Ramblings about My Records
When my college roommate Danny and I were absolutely record-crazy, we were hot for just about anything we could remember fondly from our youth. Memories of songs like “Indiana Wants Me,” “Let Me,” “Dirty...
Well, alphabetically, we moved from one very personally connected album to another with at least a little bit of a personal connection. I don’t think it’s this way anymore, not in an age when...
Why does this project take so long? Because, true to the site’s name, I can be distracted from my distractions. Could be because I have a dozen little projects going at any one time....
I don’t do Spotify, or stream at all. One year a decade ago I used Pandora. I don’t tend to jump on to whatever’s popular, and I don’t necessarily need to hear something as...
Well, I was bound to mess up the alphabet eventually – yeah, I posted something I decided to attribute to Muddy Waters (under M) before I did The Moody Blues. So it goes. The...
In 1968, with their TV show cancelled or about to be, The Monkees made a movie with Jack Nicholson and Bob Rafelson called “Head,” and put out a soundtrack by the same name. I...
This one is most notable for the great “Valleri” and the ubiquitous “Daydream Believer,” but the rest of the album really suffers from each member pretty much going it alone – proof that, using studio...
For me, this has always been my second-favorite Monkees record (“Head” being the top, by far). Less cutie-pie pop (with the odd and possibly ironic exception of “Cuddly Toy,” written by Harry Nilsson of...
I didn’t think I owned More of The Monkees, except in a late-purchased digital version. It was released in January 1967, just three months after their debut. It’s an absolute classic with several songs...
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