I think I forgot this was happening. Or maybe just assumed it was a weird dream I had.
― You're A Peein' Youth In Asia (Old Lunch), Tuesday, 19 April 2016 20:01 (eight years ago) link
Sad that there won't be any of Davy's maudlin PUA ballads on this one.
― You're A Peein' Youth In Asia (Old Lunch), Tuesday, 19 April 2016 20:02 (eight years ago) link
maybe Noel/Weller's is a Belle & Sebastian pastiche
― PaulTMA, Tuesday, 19 April 2016 20:11 (eight years ago) link
Davy's on one track in a sort of "Free as a bird" way
― Mark G, Tuesday, 19 April 2016 20:53 (eight years ago) link
I think it's the Nilsson one, which is based off a vintage demo.
― Now I Know How Joan of Arcadia Felt (C. Grisso/McCain), Tuesday, 19 April 2016 21:19 (eight years ago) link
Today, I saw a Monkees lp boxset, I mean isn't that the ultimate 'loads of copies out there' um, mints?
― Mark G, Tuesday, 19 April 2016 21:41 (eight years ago) link
11. "I Wasn't Born To Follow" (Carole King/Gerry Goffin)
Cool!
― timellison, Wednesday, 20 April 2016 08:11 (eight years ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kpp-Ry2ZNhY
The Rivers Cuomo-penned song is out.
― a 47-year-old chainsaw artist from South Carolina (Phil D.), Thursday, 28 April 2016 16:15 (eight years ago) link
The complete series/Head/addenda blu-ray box is actually tempting me.
― kills 1.8 percent of household germs (WilliamC), Thursday, 28 April 2016 17:21 (eight years ago) link
is there a lazier songwriter than Cuomo gah he is so terrible
― Οὖτις, Thursday, 28 April 2016 17:24 (eight years ago) link
xpost I'm pretty tempted, too, but not $200 worth of tempted. Hopefully that price will drop at some point.
― Your Ass Is Grass And I Will Mow It With My Face (Old Lunch), Thursday, 28 April 2016 17:28 (eight years ago) link
yeah i was excited when they announced that but $200, nah.
― wizzz! (amateurist), Thursday, 28 April 2016 19:03 (eight years ago) link
it's also in some kind of needlessly large deluxe box that won't fit on your DVD/Blu-Ray shelf. i find that obnoxious.
That's Mickey on "It Makes Me Laugh," yeah? It barely sounds like him.
― Double Nickels on the Pecunidigm (Dan Peterson), Thursday, 28 April 2016 19:24 (eight years ago) link
yuck what is that crap? give me any random Monkees 60s album filler over this Weezer-Monkees
― AdamVania (Adam Bruneau), Thursday, 28 April 2016 22:02 (eight years ago) link
The Weenkees
― (Henry) Green container bin with face (Tom D.), Thursday, 28 April 2016 22:09 (eight years ago) link
Nothing could have conveyed the idiocy of those lyrics better than putting them in the video.
― kills 1.8 percent of household germs (WilliamC), Thursday, 28 April 2016 22:15 (eight years ago) link
I like it!
― timellison, Thursday, 28 April 2016 23:18 (eight years ago) link
"she makes me laugh"? more like, "this song is laughable"!
i'll be here all week.
― wizzz! (amateurist), Friday, 29 April 2016 00:15 (eight years ago) link
It sounds nothing like and recalls pretty much nothing of the Monkees so maybe this is finally the sequel to Pool It! I've been longing for.
― Your Ass Is Grass And I Will Mow It With My Face (Old Lunch), Friday, 29 April 2016 01:37 (eight years ago) link
Micky asked Ami who's that band that her kids like these days and she said she thought they were called Weezer and by the time this conversation got back to her mortified kids Micky had already recorded the song.
― Your Ass Is Grass And I Will Mow It With My Face (Old Lunch), Friday, 29 April 2016 01:39 (eight years ago) link
It sounds nothing like and recalls pretty much nothing of the Monkees
It sounds like a '60s-ish band with a tambourine player. Lyrically, this is the band that did "Cuddly Toy."
― timellison, Friday, 29 April 2016 02:08 (eight years ago) link
sincerely hope that everybody involved in this cash-in garbage dies ASAP
― the 'major tom guy' (sleeve), Friday, 29 April 2016 02:40 (eight years ago) link
I think I just read that they did, iirc.
― Your Ass Is Grass And I Will Mow It With My Face (Old Lunch), Friday, 29 April 2016 02:41 (eight years ago) link
it's not that bad, y'all calm down.
― 6 god none the richer (m bison), Friday, 29 April 2016 03:00 (eight years ago) link
Lyrically, this is the band that did "Cuddly Toy."
I mean that was written by Nilsson, and not specifically for the band, so . . . ?
― a 47-year-old chainsaw artist from South Carolina (Phil D.), Friday, 29 April 2016 12:27 (eight years ago) link
Cuomo isn't fit to lick Nilsson's shoes
― Οὖτις, Friday, 29 April 2016 15:17 (eight years ago) link
Rivers Cuomo is a better songwriter than 3.5 Neil Diamonds
― PaulTMA, Friday, 29 April 2016 17:02 (eight years ago) link
I'm glad I went for it when it was first announced -- the money was there so I thought "Eh, let me just pay now and that way it'll feel like a bonus when it finally comes out." The more they keep adding to it the more I'm intrigued, but it sounds like they've at least reached final cut-off.
