A Pound Of Smoked Salmon For The Lady. STAT

when you listen carefully to the bass lines, your whole world changes

It is kinda insane how wild the Monkees are when you look into it. They were hired for a TV show but started an internal revolution where they kicked out their music supervisor to have control of their own music. They made a movie deconstructing their image and Hollywood in general. Their music spanned several genres including some very experimental stuff that would influence later music. They met and befriended the Beatles. They wrote and/or directed some of their episodes. One of them is the son of the woman who invented liquid paper (white-out) and then he would go on to basically invent MTV before he sold the concept to those who made MTV. They have some of the first music videos. They fucked. One of them even was known for his orgies. They sometimes hated each other but still loved each other as brothers. There is an FBI file on them allegedly spreading communist and anti-american propaganda at their concerts. They had a song that had to have its lyrics changed because it was too intensely political, even alluding to JFK’s assassination not being done by Lee Harvey Oswald in 1969. Their TV show was revolutionary in structure and content. Disney stars and boy bands would not exist without them. They had Jimi Hendrix open for them. One of them was a member of the Hollywood vampires. And that isn’t even all.

And yet most people don’t take them seriously.

This continues to be a top contender for favorite tweet

thinking about how paul mccartney spent the year 1969 putting the five stages of grief to music and no one even did a welfare check

MICKY

call me easily amused but i still think it's so funny to go "who said that" after saying something wildly horny

'Pete's theme' from Quadrophenia (1973) by The Who (X)

One of the primary themes/leitmotifs of the album, 'Pete's theme' (or the 'love-theme') can be heard throughout the album in various forms:

-- and finally it culminates in the phenomenal ending track 'Love Reign O'er Me':

i’ve probably posted this before but i think the best way to make a monkees biopic is impossible bc it would’ve had to have been made circa 2008, and it would’ve been in a mockumentary format where you had the actual monkees talking about themselves but everything they’re saying is lies. and then over that dialogue you have dramatizations of the lies with actors playing the monkees in their prime

These rockstars have the nerv to make seven minute songs🙄 and they're GOOD so you HAVE to listen to them or else Brian May will have to kick down your door