Film Noir Buff Style Forum / Groovin' at the I Spot -

Oo Bop Sh'bam · 2012-02-28 13:44:43

I've got a vinyl of theirs somewhere.

Quite like this one. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FA0ZmOij … re=related

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steve mcqueen fan · 2012-02-28 15:39:19

Oo Bops posting of Quincy Jones' "Love And Peace" on another thread today reminded me (the title did) of this great song.

http://youtu.be/hsU6_eSG4k4

noblesurfer · 2012-02-29 10:01:23

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AsSOhGRJPTg

Simon · 2012-02-29 12:44:32

Little bit of country, little bit of R&B.
Peggy Paxton
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DgqFF3PEjFk
Ann Caudell
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LbTpG0TbzC8

Simon · 2012-02-29 12:48:57

Little bit of Jazz, Little bit of R&B
Ann Margret
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iIodUi6L4IY

Simon · 2012-02-29 12:54:05

Mental Jazz, mega mega rare on 45.
Doris Troy
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XvTwCE882vI

Simon · 2012-02-29 14:04:49

Smooooth
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jv5RlfXe … mp;lf=plcp

Sammy Ambrose · 2012-02-29 14:14:34

Simon wrote:
Mental Jazz, mega mega rare on 45.
Doris Troy
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XvTwCE882vI

Nice one.

Abbey Lincoln - Freedom day

http://vodpod.com/watch/1312003-max-roa … reedom-day

Hard Bop Hank · 2012-02-29 16:23:43

Ike

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZOXNIyJAoiU

4F Hepcat · 2012-03-01 00:15:51

Was a manufactured band ever as good?

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QWTa9CE5 … re=related

RIP Davy, you'll get to play tambourine with the big band in the sky now.

Sammy Ambrose · 2012-03-01 02:14:54

4F Hepcat wrote:
Was a manufactured band ever as good?

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QWTa9CE5 … re=related

I hated them intensely. Almost as much as I hated the divs who liked them.

Hard Bop Hank · 2012-03-01 03:15:21

Hendrix called them "dish water"...

But come on, they're more fun than listening to all this "serious" Woodstock hippy rock...

At least "Stepping Stone" is a solid punk rocker, and even Afrika Bambaata couldn't resist the catchy drum break on "Mary Mary"....

Liam Mac · 2012-03-01 03:23:18

4F Hepcat wrote:
Was a manufactured band ever as good?

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QWTa9CE5 … re=related

RIP Davy, you'll get to play tambourine with the big band in the sky now.

The Monkees were fun and had some real catchy pop tunes. That's the point of pop music surely. Anyone who doesn't like them needs to pull there head out of there ass and lighten up.

That riff is great. Mark E Smith must have thought so too.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s8WxQhSvISU

Sammy Ambrose · 2012-03-01 04:23:30

Liam Mac wrote:
The Monkees were fun and had some real catchy pop tunes. That's the point of pop music surely. Anyone who doesn't like them needs to pull there head out of there ass and lighten up.

I think you need to have been there to know how truly horrible and pernicious it was to have youthful minds twisted by that crap. Some people never got to hear anything better. I saw some of the worst minds of my generation being destroyed.

Here's what kids could have been listening to in 1966.
Mitch Ryder - Breakout

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VOICW1Ar8sY

steve mcqueen fan · 2012-03-01 04:58:47

4F Hepcat wrote:
Was a manufactured band ever as good?

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QWTa9CE5 … re=related

RIP Davy, you'll get to play tambourine with the big band in the sky now.

I was really surprised to see you post this. (I thought Oliver might be the one) As Hank and Liam eluded to, it was what it was, some nice pop music. I liked it in 1966 and I like it today.
I've seen interviews with Davey Jones over the years and he came across as a down to earth, genuine nice man.
http://youtu.be/nU615FaODCg

4F Hepcat · 2012-03-01 05:03:38

It may well have been Beatnik who first came out with the statement: Never trust a man who doesn't like Elvis.

