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Post by rick on Feb 7, 2016 14:59:45 GMT -5
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Post by sliderocker on Feb 7, 2016 19:41:17 GMT -5
It will be kind of intriguing to see what kind of Monkees album it will be when released. Nesmith is not participating or is he? Rhino indicates his song "I Know What I Know" (from his download album only "Around the Sun") will be one of the songs, so he will have a presence. But, will it be a remake of his song, which is from 2012? I don't know if Rhino meant he would have no other lead vocals or backing vocals. Micky's comments certainly seem to suggest Nesmith is busy with other things. I'm thinking the album will mostly be vocals from Micky and Peter, although I'd sure like to be surprised.
Davy's song, "Love to Love" will be a remake of the 1967 Neil Diamond song, that a desperate Don Kirshner rush-released in Canada to prevent the Monkees from getting the B-side all to themselves, as far as the playing was concerned. The A-side was "A Little Bit Me, A Little Bit You." It wasn't that good of a song and Neil himself had done it originally. Kirshner had barred the release of the Monkees-played and sung recording "All of Your Toys" on grounds that Screen Gems-Columbia didn't have the publishing. The publishing on "Love to Love" was through Tallyrand, Diamond's music publisher at the time. And they didn't sell the publishing to Screen Gems-Columbia, but it was one of the many things that got Kirshner fired. Not only from the Monkees recordings, but for all projects associated with Screen Gems TV and Columbia Pictures. That included the music publishing companies and record labels. But, it will be interesting to see if they can improve upon Neil's 1967 song. When I heard it for the first time in the 80s, I thought it sounded more like a song from 1960 than from 1967. Horrendously dated. I really feel it was one of Diamond's more older songs.
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Post by rick on May 28, 2016 1:23:38 GMT -5
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Post by sliderocker on May 28, 2016 21:47:27 GMT -5
A lot of rock critics are feeling the love for this album, including the critic who reviewed the album for Rolling Stone. It's not currently ranked on Billboard but on Amazon's in-chart rankings, it's their number one album. The download version of the album features one extra song and one song in an alternate version, with the FYE version featuring yet another song unique to the album. I bought the album from Amazon and wished I had known about the extra song available only on copies sold in FYE. The album is gorgeous and hopefully, the showing on Amazon will carry over to Billboard. The one criticism I have is that the group should've recorded the Grateful Dead's "Truckin'," whose lyric "What a long, strange trip it's been," aptly describes the Monkees' decades long career as there's always been some variation of the group in every decade since their debut in the 60s. And there's not too many bands or groups that can make that boast.
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