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Guess who dropped anchor at th' Isle O'Foam© yestiddy! There's a clew in the title to this amusing screed - have you read it yet? That's right, subscribers! It's protest n' folk singer Bob Dylan, whose forthright criticism of the Great Society has earned him notoriety as well as radio play!
To celebrate his arrival, we're calling this week Bob Dylan Week, and it'll run all day, so join in the fun in the comments!
EDIT: So that's Bob Dylan Week™ over at th' IoF©! Don't miss the vigorous debate in the comments, where Clarence Pune avers "The Monkees piss all over Dylan! Did he have a Dylanmobile?? I rest my case!"
To celebrate what was something of a whirlwind week yesterday, here's a couple of swell alternate Bob sleeves you may like more than the unswell originals! More art tomorrow/today my time!
Oboy! Win-win-WIN this bumper pack o' Bobness by listing your Top Two Monkees Albums! If you can't think of that many, just list anything that comes into your head!
ReplyDeleteHere's mine, to get this ball o' wax a'rollin!
1) Head
b) Pisces Aquarius
First ST album
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The 2016 album "Good Times!" is worth a listen - if a little Dolenz heavy.
It is a fantastic album. Like the Beach Boys' God Made The Radio, an unexpected and beautiful Indian Summer.
DeleteIndeed - and it doesn't hurt having Andy Partridge (XTC) involved.
DeleteI have a 17 track "complete" edition if anybody's interested ...
DeleteI'm raisin' mah miz'ble han'...
DeleteYes please.
I'll it loadup tomorrow my time.
DeleteMany thanks!
DeleteHow many roads must a Monkee walk down before you can call him a bard?
ReplyDeleteNesmith's in the basement, mixin' up the Liquid Paper.
Hey hey we're the Tambourine Man, and people say we jingle-jangle around.
My top two are the same as yours but I might reverse the order.
The Monkees (self-titled 1st albun)
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Hard to leave those out of any Top Two Monkees albums.
Delete(Theme From) The Monkees is as joyful a piece of music as ever lit up a Saturday morning. And there isn't a filler on the whole damn album - just total fun overload. And you want groundbreaking psych? Sweet Young Thing -
I know that something very strange
Is happened to my brain
I'm either feeling very good
Or else I am insane
Head
ReplyDeletePisces
Monkees
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The Rest
Cram
More Of The Monkees
ReplyDeletePisces, Aquarius, Capricorn & Jones
whatever LP had And You Just May Be the One
ReplyDelete--Muzak McMusics
Headquarters
ReplyDeletePisces, Aquarius, Capricorn & Jones Ltd
In 1969, as a 10 year old, I heard a Monkees song on the radio and I was sure the title was Hey, Hey Carnival Man. My friends told me I was nuts. I never saw the song on any album of theirs, not even on the expanded reissues. Then last summer, on a hot COVID afternoon I was listening to The Monkees Present when Listen To The Band came on...You guessed it. THAT was Carnival Man! What can I say? I feel off the swings a lot as a kid.
SpudIlander
no album. just one song. goin' down
ReplyDeleteGo on, then. Let's hear your karaoke version.
DeleteNevada Fighter...best I can do
ReplyDeleteYou might be interested in this:
Deletehttps://falsememoryfoam.blogspot.com/2019/04/the-best-album-he-never-made.html
It's dead, Jim.
DeleteSomething so beautiful cannot be allowed to die!
Delete(Re-upped in comments to Nes piece)
I think there may be a gremlin in the works. No Nes - but Dylan's Lost Mono Mixes (that guy sure is careless with them) again and the Monkees "comeback" platter.
DeleteUnless I'm doing something wrong..which is always a possibility.
Consarn it. Kreemé has one job. and she blows it.
DeleteHere's the link, as well as there:
https://workupload.com/file/swTVkgFwHXs
Many thanks.
DeleteYou just can't get the staff these days.
Uhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh.....Is there one called "Monkeeshines?
ReplyDeleteMy other favorite is "Are We Not Chimps..We are Monkees.".
I can only think of one; the eponymous Lancelot Link and the The Evolution Revolution
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vincentsear and MrDave showing that retirement has its unexpected joys!
DeleteI like 2 cover songs they did:
ReplyDeleteD.W. Washburn
Daydream Believer
The latter by John Stewart, a fine writer.
"But, what does it mean?!?!?! It doesn't mean anything!"
Delete--Davey Jones about the lyrics...."
Gee whiz, Clar!
