Love them!!!! :) Grew up watching their tv show, and have enjoyed their music all my 45yrs - WHEEEEEEEEEE!! :D Sure hope I can see them in concert sometime:)
Mickey Dolenz is one of the most underrated rock singers ever. Check out his amazing scat singing on 'Goin Down' I'd like to hear try-hards like Buble' or Connick Jr attempt it!!
Someday people will enjoy music again. There is no need to criticize this song. No reason at all. There is no over-the-top ego bursting like in today's over-commercialized bs. It is derived from a time when things were in flux. Monkees wanted to be appreciated on their own. But they were trapped by the unfair comparison to the Beatles, the other fab four. They had a nice sound that people responded positively to, but they couldn't shake their prefabricated origin to be an Americanized facsímile.
There is a power just before the death of a something. The Monkees, unanimously, ironically, inevitably, came together and committed mass suicide to save their individual selves. The truth, the lie, the joke, that they were just an even more plasticized version of The Beatles was wearing thin. These were strong men, with strong souls, and no matter the money and fame, had self-respect and other ideas about where their young lives might go. But for one year, their record sales topped the Beatles!
@funkmasterjee Peter was the first to leave The Monkees soon after this. They put out 2 more albums with just Davy, Micky and Mike in 1969. Mike then left and Davy and Micky put out an album in 1970. In 1987 Peter, Davy and Micky got together and made "Pool It". Then in 1996, All 4 Monkees got together and made "Justus".
lol, sorry if that's more then you asked, I've just a been a huge Monkees fan for 25 years. I wasn't even born until 7 years after "HEAD" came out.
You realize every once in a while, how lucky we are to be able to latch onto these gems of history. Take care with the increased capacity to choose. The responsibility of your intentions multiplies exponentially as you harvest the crop of talented video renditions available. Remember, all of us have limited time to designate that which is purposeful. The porpoise waves goodbye, goodbye, goodbye....And you just keep looking for that which meant something to you as you travel to your own deadline.
The Monkees, fed up with self-image, which reflected an inescapable label as an even more plastic American version of the Beatles. It may have started out that way, an experiment to catch on to teen record sales. And it worked. Only thing was, it just happened to 4 guys who had a lot of heart and soul and brains. And I think it would have been different without hype, but then, it never would have come about. Caught in a losing proposition until years later, when public realized talents too late.
What a great movie. It bombed because the young kids who were Monkees fans didn't get it, and the older ones who would have understood it wouldn't have dreamed of going to a Monkees movie. Burt it stands up to rewatching.
This was probably also written and recorded to "make money for the man"; it's still magnificent as a work of art, as is much of their more obviously commercial stuff.
They were manufactured, but they were very well manufactured out of exceptionally good components!
Actualy Pete and Mike did not participate in any part of the recording of this song, David Goffin took complete control in the production and Micky and Davy are the only Monkees recorded on this track. The recording started 2/26/68 with final touches not completed til 8/1/68. Goffin will bring in Russ Titelman to conduct the 15 musicians for the piece and Jack Nitzsche will handle the orchestral arraingment. Also Interesting Davys pal Leon Russell will handle keyboards.
@sassyeve2003 I was just thinking about how The Monkees are kind of viewed as a phony Beatles rip off. However, I don't really care. Gerry Goffin and Carole King were awesome. This is a great song. Thanks for the info.
@beanoboo At last someone gets the point! It doesn't matter who played what or who copied who. What matters is what comes out of the speakers. And by that standard the Monkees ruled.
I loved the monkees since I was in 6th grade. I am 21 and after all these years I still love them! This song is great too !! The movie head was a bit weird but I think you have to be a true fan to like it.
Does the melody remind anyone else of 'Think For Yourself' off Rubber Soul? (the bit where it goes 'about the good things that we can have if we close our eyes'.)
click clacks!!! what a load of nonsense (Head) was not the end of the monkees career this song and clip is absolutely brilliant and encapsulates the Monkees vibrancy...nay, this was just another string adding to the already powerful Monkees bow!! i love it
... sorry, but i have to tell you all that you all got the answer wrong. head was for the monkees the ultimate suicide :the ultimate betrayal. ' i against myself'.they parodied themselves out of all here to now'.
The Monkees screwed their careers up in this film. I like watching the TV show and listen to their music but I really hate this Film! Great song! What a way to end their TV careers!
#1 calm down...#2 ruined a tv career, not hardly they still play repeat episodes and im sure are still getting royalty checks,so who cares...you act like they were on tv just yesterday get over it. #3 my third and final response is if you know anything about the monkees, though the show payed there bills...they loathed it,and wanted to be taken more seriously as musicians and artists...i think it took balls to break from corp. interests and take risks on there own path. (im sure jack thought so)
You hate this film ? Where are you coming from with that. This was a great flick. I even thought so at 11 years old. I was sad that the tv show ended but I thought this movie was the bomb. And still do. Long live my fave four!
as i said i was taking the more juvenile angle...which in G rated translation would be something to the effect of making love to it...so if you are going to more power to ya...hhhmmm can i watch? (i think)
Great song. Great part of the film, this scene was always my favorite. I was five years old in 1967 when the Monkees were big and my then 12-year old sister bought their albums. I didn't get to know 'Porpoise Song' until I was in my 20's when I got my hands on later Monkee albums. Micky is great. He now sells autographed pics of him on Ebay. Thanks for posting!
