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Dolenz, Jones, Boyce & Hart

Dolenz, Jones, Boyce & Hart

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Rated Member Rating by Wampus on 01/19/2006

So the Monkees couldn’t reunite in the mid-seventies because Mike Nesmith wasn’t interested and Peter Tork was unreachable. What were Davy and Mickey to do for some reliable LA music industry moolah? Well, they got songwriters Tommy Boyce and Bobby Hart who wrote “Last Train to Clarksville” and “(I’m Not Your) Stepping Stone” to step up to the not-so-real-band plate for a mini-tour playing Monkees tunes. People actually turned out to see ‘em and bang, they get a record contract with Capitol Records (this CD is not reissued by Capitol, it’s put out by British indie Cherry Red Reords). File away in the “Hey, This Isn’t As Bad As I’d Assume It’d Be” section. They keep safely in the pop world of Gilbert O’Sullivan, Burt Bacharach, early Bee Gees. Lyrics stay in the relationship/love area without even a metaphor to keep your mind off their blandness. What it lacks in innovation, it tries to compensate with slick professionalism. It’s competent and the throwaways are less slapdash than albums before (thank you AOR?). “Right Now” features Bee Gees tremolo vocals in a pleasant-enough melody. “You and I” would be a good cut for your mix tape aimed at the square you’re slowly bringing into your world. For a group whose tagline was “the guys who wrote ‘em and the guy who sang ‘em,” they sure break the slogan and not with great results. Besides an uninteresting “Teenager In Love” cover, there’s the William Martin-penned “Moonfire” that tries to rock like a cruise band but can’t. Davy Jones cedes vocals to Boyce or Hart on “I Love You (and I’m Glad I Said It),” and you for once will miss the vocal gifts of one Davy Jones. One song Sail On Sailor contains the silliest half-baked lyrics. ”If you ever get to old England, she is a lady so treat her well.” England is a lady? How do you treat a country well? “And please remember we once were lovers. Oh, how I miss her now she is gone.” England’s gone? OK, I guess it’s not England, but that line is confusing. If you ever say hello to Jamaica and you are lying in Kingston Bay” Um, I’ll lay BY Kingston Bay, thank you. In it and you’re drowning. “and if you can’t see those smiling faces then just remember she used to be your slave.” WHAT!?! Hey, slaveowner, a little down? Remember you used to own that person? Feel better? Good. The miscues outnumber the tolerable songs. The fidelity is subpar especially on “Along Came Jones”—was this CD recorded off vinyl? And not a song you heard in childhood to feel nostalgic. I’d say wait for a Capitol reissue with bonus tracks. It might be for the Monkees completist, but he already has it.
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  • Year: 2005
  • Label: Cherry Red Records
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