― mark grout (mark grout), Tuesday, 5 April 2005 12:33 (nineteen years ago) link
― dave225 (Dave225), Tuesday, 5 April 2005 12:51 (nineteen years ago) link
― mark grout (mark grout), Tuesday, 5 April 2005 12:54 (nineteen years ago) link
― Tim Ellison (Tim Ellison), Tuesday, 5 April 2005 14:45 (nineteen years ago) link
― Tim Ellison (Tim Ellison), Tuesday, 5 April 2005 14:46 (nineteen years ago) link
― Schwip Schwap (schwip schwap), Tuesday, 5 April 2005 14:47 (nineteen years ago) link
― Dadaismus (Dada), Tuesday, 5 April 2005 14:57 (nineteen years ago) link
Pete would have to be Phoebe, from the ditziness to the enviro-awareness.
Davy is Rachel: all body, no brains
Mike's the hardest to pinpoint, I guess he combined Ross's intelligensia defensiveness with Monica's pedantry.
― Joseph McCombs (Joseph McCombs), Tuesday, 5 April 2005 15:26 (nineteen years ago) link
WCBS in New York, from 6:00 to 10:00. I think AOL streams it online as well.
P.S. Among Stephen Stills' other talents: he played percussion on the Bee Gees' "You Should Be Dancing," I'm told.
P.P.S. Among the great songs the Monkees wrote themselves: "Sweet Young Thing," "Randy Scouse Git," "For Pete's Sake," "... All Over Again," "You and I," "Mommy and Daddy," "Bye Bye Baby Bye Bye," "Good Clean Fun," "Tapioca Tundra," and "The Girl I Knew Somewhere" (to POX).
― Joseph McCombs (Joseph McCombs), Tuesday, 5 April 2005 15:31 (nineteen years ago) link
― mark grout (mark grout), Tuesday, 5 April 2005 15:33 (nineteen years ago) link
― Dadaismus (Dada), Tuesday, 5 April 2005 15:41 (nineteen years ago) link
― carly (carly), Tuesday, 5 April 2005 15:51 (nineteen years ago) link
"Goin' Down"'s lyrics were written by Diane Hildebrand, as confirmed by Micky recently (though the music was their reinvention of "Parchment Farm" and Micky's masterful delivery of those tongue-twisting lines deserves loads of credit).
― Joseph McCombs (Joseph McCombs), Tuesday, 5 April 2005 15:52 (nineteen years ago) link
― Dadaismus (Dada), Tuesday, 5 April 2005 15:53 (nineteen years ago) link
― Curious George (1/6 Scale Model) (Rock Hardy), Tuesday, 5 April 2005 16:17 (nineteen years ago) link
― kyle (akmonday), Tuesday, 5 April 2005 18:13 (nineteen years ago) link
― Ken L (Ken L), Tuesday, 5 April 2005 18:15 (nineteen years ago) link
-- Joseph McCombs (jmccomb...) (webmail), April 5th, 2005 4:52 PM. (link)
Ah, right. I remember seeing thison the end of one of the Monkees' shows and thinking "That's surely after the fact" but no it wasa b-side of "A little bit me" if i rem....
― mark grout (mark grout), Tuesday, 5 April 2005 18:17 (nineteen years ago) link
"Goin' Down""Pleasant Valley Sunday" (still fucking relevant)"Mary, Mary"
Destroy:"That Was Then, This Is Now"The New Monkees
― Tantrum The Cat (Tantrum The Cat), Tuesday, 5 April 2005 18:37 (nineteen years ago) link
― Myonga Von Bontee (Myonga Von Bontee), Tuesday, 5 April 2005 19:21 (nineteen years ago) link
― The Ghost of Dan Perry (Dan Perry), Tuesday, 5 April 2005 19:25 (nineteen years ago) link
― The Ghost of Dan Perry (Dan Perry), Tuesday, 5 April 2005 19:38 (nineteen years ago) link
P.S. to Mr. Grout - "Goin' Down" was the B-side to "Daydream Believer." The B-side of "A Little Bit Me" was "The Girl I Knew Somewhere."
And if I ever see a karaoke bar with "Goin' Down," fuck if I'm not gonna try it.
― Joseph McCombs (Joseph McCombs), Tuesday, 5 April 2005 20:43 (nineteen years ago) link
― mark grout (mark grout), Tuesday, 5 April 2005 21:32 (nineteen years ago) link
― j blount (papa la bas), Wednesday, 6 April 2005 00:08 (nineteen years ago) link
― Tim Ellison (Tim Ellison), Wednesday, 6 April 2005 02:22 (nineteen years ago) link
I would love to hear someone pull that off - that's a fucking tongue twister.
SOCK IT TO ME!
― Tantrum The Cat (Tantrum The Cat), Wednesday, 6 April 2005 14:51 (nineteen years ago) link
I am puzzled by Ewing upthread saying that the Monkees invented everything.
― the pinefox, Monday, 31 October 2005 13:55 (eighteen years ago) link
― The Ghost of Black Elegance (Dan Perry), Monday, 31 October 2005 14:07 (eighteen years ago) link
― k/l (Ken L), Monday, 31 October 2005 14:37 (eighteen years ago) link
...up there with the finest Pinefoxian pronouncements!
― Dr C, Monday, 31 October 2005 16:15 (eighteen years ago) link
"The Girl I Knew Somewhere" is indeed of the gods.
― Ned Raggett (Ned), Monday, 31 October 2005 16:28 (eighteen years ago) link
― Jam (1020am), Monday, 31 October 2005 20:00 (eighteen years ago) link
― the finefox, Tuesday, 1 November 2005 13:52 (eighteen years ago) link
― Oh No, It's Dadaismus (Dada), Tuesday, 1 November 2005 13:55 (eighteen years ago) link
― 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