The Monkees HEAD 1968 OST LP DREAMY ACID PSYCH COLLAGE

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          THE MONKEES

Original  Motion Picture Soundtrack

                HEAD

Stereo  Colgems COSO-5008

RECORD AND COVER VG/VG  , cover has some wear , vinyl sounds like new

This is an absolute must have album for any true collector of psychedelia  ,if you don't believe it then wait untill you hear " The Porpoise Song " , 'nuff said,

 even if you don't like the Monkees , this album will transcend everything

you ever thought you new about them , features experimental sound collages and dialogue from what may be the most psychedelic existential satire film

ever produced by a major studio , Jack Nicholson even participated in the making of this album .

Tracks: Opening Ceremony , Porpoise song (theme from Head) , Ditty Diego-War Chant , Circle Sky , Supplicio , Can You Dig It , Gravy , Superstitious , As We Go

Along , Dandruff ? , Daddy's Song , Poll , Long Title ; Do I Have To Do This All Over Again , Swami-Plus Strings

                  This is the only Monkees album where you'll hear the band issue a denunication of their own commercialism. ("Hey hey we are the Monkees," they chant, "you know we love to please. A manufactured image with no philosophies!") After years of struggling against entertainment industry overlords, the Monkees hoped this movie could finally deconstruct their plastic image and give them real credibility with the emerging counterculture.

here's a good review by Daniel Johnson ;. Taken as an individual document on it's own - removed from the movie HEAD this is an absorbing sound collage and stirring concept albums that holds its own next to works by Radiohead and They Might Be Giants. Whatever you think of the Monkees and their fabricated TV image I bet one listen to this disc will make clear that this wasn't bubblegum anymore. The Monkees had actually become a real band after their first 2 commitee produced albums drew criticism and played their own instruments on their recordings and in concert but the problem was they still weren't taken seriously. Well given the chance to make a movie they ran with it satirizing just about every genre (western, boxing, war, romance, etc.) and making a devasting statement about their place in the context of meaningless pop culture. The fact that the movie begins and ends with suicide should give you a little inkling on what that statement was.