• Hegemone said on Jun 05, 2009....

  Yeah they are pretty good, I laugh when I hear about these guys because when I was little I used to always get the Monkees and the Beatles mixed up.

• queenparanoia said on Jun 05, 2009....

  hegemone: you know they do sound alike... ;-)

• fragglesrock said on Jun 05, 2009....

  qp i have a friend who followed the monkees around on tour, absolutely monkee crazy!

• MsBradford07 said on Jun 05, 2009....

  I don't know.

• buckrogers said on Jun 05, 2009....

  The music in this country has deterioated like all qualities of life have in this country, especially music. But the Monkeys are better than most of what you hear today, at least they carry somewhat of a melody. Most of the music created today is nothing more the various forms of noise. I go to the fitness center only to be captured in a noise tunnel, playing all of the songs I never wanted to hear. All modern music does is injure the ears. For the sake of saving your hearing, shut off the noise, or whatever they call music today.

• wombat said on Jun 05, 2009....

  I used to be nutso about Davy!  I was about 12 when they were first around.  I used to ride my bicycle to the store and buy bubble gum attatched to a few cards like baseball cards.  They had different pictures and maybe some info on each card about each Monkey.  They had a tv show, too.  I had forgotten about that until just now!

   

  Thanks for posting the tunes!

• mOOn_platOOn said on Jun 05, 2009....

  O
   
  The Monkees were created by TV producers to ride The Beatles' wave of success. Two of them weren't even musicians when they started the series. The drummer had been a child actor on a TV series called "Circus Boy."
   
  They have 3 or 4 memorable songs that I still hum today, but they were absoultely nothing like The Beatles (musicians who wrote their own songs) and the sound is only similar if you are talking about recording technology of the time. The Monkees had nothing like George Harrison for lead guitar.
   
  The Monkees were made by committee, The Beatles came out of reality and then were taken over by committee (and Yoko). The Monkees could never have done Sgt. Pepper or Yellow Submarine or The White Album.
   
  You should see the movies Help! and A Hard Day's Night for some fun times.
   
  O

• hotaka said on Jun 05, 2009....

  I used to watch reruns of their shows when I was a kid. I actually always liked them but never bought any of their CDs. I might have to do something about that. I think their music would be fun to listen to with  MiniHot in the car.
  
  As for why they don't make music like this anymore... I could ask that about a lot of older music. But somethings are best left as classics instead of driven into the ground with recycling.
  

• travelr712 said on Jun 05, 2009....

  the monkees were a creation of the television production company screen gems and columbia records. they were put together for their television show, and weren't allowed to play the music in their first season or their first 2 albums, and all of those songs were written by other people. peter tork quit in 1969, and that was the end of the band. mike nesmith left in 1970, and in 1971, mickey dolenz and davey jones lost the rights to continue using the monkees name. wikipedia has a good article on the band should you care to read it.

• travelr712 said on Jun 05, 2009....

  interestingly enough, it was the beatles' film 'a hard day's night' that inspired the original developers to create the series about the fictional group.

• queenparanoia said on Jun 05, 2009....

  fraggles: davey jones is actually having a concert here in the phiippines! i dont know if were gonna watch though...

  msbradford; i guess music is different nowadays...

  buckrogers: youre  right most of the music nowadays are nose...lol although i listen to them... it's just refreshing to hear something like this... ;-)

  wombat: i guess davy was the justin timberlake of your time???lol.... ;-)

  moon: the beatles is my favorite band of all time so dont worry. i'm a beatle fan forever... ;-)

  hotaka; ohhhhhh baby hotcake would love the songs!!! i know that for sure!!! growing up my dad always made us listen to this kind of music that's why i like it... ;-)

  trav: thanks for the info... ;-)

• wombat said on Jun 05, 2009....

  "Cool" was just becomming into fashion then.  I grew up on "I Love Lucy."  When we got long-haired guys and girls going ga-ga over them.....well.......a new generation of living was born.

  We women jumped onto looking at the opposite sex as fun. (not just as a partner in domestics)

  Well, that's how I see it.

  (Lucy got spanked by Ricky, and not in a good way)

• queenparanoia said on Jun 05, 2009....

  wombat: we still do that in my generation wombie.... i mean look at the jonas brothers!!!! lol... ;-)

• wombat said on Jun 05, 2009....

   People of my generation do not look at the "jonas brothers."

  We just look back.

  But the only thing about change is that it never changes.

  Blog (and rock) on!!!!!!!!

• queenparanoia said on Jun 05, 2009....

  wombie: youre too funny wombie... ;-)

• destinydiva said on Jun 06, 2009....

  
  aww the monkees!! these used to have a tv show when I was little I'm sure they did, I loved them!!!  I love I'm a believer too, let me see if I can find the programme, the start song was cool...wahey were the monkeeeeeees and we just monkey around.....cus were to busy singing...to put anybody down.... wahey were the monkeeeees!!   (or something like that anyways ) :-) xxx
  
  

• destinydiva said on Jun 06, 2009....

  trav I just read your comment, interesting stuff :-)
  

• destinydiva said on Jun 06, 2009....

  ooh and moons...  geez I need to read..then comment :-)  {{note to self}}

• scipio said on Jun 06, 2009....

  Interesting. They were the hit of those wonderful times. After all it's the music that matters.  These songs will be played by generations to come ...

• queenparanoia said on Jun 06, 2009....

  destinydiva: thanks for sharing the video!!! ;-)

  scipio: i totally i agree... i found many artist singing their songs nowadays... ;-)

• Freedom♥ said on Jun 08, 2009....

  Good music :)   I'm absolutely obsessed with the entire 60's generation, like the whole counter-culture thing.   I live by Jimi Hendrix and John Lennon :P   I've only heard two Monkees songs, the hits, but they are awesome.  Music should be more about emotion like it was back then.

• mOOn_platOOn said on Jun 08, 2009....

  O
   
  Destiny -
   
  Here we come
  Walkin' down the street
  We get the funniest looks from
  Everyone we meet
  Hey hey we're the Monkees
  And people say we monkey around
  But we're too busy singin'
  To put anybody down....
   
  I would have loved to hear The Beatles cover Daydream Believer - it would be so punchier!!!!!
   
  O

• queenparanoia said on Jun 08, 2009....

  freedom: i totally agree... ;-)

   

• hotaka said on Jun 09, 2009....

  OK. I ordered a 4-CD set of Monkees music. All the songs I could remember are on there plus tons of stuff I probably never heard watching the TV show. I think I'll make a CD mix of the best driving songs for MiniHot. I wonder if he'll like Aunty Grazelda...?

• queenparanoia said on Jun 09, 2009....

  hotaka: i'm sure he'll like it... ;-)

• hotaka said on Jun 10, 2009....

  Last night I read the Wikipedia article about the Monkees. It was very interesting. In a nutshell, the Monkees as they were intended to be failed - they became a real band. But the troubles they endured. The cuteness of the TV show belies the truth. The music should be interesting.

• queenparanoia said on Jun 10, 2009....

  hotaka: thanks for sharing that info hotaka... ;-)

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