Cool Story from Bob Rafelson about opening night 11/6/68. He & Jack were slapping stickers all over New York for the Movie when they confront a police officer harrassing a street vendor, Bob Says he is talking to the cop & Jack is trying to put the sticker on the back of the cops helmet behind him, Bob said in a Laurel & Hardy moment the cop turns around to Jack and gets the sticker across the face next thing they know their arrested and in a squad car on their way to jail 1 hr before opening
I Love it! The best part of the movie...The movie is SO under-appreciated. Love seeing the tank blow up the Coke machine, or Peter whistling Strawberry Fields Forever, in the bathroom, before he finds Davy. The in-jokes, or the cameos of Frank Zappa, or Jack Nicholson, and the overall feel of the movie is more real than most of the non-music we have today. The groups like NKOTB, you can make all the comebacks in the world, and add all the latest rappers, to make you fake cool.
The movie is relatively easy to understand... check it out--so everyone called them a fake band and talked about them like sh*t, so basically it was a big middle finger to "the man" and everyone that called them phoney musicians, when in all actuality they were very talented. It was a movie about how the media and stuff can corrupt simple things. Remember, this WAS the late 60s, back when we were "ALLOWED" to protest LOL!! :-)
The first time I watched it was about five years ago, and I was thinking that all these fragments were fairly pointless until the last ten minutes. It completely blew me away how they completely pulled everything together at the end, and suddenly all these seemingly random segments made perfect sense, and I saw what it was they were trying to say. I can't think of any other movie that's taken my opinion from "this kinda sucks" to "OMG that's brilliant!" in such a short space of time.
dcarr84, the best way to enlighten you and answer your question is for you to watch the film HEAD. It's a fantastic film and you will see what happened before that video and see why it ends with Mickey(not sure if im right on who) making out with some broad.
I have watched head quite a few times over the years and it is a great movie.I saw it in the theaters when it came out. I was in fourth grade , I think. I just never saw any meaning to it. God bless the monkees and all of their fans.
Little trivia fact for everybody: did you know that this song was written by Gerry Goffin and Carole King, the (then) married songwriting team who came up with such monster hits as "Will You Still Love Me Tomorrow" for other musical groups?
Oh, you know, I just learned that myself recently when I tried to post a link on another YouTube video comments section! LOL But you know what? If you double click on my name, it takes you to a page where you might be able to message me outside of YouTube, via e-mail, I think. But I will try what you suggest, just the same. Thanks.
I was 10 when this movie was released, my parents wouldn't take me to see it (it was rated R believe it or not) but I wouldn't have understood it anyway. I saw it 20 years later & loved it, what great music! For some reason this movie was rarely shown on TV & sort of faded into obscurity. "Head" really reflected the times, love the psychedelia! The Monkees were a better group than most people wanted to admit at the time. I'm still a fan & stilll enjoy their music.
Howdy, beelzebozo69! Mickey Dolenz said in his autobiograhy "I'm A Believer," which is good reading by the way, that the movie was rated R, which meant that the majority of their fans couldn't watch it without a parent (the majority of Monkee fans were under 18) & the parents certainly didn't want to see it!Those that were able to see the movie were "left in the dust," (to quote the book). Maybe that's why it didn't do so well at the box office & was overlooked for many years.
Far out! I stand corrected. I thought I saw a movie poster on the Internet with an MPAA "G" rating. Go figure... Mickey Dolenz would know best! I just read on IMDB that the rating was lowered from "R" 20 years after the movie was released.
All I have to say is that this movie is really funny, and funnier to me now that I am older and can understand all of the hidden (or rather blatant, actually) messages in it. Good for those beautiful boys, for really sticking it to the man the way they did. They are all very talented men, despite what SOME losers think. I love this song and the opening scene. Shoot, I love the whole dang movie.
Micky said in his autobiography that everybody stayed stoned 24/7, He said the black box in the movie was built before the 2nd season of the tv show, and that they all had there own trailers during the first season but everybody including crew partied so much that by the 2nd season they built this airconditioned box with 4 lights above there names far away from the set. When a Monkee was needed there light went off, Micky said if you look at there closeups you can tell that they were always high
There's a major difference between trying drugs,then moving on, having those interesting memories or getting stuck w/ drugs as a lifestyle. Either way, the self-righteous abstainer or the crazed drug enthusiast are both drags. I love the style and the history of this period in American culture for its truths and its excesses. We still live in the same phony, material-obsessed, war crazed, bullshit society that their generation was fighting. The revolution comes in cycles and we're about due.
- secondly, i do agree with you that drugs CAN be bad. there are soft drugs and hard drugs, some worse than others, but if ANY of them are abused (even marijuana) you can get hooked and start over-doing it. drugs can be inspiring and helpful (especially artistically) but the usage has to be regulated in some way.
