azfad wrote:

The Monkees made some outstanding music. 'Porpoise Song', 'Valleri'and 'Listen To The Band' are just... unbreakable. And this whole 'they werent a real band like the (fill blank)' is pretty funny. They made better music than many bands who 'really' made music at that time. Incidentally, The Byrds first great record - all session musos more or less... there are many more examples.

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Retro_Saiyan wrote:

The Monkees are better than ANYTHING in the top 40 todat!

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JamesMcNulty wrote:

Take That were more popular than a lot of more talented bands of the early 90ies, so what? And they also had 2,5 good songs (can`t remember them right now). ;)

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kesto4 wrote:

The Monkees were almost just as popular as the Beatles back in the day. When Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club band came out, it moved the Monkees new album down from the #1 spot to the #2 spot where it stayed #2 for 11 weeks. That says a lot because that was arguably the Beatle's best album of all time. Sure, The Monkees weren't as musically talented, but they had many more talents that served them better (ie The Monkees TV series = amazing acting, very funny)

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BobbieWest wrote:

Re: eeew, you like the Monkees? First of all, you would have had to been a puebescent girl in the late 60s or a girl, or a male secure with himself enuf to acknowledge your sensitive side. so if you're a dude born after 1966, what're U doing here? And about the "puppet" aspect; there are more manufactured bands now than anytime in history.The Monkees were just the beginning of total "corporate Rock", Pop or Soul. I don't even list Hip-hop/gansta/rap as a musical genre! It's pure sell-out like the sex pistols who were manufactured and sold to us. Find a need and fill it-that's marketing at work. Who have *you* bought into today?

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JamesMcNulty wrote:

This band is a joke...with 2,5 good songs...

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itisspencer wrote:

As a band in the late 60's they were the only ones ridiculed to death. Mickey Dolenz Peter Tork Mike Nesmith and Davey Jones were pushed into a box together and made it work. i have deep respect for them all. The fact that Royce and Hart wrote most of their music is true but it was true for several bands of the era. I wish you could ask John Lennon about them he loved the guys for their ability to fight less than the beatles.

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TJALOL wrote:

"Eewww, you like the monkees??!"

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BobbieWest wrote:

the porpoise song is about...a...porpoise! On acid!

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Grecen wrote:

They are sweet. c:

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bigjackd wrote:

people yes songs written for them but M. Nesmith knew how to play check out his stuff pre-monkees and alot of people said i don't think there is a instrunent that P. Tork can play...T.V. said ya cant play and took control over all song the tried to write... last train to Clarksville was a close as the came to a protest song...

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Luuttuaja wrote:

@AzuAtoms: No, they actually did learn to play the instruments well themselves and started to write own songs after their record company allowed them to. Because of this they were some sort of role models for the punk rock movement of the 1970s.

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babyjesus07 wrote:

so last.fm is trying to tell me that the beatles are not in the similar artists....

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AzuAtoms wrote:

The Monkees didn't write their own songs, or play their own instruments, but it's ok, they weren't about music, they were about social and political upheaval.

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emmm_03 wrote:

Daydream Believer <3

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TinyElvis83 wrote:

Porpoise Song is a gem. It's like an acid trip set to music. I have no idea what the song is about, but I love it anyway.

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Zeitgeist1980 wrote:

Mistadobalina Mista... Mista... Mista...Bob..dobalina

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wetwillies: The Monkees were 'actors' who producers made into a band. The music was done by session musicians! How can you even compare them to The Beatles?! Do you even know what you are talking about! :-P