Review of "The Monkees"

The Monkees

Pop

LA

http://www.monkees.net

60s Bubblegum

fun pop!

pop used to be so good! "the monkees are the marx brothers of music."

Nick At Nite

Come on, admit it. You watched their TV show. You've sung along with them. It's ok to say it. You like the Monkees. ;)

The Pre-Fab Four

It's a label meant in disgust but I embrace it. Imitation = Flattery and all. They are America's Beatles and I love them.

The fairest boy band of all!

"Last Train to Clarksville" is the dancin'est song I ever did hear at the tender age of four. Also, Peter Tork went to my old high school and I was friends with his nephew...okay, now that I'm done bragging, the Monkees are cute and happy and catchy and fun.

Peter Tork... Rock GOD!

Add the steady (albeit WEIRD) Mickey Dolenz, the "cute one" Davy Jones, and Mike (the Danny Wood of the group, I suppose)... you have the first boy band! It's the formula in 1960's form! I've loved the Monkees ever since I first heard them. You will too. Look for Pool It, it'll be a collector's piece someday. Mark my words.

see, i think wool hat was the pinnacle of the group.

AND he's the heir to the liquid paper fortune. AND he had the first hit solo album after the monkees parted ways. i mean, come on now. mike nesmith. rock PROPHET.

So what if they didn't write there own songs!

Nobody says anything about the Beatles not Writing "Yellow Submarine" (But then again if you wrote that song would you brag about it? I mean They let Ringo sing! But I digress....) The Monkees were the first Record lable put together bye a record lable (Like Backstreet Boys and N*Sync) However they became more than bubble gum in the fact that they tryed to over come the control of the record lable and will eternally remebered as the American Beatles!

They suck.

Play magic fingers! Yee ha!

Um- actually the Beatles *did* write Yellow Submarine. But I digress. From one of the only white guys to pull off an Afro, a "country in a cool way" guy, to the god of alternate tuesdays and of course the guy who goes to the bathroom-- the Monkees has it all. Definitely underrated

tvland, baby!! i have loved the monkees ever since the first time that i heard them and i loved their tv show!! "as we go along" (from the HEAD soundtrack) has to be the dreamiest song ever and MICKY sings it!! AHHHHHHHHHHH!!

60s Bubblegum

So what if they didn't play their own instruments on the first two LPs -- this band's 'Headquarters' LP was #2 in 1967 (if those damn Beatles didn't release 'Sgt Pepper' they would've been #1!) Watch their movie 'Head' to see many cameos including Jack Nicholson, Teri Garr and Toni Basil (yes of 'Mickey' fame).

can you dig it?

BOW DOWN BEFORE THE GENIUS OF PETER TORK!!

goofy, fun, and their series was campy but at the same time ripped on corporate BS much as we like to today. YEAH!

Under-frigging-rated. Four unique individuals who were not only part of an irreverent comedy show, but also collaborated on a hundred or so terrific songs. Who cares if they were assembled by a TV studio? Does it really matter how a band is put together, as long as the output is good? How many other bands could successfully lump pop, folk, country, psychedlia, theater, and rock all onto one album? (Of course, I'm sure Moxy Fruvous fans could think of at least one, heheh.) A mix of clever young TV producers, top-notch songwriters, and four talented actors/musicians in their own right. An essential element of music history that, even now, still deserves a little more credit.