Check a medical encyclopedia next time you want to mix your understandings of substances, "soft drugs" as you call them, that is, Marijuana and serotonin-affecting Psychedelics cause no physical changes that lead to addiction/dependence/getting "hooked". In fact, the drugs that are LEGAL are the one's that do that, opiates, benzodiazepines, alcohol, nicotine, caffeine, etc.
people took drugs in the 60's because they new the system was in terrible shape. the world was controlled by rich, greedy old farts. drugs help you to look at the world differently and make you realize that maybe things should be run differently. same reason we still take drugs......
speaking of which, i was on em the first time i heard this song. my eyes almost bugged outta my head!
people were defiantly high when watching Fantasia and Alice In Wonderland during this time. I wonder if people were high when listening to Dark Side Of The Moon while watching The Wizard Of Oz.
so what you are saying is that taking drugs made something mildly interesting but mostly lame seem amazingly significant. Not sure how this makes the world a better place for you or others. Drugs tend to disconnect us from facts, which makes us as effective as a car w/no transmission. Maybe nice upholstery, but useless for transportation.
Drugs make you aware of subtlety like beer makes you handsome: in your mind only. I never needed drugs to become aware of subtlety. No one else does either. They just need to think.
PS - I like the monkees, even this kitschy 60s video. It's just drug use that I don't like: it kills brains and friends.
- firstly, something tells me the only reason the monkees even produced HEAD was because they realized that drugs opened a gateway to a different thought process. a lot of times people don't even "think" in their everyday lives. look what it did for the Beatles! does anybody think that Sgt. Pepper would even exist without LSD? Lennon was quoted numerous times promoting the usage of psychedelics.
And look what drugs did for Brian Wilson and Dennis Wilson. It totally messed them up for life, but the music they created while messed up remains some of the best "pop" music of all time.
If any of you were aware of subtleties as much as you claim to be you would be discussing how this video/movie have a larger social critique in them, a critique of entertainment and service based post-industrial capitalism as a system which enslaves the artist and replaces self-expression with profit-seeking...rather then just blabbing about "drugs" as you like to call them.
HEAD was one crazy mixed up movie. There is no story as such. I think there must of been a lot of tripping going on when they made this one. I am a Monkees fan & like this song but this movie didn't grab me at all.
I definitely agree, zz916. I've often told people that this film is like beaing able to watch a dream of the individual Monkees who were put in that pre-fab position.
Everything makes sense to me when using dream language.
Yeah!! 1967/68...The great device..says "goodbye" sixties years..and fight to the future...the seventies age closing...Jack Nicholson..talk about this..in a interview/1969 about the role..." The madness will be more than sex, drugs and rock roll...the tomorrow people...dont will matter for the another people" The Bush AGE is ending...what's the future for America ???
Hey, don't get me wrong- The Monkees will always be one of my favorite bands, but this movie sucks! I wasted an hour and a half of my life watching it. I do like the this song, though. Maybe I would have liked it if I was still tripping acid, but I a'int. God Bless Y'all!
This really is a movie you have to watch more than once to really, truly understand and love it. Every time I watch it I learn things I didn't notice before, thus giving me a better understanding of the movie and making me love it so much more. I saw it last night and thought that this was the perfect movie for The Monkees to make.
I've seen it. I struggled with it but once it was over I wanted to watch it again. They reportedly called it Head so if they made a sequel they could bill it as being "From the people that gave you Head"
I am a huge monkees fan, when i first saw head i did not get it, i would now, though.
squirm13 1 week ago
Love them!!!! :) Grew up watching their tv show, and have enjoyed their music all my 45yrs - WHEEEEEEEEEE!! :D Sure hope I can see them in concert sometime:)
KickazzRedhead 3 weeks ago
@ :29 you can see they threw a dummy in the water to cut in...lol...with long skinny arms and legs...back before CGI....woo hoo...
CountBoogie 3 weeks ago
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Mickey Dolenz is one of the most underrated rock singers ever. Check out his amazing scat singing on 'Goin Down' I'd like to hear try-hards like Buble' or Connick Jr attempt it!!
carlacostantino 1 month ago
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carlacostantino 1 month ago
you don't even need to be high to be projected into another state of mind
sparkie19621 1 month ago
nothing like phychedelic, needs to come back
sparkie19621 1 month ago
I remember watching this on Tv in the early 70's when technicolor was the new visual aesthetic. Great memories.
quietRockstars88 1 month ago
Love this song, love this whole film. Did I already say that?
900heyzeus 2 months ago
Someday people will enjoy music again. There is no need to criticize this song. No reason at all. There is no over-the-top ego bursting like in today's over-commercialized bs. It is derived from a time when things were in flux. Monkees wanted to be appreciated on their own. But they were trapped by the unfair comparison to the Beatles, the other fab four. They had a nice sound that people responded positively to, but they couldn't shake their prefabricated origin to be an Americanized facsímile.
MrMajorTime 2 months ago in playlist !et. al. 2
What was the Mermaid supposed to represent? The Fans?
Wellch 3 months ago
Fantastic music video.
CKru8789 3 months ago
There is a power just before the death of a something. The Monkees, unanimously, ironically, inevitably, came together and committed mass suicide to save their individual selves. The truth, the lie, the joke, that they were just an even more plasticized version of The Beatles was wearing thin. These were strong men, with strong souls, and no matter the money and fame, had self-respect and other ideas about where their young lives might go. But for one year, their record sales topped the Beatles!
MrMajorTime 4 months ago in playlist et. al. 3
Clicks. (Cliques?) Clacks! Goodbye goodbye goodbye. was never so real.
