How about some love for the Monkees
 

I know their show was silly, ridiculous and immature. I know they are the first fabricated band. I know the bulk of their material was written and recorded by others but did they ever have some good songs. 60's pop at it's finest.

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I agree. Their best songs were pure pop goodness. They don't have the cool factor, but "they" (the entire production that went into the Monkees) made some fantastically catchy songs.

The Mokees suffered a great deal from their Teeny Bopper image. Davy Jones wanting to dance to all his sugar-coated songs didn't help either

Davey Jones comes from my home town, as does Myra Hindley.
Both within spitting distance.

But then again, so does Pete Shelley. :)

Davey Jones is a music criminal.
No love here.

"Head" is a fantastic movie. I dig the Monkees.

Of course I dig the Monkees! They were dad's idol as a kid and some of that stuff passed down into me. I have their debut, 4 disc greatest hits, and their pepper's rip off.

Their instruments aren't plugged in.

Anyway, decent band, the few songs I've heard by them were OK.

Only their first two albums were written and instrumentally performed by others. They had a number of albums after those two that they did as a real band. Several of them very good.

12 albums, it appears. Heh. Half of them are probably crap.

On the first 2 albums (Monkees, More Of The Monkees) Mike Nesmith was allowed to play but on their third album "Headquarters" the Monkees played and produced everything with the help of Chip Douglas. They released 3 more albums (Pisces, Aquarius, Capricorn & Jones, The Birds, The Bees And The Monkees, Head) with the music being split between the Monkees and studio musicians. After this Peter Tork left the group and Monkees released 2 albums (Instant Replay, Present) without him. By 1970 Mike Nesmith left the group and Micky Dolenz and Davey Jones released a horrible album under the Monkees name titled "Changes".

His mom invented liquid paper which Michael didn't see any of that money until the death of his mom after his Monkees career. Nesmith left the Monkees because he wanted to pursue his own style of music and his solo albums are well liked by the critics. Don't forget Nesmith also won a huge settlement against MTV when they used a lot of his ideas in his movie "Elephant Parts"