Vote for the November/December "Artists/Covers" festival

[Speed Demon]

Its not a question of likes or dislikes. The original Monkees were a fake band. No getting around that.
What any of them did later didn't matter to me, one way or the other. Simple as that.

[phantasm777]

in season 2, as i said they wrote all of their own songs, head, and the birds, the bees and the monkees, and a few other lps they wrote the music for, and how thats fake is beyond me?
i just notice that when someone doesnt like, in this case a band, they cannot get past thier own hurdles of what the truth is.
how you make 3 or 4 lps, and have control of the second seasons music, entirely, and can still be fakes, is beyond me. they didnt lip synch, they played live in 67 with hendrix on tour, among other gigs then, and how you fake that, hmm.
like i said its ok to not like them, but misinforming to fit your disdain is just unfair.

[phantasm777]

i should say, its not only unfair but very misinformed.

[Bluesberry]

I rather liked and still like the Monkees.  They started out a gimmick TV show, but they had the goods to take control and make their own music.  And they were actually well respected by their peers at the time.  Hell, the Beatles, Lennon especially, thought they were fantastic.  There were lots of manufactured bands at that time, most were hidden behind shadows and lies, at least these guys were honest.  There is a lot of rumours about the Birds, The Doors, Beach Boys, Love, lots of bands at that time that maybe didn't actually play any instruments on their albums.  Look around the net, lots of funny stories from that time.  The wrecking crew is rumoured to be the actual musicians on many late 60's California band albums at the time.  It was all manufactured in some fashion.  Who cares, it was fun music and I still enjoy it to this day.  The Monkeeys, why not?  They were just the tip of the iceburg, at least they were honest about it.  Hell, the Sex Pistols were a manufactured Boy Band.

[Gritter]

U2...really?

[phantasm777]

i was never a fan of u2 so i'll just leave it at that. :O

[Bluesberry]

Their best album was Achtung Baby, it all went downhill from there for my ears.  Zooropa had its moments........then it all slipped away....................

[Oldrottenhead]

looks to me that everybody should vote for "songs you hate but secretly love"

[Speed Demon]

MacArthur Park

Originally performed by Jimmy Webb.

I vote for ORH and Wiley to do a duet vocal on it.

[dasilvasings]

looks to me that everybody should vote for "songs you hate but secretly love"     

lol! I told ya!

I'm changing my vote for U2, but that's in line with "songs you hate but secretly love"!

This has been quite some voting!