DeleteCheckout the differences between The Monkees' and Taj Mahal's covers of the Gerry Goffin and Carole King's song "Take a Giant Step"
DeleteI did, and I totally prefer The Monkees versh.
DeleteThere ain't enuff sage in the world to burn off the bad mojo from that sacreligious comment. Leave for a few days and da place goes into da crapper, sheesh.......
Delete"Leave for a few days ..."
DeleteRi-ight ...
"The Monkees the First"
ReplyDeleteand
"More of the Monkees"
Tell us what we've won Farq.........
Cheers
oBeygRavity
May 2, 2021 at 5:56 AM
DeleteThe birds the bees & the Monkees
ReplyDeletePisces, Aquarius, Capricorn & Jones Ltd.
Subscribers' bonus gift to celebrate Bob Dylan Week here at th' IoF©! Champagne-finish digital carriage clock AND stainless steel cocktail tray with real rosewood handles here!
ReplyDelete(Bob and The Monkees together at last!)
Thank you!
DeleteMuch better than Dylan and The Dead.
That's a swell stainless steel cocktail tray with real rosewood handles here. Would you mind terribly if I regift the Champagne-finish digital carriage clock?
To regift is to receive. And you can't receive until you ceive.
DeleteWait a minute -- are you saying that we each get our own IoF© champagne-finish digital carriage clock or do we all have to share one?! I thought my IoFCFDCC was going to be a family heirloom to pass down through the MrDave generations until I had to return it last week (damn you Sean O'Hagan, you dirty copycat!). Now that I know that you're just givin' it/them away to all four or five guys for nuthin' ... I've got to go take a shower
DeleteMrDave - each champagne-finish digital carriage clock is individually crafted and bears a metallic-look escutcheon affixed to the base of the timepiece suitable for the personalisation of the recipient's name! The Certificate Of Authenticity issued by the Swissco Horological Authority (Macau) is your guarantee of timekeeping excellence and an heirloom item you'll be proud to display in den or living room! So quit yer whinin'. Yeesh.
DeleteThing about The Monkees is that the final product was so much better than the initial design.
ReplyDeleteA record is a record (is a record). Recordings of musicians playing music. This is exactly why a Monkees record is as good as/better than a Beatles record. Listening to the music in the groove, not the conditions that brought it about. Who wrote the song, who's playing - that's interesting, but shouldn't filter response to the music. I get the same buzz from the opening seconds of I'm A Believer as from Hendrix' Hey Joe. Pure buzz.
DeleteAgreed. And I too prefer The Monkees' version of "Take A Giant Step" to the Rising Sons' version, as talented as the members of the latter band may have been.
DeleteAlan
You, Irving Anonymous, are a man of class and yes, courage! Like myself.
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ReplyDelete1 Pisces
2 Head
Thank you for a goodtime
ReplyDeleteThe remarkable thing is that as much as they were dismissed at the time, the music of the Monkees has held up very well. Solid production values and some good writing. Nesmith is and was the best.
ReplyDeleteBut I cannot agree with the FT3 statement about "Take a Giant Step".
Flog yourself with that whip on the table...
ouch
It's the diversity of opinion here that makes th' IoF© such a lively and provocative debate forum! From the batshit crazy-wrong (you) to the measured and persuasive correct (me), every point of view is given equal respect!
Delete2016's "Good Times!" has a few stand-out pop tunes.
Delete17 track versh linked above.
Deletebeen awash in medical care for my mom--sorry to have missed all the fun.
ReplyDeleteThere are stealth Dilly Bob--as my girls called him--lynx or no?
The fun is all still here, Eric - nothing missed!
DeleteAnd the link: May 2, 2021 at 5:56 AM (look for the word *here*)
i'm forever hunting for the tapes Jimi made with them during the tour they did together.
ReplyDeleteHaven't heard of these tapes at all. And I can't imagine they'd be anything but "only for the curious" if they do exist!
DeleteFor me, it's the First LP...and Pisces, Aquarius, Capricorn & Jones...which for my money is one the best darned "psychedelic" albums, ever...early use of a Moog synth, two songs as good as anything in contemporaneous Byrds oeuvre (What Am I Doing Hangin' 'Round, The Door Into Summer, coded drug reference (Salesman), social commentary and the contempt of youth for the straight suburban world (Pleasant Valley Sunday)...brilliant stuff from start to finish.
ReplyDeleteSheer, shimmering quality, wrapped in a beautiful cover.
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