Rock and pop had something once: a vitality and vibrancy.

When I was 10 years old, me and the other divs quite enjoyed the reruns of The Monkees. Some of us even liked Fame the series.....okay, I know we should have been attending Northern Soul all-nighters, but our parents were not that enlightened and I had a 9PM curfew. The current Monkees equivalent, I guess is Glee, I haven't seen Glee, so I can't compare. I wager The Monkees is a better series though.

4F Hepcat · 2012-03-01 05:08:38

I would also add, the modern day minstrel show of gangsta' rap is more detrimental and twisted effect on young fragile minds, in a more vicious and sinister way than the lyrics and guitar riff of 'Last Train To Clarksville'.

steve mcqueen fan · 2012-03-01 05:28:40

Well said.

The Woolster · 2012-03-01 05:44:38

4F Hepcat wrote:
I would also add, the modern day minstrel show of gangsta' rap is more detrimental and twisted effect on young fragile minds, in a more vicious and sinister way than the lyrics and guitar riff of 'Last Train To Clarksville'.

Have you heard this cover Heppie?

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aLa3TegBUIA

I love it. In fact I love the whole album. Before she became overproduced, too polished.

The Woolster · 2012-03-01 05:50:10

^ Ok, I could live without the U2 cover, but this one's great:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4gPLLy4sIUY

Sammy Ambrose · 2012-03-01 06:28:50

4F Hepcat wrote:
It may well have been Beatnik who first came out with the statement: Never trust a man who doesn't like Elvis.

Rock and pop had something once: a vitality and vibrancy.

When I was 10 years old, me and the other divs quite enjoyed the reruns of The Monkees. Some of us even liked Fame the series.....okay, I know we should have been attending Northern Soul all-nighters, but our parents were not that enlightened and I had a 9PM curfew. The current Monkees equivalent, I guess is Glee, I haven't seen Glee, so I can't compare. I wager The Monkees is a better series though.

You're going to have to help me out here. I'm having a difficult time equating Elvis and the terms vital and vibrant with the pre-Fab 4, which added up to the Circus Boy, Ena Sharples' grandson, a woolly hat and a really bad haircut doing silly imitations of a Hard Day's Night week after week.

I suppose the effect on 10 year-olds might not have been THAT harmful. And you can't even claim to be a div at 10. But on older kids the influence was shocking. I know I was there.

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Sammy Ambrose · 2012-03-01 06:35:17

I think this guy explains rather well the torture that the Monkees represented for those of us who had to endure them.

"The Monkees - people in the appropriate age brackets - was it just TV pollution?
when you only had 3 channels on TV, did you groan as much as me when it came on TV? I never got 1 second of entertainment from that lousy TV show. It left me reaching form my Rubiks cube to see if I could solve it in under 30 minutes.

I think people should remember that at one time if rubbish like the Monkees came on, you might switch channels and find that there was nothing on the other channel. BBC2 would have a test card at that time, or a bloke in a beard talking about topological manifolds on Open University.

Are you like me and feeling no mourning for the loss of Davy Jones?

I send my condolences his friends and family of course."

http://answers.yahoo.com/question/index … 350AAFuXqu

Liam Mac · 2012-03-01 06:41:01

Sammy Ambrose wrote:
I suppose the effect on 10 year-olds might not have been THAT harmful. And you can't even claim to be a div at 10. .

All 10 year olds are divs.

Sammy Ambrose · 2012-03-01 07:02:07

Liam Mac wrote:
Sammy Ambrose wrote:
I suppose the effect on 10 year-olds might not have been THAT harmful. And you can't even claim to be a div at 10. .
All 10 year olds are divs.

We must have a different understanding of how the word used to be used.

Liam Mac · 2012-03-01 07:53:54

Must do. In my world a 'div' or 'divvy' refers to someone who is just a bit stupid. To me it's no more harsh than calling someone 'daft'.

What does it mean to you?

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