The Monkees Davy Jones Dies.

[trt]

Used to know him when he worked in Newmarket, nic lad.

http://www.newmarketjournal.co.uk/news/latest-news/monkees_lead_singer_and_former_newmarket_apprentice_jockey_davy_jones_dead_at_66_1_3575500

[-SharonA-]

Is Trt losing it????

[naomi24]

No. He made a mistake, that's all.

[-Talbot-]

Andy thinks The Monkees are one of the greatest sixties pop bands, mikey.
(I thought everyone knew that)

[-Talbot-]

Seems to me someone posted about Davy Jones on the anniversary of his death (29th Feb)

trt may have spotted it and believed it had just happened.


The Newmarket Journal are not at fault .... http://www.newmarketjournal.co.uk/news/latest-news/monkees-lead-singer-and-former-newmarket-apprentice-jockey-davy-jones-dead-at-66-1-3575500

Look at the date, mikey.

[Gromit]

I have nearly made the same error as trt, once or twice.

The problem is how newspapers present archived news. They tend to have todays banner with todays date, and then the archived news item which is dated, but lower down the page, comes under the banner.

The same thing as this link. The date at the top of the page is todays....

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/tvshowbiz/article-2125769/Davy-Jones-autopsy-report-The-Monkees-singer-marijuana-like-chemical-time-death.html

[andy-hughes]

Talbot - //Andy thinks The Monkees are one of the greatest sixties pop bands, mikey.
(I thought everyone knew that) //

I think The Monkees are one of the greatest pop bands ever - period!

Their strength lies primarily in the strength of the song writing and production on their albums - particularly Boyce and Hart - and the best session musicians used to play in the studio.

But let's not forget the massive talents within the band -

Micky Dolenz is possessed of one of the greatest rock and roll voices I have ever heard -



and the songs he contributed to the Monkees -

https://www.google.co.uk/?gfe_rd=cr&ei=OhuHVLmHGKrj8weL-oDIBg&gws_rd=ssl#q=daily+nightly+monkees

this one featuring ethereal vocals from Dolenz, and some very very early use of synthesisers, a passion of Dolenz's before the rest of the pop world caught on.

Jones and Tork were frankly add-ons - actors who could sing rather than musicians like their colleagues.

But the combination of the greatest sixties song-writers and producers, two wonderfully talented musicians, and a hit TV shoe means that The Monkees live on for ever - and so they should.

[andy-hughes]

This has edited itself - the Dolenz song is Randy Scouse Git, and the computer has chopped it out! Never mind - you get the sense of my adoration I hope!

[jno]

Last Train to Clarkesville is about being sent to the Vietnam war (from Clarkesville Tennessee, I think). That's why he doesn't know if he's ever coming home.

[Ric.ror]

I have been laughing at these posts - alone in the office so its ok

[mikey4444]

Andy...exactly as I always thought !

The TV show was very popular with everybody at school....us boys wanted to be in the group, and the girls wanted the band as boyfriends !

[Ric.ror]

Well they are hardly Oasis now are they?
And they are certainly no ABBA - as for the Smiths - well 'not fit to lick their boots' springs to mind

[mikey4444]

ABBA ?....oh God ! ! !

[naomi24]

What's wrong with Abba? They've not done so badly.

[Ric.ror]

There is nothing wrong with ABBA at all
Finely crafted, well written, beautifully sung songs

[mikey4444]

I am bowing out of this thread now....sooper,dooper, blooper, etc, etc !

[andy-hughes]

Ric.roar - //Well they are hardly Oasis now are they?
And they are certainly no ABBA - as for the Smiths - well 'not fit to lick their boots' springs to mind //

Musical comparisons such as the ones you suggest are meaningless because there is no objective measure involved.

One of the wonderful things about any art is its subjectivity - people like things - or not - for all manner of different reasons, but comparisons are utterly redundant.

Of course The Monkees are not Oasis, but it could be argued that Oasis are Oasis because of The Monkees.

Sixties pop fed into seventies, eighties, and so-on pop, as art always does, which again renders comparisons meaningless.

No they are not Abba (which is very different from being 'no Abba' because I am willing to bet that if you asked Benny and Bjorn for their influences in their perfect pop creations, they would probably cite The Monkees as being one of them.

As for The Smiths, they are a completely different band appealing to a completely different demographic, and coming from an entirely different direction - if you are looking for a link between California in the 1960's and Manchester in the 1980's, I think you will struggle!

So yes, the subjectivity of pop makes fans of any band defend them vociferously, but from what? Comparisons don't work - much better to say, as I do, that I adore The Monkees, and Abba, I don't mind Oasis, and with the exception of What Difference Does It Make, I have never begun to understand the appeal of The Smiths.

Rock on!

[andy-hughes]

divebudy - //I find it hard to believe that if someone thinks of pop stars from the 60's, that they think of the Monkees. Totally forgettable. //

I think a vast number of people who grew up with sixties pop would disagree with you on that one.

[andy-hughes]

divebuddy - //^^^^^ and a "vaster" number wouldn't. //

Maybe, but as pointed out in my post, the huge appeal of pop for fanatics like me, and possibly yourself, is arguing about it fiercely, when, in the final analysis, most people think it doesn't matter at all.