VH1 Behind The Music: The Monkees 2/3

A documentary look into the rise and fall of one of the most successful 60's rock bands of all time, the Monkees.

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Music

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• monkees
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• mickey
• dolenz
• davy
• jones
• peter
• tork
• mike
• nesmith
• I'm
• believer
• vh1
• behind

[sleepingcatt]

Kirchner is an ass.

[bunnylajoya84]

I don't understand why tork and Nesmith were so upset. They were hired as actors not musicians.

[dejavoodu]

@KellyGreen5555

Ignorant. "Hopeless junk" were not Mike's words.. he was being paraphrased by that unnamed dude. Regardless, it's inarguable that Mike loathed bubblegum pop and did not regard commercial success as any measure of good art. That in fact, they often have an inverse relationship.

[steve21960]

I love the Monkees. Honestly "I'm A Believer" is one of my least favorite of their songs. (Maybe that is partially due to Smashmouth ruining it for me) but, regardless. I think their songs got better the longer they were a group, and the stuff that Mike and Micky wrote later was phenomenal.

[mfairldy]

Where is part 3??

[moxie96]

@KellyGreen5555 that was stated in a magazine I read once with an interview with somebody else who was in the studio at the time the archies song was pushed on the band to play and they refused to do it and things got ugly for days/weeks according to the witness. This was before the archies version came out, monkees rejected it because it was to pigeon hole them into bubblegum music when they were trying to do something else, likely what was on the Head album

[KellyGreen5555]

@moxie96 What are you on about?

[moxie96]

@KellyGreen5555 It was Davy who didn't like sugar sugar even more than Mike did, so much he'd use the word "sugar" in place of the "S" word on episodes to drill it in at the producers that he won't do the song after being pushed at it some days/weeks before.

[discoqueen1970]

Don Kirschner was a money hungry jerk then and now. Pretty arrogant as well.

[sleepingcatt]

@acmgirl21 That is really well put.

[KellyGreen5555]

@bunnylajoya84 Mike is a dick. He allowed his ego to run rampage and brought the group to an early demise.

Mike considered "I'm a Believer" to be "hopeless junk?!"...What a pompous know-nothing. I love that it was a huge success and critics regard it as a classic pop song.

I wish The Monkees had recorded "Sugar, Sugar"...Can you imagine how great it would be? Due to Mike, it never happened. Instead we get "Listen to the Band" that put everyone to sleep.