie (qualmsley), Saturday, 18 August 2018 21:58 (five years ago) link
Head soundtrack one of the best rock albums of the 60s imo
― 21st savagery fox (m bison), Sunday, 19 August 2018 02:32 (five years ago) link
Ah man, sad news that Peter Tork has passed on:
https://variety.com/2019/music/people-news/peter-tork-the-monkees-dies-dead-1203144914/
― Ned Raggett, Thursday, 21 February 2019 17:15 (five years ago) link
Oh no, RIP Pete ;_;
― Wee boats wobble but they don't fall down (Tom D.), Thursday, 21 February 2019 18:02 (five years ago) link
He was my favorite from the show, which I haven't seen since I was in elementary school, but still.
― ☮ (peace, man), Thursday, 21 February 2019 18:22 (five years ago) link
They were all my favourites, apart from Davy Jones.
― Wee boats wobble but they don't fall down (Tom D.), Thursday, 21 February 2019 18:23 (five years ago) link
Nez's thoughts...
https://www.facebook.com/michaelnesmith/posts/10157204684445116
And a short post from Mickey
https://www.facebook.com/poplustforlife/posts/149419906083129
― Ned Raggett, Thursday, 21 February 2019 18:31 (five years ago) link
well, this is depressing.
― affects breves telnet (Gummy Gummy), Thursday, 21 February 2019 20:26 (five years ago) link
:( RIP
― Jeff W, Thursday, 21 February 2019 21:06 (five years ago) link
Ah, hell. And to think I was pleased to see this thread bumped. RIP, buddy.
Really need to finish writing my fake Pool It! 33 1/3 so at least one of them is still alive to sue me.
― St. Boniface, patron saint of boner faces (Old Lunch), Thursday, 21 February 2019 23:45 (five years ago) link
RIP
― Bee OK, Friday, 22 February 2019 00:46 (five years ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fzMWdDBaqHk
rip big man
― you know who deserves sitewide mod privileges? (m bison), Friday, 22 February 2019 00:54 (five years ago) link
I didn't see the show much or at all as a child, but the Monkees have meant a great deal to me at least since I was about 16. There was never a very long period where they didn't factor into my life in significant ways. I'm very sorry to see Peter go.
― timellison, Friday, 22 February 2019 04:37 (five years ago) link
I like the Peter Tork advice columns that I've seen - would be interested to see more:
Ask Peter Tork
― Luna Schlosser, Sunday, 24 February 2019 12:45 (five years ago) link
In this Twitter thread, we celebrate The Monkees and talk about our favorite Monkees songs— DJP (@djperry1973) January 16, 2020
― totally unnecessary bewbz of exploitation (DJP), Thursday, 16 January 2020 20:18 (four years ago) link
pretty excellent selection there. oddly, i've had both "you just may be the one" and "she hangs out" in my head on and off the last few days.
― Doctor Casino, Thursday, 16 January 2020 20:26 (four years ago) link
Listened to Pleasant Valley Sunday first thing this morning
― Mario Meatwagon (Moodles), Thursday, 16 January 2020 20:56 (four years ago) link
Happy birthday to Davy Jones and Mike Nesmith! My basic list drawn from a CD-R I burned in the early '00s.
― Patriotic Goiter (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Wednesday, 30 December 2020 13:08 (three years ago) link
Has there ever been an Artists Poll on the Monkees? I'd definitely be up for that. Not sure how many other hardcore Monkees' fans there are on ILX these days though.
― Eggbreak Hotel (Tom D.), Wednesday, 30 December 2020 13:15 (three years ago) link
The participants list might just come down to a little bit me, a little bit you.
― Doctor Casino, Wednesday, 30 December 2020 13:32 (three years ago) link
I guess I'm medium-core inasmuch as I know the OG four-piece albums (and, erm, Pool It!) like the back of my hand and have seen Head more times than I can count. Recently heard some decent singles from their trio/duo years which encouraged me to check out those albums.
I was shockingly old when I learned that Davy and Mike share a birthday.
― Telly Salivas (Old Lunch), Wednesday, 30 December 2020 13:32 (three years ago) link
actually, scrolling up, this thread has a lot of still-active names! idk maybe worth a go?
