What? No "Pleasant Valley Sunday"?
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mollyringleVH-1's Bubblegum Babylon special last night inspired me...
But first, a warning: People who are not Monkees fans should probably move along to the next entry on your friends list. This will not interest you at all.
People who are fans of the Pre-Fab Four: today I spent some time procrastinating by mp3-izing a selected set of Monkees songs to put on the iPod (because, really, how can I do any meaningful work without adding more songs to the iPod?). Narrowed my selection down to 14 choices, and, as is often the case with such things, they are not the usual Monkees top-40 fare.
The Davy-Jones-cute-n-catchy-vocals:
Daydream Believer (OK, fine, I included Daydream Believer. Come on, you HAVE to include Daydream Believer.)
Look Out (Here Comes Tomorrow)
The psychedelia:
Porpoise Song
Daily Nightly
The mushy but nice:
Shades Of Gray
Sometime In The Morning
The Mike-Nesmith-country-western-crossover:
Nine Times Blue
Tapioca Tundra (Possibly my favorite Monkees song. It's so weird, you have to love it.)
The Kind Of Girl I Could Love
Papa Gene's Blues
Carlisle Wheeling (Re-released later by Mike, solo, as "Conversations", if I remember rightly.)
Miscellany:
Randy Scouse Git
All Of Your Toys (The first song the boys recorded all by themselves...awww.)
The Door Into Summer
Oh, as to "Pleasant Valley Sunday," I do like it, but don't love it, that's all. "(I'm Not Your) Stepping Stone," in contrast, annoys the hell out of me.
But first, a warning: People who are not Monkees fans should probably move along to the next entry on your friends list. This will not interest you at all.
People who are fans of the Pre-Fab Four: today I spent some time procrastinating by mp3-izing a selected set of Monkees songs to put on the iPod (because, really, how can I do any meaningful work without adding more songs to the iPod?). Narrowed my selection down to 14 choices, and, as is often the case with such things, they are not the usual Monkees top-40 fare.
The Davy-Jones-cute-n-catchy-vocals:
Daydream Believer (OK, fine, I included Daydream Believer. Come on, you HAVE to include Daydream Believer.)
Look Out (Here Comes Tomorrow)
The psychedelia:
Porpoise Song
Daily Nightly
The mushy but nice:
Shades Of Gray
Sometime In The Morning
The Mike-Nesmith-country-western-crossover:
Nine Times Blue
Tapioca Tundra (Possibly my favorite Monkees song. It's so weird, you have to love it.)
The Kind Of Girl I Could Love
Papa Gene's Blues
Carlisle Wheeling (Re-released later by Mike, solo, as "Conversations", if I remember rightly.)
Miscellany:
Randy Scouse Git
All Of Your Toys (The first song the boys recorded all by themselves...awww.)
The Door Into Summer
Oh, as to "Pleasant Valley Sunday," I do like it, but don't love it, that's all. "(I'm Not Your) Stepping Stone," in contrast, annoys the hell out of me.
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Date: 2003-01-23 02:58 pm (UTC)I dont love the group, but my dad does like them quite a bit. It has rubbed off on me some, I must admit. :)
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Date: 2003-01-23 04:09 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2003-01-23 06:12 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2003-01-23 04:12 pm (UTC)And they were so utterly bubblegum that no one noticed the subversion.
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Date: 2003-01-23 06:16 pm (UTC)Heard that a fangirl at the time broke into the relevant draft office and stole Davy's information, so he couldn't get shipped out. Though now that I think about it, he was British, so *could* he have been drafted anyway? Hmm.
clarksville war protest?
Date: 2003-01-26 06:45 pm (UTC)is...makes me think of how people think r.e.m.'s 'the one i love' and the police's 'every breath you take' are love songs...
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Date: 2003-01-23 05:39 pm (UTC)Please don't think I'm saying you're old [as a matter of fact, I believe I'm older than you.] But earlier today, I mentioned to one of my employees [a 19 year old girl] that I was excited to hear the theme from "The Greatest American Hero" on our 70's station on the satallite today and she responed with, "Cool. What show is that from?" Grrr. Youth.
PS. Bubblegum Babylon did totally rock though. Such memories.
Believe it or not, I'm walkin' on air...
Date: 2003-01-23 06:24 pm (UTC)Hmm, if you watched enough of the episodes (i.e., nearly all of them), you would have heard...well, at least half those songs, at some point. I know "Daily Nightly" was on it (it was in black and white, at the end of an episode once; Micky's afro phase)...so was "Randy Scouse Git" (also afro phase; Micky was wearing what looked to be a Bohemian tablecloth)... "Papa Gene's Blues" was in one of their episodes set on a farm or a hick town..."Shades of Gray" was some weepy episode where they were going to send Davy home to England; he was walking on the beach..."The Door into Summer" was one of their cross-dressing episodes (think it was Davy who had the honors)... OK, I better stop now; this is scary.
