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Post by My Avatar Is A Hot Babe on Nov 7, 2017 17:43:57 GMT
Opened my e-mails this morning and had one from both Rhino.com and Monkees.com. Despite being 63 years old, my heart started beating a bit faster and I ordered it straight away. Like others have said, it's not the best loved Monkees LP, but I still have to have this. Maybe I'll stop buying Monkees stuff after they release the last two boxes - but you can never tell. |
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Post by Brick Wall on Nov 7, 2017 18:01:02 GMT
Despite being 63 years old, my heart started beating a bit faster and I ordered it straight away. You ever notice there's never a coronary around when you need one? |
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Post by antiram on Nov 7, 2017 18:03:49 GMT
Glad to see the old man's heart still throbs. The Monkees haven't lost one whit of their heart throbbiness. Glad to see it works as well now as it did in the 1960's. Nothing creepy about 63 year old men getting excited over 50 year old teenybopper music. It's normal.
However, I will say I remember when the Beatards started getting into the Monkees in earnest for the first time, in the early 1980's (a few years before the big MTV marathon that accidentally propelled them to re-stardom, kinda...) When the Beatards started going nuts over collecting Monkees outtakes with the same attention to minutiae that they apply to the Fabbies, I realized they sure weren't very discerning. Fake Beatles might as well just be real Beatles, as far as they were concerned. Nothing against some of their less icky hits, but if you put the Beatles and Monkees as #1 and #2 on your pantheon, you are a testosterone-less geek. I was disappointed in the Beatards for the Monkees shit, and got busy detarding myself.
But, still nice to see such joy in an old guy over Davy and the boys. Bet he doesn't stop buying stuff after two more boxfuls of Monkees arcana. Why should he? One day that ticker will throb him right off to Heaven, just as he pulls the trigger on the 5-CD Changes super deluxe box. Isn't that the way to go?
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Post by hugofuguzev on Nov 8, 2017 6:38:50 GMT
For the life of me I will never understand some of the SHiTEs obsession with the goddamn Monkees. Beatles, or some of the other 'legacy'/dinosaur acts, sure, but the fucking Monkees? I've never been able to take them seriously as a band, actors or any other sort of artist- they're one of the longest running jokes in the music industry.
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Post by hugofuguzev on Nov 8, 2017 10:52:28 GMT
For the life of me I will never understand some of the SHiTEs obsession with the goddamn Monkees. Beatles, or some of the other 'legacy'/dinosaur acts, sure, but the fucking Monkees? I've never been able to take them seriously as a band, actors or any other sort of artist- they're one of the longest running jokes in the music industry. Whadya mean you don't understand? Four words; MICKEY! DAVY! PETER! FUCKFACE! If memory serves Fuckface was the only with any actual talent, wasn't he? |
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Post by Boozin' Susan on Nov 8, 2017 10:57:51 GMT
For the life of me I will never understand some of the SHiTEs obsession with the goddamn Monkees. Beatles, or some of the other 'legacy'/dinosaur acts, sure, but the fucking Monkees? I've never been able to take them seriously as a band, actors or any other sort of artist- they're one of the longest running jokes in the music industry. They had some poppy hits, and a TV show that was on after school. The four guys (in the show) were young, non-threatening, and the series was appealing to white-bread-suburban kids (I grew up as a white-bread-sururban kid. It is what it is.) Sure, there are a ton of SHite zealots who pray to the altar of that fake band, but most seem a lot more harmless than the Beatle SHites who seem hell-bent on proving MDC was slumming. So, yeah. I still like some of their stuff. (Mostly the tunes by Carole King. Micky could sing her songs quite well.) |
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Post by Urethra Franklin on Nov 8, 2017 11:45:06 GMT
Whadya mean you don't understand? Four words; MICKEY! DAVY! PETER! FUCKFACE! If memory serves Fuckface was the only with any actual talent, wasn't he?
That was his mother actually. She invented liquid paper.
But she must have been a very bad typist.
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Post by Urethra Franklin on Nov 8, 2017 12:55:40 GMT
True story: I knew a woman who admitted to everyone that she was addicted to sniffing Liquid Paper. I guess none of us did her any favors by reacting to her brave confession and cry for help by finding it the most absurd and hilarious thing we had ever heard. (In my defense, we were all stoned on better drugs than Liquid Paper when she told us this.) Yeah, this is Mikes liquid paper stare.
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Post by audiopro on Nov 8, 2017 15:08:22 GMT
I've long said that the reason Fuckface got into The Monkees had nothing to do with talent, but because he had easy access to solvents.
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Post by Boozin' Susan on Nov 9, 2017 3:24:49 GMT
Me, yesterday: Sure, there are a ton of SHite zealots who pray to the altar of that fake band, but most seem a lot more harmless than the Beatle SHites who seem hell-bent on proving MDC was slumming. Monkee-fan "cuddlytoy" today: Effing SHite turned me into an effing liar... |
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Post by AnalogRearEnd on Nov 9, 2017 15:49:11 GMT
A Monkees fan called "cuddlytoy". Nothing creepy about that.
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Post by Urethra Franklin on Nov 9, 2017 17:37:19 GMT
A Monkees fan called "cuddlytoy". Nothing creepy about that.
If the highlight of my life was hearing 50 year old monkey farts on a new Monkees remaster, I would top myself. Surely that is not a life worth living.
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