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Points: 417 		Direct Link To This Post Posted: May 26 2006 at 16:40
Totally agree with you. They're born as Beatles clones, fight to ut their own music in their records and produce some very good albums. The thing started to ruin when Peter Tork decided to leave. But their "maturity" albums citade abice are worth- listening.
Of course they're not prog. But who cares about this? Thw world has a lot of other interesting music to offer, and The Monkees are fun and unpretentious.
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Points: 7559 		Direct Link To This Post Posted: May 27 2006 at 10:01
Originally posted by bhikkhu bhikkhu wrote:

     I'll probably lose all credibility for this, but I think there's more to the "Fabricated Four" than most people realize. You can't deny that they had a lot of great, if nonthreatening, pop tunes. On "Headquarters," They actually did start playing their own instruments. The point about the moog was relevant, because it was introduced by the band members. They were striving to be more than their handlers wanted them to be. Check out "Headquarters," and "Pisces, Aquarius, Capricorn & Jones Ltd." (with an open mind) It may change the way you view these guys.
    But they had absolutely nothing to do with prog.


Have you ever seen the film "Head"?

     
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Points: 5109 		Direct Link To This Post Posted: May 27 2006 at 14:44
Originally posted by Certif1ed Certif1ed wrote:

Have you ever seen the film "Head"?

    
No, but everything I've read, or heard, suggests that it's a complete mess. An unsupervised Monkee may not always be a good thing.
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Points: 7559 		Direct Link To This Post Posted: May 27 2006 at 16:56
It's a brilliant film in my opinion - and it is also a complete mess.

The two are not mutually exclusive


Anyway, they're supervised by Frank Zappa...
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Points: 1881 		Direct Link To This Post Posted: May 27 2006 at 17:12
There are some strange bands included in PA but I feel anyone would be hard pressed to make an argument for The Monkees! Never knew their claim to fame with the Moog though I must admit.
 
They did make some great music and although some may take the mickey (Dolenz or otherwise...) out of their musicianship, let's not forget Mike Nesmith was/is an acomplished musician.
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Points: 4483 		Direct Link To This Post Posted: May 28 2006 at 17:06
Should'nt be on PA but i do love The Monkees!!!
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Points: 164 		Direct Link To This Post Posted: May 28 2006 at 19:24
Hey why not add George Michael ?
 
Oh yeah, nevermind. He's already in the archives. Sort of.
 
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