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psychojello:

On this day in 1967, the Monkees’ third album Headquarters was released.

This was the first Monkees album where they played all most of their own instruments and had creative control. It went to #1 for one week and eventually went double platinum.

JUST STOP.

Hey, Hey Let Them In: 10 Reasons The Monkees Should Be in the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame

YES! Duh.

psychojello:

From the private memorial for Davy Jones.

Photo by Nurit Wilde.

The Monkees - You Just May Be The One

Staff Discussion: Artists Snubbed by the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame

ajobo:

In which I make my case thus for the Monkees in the Rock Hall:

Long-shunned because of their less-than-organic genesis, pseudo-assembly-line production and slapstick television show, the Monkees are basically Rock Hall kryptonite. There is rarely a Rock Hall wishlist that doesn’t have them at the top; they’ve been bandied about as a prime choice by everyone from critics to scholars to every Monkees fan on the planet, and yet, they remain neglected.

The real reason the Monkees are deserving of a Rock Hall induction is that besides the music and the television show, the Monkees gave birth to the modern music business as we know it. In fact, I wrote my graduate thesis on this very topic. Without them, there would be no contemporary concept of marketing, music video production, or even touring.

Naysayers complain that the Monkees didn’t play their own instruments (they did), write their own songs (they did) and couldn’t outlast their television show (they did – did you catch their 45^th anniversary tour last year?). The truth is that yes, these guys employed the best in talent in and out of the studio, but so did everyone in that era. The Brill Building was originally created as a stable for songwriters only – when pop artists started writing their own material, the business structure changed forever. The Monkees’ situation was not atypical. A good many Rock Hall inductees weren’t known for penning their own tunes, or playing every single note on their records. There’s proof that at least one Monkee played on every one of their albums (Michael Nesmith often used Peter Tork as a session musician on tracks that he produced from the first album on), and post-1967, the members regularly contributed as songwriters; Nesmith was writing from the very beginning.

Bottom line: Whatever fictitious argument Jann Wenner and the board could come up with for not inducting the Monkees is perfectly answerable with fact. That they’re continually passed over is enough to call the Rock Hall’s overall judgment into question.

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Every Original Monkees Single, both A sides and B sides, with some silliness thrown in.

you’re welcome.

psychojello:

Harry Nilsson- Cuddly Toy demo, March 1967

“I don’t have a title, I guess you can call it the Cuddly Toy song. Why not?”

GHAA - I love hearing different versions of songs that I’m very familiar with and making new discoveries.

The Comedy Innovations of Michael Nesmith