― Doctor Casino, Wednesday, 30 December 2020 13:33 (three years ago) link
I could make a Top 10 easy (and I've voted in a number of polls where I submitted a list with less than 10 songs). Going back to DJP's original post, while I don't agree they surpassed the Beatles in any department, I do agree there was some kind of genius at work there (just in the songs? something more). And they even had their own imitators! (The Five Americans' "Western Union," the Move's "Wave the Flag and Stop the Train," the Lewis and Clarke Expedition's "Destination Unknown," no doubt others.) Found this cover on a country compilation I bought a couple of weeks ago:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=11F2PW8lcEk
― clemenza, Wednesday, 30 December 2020 14:32 (three years ago) link
It's kind of amazing how solid all the albums are. They're much more than the sum of their considerable hits.
― Josh in Chicago, Wednesday, 30 December 2020 14:35 (three years ago) link
It was the Missing Links compilations that turned me into a Monkee Nut, the sheer amount of good material that was never released is really remarkable.
― Eggbreak Hotel (Tom D.), Wednesday, 30 December 2020 14:56 (three years ago) link
I'd certainly vote, mostly for album tracks.
I haven't heard the outtakes but would investigate any which received a lot of acclaim.
― Halfway there but for you, Wednesday, 30 December 2020 15:00 (three years ago) link
I assume this cover is common knowledge (unless it's not?) but I was just listening to Taj Mahal last night.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lHbZapq69xQ
― Three Rings for the Elven Bishop (Dan Peterson), Wednesday, 30 December 2020 15:22 (three years ago) link
I was looking at the list of records from Critic's Choice: Top 200 Albums, an early example of an all-time record poll published in 1978. Number 58 is Michael Nesmith - And The Hits Just Keep On Comin'. It's pretty difficult to imagine this on any individual's all-time list now, much less a collective one (although I bet someone will inform me that it's an all-time, must-hear classic).
― Halfway there but for you, Wednesday, 30 December 2020 15:34 (three years ago) link
It's very good!
― Eggbreak Hotel (Tom D.), Wednesday, 30 December 2020 15:40 (three years ago) link
"Take a Giant Step" would be a contender for my #1.
― clemenza, Wednesday, 30 December 2020 15:44 (three years ago) link
I have the Gambaccini book with Nesmith at #58; for what it's worth, there weren't many voters, and I think it got there on the basis of a single #1 vote (John Tobler).
― clemenza, Wednesday, 30 December 2020 15:47 (three years ago) link
Makes sense, it's just a record I would associate with "here's an interesting oddity you may have overlooked" rather than "bow ye before this canonical work".
I suppose it's a similar situation that put Genevieve Waite - Romance Is On The Rise at number 98.
― Halfway there but for you, Wednesday, 30 December 2020 15:53 (three years ago) link
Same thing, yeah. That was probably the most fascinating thing for me when I first bought the book; all these weird albums I'd never heard of at the time that got in there via a single vote. (Other examples: David Ackles Dory Previn, John Phillips, Huey Smith.)
― clemenza, Wednesday, 30 December 2020 16:00 (three years ago) link
I might participate in a POLL.
― Dog Heavy Manners (James Redd and the Blecchs), Wednesday, 30 December 2020 17:06 (three years ago) link
i could do a ballot. would also be interested in the results of a solo career / side project poll.
― budo jeru, Wednesday, 30 December 2020 17:16 (three years ago) link
i will submit a ballot on my wife’s behalf since she is a monkees superfan
― trans-panda express (m bison), Wednesday, 30 December 2020 17:23 (three years ago) link
I interviewed Dwight Yoakam years ago, and just dug out this nugget about the influence the Monkees had on him:
And Michael Nesmith, interestingly enough. The Monkees. Michael Nesmith wrote “Different Drum,” which Linda Rondstadt had her first hit with. And Michael Nesmith is a transplanted Texan who also had his own solo albums that I was a fan of, that served as an inspiration point. In my teens, to illustrate how country music was pertinent, he had an album with two top ten hits. One was called “Joanne” (sings) “Her name was Joanne, and she lived in a meadow by a farm…” Anyway, there’s another one called “Standing In The Light of the Silver Moon.” So there are things as disparate as one of the guys from the Monkees that influenced country rock and influenced me, ultimately.
― Josh in Chicago, Wednesday, 30 December 2020 17:30 (three years ago) link
Solo career is pretty pointless as Nesmith's solo career dwarfs every one else's in terms of quantity and quality.
― Eggbreak Hotel (Tom D.), Wednesday, 30 December 2020 17:35 (three years ago) link
Yeah, that's what I figured.
― Dog Heavy Manners (James Redd and the Blecchs), Wednesday, 30 December 2020 17:38 (three years ago) link
Would anyone vote for any Monkees song post-1968? I don't know that material and have not been very curious.
― Halfway there but for you, Wednesday, 30 December 2020 17:39 (three years ago) link