MrMajorTime 4 months ago in playlist et. al.
@MrMajorTime I agree the
"Clicks. (Cliques?) Clacks! '
just hits u
MoblePhnsMakeUGrwOld 4 months ago
Carole King
wrote this
w ith
Gerry Goffin
!
MoblePhnsMakeUGrwOld 5 months ago
This song put me in a trance the first time I heard it. Masterful and Spellbinding!
pr9301 5 months ago
that's interesting to find out Leon Russell was even on the Monkees recordings! I love Leon and the Monkees, so that's good for me! :))
snowandflowers 5 months ago
I love that etherial psychadelic sound
I was 3 when this movie was made. Did they split soon after?
funkmasterjee 5 months ago
@funkmasterjee Peter was the first to leave The Monkees soon after this. They put out 2 more albums with just Davy, Micky and Mike in 1969. Mike then left and Davy and Micky put out an album in 1970. In 1987 Peter, Davy and Micky got together and made "Pool It". Then in 1996, All 4 Monkees got together and made "Justus".
lol, sorry if that's more then you asked, I've just a been a huge Monkees fan for 25 years. I wasn't even born until 7 years after "HEAD" came out.
Torus202 3 months ago 5
can someone reply to me about where i might purchase the album "head"?
merlinspuss 6 months ago
@merlinspuss Amazon would be a good start....
sassyeve2003 5 months ago
@merlinspuss amazon or a second hand record store ,,might be easier to get a dvd of the movie,
whoarethebrainpigs 4 months ago
Don't underestimate the power of solarized photography. This was an accomplishment, I doubt any artists are capable of today.
MrMajorTime 6 months ago in playlist et. al.
You realize every once in a while, how lucky we are to be able to latch onto these gems of history. Take care with the increased capacity to choose. The responsibility of your intentions multiplies exponentially as you harvest the crop of talented video renditions available. Remember, all of us have limited time to designate that which is purposeful. The porpoise waves goodbye, goodbye, goodbye....And you just keep looking for that which meant something to you as you travel to your own deadline.
MrMajorTime 6 months ago in playlist et. al. 2
The Monkees, fed up with self-image, which reflected an inescapable label as an even more plastic American version of the Beatles. It may have started out that way, an experiment to catch on to teen record sales. And it worked. Only thing was, it just happened to 4 guys who had a lot of heart and soul and brains. And I think it would have been different without hype, but then, it never would have come about. Caught in a losing proposition until years later, when public realized talents too late.
MrMajorTime 6 months ago in playlist et. al.
Vanilla Sky...
OrigLanceR 6 months ago 2
7 people should jump off a bridge
sup3rnuk0mn 6 months ago
My Favorite.
deniseleekc 6 months ago
there was a really good cover of this song on here by the Wondermints but its gone now.
Phantomrig 7 months ago
What a great movie. It bombed because the young kids who were Monkees fans didn't get it, and the older ones who would have understood it wouldn't have dreamed of going to a Monkees movie. Burt it stands up to rewatching.
Naiant 7 months ago
I first saw this movie back in the early 70s on late tv. Even as a kid I hated their stupid show but I loved this movie and the music in it.
jaybird321 3 years ago
This movie is absolutely brilliant! And it has some of the best songs they've performed.
On a somewhat unrelated issue, does anybody know what kind of Adidas Micky is wearing? I've got a bet to settle
lostjohnny74 3 years ago
Great Film
DanielBowden1975 3 years ago
one of my favourite films of all time. certainly their best music.
wonkeaux 3 years ago
i dont know what the hell that was but it was awesome. New respect for the monkees
dazedcola 3 years ago
Did you know all of the under water filming was shoot in a swimming pool.
crowdedenz87 3 years ago 4
This is by far the best Monkees song - mostly because it sounds like something John Lennon would have written.
lifternate 3 years ago 5
I loved this movie even though it got really bad ratings :D
PeaceKarmaLove 3 years ago 5
Trainspotting @ 1:01
cheapholiday 3 years ago
This was probably also written and recorded to "make money for the man"; it's still magnificent as a work of art, as is much of their more obviously commercial stuff.
They were manufactured, but they were very well manufactured out of exceptionally good components!
JekyllBoote 3 years ago
great song, very 60s, brilliant a psycadellic gem!
JerrySmith2 3 years ago 5
This comment has received too many negative votes show
By far their best as musicians. Most all of their stuff was wrote for them to sell singles and make money for the man. This is great
eng1225 3 years ago
This would be on my shortlist of he Best Monkee songs...and one of the best of the era.
liontone 3 years ago 5
40 years before an iPod commercial... f'n genius
nikvenet 3 years ago 8
This song was played in Vanilla Sky
kirkpaco 3 years ago
who all sings on this song?
chakahfatah 3 years ago
Micky sings lead, Davy and Peter do the backup/harmonies. That's the way it was on most all Micky's leads.