― Ned Raggett, Friday, 29 April 2016 17:05 (eight years ago) link
― timellison, Thursday, April 28, 2016 10:08 PM (2 days ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
r u serious? "Cuddly Toy" is a great melody, especially that Beatlesy minor key middle 8. i think the lyrics are a bit deeper than you give them credit for, i see it of a mind w "Under My Thumb"/"Get Off My Cloud"-era Stones or Floyd that peculiar British take on psychedelic, a twee/regressive/(proto-punk?) cynical whimsy tinged with sex and drugs
― AdamVania (Adam Bruneau), Saturday, 30 April 2016 17:22 (eight years ago) link
my main problem w this song is the production, it sounds like a robot. the words are all choppy. the swing is not there, you can get a more rock swing from a casio keyboard beat. the meter of the words is just not enjoyable for me to hear.
the melody could be cool maybe but it sounds like someone who has played music so much they don't even know what to do anymore and are just trying bad ideas just for the sake of not being bored while writing song #536
― AdamVania (Adam Bruneau), Saturday, 30 April 2016 17:26 (eight years ago) link
I was just arguing that the silliness in the lyrics does not seem out of character for a Monkees song to me at all, especially a Micky song. If "Cuddly Toy" was not the most apt song to bring up, there are others.
― timellison, Saturday, 30 April 2016 18:17 (eight years ago) link
It's not the silly lyrics that make it not sound like a Monkee's song but rather the fact that it doesn't sound like a Monkee's song. And I wouldn't argue that it's bad, just that it doesn't sound like a Monkee's song.
― Your Ass Is Grass And I Will Mow It With My Face (Old Lunch), Saturday, 30 April 2016 19:10 (eight years ago) link
I have no idea why I just possessive-ized Monkees four times.
― Your Ass Is Grass And I Will Mow It With My Face (Old Lunch), Saturday, 30 April 2016 19:11 (eight years ago) link
The Andy Partridge tune is out, and basically sounds like they copied and pasted Mickey's auto-tuned vocals into an XTC demo:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n_D6XNpYxdU
The phrasing is so Partridge-esque that Schlesinger and Partridge may have directed him line-by-line.
― a 47-year-old chainsaw artist from South Carolina (Phil D.), Tuesday, 3 May 2016 13:18 (eight years ago) link
It's okay but I will never think of it again pretty much, I don't hear much in the way of auto-tuning in Dolenz's voice though, I'm sure it was corrected but it's still a little wayward in places.
― MaresNest, Tuesday, 3 May 2016 14:50 (eight years ago) link
Drummer sounds like Prairie Prince too
― MaresNest, Tuesday, 3 May 2016 14:51 (eight years ago) link
p good, does sound much more like an XTC song than a Monkees one but whatever
― Οὖτις, Tuesday, 3 May 2016 15:30 (eight years ago) link
"Birth of an Accidental Hipster" is awesome!
― timellison, Sunday, 29 May 2016 05:00 (eight years ago) link
the hell this reunion album is kinda awesome huh?? craziness
― rockpalast '82 (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Thursday, 2 June 2016 16:47 (eight years ago) link
I mean at least a part of this is the surprise and low expectations but goddamn this is all good-to-great and really nicely produced
― rockpalast '82 (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Thursday, 2 June 2016 17:03 (eight years ago) link
really like the very white album/nilsson-y "i was there (and i'm told i had a good time)"
― fact checking cuz, Thursday, 2 June 2016 22:36 (eight years ago) link
(not to be confused with the actual nilsson song on this album)
― fact checking cuz, Thursday, 2 June 2016 22:37 (eight years ago) link
I didn't like that Rivers Phoenix tune at all the first time I heard it, so was steering clear of this album, but I finally put it on just now thanks to the accolades and kind of digging it, even that RP tune.
― Jim Reeves in the Temple (James Redd and the Blecchs), Friday, 3 June 2016 00:57 (eight years ago) link
I like the production, neither too modern slick nor too retro schtick.
― Jim Reeves in the Temple (James Redd and the Blecchs), Friday, 3 June 2016 01:05 (eight years ago) link
Ha, I said Rivers Phoenix twice instead of Rivers Cuomo.
― Prince Rogers (Version) (James Redd and the Blecchs), Friday, 3 June 2016 01:22 (eight years ago) link
http://i.imgur.com/mMRCcSD.jpg
― small doug yule carnival club (unregistered), Friday, 3 June 2016 01:30 (eight years ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o-5E6_qtXAw
― Prince Rogers (Version) (James Redd and the Blecchs), Friday, 3 June 2016 01:35 (eight years ago) link
I was steering clear because I've had mixed results with non-60s Monkees material but at a bare minimum the song "Good Times" is worth the price of admission for me
― STOP KILLING ANIMALS, THEY'RE MINT (DJP), Friday, 3 June 2016 13:52 (eight years ago) link
In related Monkee news, Wounded Bird has just done an expanded reissue of The Lewis and Clark Expedition album, which iirc has never been officially released on CD before.
― Now I Know How Joan of Arcadia Felt (C. Grisso/McCain), Tuesday, 7 June 2016 18:05 (eight years ago) link