Reply #22: There is no way one can compare the Clash with the Monkees, [View All]

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when one considers the Monkees song "P.O. Box 9847".

Never has one song combined the struggle of the the individual in

as increasing homogeneous society, with the desperate desire to

share one's hopes and dreams with another without surrendering the

total oneness that defines us not only as individuals but as a part

of the rest of society and our place in it.

Here is a man who knows that total honesty will not gain him a

companion so he tries to embellish his qualities to, if not lie,

draw that general type of women who would find him if not

desirable, then at least tolerable.