Johnkgraham 3 years ago
thanks, i really like the backing vocals on this song, they're really beatlesque
chakahfatah 3 years ago 4
Actualy Pete and Mike did not participate in any part of the recording of this song, David Goffin took complete control in the production and Micky and Davy are the only Monkees recorded on this track. The recording started 2/26/68 with final touches not completed til 8/1/68. Goffin will bring in Russ Titelman to conduct the 15 musicians for the piece and Jack Nitzsche will handle the orchestral arraingment. Also Interesting Davys pal Leon Russell will handle keyboards.
enjoy the info overload
sassyeve2003 3 years ago 35
Do you mean Gerry Goffin?
StanKindly 3 years ago 2
Yes lol, Thanks For The Save....
sassyeve2003 3 years ago
@sassyeve2003 Thanks for the info.But it's Gerry Goffin isn't it?
PeasGraveny 2 months ago
@sassyeve2003 I was just thinking about how The Monkees are kind of viewed as a phony Beatles rip off. However, I don't really care. Gerry Goffin and Carole King were awesome. This is a great song. Thanks for the info.
beanoboo 1 month ago
@beanoboo At last someone gets the point! It doesn't matter who played what or who copied who. What matters is what comes out of the speakers. And by that standard the Monkees ruled.
tigerboy1966 1 month ago
@tigerboy1966 I still can't believe
A. Jack Nicholson was one of the original producers of the show
B. Charles Manson actually went to one of the auditions (legend has it)
invincibleironman3 6 days ago
@sassyeve2003 This is a really cool video. and great info.
midnight0675 5 days ago
I loved the monkees since I was in 6th grade. I am 21 and after all these years I still love them! This song is great too !! The movie head was a bit weird but I think you have to be a true fan to like it.
apurrfectjewel2 3 years ago 3
Brillant song very beatle like and even some zepplin too, I agree this is a very unrated song.
Drfinn007 3 years ago 4
Does the melody remind anyone else of 'Think For Yourself' off Rubber Soul? (the bit where it goes 'about the good things that we can have if we close our eyes'.)
randyatlantis 3 years ago
Yes. Spot on. A great song like this one. I love the way the lyrics of "think for your self" fit around the music.
davywavy1971 3 years ago
Beautiful song-cool film too....this was written by Goffin and King (Carloe King) great songwriter
thenowuk 3 years ago
click clacks!!! what a load of nonsense (Head) was not the end of the monkees career this song and clip is absolutely brilliant and encapsulates the Monkees vibrancy...nay, this was just another string adding to the already powerful Monkees bow!! i love it
newellgirl 3 years ago 2
OMGGGGGGGGGGGGGGG i love this!!!
NanisCamila 3 years ago
... sorry, but i have to tell you all that you all got the answer wrong. head was for the monkees the ultimate suicide :the ultimate betrayal. ' i against myself'.they parodied themselves out of all here to now'.
navajopete 3 years ago
What a majestic song! this would not be out of place on sgt peppers
kevinovalentino 3 years ago 2
And thanks for all the fish
Hipters 3 years ago
I love the song and the movie.
lorenzomuzik 3 years ago
a great underrated song
smellyjonnie 3 years ago 4
Hello I was talking about after they stopped making the show and left the company to do this film! Duh! I know after they still have careers.
joesingle 3 years ago
uuuuummmmm NO, thats not what you were talking about...so just stop, please...your making an ass of yourself Duh!
bgdeee 3 years ago
Don't act like a asshole.
joesingle 3 years ago
The Monkees screwed their careers up in this film. I like watching the TV show and listen to their music but I really hate this Film! Great song! What a way to end their TV careers!
joesingle 3 years ago
#1 calm down...#2 ruined a tv career, not hardly they still play repeat episodes and im sure are still getting royalty checks,so who cares...you act like they were on tv just yesterday get over it. #3 my third and final response is if you know anything about the monkees, though the show payed there bills...they loathed it,and wanted to be taken more seriously as musicians and artists...i think it took balls to break from corp. interests and take risks on there own path. (im sure jack thought so)
bgdeee 3 years ago
You hate this film ? Where are you coming from with that. This was a great flick. I even thought so at 11 years old. I was sad that the tv show ended but I thought this movie was the bomb. And still do. Long live my fave four!
dcarr84 3 years ago
I LOVE THE BASE FIDDLE SO COOL
JASPER10111 3 years ago
if u love it so much, why don't u get with it?!
*juvenile i know...but couldn't resist...im bored!
bgdeee 3 years ago
ok i will, i guess.. wait i dont know what u mean but if i did i would, that would show u i guess. well im off to buy a bass fiddle
JASPER10111 3 years ago
as i said i was taking the more juvenile angle...which in G rated translation would be something to the effect of making love to it...so if you are going to more power to ya...hhhmmm can i watch? (i think)
bgdeee 3 years ago
wow u really are bored
JASPER10111 3 years ago
hahahahahaha....uuuummmmmmm YES!
bgdeee 3 years ago
Great song. Great part of the film, this scene was always my favorite. I was five years old in 1967 when the Monkees were big and my then 12-year old sister bought their albums. I didn't get to know 'Porpoise Song' until I was in my 20's when I got my hands on later Monkee albums. Micky is great. He now sells autographed pics of him on Ebay. Thanks for posting!
jonester24 3 years ago 2
the clock in the sky is pounding away.....
zeelik 3 years ago
Boy, he really was skinny, wasn't he?
44326625 3 years ago
Best acid movie ever!
don't belive me? drop
some and watch it or u
could with shrooms just
be sure and chew some gum!
