DISQUS

Spence · 1 year ago

None of these downloads are working... :(

jefito · 1 year ago

Are you still having problems getting to them? I'm streaming one now...

Spence · 1 year ago

All cool now.

jack · 1 year ago

When 1986 Corey Feldman (dressed as Michael Jackson) looks cooler than you, you are LAME. The album should have been called "Mullet vs. Flattop"

jack · 1 year ago

And of course if I'd been old enough in 1986 and had the opportunity, I would have done it too. No offense to the guys. The "hip" look they were given just hasn't aged nearly as well as Nesmith's knit cap.

Now THAT was a timeless look!

jasonhare · 1 year ago

Remember that episode of The Simpsons where the kids go to see "Naked Lunch," and Nelson walks out saying, "I can think of at least two things wrong with that title?"

That's what I think of when I think of my initial reaction to New Monkees.

WHarrisBullzEye · 1 year ago

Oh, dear God. I have a soft spot for the album - I, too, purchased it from a cutout bin many years back, and there was even a brief period where "Do It Again was popping up as a compilation-tape staple - but I'd never actually seen the show before. Talk about an utter lack of chemistry or comedic timing...

Old_Davy · 1 year ago

Re: The video - I liked the concept of "religion for sale" but the execution was indeed awful. Although I did laugh at the thought of the Pope (or someone that sounds just like him) singing "Sugar Magnolia".

Re: The audio - Just plain awful.

You know what we need? We need "The New Partridge Family." That's what we need. Just for nostalgia's sake, they could give the Rubin Kincaid part to Danny Bonaduce, if Danny could stay sober long enough to shoot an episode.

JohnHughes · 1 year ago

Sadly, there WAS a "New Partridge Family" on VH1 a few years ago, cast via an "American Idol"-type contest.

Awfs.

JohnHughes · 1 year ago

New.

Monkees.

Convention.

Just wanted to repeat that.

allen · 1 year ago

I just want to point out that this was 20 years ago. When this came out, the original Monkees was 20 years old.
Fuck me.
This is only slightly better than Shasta McNasty!

Jerry · 1 year ago

This post made my day. And the thought of people holding a New Monkees convention made my year. Thanks for the trip down Suppressed Memory Lane!

Bastard No. 1 · 1 year ago

Of all the albums I own for my 80's collection - this is nowhere in sight. Looks like I have to drop a few bucks down and purchase this one. Great post.

Beau · 1 year ago

Looks like a cross between "The State" and a Poison video.

Pet · 1 year ago

You want to know what's really sad? I remember that it also featured Bess Motta... late of The Terminator and, more importantly, The 20-Minute Workout.

Fudgester · 1 year ago

This isn't real is it? Thank the lord this never made it across the atlantic, or perhaps it did and I was too young. The idea never went away though. A few years ago in the UK we were blessed with the teenie-act SClub7 who had their own tv sitcom where they played 'themselves' and frequently launched into their latest single in gardens and on rooftops. They were briefly so successfull they franchised themselves as SClub Juniors.... sadly the bubble burst before they reached the S Club Voyager stage.

Jeff · 1 year ago

"Boy Inside the Man" was a hit in Canada for Tom Cochrane in 1986, and it's still heard a lot on retro stations today. I had no idea there was another version. The video can be seen here: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WXY9wANQIsY
Interestingly, the third comment says "the New Monkees did it better"!

Paul · 1 year ago

As much as I loved this album and show at the age of 13, I still knew even at the time that Tom Cochrane's original of "Boy Inside the Man" was heaps better than their cover. Doing a side-by-side 20 years on, that's still an undeniable truth.

Paul · 1 year ago

As the requester of the repost, I have to give you a big fat THANK YOU Jeff. And on my birthday no less! You are a king among men.

jose · 1 year ago

jared chandler appeared on movies dumbo drop with danny glover, forever young with mel gibson, and worked on many other movies as a military consultant having spent a few years, after the New Monkees, in the military. dino kovas has manage to stay working in tv mainly behind the scenes. nothing worth mentioning. marty ross didn't do much acting after the show, but his band, the wigs appeared on the movie my chufuer, and has done songs for a few movies and tv shows. larry saltis did continue with tower city, making two cd's the first produced by mike slammer. the band changed their name (colorvine) and sound (pop/grunge) to no more comercial secess than the previous discs. he left the music scene around 2004/05.

t · 1 year ago

this is not the Monkees I know and love... That is show is really fucked up!

Blue · 10 months ago

cool page. the downloads are totally out. any possibilty of them working again?