But yes. Bubblegum Babylon was strangely fascinating. I had never heard of a Cowsill till then. :)
Re: Believe it or not, I'm walkin' on air...
Date: 2003-01-23 06:35 pm (UTC)Re: Believe it or not, I'm walkin' on air...
Date: 2003-01-23 09:35 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2003-01-23 10:53 pm (UTC)Come to think of it, it was rather hobbit-ish, that afro phase...
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Date: 2003-01-24 03:03 am (UTC)Hey, did you ever see that episode of "I Dream of Jeannie" where Boyce & Hart (the behind-the-scenes band) played a Monkees-like band Jeannie created and had all these wacky adventures with Tony and Jeannie? They kept playing this one song over and over, which I <i>think</i> was called "Out and About"...
Wow, that was something I fully expected to never, ever talk about out loud again.
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Date: 2003-01-25 01:24 pm (UTC)Hrm, think I missed that episode of "Jeannie". Too bad...she'd be much cuter in go-go boots than Davy was. :)
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Date: 2003-01-24 10:18 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2003-01-25 01:31 pm (UTC)i can't hear you in this noisy railroad station
Date: 2003-01-26 06:38 pm (UTC)and my favorite monkee is peter. who's yours?
oh,and 'valerie'.
i rewatched most of those shows about 15 years ago when mtv was showing them,and i went to see the monkees sans nesmith with my friend keith. we were both in our early thirties and when the band jumped on stage,we screamed. i'd always wanted to scream over a band!
Time for coffee-flavored kisses?
Date: 2003-01-26 10:53 pm (UTC)When I was little, my favorite was Davy (how typical), but now it's Mike. We relentlessly made fun of his Texas accent as kids, but I sort of find it attractive now... (plus I really like his voice, and his songs).
Would love to see them live...never have. *sigh*
Re: Time for coffee-flavored kisses?
Date: 2003-01-27 06:42 pm (UTC)Re Monkees: I admire your desire to draw from the lyrics, and I recognize that they were so much more than just the Milli Vanilli/In Sync of the 60's. But, being the somewhat shallow person that I am, nothing can ever compare to the Partridge family in its heyday. I worries me that I can tell you in which episode Rob Reiner played a biker named Snake, and that "I Woke Up in Love this Morning" can actually bring a tear to my eye (well, almost).
But, back to the Monkees, one of rock's most under-appreciated phenomena. "Clarksville" is the best, bar none.
Re: Time for coffee-flavored kisses?
Date: 2003-01-27 11:00 pm (UTC)I kind of wish I knew the Partridge Family stuff better. Somehow, I never saw the show - must not have been watching TV at the right time to catch the re-runs. But "I Think I Love You" is deliciously silly and catchy... and besides, there's this hilarious family-film footage of my older sisters from Christmas circa 1976, opening an LP and shrieking in delight, "Shawn Cassidy!!" For that alone, I wish I had more familiarity with that group. :)
Nesmith is the greatest and best Monkee.
Date: 2003-01-28 11:02 pm (UTC)Re: Nesmith is the greatest and best Monkee.
Date: 2003-01-29 09:29 am (UTC)I've got some of his solo CD's, including that 2-CD set of the First National Band stuff, and it rules. Rules, I say.
And I normally don't care for country/western, so that's saying something.
Re: Nesmith is the greatest and best Monkee.
Date: 2003-01-29 09:36 am (UTC)The First National Band stuff is the only music I own that comes anywhere near being country/western. He really brings something to that genre.
Word.
Almost a sin...
Date: 2003-01-28 11:07 pm (UTC)I would have included "As We Go Along" if I were you, as that is absolutely my favorite Monkees song ever. I have yet to hear "Tapioca Tundra."
Head is one of my favorite movies ever.
I also would have added "Your Auntie Grizelda," if for no other reason than to be nice to Peter.
Re: Almost a sin...
Date: 2003-01-30 09:05 am (UTC)Oooh, I still need to see Head. Video stores have this way of not carrying it... (plus, I hardly live in a metropolis anymore. *sigh*)
"Tapioca Tundra" is on The Birds, The Bees, and the Monkees, and I recall reading that Nesmith says it's one of his personal favorites. Now I must go find and re-listen to "As We Go Along," since I'm pretty sure I have it somewhere, but can't remember what it sounds like...
Because I am a problem solver:
Date: 2003-01-30 09:40 am (UTC)I believe they deliver things beyond the bounds of metropoli.
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