The Tumblr of Andrew Hickey
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I’ve decided that since many of the people I know on Tumblr are Monkees fans, I’m going to do a Monkees Song Of The Day. I’m going to go through all the Monkees’ songs, at least those on Spotify, and post the relevant entry from my book about the band’s music. If you want to buy the book, it. and my other books, can be found at http://www.amazon.com/Andrew-Hickey/e/B0057GM3KW
While I Cry
Writer: Michael Nesmith
Lead Vocalist: Michael Nesmith
Other Monkees present: None
Producer: Michael Nesmith
A leftover from The Birds, The Bees And The Monkees , this is one of Nesmith’s better ballads from this period, and has some nice backing vocals from Nilsson.
The problem is that at this point Nesmith’s dragged his own baseline up so high that a merely very good song like this leaves little to discuss. We expect miracles from him, so when all we get is a nice country song, there’s a vague feeling of disappointment. It’s still one of the best things on the album, but it’s just average for Nesmith. -
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(via jazzseeksjustice)
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Tales Intended to Cause a State of Astonishment
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I’m seeing bits of conversations which suggest that some people on my Tumblr timeline are having a very rough time, but not enough of the conversations to see who is having the bad time or what the bad time entails. I hope whatever it is stops happening soon.
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We battled the savage sluts of Hong Kong!
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Incredibly, it never occurred to me to look for this on YouTube until now. One of the greatest moments of my adolescence was this set — I’d not actually heard Common People until then (it had only just been released) and I still think this live version (which they later released as a B-side) is the definitive version.
It works on video, but it was a jaw-droppingly astonishing gig in the flesh.
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Ununnilium's Land Of Mystical Wonders: That Depressing Moment Honestly? I’ve gotten more and more annoyed at people who blame things on “fandom” as this strange abstract hivemind. This counts for Doctor Who as much as everything else; there are lots of fans out there, male and female, and it’s been a long time since it was possible to enforce a Single View Everyone Has To Have Or Else.
Please do disassociate yourselves from shitty communities, and please do find better ones. Because there are a lot of better ones out there, and they’re not based around gender; they’re based around the willingness of the participants to be open-minded and have fun.
You’re absolutely right, of course. But it’s been my experience that in spaces that are both devoted to things I like and primarily male, the atmosphere is toxic, while in spaces devoted to the same things but with a significant number of female participants, it isn’t. How much of that is cause and how much effect (and how much is down to my particular tastes) I don’t know. I certainly don’t want to imply that primarily-male groups *can’t* be good, nor that such a thing as ‘fandom’ exists in any real sense.
But the Doctor Who fans (to keep the example we were talking about) on GallifreyBase, for example, are a very different group of people from the ones on Tumblr or LJ. I like the latter far more.