Spudboy
714arewenotmen 3 years ago
i love mickey dolenz !!! his voice sounds great in this song,could listen to it all day
saffroneve 3 years ago 2
Cool Story from Bob Rafelson about opening night 11/6/68. He & Jack were slapping stickers all over New York for the Movie when they confront a police officer harrassing a street vendor, Bob Says he is talking to the cop & Jack is trying to put the sticker on the back of the cops helmet behind him, Bob said in a Laurel & Hardy moment the cop turns around to Jack and gets the sticker across the face next thing they know their arrested and in a squad car on their way to jail 1 hr before opening
sassyeve2003 3 years ago 23
Great song- one of their best- movie was pretty tough to get thru- but had its' moments-this being one of them.
eartant 3 years ago
I Love it! The best part of the movie...The movie is SO under-appreciated. Love seeing the tank blow up the Coke machine, or Peter whistling Strawberry Fields Forever, in the bathroom, before he finds Davy. The in-jokes, or the cameos of Frank Zappa, or Jack Nicholson, and the overall feel of the movie is more real than most of the non-music we have today. The groups like NKOTB, you can make all the comebacks in the world, and add all the latest rappers, to make you fake cool.
THIS is cool.
mellowdude68 3 years ago 4
Damn straight, this film is feckin' awesome!
Way ahead of it's time, totally unappreciated, and full of some of their best material. So damn glad I've got the DVD.
goatboy420 3 years ago 3
You can watch the movie HEAD(Full Movie 86 min.)on GOOGLE Movie Site
Revolver7654321 3 years ago
Does this song remind anybody of "I Am the Resurrection" by the Stone Roses, or is it just me.
youtubbs67 3 years ago
The movie is relatively easy to understand... check it out--so everyone called them a fake band and talked about them like sh*t, so basically it was a big middle finger to "the man" and everyone that called them phoney musicians, when in all actuality they were very talented. It was a movie about how the media and stuff can corrupt simple things. Remember, this WAS the late 60s, back when we were "ALLOWED" to protest LOL!! :-)
vashydana 3 years ago
Now if I could only find my Monkee's shirt...
CFCBrenn 3 years ago
Best rock film ever. If you haven't seen it, see it!
AdemK47 3 years ago 2
During their Mod Period. Great song! The movie made me scratch my "head" a few times, but this was great!
Elric33239 3 years ago
Hey ... don't be a bogart, pass it over! LOL.
PrplHazel 3 years ago
The first time I watched it was about five years ago, and I was thinking that all these fragments were fairly pointless until the last ten minutes. It completely blew me away how they completely pulled everything together at the end, and suddenly all these seemingly random segments made perfect sense, and I saw what it was they were trying to say. I can't think of any other movie that's taken my opinion from "this kinda sucks" to "OMG that's brilliant!" in such a short space of time.
davendea 3 years ago
Okay,what did it mean when they ended up in the aquarium ? please enlighten me.
dcarr84 3 years ago
dcarr84, the best way to enlighten you and answer your question is for you to watch the film HEAD. It's a fantastic film and you will see what happened before that video and see why it ends with Mickey(not sure if im right on who) making out with some broad.
torgosassistant 3 years ago
This movie is dull. My woman gives me great head better than this shit.
joesingle 3 years ago
I have watched head quite a few times over the years and it is a great movie.I saw it in the theaters when it came out. I was in fourth grade , I think. I just never saw any meaning to it. God bless the monkees and all of their fans.
dcarr84 3 years ago
Mickey looks surprisingly handsome after his 155-foot headfirst jump off the Gerald Desmond Bridge.
videophile897 3 years ago 2
AS good as any Beatles song!
GeneralGaz 3 years ago 5
arrrh this is a tunee.
kind of reminds me of something the beatles would have wrote during the magical mystery tour stage =)
love this song.
weird film though lol
hayylee 3 years ago 2
psychedelia at its best
ace51515 3 years ago
I saw HEAD on video,Liked it but didn't understand one minute of it.
planetchinchilla 3 years ago 3
if someone whants to know the monkees HEAD movie is on Google video
rzuber69 3 years ago
Geniuses far ahead of their time.
answartz 3 years ago
Little trivia fact for everybody: did you know that this song was written by Gerry Goffin and Carole King, the (then) married songwriting team who came up with such monster hits as "Will You Still Love Me Tomorrow" for other musical groups?
XPoetLacy 3 years ago
Yes. Her demo is awesome! I wish someone would make a video for her demo version.
beelzebozo69 3 years ago
I don't think I've ever heard Carole's demo version, but I'd love to! I can't even say that I knew one existed. Do you know where it is available?
XPoetLacy 3 years ago
There's a very hissy demo on p2p sites by Carole King. I found it on soulseek a long time ago.
beelzebozo69 3 years ago
Link, please?
XPoetLacy 3 years ago
Apparently you can't post links, but if you google soulseek, you'll be able to find the site.
beelzebozo69 3 years ago
Oh, you know, I just learned that myself recently when I tried to post a link on another YouTube video comments section! LOL But you know what? If you double click on my name, it takes you to a page where you might be able to message me outside of YouTube, via e-mail, I think. But I will try what you suggest, just the same. Thanks.
