The Definitive Monkees - The Monkees

Hey hey it's the Monkees! (1889 words)
by Deb_C - written on 01/12/09 (Very useful, 121 readings)
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Monkees on dooyoo showed me that the site didn t have any Monkee-related reviews, I decided it was time to write one! Despite having been born 17 years after t The Monkees were first formed, as a teenager I became completely obsessed with the "world s first manufactured band". ~~A little background information~~ The group was put together in 1966 following an advert placed in a magazine requiring "four insane boys" to play members of a pop group in a new TV series. Despite popular belief that they couldn t write songs or play their own instruments, of the successful applicants Mike Nesmith was a guitarist & songwriter, & Peter Tork an ...

The Definitive Monkees - The Monkees

Still monkeeing around (928 words)
by JOHNDMR - written on 08/01/03, updated on 08/01/03 (Very useful, 114 readings)
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rundown. CD 1 is wall-to-wall (29 tracks, 79 minutes) hits and choice album tracks. No surprises that it kicks off with the theme (“Hey hey, we’re t The Monkees and people say we monkee around” – g̵ 7;wan, you’re singing it already!), followed by a more or less chronological canter through the rest. Remastered, it is now possible to appreciate just how good the sound was. Did that jangly guitar or the tambourines on ‘Last Train To Clarksville’ ever sound so crisp in 1966 as they do now? In the studio, perhaps, but surely never on vinyl. ...