Title: Genre splicing and...early mashups?
Product review: We all know Nes invented MTV, but did he invent the mashup too? Do I hear hints of "Theme From A Summer Place" running through "Papa Gene's Blues?" This whole album is peppered with funny musical quotes and clichés.If you really "get" HEAD, you'll get this. It's a tribute to schmaltz. Nesmith took his finely-crafted songs and squeezed them through the psychedelicized Hollywood machine and wound up with some startling grotesques.Elaborate almost to vulgarity (rococo, really,) mockingly humorous and loads of fun. He was a young King-Of-The-World and he indulged the excesses afforded him. Why not? Wouldn't you?To enjoy this album you simply have to put aside all your preconceptions of what a Monkee is supposed to sound like and luxuriate in this feast of divers delicacies.Amazing! ...and for the stouthearted, perfect. In other words, you just may NOT be the one!
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