XPoetLacy 3 years ago
I loved the Monkees when I was a kid, but I appreciate them much more now that I'm an adult. They created some wonderful music.
...and remember folks- psychedelic is all in your MIND!
opsatau 3 years ago
Jack Nitzsche rocks!
morningspider 3 years ago
I was 10 when this movie was released, my parents wouldn't take me to see it (it was rated R believe it or not) but I wouldn't have understood it anyway. I saw it 20 years later & loved it, what great music! For some reason this movie was rarely shown on TV & sort of faded into obscurity. "Head" really reflected the times, love the psychedelia! The Monkees were a better group than most people wanted to admit at the time. I'm still a fan & stilll enjoy their music.
wlhardy 3 years ago
Head was rated G, not R.
beelzebozo69 3 years ago
Howdy, beelzebozo69! Mickey Dolenz said in his autobiograhy "I'm A Believer," which is good reading by the way, that the movie was rated R, which meant that the majority of their fans couldn't watch it without a parent (the majority of Monkee fans were under 18) & the parents certainly didn't want to see it!Those that were able to see the movie were "left in the dust," (to quote the book). Maybe that's why it didn't do so well at the box office & was overlooked for many years.
wlhardy 3 years ago 2
Far out! I stand corrected. I thought I saw a movie poster on the Internet with an MPAA "G" rating. Go figure... Mickey Dolenz would know best! I just read on IMDB that the rating was lowered from "R" 20 years after the movie was released.
beelzebozo69 3 years ago
well movies a while ago were rated wierd like phyco was rated PG? wierd...
yourmybestfriend101 3 years ago
Hey!Fuzzy Wuzzy!
gethepicture 3 years ago
All I have to say is that this movie is really funny, and funnier to me now that I am older and can understand all of the hidden (or rather blatant, actually) messages in it. Good for those beautiful boys, for really sticking it to the man the way they did. They are all very talented men, despite what SOME losers think. I love this song and the opening scene. Shoot, I love the whole dang movie.
crazysingingchick 3 years ago
The start is the End. I love it xD lol
llamalove191 3 years ago
1. Come on, people, It's a groovy video.
2. Can't people be psychedelic without drugs?
Starcollector94 3 years ago 7
Good song to play at a funeral!
netmasterflex 3 years ago
Yeah, I want this song at my wake.
Ashworth6 3 years ago
just enjoy the song and the video. the reality is outside of this. stop with all the righteousness.
jimbo161921 3 years ago 5
Micky said in his autobiography that everybody stayed stoned 24/7, He said the black box in the movie was built before the 2nd season of the tv show, and that they all had there own trailers during the first season but everybody including crew partied so much that by the 2nd season they built this airconditioned box with 4 lights above there names far away from the set. When a Monkee was needed there light went off, Micky said if you look at there closeups you can tell that they were always high
kenc1161 3 years ago 2
There's a major difference between trying drugs,then moving on, having those interesting memories or getting stuck w/ drugs as a lifestyle. Either way, the self-righteous abstainer or the crazed drug enthusiast are both drags. I love the style and the history of this period in American culture for its truths and its excesses. We still live in the same phony, material-obsessed, war crazed, bullshit society that their generation was fighting. The revolution comes in cycles and we're about due.
walterroy 3 years ago
Awesome!!
johnisallin 3 years ago
- secondly, i do agree with you that drugs CAN be bad. there are soft drugs and hard drugs, some worse than others, but if ANY of them are abused (even marijuana) you can get hooked and start over-doing it. drugs can be inspiring and helpful (especially artistically) but the usage has to be regulated in some way.
bboyd1980 3 years ago
Check a medical encyclopedia next time you want to mix your understandings of substances, "soft drugs" as you call them, that is, Marijuana and serotonin-affecting Psychedelics cause no physical changes that lead to addiction/dependence/getting "hooked". In fact, the drugs that are LEGAL are the one's that do that, opiates, benzodiazepines, alcohol, nicotine, caffeine, etc.
WordsMakeTheMan 3 years ago
They belong in the rock and roll hall of fame, Jan Werner is an idiot. The Monkees had so many great songs!
desi656 3 years ago 2
Who the hell is Jan Werner?
JRSL1988 3 years ago
people took drugs in the 60's because they new the system was in terrible shape. the world was controlled by rich, greedy old farts. drugs help you to look at the world differently and make you realize that maybe things should be run differently. same reason we still take drugs......
speaking of which, i was on em the first time i heard this song. my eyes almost bugged outta my head!
bboyd1980 3 years ago
people were defiantly high when watching Fantasia and Alice In Wonderland during this time. I wonder if people were high when listening to Dark Side Of The Moon while watching The Wizard Of Oz.
JRSL1988 3 years ago
You mean Jan Wenner is an idiot. And yes he is.
marxbros4 3 years ago 2
so what you are saying is that taking drugs made something mildly interesting but mostly lame seem amazingly significant. Not sure how this makes the world a better place for you or others. Drugs tend to disconnect us from facts, which makes us as effective as a car w/no transmission. Maybe nice upholstery, but useless for transportation.
Cre8tvMG 3 years ago
it makes you aware of subtlety. take that for whatever it's worth......
bboyd1980 3 years ago
Drugs make you aware of subtlety like beer makes you handsome: in your mind only. I never needed drugs to become aware of subtlety. No one else does either. They just need to think.
