How about some love for the Monkees

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I know their show was silly, ridiculous and immature. I know they are the first fabricated band. I know the bulk of their material was written and recorded by others but did they ever have some good songs. 60's pop at it's finest.

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I agree. Their best songs were pure pop goodness. They don't have the cool factor, but "they" (the entire production that went into the Monkees) made some fantastically catchy songs.
 
The Mokees suffered a great deal from their Teeny Bopper image. Davy Jones wanting to dance to all his sugar-coated songs didn't help either
 
Davey Jones comes from my home town, as does Myra Hindley.
Both within spitting distance.

But then again, so does Pete Shelley. :)

Davey Jones is a music criminal.
No love here.
 
Of course I dig the Monkees! They were dad's idol as a kid and some of that stuff passed down into me. I have their debut, 4 disc greatest hits, and their pepper's rip off.
 
Only their first two albums were written and instrumentally performed by others. They had a nuraber of albums after those two that they did as a real band. Several of them very good.
 
They only did, what, 5 albums? i had the first 4. i was in luv with Peter Tork ~ even if he was a "dork!" (That's how we schoolgirls teased each other)
 
On the first 2 albums (Monkees, More Of The Monkees) Mike Nesmith was allowed to play but on their third album "Headquarters" the Monkees played and produced everything with the help of Chip Douglas. They released 3 more albums (Pisces, Aquarius, Capricorn & Jones, The BirRAB, The Bees And The Monkees, Head) with the music being split between the Monkees and studio musicians. After this Peter Tork left the group and Monkees released 2 albums (Instant Replay, Present) without him. By 1970 Mike Nesmith left the group and Micky Dolenz and Davey Jones released a horrible album under the Monkees name titled "Changes".
 
Yeah, that was so sad becasue i think Mike Nesbitt (whose Mom invented Post-Its, FTW!!!) started out to be a serious musician, and did care deeply about it.

But

he sold out any talent he had for buck$.

Oh, well, between his career and his Mom's invention, he'll live happily ever after, i expect.
 
His mom invented liquid paper which Michael didn't see any of that money until the death of his mom after his Monkees career. Nesmith left the Monkees because he wanted to pursue his own style of music and his solo albums are well liked by the critics. Don't forget Nesmith also won a huge settlement against MTV when they used a lot of his ideas in his movie "Elephant Parts"
 
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