Marty Ross · 6 months ago

Your music profile of the "music" of New Monkees is completely wrong.I should know as I was one of the "winners", Marty Ross. I chose the songs I sang.Inever acted again. I suck hard at it. However since I was an accomplished musician before the show I continued and have continued in music ever since. I now own two houses in a nicer part of Los Angeles. I can say without a doubt that your "report" on the New Monkees is by far the least educated and most ill prepared report on the admittedly weak subject. Idon't care if you hate the show... the death threats that we recieved during the course of the show were mind numbing enough.... see how long 13 weeks can seem with THAT hanging over your head.....And all of the threats coming from? Lovable Monkees fans!! So next time you want to fire away at me ... give me two or three well known facts about you and let me write a story about you.... BTW Fred Tackett is a SESSION MUSICIAN FOR HIRE.... And No one was "Commisioned". In other news,I gave a concert on classical guitar at University Of Chicago Circle Campus when I was 10. I was very serious . Why take the New Monkee Gig? Would you take a job that paid 12 grand a week being yourself on TV? Where were you? HACK. Can you remain quiet? LOL!

jefito · 6 months ago

Settle down, Marty. Just because you've reached the top of the Hollywood food chain, that doesn't mean you can leave your drunken rants anywhere you want. Your comments were hurtful and uncalled for, and whenever you finally dry out and reach whichever of the twelve steps requires you to make amends, I expect to receive an apology from you.

And about those houses...fess up, Marty. Peter Tork owned them first, didn't he?

David_E · 6 months ago

I'm assuming the "Hollywood food chain" you refer to is In-n-Out Burger.

skuhn · 6 months ago

Jimi Hendrix opened up for the Monkees. The New Monkees had a 12 year old kid doing magic tricks. Word. Marty, it's about time you stopped shouting about SESSION MUSICIANS FOR HIRE...this Peter Falk routine is definitely getting long in the tooth.

jasonhare · 6 months ago

Wow, you own TWO houses? Shit, that validates everything!

JohnHughes · 6 months ago

I'm just disappointed in this post's Google Page Rank. I mean, Marty's obviously been obsessively Googling himself and it took him a year and a half to find this page.

Some search engine optimization is in order, methinks.

dslifton · 6 months ago

I am very pissed off at this. I've been calling Jeff a hack for years and haven't gotten as much as a sneer in return. I guess being a New Monkee has its rewards.

jefito · 6 months ago

You don't own two houses in one of the nicer parts of L.A.

Alec · 6 months ago

I actually wrote a song for the New Monkees, but I never got around to submitting it. Maybe the band can reunite and I can resubmit?

Not Justin · 6 months ago

I don't remember what year the Monkees appeared on the scene (see jefito's terminology: old fart), but I do recall an almost visible tear in the fabric of music that year. Friends divided, those of us who listened to Hendrix and the likes would groan, leave the room, change stations on hearing their music. The Monkees, in my opinion, were the leading cause of the musical catastrophe that ensued: "Bubblegum music" was born. Worse yet, it stayed. Yes, I am aware of its popularity, that doesn't mean it was good or that I ever want to hear it again. What little I remember of the associated original TV Show was from nights babysitting my younger brother, whose musical taste had not yet evolved. The Monkees were not the worst, by any means, but ... still... why repeat a less than great thing?
I don't really need to watch the "New" Monkees to know I would regret the wasted time. I'm sure I don't need to hear the music to know I don't really need it on my iPod - after all, I'd trust Jeff with my life why wouldn't I trust his review - a review I enjoyed reading, not really sure why Marty Ross didn't. You'd think that despite whatever MINOR facts were wrong or missing would still be worth having his name be seen, his music be heard? It's not like it was a personal slam, and hey, this is why they paid him those big bucks that got him those two fancy houses. Getting reviews, good and bad, goes with the territory. (and no, getting death threats should never go with any territory)
My suggestion to Marty Ross, if you're still following the fallout from your temper tantrum, invest some of that hard earned Hollywood money in some therapy.

steed · 6 months ago

Well now see, Marty missed the point - the point that Jeff opened up a new generation's ears to the New Monkees. I followed through on my comment and went and bought the record. New! mind you. Well, at least it was re-sealed. I mean I bought it at Dollar General in one of those revolving racks at the counter. The other side of the rack had a mess of Eddie Rabbitt cassettes and there were some of those mini fork like things you stick in the sides of corn on the cob so you don't burn yourself and I still chose the New Monkees instead. How many people would have chosen the New Monkess over Corn on the Cob forks? Boo-yah.

DwDunphy · 6 months ago

Mmmmmm... Corn. (drool.)

nathansmart · 1 month ago

Re-Up please!