Who thinks the Monkeys were a way cooler band than the Beatles?

[INTELBYTES]

The monkeys even had their own cool saturday morning show. I think the beatles tried but again, they were trounced by the monkeys. The monkeys rule. I think the beatles were just a lame spin-off wanna-be band of the monkeys.

(Yep, I'm full of crap, but intelsucks has taken enough of a beating on his beatle views yet.)

[Screaming Lord Byron]

1. Fools believe that. No one else. n/t

[INTELBYTES]

2. Oh man, that's harsh!!

I believe that! :crazy:

[Screaming Lord Byron]

4. Hey, come on. It's Friday and I'm still at work.

I aint in no mood for no frivolousity!

[Intelsucks]

6. Thanks to INTELBYTES, I'm getting no work done today!

and it's all his fault! And if that wasn't bad enough, he's listening to Pat Benatar right now!:puke:

[INTELBYTES]

9. Yeah, I couldn't find your patsy cline 45.

What's the problem, benatar a little too modern for you?

[Mikimouse]

3. You mean, of course, The Monkees?

n/t

[INTELBYTES]

5. Damn spell checker!!

That's it, spell checker is fired!

[Mikimouse]

7. Flog the spell checker...

fifty lashes with a wet vowel!:evilgrin:

8. freepers

'nuf said

[camero]

10. Oh God...The monkees?

:puke:

[Breezy du Nord]

11. I don't think the Monkees wrote their own songs

Did they?

12. they didn't

Neil Diamond wrote I'm a Believer, for example.
Yes, that Neil Diamond.

Tommy Boyce & Bobby Hart wrote Last Train to Clarksville

Boyce wrote Pretty Little Angel Eyes and Hart wrote Come a Little Bit Closer
(the wonders of Google, I don't actually Know this stuff, except for regarding Neil Diamond)

[teach1st]

13. No Google, but...

...Michael Nesmith wrote some of the songs. He also wrote "Different Drum," recorded by Linda Ronstadt and the Stone Ponies. I used to have a few of Nesmith's solo albums and currently have a few of his songs in MP3 format.

(Edited to add a link)

http://www.nezfriends.com/biography.html

14. I never knew

n/t

[ikojo]

18. They wrote some of their own songs

Peter Tork wrote the closing theme song of the second season

Micky Dolenz wrote Randy Scouse Git

Mike Nesmith wrote a bunch of songs..

Also, I don't recall Elvis writing a lot of his songs (if any) and he is called the "king" of rock n roll.

[LadyDemocrat]

15. Hello The Monkeys were a fake band

They used their voices but everything else was pretend. BTW I liked Davey Jones and Mickey Dolenz when I was a kid 100 years ago.

[INTELBYTES]

16. pffffftttt right....

And next your gonna tell me that wrestling is staged and that bush was legitimately elected.

[LadyDemocrat]

17. Come on you know this

They had a band that would play under the stage for them or behind the curtain.

[ikojo]

19. I saw the Monkees perform more than

several times from 1986 to 1987 and while they did have a back up band, they were out there working the instruments. The back up band and singers were there primarily for the times they did the more show tune like songs.

Peter Tork knows how to play keyboards and guitar. He has his own band, Shoe Suede Blues.

In an age when rap is popular and the main thing they do is spin discs why do people still beat up on the Monkees? Sure they were not CSNY or the Beatles but it was only the music press who tried to make them into the "American Beatles." They knew what they were and still do to this day.

Their show was original for its time.

[CrownPrinceBandar]

20. Pardon me whilst I vomit!

Mike Nesmith went on to be somewhat cool. Cooler that the Beatles, please!

[NoPasaran]

21. Write their own songs?

I think it took a while before they even played their own instruments.

[MrSlayer]

22. Only an insane person would believe this.

The Monkeys put the "S" in Suck.

[INTELBYTES]

23. Wow, I didn't know that! Where did the "uck" come from then?

:crazy: