Summer Lovin' The Monkees
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Today, "BBC 6 Music":http://www.bbc.co.uk/6music/shows/steve_lamacq/ is featuring "the first summer of love" with music from 1967 and they're pretty heavy with The Monkees (and The Four Tops). Lamaq thinks that Mickey Dolenz is one of the great underrated rock vocalists of all time. And I started to think about how my relationship with their music is, erm, complicated...Their nickname of "The Pre-Fab Four" is well-known, as are the reasons behind it, so I won't delve too much into it here. But when the show and group was experiencing a resurgance in popularity when I was younger, I couldn't get enough of the show on Nickelodeon. And my parents picked up this cassette for me...
And, of course, as I got older, I got all intellectual and picked up Head and some of Mike Nesmith's work.
Now, I can say I love their music cos it's brilliant pop - and, most of the time, it is - but my image is sullied somewhat by the show. Perhaps I haven't gotten old enough to properly loosen up and enjoy the silliness. Perhaps "Behind the Music" has truly, utterly ruined it for all of us.But, in the end, I think it's time to formally add them to my collection. Again.
And, of course, as I got older, I got all intellectual and picked up Head and some of Mike Nesmith's work.
Now, I can say I love their music cos it's brilliant pop - and, most of the time, it is - but my image is sullied somewhat by the show. Perhaps I haven't gotten old enough to properly loosen up and enjoy the silliness. Perhaps "Behind the Music" has truly, utterly ruined it for all of us.But, in the end, I think it's time to formally add them to my collection. Again.
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