The Monkees?
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- boobs
Mono or Stereo?
- ********0
I don’t get the question, but I love the Monkees.
- ********0
Haha, I used to live in alley behind my favourite bar and one Sunday morning my cousin and I went to it early - to get good seats for a baseball game. And well, the bar was basically an extension of my place at the time.
To our surprise when we walked in, the one guy was raving about how they were setting up this new jukebox which could download music and everything and they were setting it up.
But when they set it up. They didn't play anything.
So I went up, and chose the first song to ever be played on it.
The Monkees Theme Song.
My cousin and I are the only people in the bar, but we're in the back laughing about how much we both love the Monkees and then it stops and all you hear is, "Fucking hell, I guess if no one puts any money in it - it just plays fucking crap."
To which I yelled, "Hey, hey, hey, I played that song!"
Not even jokingly, he just looks me dead in the eyes and goes, "If you ever play this kind of shit in here again while I'm here Jer, I'm throwing you out."
To which I just laughed and said he didn't want to play the next song.
He did.
It was Foreigner - Jukebox Hero. And I posted up next to the jukebox with one foot up behind me against the wall with my arms crossed. He threw the damn remote at me and I was banned from picking songs the rest of the day, haha.
- boobs0
Do you prefer the Mono mixes, or the Stereo mixes?
- ********0
Stereo...
Then again, I'm not a rite cunt who complains about VBR rips, and only downloads FLACs because well ... I'm not a rite cunt.
As long as it sounds good enough to my untrained ear, I could care less really.
- jaylarson0
I'd be curious to hear sterero of ˚the porpoise song. decent psychedelic track.
- 23kon0
Boobs
sorry to answer your question ....
i dont know, never really thought about it.
listening to early stereo mixes of like The Beatles and The Monkees, you can switch the audio to just one ear or the other and you get a different take on the song, like itl just be lennon and a guitar, then you switch it over and its drums, mcartney and bass. great stuff, esp for sampling.A couple of years ago i stumbled across a cache of The Monkees backign tapes online and downloaded them all. these were the tapes of the backing music that they would sing along to when doing tv performances. there was also loads of studio recordings and outakes.
The gem of the cache is the first ever recording of The Porpoise Song, its whoever sitting singing it while playing it on a toy-sounding organ/keyboard. its such a shit recording - prob done on a dictaphone - but yet its so beautifully haunting and gritty