The Monkees: Classic or Dud?

Anyway, back to the question - Classic, of course. My favourites would have to be Headquarters (You Just Might Be The One/Shades Of Grey/For Pete's Sake/Early Morning Blues and Greens), and PAC+J (Salesman, Door Into Summer, Pleasant Valley Sunday, What Am I Doin'..), but I love virtually everything they did.

Favorite Monkee : Micky Dolenz.

there's a wicked davy jones can't dance thread on the "i hate everything" board, by the way.

"As We Go Along" is so perfect it almost makes me swoon, particularly when coupled with the footage from "Head" of Peter walking into the snow. Even after Nesmith and Tork had left they could still achieve moments like "Ticket on a Ferry Ride", a shivering, crestfallen lament that matches up to anything from the early years. In between was a lot of fun and possibly too many syrupy Jones ballads.

the Monkees are everything!

yes, but I can't remember which was recorded first.

Pool it!

Secret fantastic Monkee's song: "Your Auntie Griselda". How many Peter songs are there, anyway?

Davy hataz need to listen to "Early Morning Blues and Greens" ..
..My steaming coffe warms my face/ I'm disappointed in the taste ...

..but in general, yeah, I fuckin' hated Davy Jones. Mickey & Mike were the band...

fritz you forgot: mike nesmith's mum invented tippex

The 33 1/3 Revolutions Per Monkee documentary was a trip.

And if you haven't heard "Zor and Zam" - from "The Birds The Bees & The Monkees" - do so at once. They do a SPOT-ON imitation of "White Rabbit" by Jefferson Airplane, and Dave (I believe it's him singing it) sounds so much like Grace Slick it's scarey. Shivers are sent to my spine just thinking of it.

1) What Am I Doing Hangin' Round?
2) Daydream Believer
3) Sometime in the Morning
4) Love Is Only Sleeping
5) Look Out Here Comes Tomorrow

Classic of course (apart from "Listen to the Band")

The TV show was cack, though.

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?)

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.

The Monkees: Classic or Dead?

This river scene is getting old
I’m hungry, sleepy, wet and cold

https://monkees.coolcherrycream.com/articles/1968/02/hullabaloo/how-a-record-is-made

The grass is always greener
Growing on the other side

https://www.rollingstone.com/music/music-news/michael-nesmith-monkees-last-interview-final-tour-micky-dolenz-1278666/amp/

Just saw that and came to post. Good stuff.

Yesterday was the birthday of Aquarius, I mean Norman MailerPeter Tork.

And today is the anniversary of the day Chip Douglas arranged "Happy Together" for The Turtles.

As We Go Along is such a beaut. Mickey slays on this. I’m surprised there aren’t more covers of this

Take the sound collages out and Head may well be the best EP of all time.

otm (on the monkees)

Keep seeing reminders that it's Micky's birthday today.

Mickey along with Coco and some others rehearsing "Valleri" in a tiny cruise ship room: https://www.facebook.com/watch?v=499444991737376

Aargh. Micky.

This footage popped up in the new Linklater:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s3iMP0SFIqA

As does a Monkees LP on the <SUNDAZED> label. I really hoped somebody got fired for that blunder.

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WIthout clicking, looks like they are singing "Nine TImes Blue."

I'm watching Richard Linklater's new rotoscoped film Apollo 10 1/2 - which I'm enjoying a lot - and something unintentionally funny happens about 55 minutes from the end. One of the characters puts on a Monkees record...and the label says "Sundazed," a modern day reissue label, not one that existed in the '60s. So I guess when they shot the movie, the art or props department bought a Sundazed reissue thinking nothing of it, and then the animators rotoscoped that reissue label.

Ahhh, I really need to scroll up before I post...C. Grisso/McCain caught it.

Even funnier is thst one of the other records one of the sisters handles is the first Souther Hillman Furay Band album, a dollar-bin staple released in the mid-'70s.

Furay's Buffalo Springfield buddy Neil sittin' in:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nvN6LA0dCQs

LOL. Cameron Crowe would never make this mistake!

(But Linklater's a far better filmmaker and the movie's highly entertaining so I'll let it slide.)

Ahhh, I really need to scroll up before I post...C. Grisso/McCain caught it.

― birdistheword, Tuesday, April 5, 2022 8:10 PM

I'm glad you did, because now I understand what "the new Linklater" refers to. I also assume that the Cash show episode came after the movie's period, correct?

The core of the film takes place in 1969, so the Cash episode should be correct in terms of the period. (They also make a reference to Tork's departure, with the narrator asking "why is there only three of them?")

It's a really good film, FWIW. On paper, I thought it was going to be Linklater remakes The Wonder Years but that does a huge disservice to what he's done. It's deceptively light, but it really is about pop culture, growing awareness and shared, ephemeral experiences - themes that run through a lot of his best work. It never devolves into self-involved or self-pitying nostalgia.

In the YouTube description they say it was filmed in Nashville on May 6th (two days after the Monkees played in Houston, where much of the Linklater film takes place), and aired on July 19th.

The weird thing about the kids wondering why there were only three of them is that the group had already put out its first trio album in February.

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?

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.

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.

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.)

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.

https://www.oklahoman.com/story/news/1987/07/19/monkees-hits-make-fans-day/62683387007/

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

Makes sense.

https://frinkiac.com/meme/S06E11/1001549.jpg?b64lines=IFRoZSBNb25rZWVzIHdlcmVuJ3QgYWJvdXQKIG11c2ljLCBNYXJnZS4gVGhleSB3ZXJlCiBhYm91dCByZWJlbGxpb24sIGFib3V0CiBwb2xpdGljYWwgYW5kIHNvY2lhbAogdXBoZWF2YWwh

I am having problems getting past George Michael Dolenz Jr

Somebody told me
The FBI wants
What the FBI needs

Trying and failing to stop imagining him singing “I Want Your Sex”

The giggles are incapacitating

And the wounded skies above
Say it's much, too much, too late
Well, maybe we should all be praying for FOIA

xpost Someone needs to see Head!

'Quiet, isn't it, George Michael Dolenz?'

Blew my mind the first time, for sure.

I will file a FOIA lawsuit
Put your documents with mine
Add me to the docket, poppet
Pencil me in any time
I will file a FOIA lawsuit
I am guilty of no crime
I will be restoring my good name
‘Til the end of
Time

Daydream Subpoena

I Wanna Be Free (From FBI Scrutiny)

What Are The FBI Doing Hangin' Round?

Listen to the Band (Using Covert Surveillance Devices)

Look Out (Here Comes COINTELPRO)

Habeas Corpus Song

Gonna Bug Me a Dog

lol

Ladies FBI Society

Last Train to Quantico

"Mary, Mary (Why ya buggin?)"