PS - I like the monkees, even this kitschy 60s video. It's just drug use that I don't like: it kills brains and friends.
Cre8tvMG 3 years ago
- firstly, something tells me the only reason the monkees even produced HEAD was because they realized that drugs opened a gateway to a different thought process. a lot of times people don't even "think" in their everyday lives. look what it did for the Beatles! does anybody think that Sgt. Pepper would even exist without LSD? Lennon was quoted numerous times promoting the usage of psychedelics.
bboyd1980 3 years ago
And look what drugs did for Brian Wilson and Dennis Wilson. It totally messed them up for life, but the music they created while messed up remains some of the best "pop" music of all time.
dennyvibes 3 years ago
If any of you were aware of subtleties as much as you claim to be you would be discussing how this video/movie have a larger social critique in them, a critique of entertainment and service based post-industrial capitalism as a system which enslaves the artist and replaces self-expression with profit-seeking...rather then just blabbing about "drugs" as you like to call them.
WordsMakeTheMan 3 years ago
In the '60's, people took acid to make the world weird. Now the world is weird and people take Prozac to make it normal.
haltmusic 3 years ago 5
amazing considering people slagged them off for being FAKE.....
thatsthewayitgoes08 3 years ago
there only good song
schizoridinghigh 3 years ago
Unfairly underrated.
hugoestr 3 years ago 7
Check out this song covered by a metal band called TROUBLE off the plastic green head album.
great band
wiseblood1014 3 years ago
Monkees Equivalent of 'I am the Walrus', a very good observation. Pretty much right there!
A fun tune, none the less!
ThatMiserableCat 3 years ago
haha that dummy was funny
RELISIX 3 years ago
The Monkees equivalent to "I am the Walrus"
CaptC4t 3 years ago
I love this movie and the song... saw it many years ago....
brownsugah66 3 years ago 2
Never hear this song before! Oh the beautiful siren :)
Great vid, nice trip!
mauvetys 3 years ago
i love sirens, i can't help myself! ;)
astralhed 3 years ago
Love the tune, and Head. Porpoise Song was used so well by Cameron Crowe in Vanilla Sky. Damn I want to hear radiohead cover this!
dec121964 3 years ago
There was a nice cover by Bongwater in the eighties.
jolcom 3 years ago
Pack the "Bubbler" and sit back and enjoy. This is a great experiment in film..... Thanx Jack.
UncleAndy13 3 years ago
HEAD was one crazy mixed up movie. There is no story as such. I think there must of been a lot of tripping going on when they made this one. I am a Monkees fan & like this song but this movie didn't grab me at all.
suzazza 3 years ago
Actually, there is a story. The entire movie was a series of thinly veiled inside jokes and references to their pre-fab image.
zze916 3 years ago 2
I definitely agree, zz916. I've often told people that this film is like beaing able to watch a dream of the individual Monkees who were put in that pre-fab position.
Everything makes sense to me when using dream language.
boffo1962 3 years ago
Yeah!! 1967/68...The great device..says "goodbye" sixties years..and fight to the future...the seventies age closing...Jack Nicholson..talk about this..in a interview/1969 about the role..." The madness will be more than sex, drugs and rock roll...the tomorrow people...dont will matter for the another people" The Bush AGE is ending...what's the future for America ???
SPECTRE1961 3 years ago
im guessin incubus got inspiration from this awesome video for their music video for "wish you were here" really similar and physcadelic!
Rachelmcg1989 3 years ago
i don't like it when frank zappa cows davy but i see now that it all has its porpoise
aachelabelaaron 3 years ago 2
Sounds fishy to me, maybe it's all in your Head.
heartstoned 3 years ago 2
adds power to a certain scene in 2002 film vanilla sky,awesome song
bat498 3 years ago
a true statement on the age of folwer power ideas images you make the art what you will thats the power of this film and its message
marvelguy6 3 years ago
hey hey we're the monkees!!!!!!!!!!!!
ricken663 3 years ago 2
Hey, don't get me wrong- The Monkees will always be one of my favorite bands, but this movie sucks! I wasted an hour and a half of my life watching it. I do like the this song, though. Maybe I would have liked it if I was still tripping acid, but I a'int. God Bless Y'all!
x101st 3 years ago
This really is a movie you have to watch more than once to really, truly understand and love it. Every time I watch it I learn things I didn't notice before, thus giving me a better understanding of the movie and making me love it so much more. I saw it last night and thought that this was the perfect movie for The Monkees to make.
Pippie 3 years ago 2
my favorite song from this great classic!!!
astralhed 3 years ago
best movie to get drunk to, its hilarious! :)
mandybearski22 3 years ago
love this song, it well trips.
beatleandy1 3 years ago
| haha I never knew that
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| I always loved this film because you're
| constantly asking yourself "what the fuck ?"
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| at the same time I think it weirded out my
| parents, who were around my age at the
| time when it came out...
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KatTaime 3 years ago
I've seen it. I struggled with it but once it was over I wanted to watch it again. They reportedly called it Head so if they made a sequel they could bill it as being "From the people that gave you Head"
Rigel7WasAlreadyUsed 3 years ago