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Yeah - RoryR loves em! 
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Apr 1, 2017 - 4:07 AM
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Tall Guy
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It's always been considered "uncool" to like the Pre-Fab Four, but I must admit, I've always had a soft spot for them. Maybe it was all the catchy songs. Maybe it was their goofy personalities. I don't know. I just know when I hear them, I smile.
So, how about it? Any fans?
Stories? Memories? Favorite episodes? Favorite songs? Favorite albums?
Any love for Michael, Micky, Davy or Peter?
Undoubtedly. I'm old enough to remember them from the very start - just - and I remember the Tv show as being wonderfully anarchic for whatever age I was. The songs seemed every bit as important as the Beatles ones of the time, something with which most of my elders strongly disagreed, which only served to make them more alluring. In this, as in many things, I followed my much older brother, who bought the Pisces, Aquarius, Capricorn and Jones LP, and the songs Words, What Am I Doing Hanging Round and Pleasant Valley Sunday were my favourites, along with the lunacy that was Peter Percival Patterson's Pet Pig Porky.
Some of their songs are indelibly imprinted on me even though at a distance they don't really reach the same heights - D W Washburn, Stepping Stone, and the ridiculously catchy Alternate Title aka Randy Scouse Git.
I don't think about them every day by any means, but when I do it's with great fondness and nostalgia.
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Apr 1, 2017 - 6:10 AM
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Jim Phelps
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1982: The Monkees air in syndication after school on weekday afternoons. None of their albums, save for the Arista Greatest Hits albums, were available. My best friend's dad would routinely scour yard sales on weekends and bring home "molto cheapo" copies of their first three albums--it was always the first three, though subsequent searches would score "Pisces, Aquarius..." and "The Birds, the Bees, and the Monkees."
This was before the big 1986 MTV rebirth and rediscovery which by that time I had moved on to more mature music fare. However, dueing our middle school years, The Monkees were hands down our musical fixation, though we had to keep it a big secret since admitting you liked this stuff in the age of Culture Club and Michael Jackson invited a penalty worse than death. My two closest friends and I listened to The Monkees constantly in those days.
Headquarters is my Monkees "winter" album. "Pisces Aquarius" is my Monkees "summer" album. Instant Replay is sort of my "end of childhood" album, since I didn't find the album until Rhino Records reissued the group's catalogue on LP circa 1987-88, and because so many of those songs are heartbreakingly sad to me.
Favorite songs? Tough, but "Take a Giant Step"; "Sunny Girlfriend"; "Daydream Believer"; "Tapioca Tundra" (acoustic); "Someday Man" and every Neil Diamond-penned song performed by Davy Jones--that guy had the singular ability to sing Neil's songs unlike anyone else I've heard.
More to come...
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