{"id":11069,"date":"2016-06-28T05:30:56","date_gmt":"2016-06-28T09:30:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.musoscribe.com\/?p=11069"},"modified":"2016-06-27T11:42:15","modified_gmt":"2016-06-27T15:42:15","slug":"album-mini-review-the-monkees-good-times","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.musoscribe.com\/index.php\/2016\/06\/28\/album-mini-review-the-monkees-good-times\/","title":{"rendered":"Album Mini-review: The Monkees &#8212; Good Times!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-11070\" src=\"http:\/\/blog.musoscribe.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/06\/monkees.jpg\" alt=\"monkees\" width=\"300\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blog.musoscribe.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/06\/monkees.jpg 300w, https:\/\/blog.musoscribe.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/06\/monkees-150x150.jpg 150w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><iframe loading=\"lazy\" style=\"float: left; padding: 10px; width: 120px; height: 240px;\" src=\"\/\/ws-na.amazon-adsystem.com\/widgets\/q?ServiceVersion=20070822&amp;OneJS=1&amp;Operation=GetAdHtml&amp;MarketPlace=US&amp;source=ss&amp;ref=as_ss_li_til&amp;ad_type=product_link&amp;tracking_id=musoscribe-20&amp;marketplace=amazon&amp;region=US&amp;placement=B01BGDXOFC&amp;asins=B01BGDXOFC&amp;linkId=e58fae3505d01f3c6d444c3174b1968c&amp;show_border=true&amp;link_opens_in_new_window=true\" width=\"300\" height=\"150\" frameborder=\"0\" marginwidth=\"0\" marginheight=\"0\" scrolling=\"no\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>Call them a guilty pleasure if you must: at their core <strong>The Monkees<\/strong> were as \u201creal\u201d a group as many others of their era. And there&#8217;s no denying that they made a lot of music that has worn well this last half-century. Various reunions have yielded enjoyable tours, but little in the way of memorable music. That&#8217;s changed with<i> Good Times!<\/i> The secret is the embracing of their original approach: songs from outside writers who understand the pop aesthetic. Unlike their previous reunion projects, here the group eschews clumsy attempts to \u201cupdate\u201d for present-day, instead aiming for a timeless feel. The Monkees (Micky, Mike, Peter a vintage vocal from departed Davy) make the tunes (from <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/blog.musoscribe.com\/index.php\/2008\/02\/02\/monstrance-dont-call-it-a-jam\/\">Andy Partridge<\/a><\/strong>, producer <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/blog.musoscribe.com\/index.php\/2011\/08\/05\/dvd-review-fountains-of-wayne-no-better-place\/\">Adam Schlesinger<\/a><\/strong>, <strong>Noel Gallagher<\/strong> and <strong>Paul Weller<\/strong> and more) their own. For those who don&#8217;t mind a whiff on nostalgia now and then, <i>Good Times!<\/i> delivers on its title.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Call them a guilty pleasure if you must: at their core The Monkees were as \u201creal\u201d a group as many others of their era. And there&#8217;s no denying that they [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":11070,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_exactmetrics_skip_tracking":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[49,51,62,65],"tags":[1507],"class_list":["post-11069","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-new-release","category-pop","category-rawk","category-review","tag-monkees","cat-49-id","cat-51-id","cat-62-id","cat-65-id","has_thumb"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.musoscribe.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11069","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.musoscribe.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.musoscribe.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.musoscribe.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.musoscribe.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=11069"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/blog.musoscribe.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11069\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11075,"href":"https:\/\/blog.musoscribe.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11069\/revisions\/11075"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.musoscribe.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/11070"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.musoscribe.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11069"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.musoscribe.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11069"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.musoscribe.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11069"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}