Not much to say for this one.

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"Goin' Down" is a really strange song. I mean, the first half is basically a first-person narration of a suicide attempt, and the second half, where the narrator has decided that's a bad idea, is either their hallucination when they finally have gone down for the last time, or the weirdest happy ending ever - Huck Finn without a raft, almost. And ( Read more... )

Some dudebros on Facebook got miffed about women running fanpages and called them "c*nts" last night - in the Monkees fandom. WTF, guys? This is, like, the original boy band here. Of course there are going to be female-run fanspaces! What is this, classic rock dudebroism?

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I had forgotten how weird the Rainbow Room sequences are. For the most part, Mike is fingersynching with a look of intense concentration, and everyone else is goofing the heck off. (There are exceptions, but that's the general rule.)

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On the one hand, we definitely have a great deal of Problematic '60s Crap going on here. On the other hand, both the writers and the boys seem to be more on their game in these episodes.

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Haven't listened to the Plastic Symphony EP in ages (It's really two solo singles from 1965 that someone squished into an EP sometime in the CD era). Aw, Micky, honey, what are you doing? Poor thing sounds like he's scared to actually try to sing it straight, so he's doing his "goofy voices" thing instead. If this is what he sounded like before ( Read more... )

This cover song (the one in the music tag) exists. To get an idea of the tone, imagine that someone has taken the original Archies song, and proceeded to stuff every drop of the attitude of Def Leppard's "Pour Some Sugar On Me" into it. I have never heard anyone make the word "dextrose" sound this dirty. *faints*

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The sound on this video isn't great, especially with the whole freaking audience singing along, but damn, Dolenz sounds pretty good here. Still got pipes ( Read more... )

If the Powers That Be (I'm going to adopt Dolenz's own term for them here) had "cast" the four Monkees in a manner consistent with what they already knew musically, then - well, if they'd gone with "who can play this instrument best," they'd have had Tork play everything, but slotting him into what he was best at and going from there, the lineup ( Read more... )

I ordered a copy of Dolenz's autobiography (written in '89 or so originally, with a final chapter that's everything from then to the mid-naughts from his biographer; the rest of the book is written in first-person) on account of I'd read a library copy of it twenty years ago and remembered bits of it being interesting. I was right; he's a process ( Read more... )