September 4, 2008
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I remember being verbally abused for several hours when I commented on a chat room that, overall, I prefer the Monkees to the Beatles. I was trying to say that what songs I liked from the Beatles were far superior to the Monkees, but as a percentage, there were more Monkees songs I could listen to. I mean, the early Beatles stuff is the English version of bubblegum pop and frankly, it sounds like crap to me. This is the first song on their Red/Blue Apple compliations that I liked, the last track from disc 1. A move away from “Hard Day’s Night” sound, its stripped down sound and rather introspective lyrics really appealed to me. After the early stuff, they’d find a lot more success with me, with eight tracks from disc 2, seven from 3, and nine from 4. I didn’t like anything before Yesterday, but I liked a lot afterward.
