If anyone is interested, this week's Weakest Link album....................... Poll--The Weakest Link: The Monkees HEADQUARTERS, Round 1 Join in for daily discussion, and vote towards your (consensus) favorite song. (This was done back in 2008, so probably some of you not here yet)
Good one, Sally. This is hilarious. I wish I was good at editing videos, I could make something similar. Anyway, whoever put this together was quite clever. They did get most of the bottom of the barrel tunes and Yes, I would have left out Writing Wrongs.
I agree and like those two performances. But the video quality is terrible compared to the rest of the Blu-ray set.
I think that may be because the '33 1/3 RPM' special was shot on video, where the TV series itself was filmed.
A very late correction to add. I thought Kicking Stones was a Boyce/Hart penned song, as it does sound like something they would have written. I looked it up online and wiki says this song was written by Lynn Castle and Wayne Erwin. I miss replying to this thread nearly every day a while back. It was a lot of fun Thanks, Turk.
We can resurrect this thread when the SDE of Headquarters is released and do a song by song rate and review of the new set!!
Good idea, @D-rock! I miss this thread too, RobRoyF, and was surprised to see an alert that something had been added to it. IIRC, "Kicking Stones" was the only song Castle and/or Erwin ever contributed to the Monkees. And I know it's a weird song, and lots of Monkees fans don't like it, but I do.
I couldn't tell you which episode it is, but a 1967 episode of What's My Line? features Lynn Castle as a contestant. She was a noted Hollywood hairdresser who wrote songs & sang. She was signed to Lee Hazlewood's LHI label. On the show, John Daly mentions her writing a song that the Monkees recorded. They never mention the title or whether it had even been released. It only took 20 years!
An interesting idea. If people would like to discuss it, we could do. In what way would people like to discuss it? A day each for all 101 songs?
As much as I miss talking a Monkees song a day, there's not very much that's actually new to the set in terms of "new songs" that we haven't already covered. And the ones that are new are instrumental backing tracks that feature no Monkee involvement. Not to mention that the Jan-Feb '67 Kirshner material was largely awful!
Yes, that was my concern, too. Of course, we could discuss those songs again and maybe link to new mixes and alternate versions that were included. It depends whether people are interested.
I will post a few songs that we missed over the next few days just to see how much interest there is... Today's song is Soul-Writer's Birthday: I know that Mike copyrighted this song in 1967, but I'd be interested to learn whether anyone else has any more info. A fun listen and the most interesting inclusion on the Dolenz Sings Nesmith EP. I think it was the correct choice to omit it from the album, though, as it's not quite up to the high standard of what did make the cut. I don't hate the effects that are applied to Micky's voice, but it would be nice if one day we hear a version that sounds a little more natural. 3/5.