Headquarters

stupid fake beatles

Garbage

Besides perhaps a couple of songs, this album didnt do shit for me...

NO!

What an experience to listen to this directly after I finished "A Hard Day's Night"... The best tracks here were the fleeting moments they WEREN'T pretending to be the Beatles. Also I realize now that there was a show and far more lore to this whole ordeal than I initially was aware of, still doesn't make me enjoy it any more.

Imitation Beatles. "Band 6" is stupid. "Mr Webster" I guess is their "Eleanor Rigby". "Shades of Grey" is worse Simon and Garfunkel. "Zilch" we're back into stupid territory. Had an awful time forcing myself to listen to this.

The show was better.

For today's 1001 albums to hear before I die I rolled The Monkees' Headquarters, and I have no idea what to even expect here as I never thought I'd listen to one of their albums in full. If you have never heard any 60s music before and don't want some crazy Psychedelic obscurity to ruin your perspective of this decade, this is a pretty safe choice to listen to. I don't see why this is an essential must hear before I die as it is a pretty standard and by the books Pop Rock album from that time with absolutely nothing interesting to offer. This is one of the most nothing-burger releases from this decade I have heard. I only really liked Forget That Girl and everything else here was just fine to decent with no other real standouts in my mind.

This was pretty generic. I’d rather have watched an episode of the TV show.

This was just awful. Instead of playing their own instruments they should have just retired.

Well this sucks.

This is a well done ripoff of not only the Beatles, but also Simon and Garfunkel, Little Richard and Peter, Paul and Mary. It sounds ok and this album provided the sample for Del The Funky Homosapiens "biggest" hit, but that is all it has going for it. Does not deserve to be on the list.

This is the first album I've gotten that I didn't really care for. The Monkees were a pretty overrated commercialized American Beatles knockoff and this album wasn't anything special.

Worthless pop culture flotsam. The Beatles are already basically just music for children, so why would a kids' show pastiche act of them be anything other than a childish born-outdated disposable bauble?

Completely unlistenable

So thought this was quite long and considered not listening to the deluxe album, went to the headquarters sessions and that was 3hrs long; so I submitted myself to the 90min version but I had enough by 60mins. It’s a classic pop sound but it’s stale and I wouldn’t want to listen again because it’s been the same song on repeat for an hour.

Really not in the mood for this. Listened to two songs and got nausea thinking of listening to the rest of it.

Zzzzzzzz Franchement claqué au sol de fou

Meh. Nostalgic but not classic

I’m gonna preface this by saying: I’ve always hated the monkees. Their music is lame. So I didn’t want to listen to this album. But I did. And even listened to the bonus tracks. I hated every minute of it. The monkees still suck and I still hate them. 1001 album worthy: no - 95/174

Disaster

1 star. 3 hr album with rough drafts? Nah. Give me the final version only.

Turns out I don't enjoy 60's hippie pop as much as thought I would. I mean, I'm not a huge 60's music fan as it is, though I am partial to some Beatles occasionally. In that case, I'd rather just go listen to that. Also, is it just me or are the drums on this album way too loud?

This whole album is pretty much a worthless Beatles rip-off. Maybe you had to be there, I don't know. The only interesting track is 'Zilch', which is used as a sample in a much better hip hop song (Mistadobalina) by Del the Funky Homosapien.

Not top 1001 album territory

Ok

A manufactured band thrown together to try to rival the success of The Beatles at the time. What a joke. It didn't work and judging by the tedium of this album I am not surprised. Did I really want to hear this album before I die? No not really but I have and do not plan on repeating the painful experience.

Very boring 60s pop rock. Nothing interesting (except for Zilch) and gets annoying very fast. Also, I hate the cover.

not to be overtly disrespectful but listening to The Monkees has always, for some reason, made me irrationally irritated. nothing wrong with this album in particular but my mental illness is improved by not listening to The Monkees.

This is #day185 of my #1001albumsyoumusthearbeforeyoudie challenge, and... monkee see, monkee do? Why make a Beatles parody band when you can just listen to The Beatles? I don’t get it. It’s been a while since I rated an album a 1, so here we are. Back to square one. Looking forward to #day186.

I really don't know why this one on the list. Forgettable trash.

Die Beatles in schlecht und ein paar Jahre zu spät. 1967 waren die Beatles und andere schon weiter.

Shouldn't be in the list for me...not one excellent song, not one good song, at best some average songs...standout Zilch says it all...for me best song on the record...Mister Dobalena, Mister Bob Dobalena!

I hate beatles clones, especially when they are drastically inferior

Really uninteresting and generic music

Randy Scouse Git

Shite

Shite

Groupe inconnu. Ressemble beaucoup aux Beattles, donc ils partent avec un désavantage. C'est confirmé, rien de bien intéressant ou original. =>1/5

Sorry, just really couldn't do it. It was and is really hard to take this band seriously.

De Beatles, maar dan nog saaier. Dit is zo ontzettend nep, dat ik ga verlangen naar Siouxsie die ik hiervoor kreeg. En die kreeg 2 sterren....

Im really not sure that this child lusting has aged that well.

1. you told me - 1 2. life uuith you - 1 3. forget - 1 4. band 6 - 0 5. the one - 0 6. GRAY - 1 7. my mind - 1 8. petez zake - 1 9. mr uuebzter - 1 10. zunny - 1 11. zilch - 0 12. no time - 1.5 13. morning - 1 14. randy - 1 15. toyz - 1 16. the girl - 1 17. a little - 1 18. hangz out - 0 19. love to love - 1 20. muztang - 0 21. violin - 1.5 22. 99 poundz - 1 23. the girl - 1 24. randy - 1 25. monkeez - 1 26. toyz - 1 27. the girl - 1 28. a little bit - 1 29. hangz out - 0 30. the girl - 1 31. nine timez blue - 1 32. be there - 1.5 33. train - 1.5 34. peter gun - 1 35. jericho - 0 36. pillouu - 1

What if the Beatles were shit?

I’m not big on the 60-70 dainty rock stuff. It’s just not for me.

i fully understand why people were anti rock n roll during this period

why am i only getting albums from the 60s. they’re all the exact same and boring asf.

didn't enjoy felt incredibly dated, and sounded like a worse version of the Beatles and it was too long since it had 36 songs

70’s don’t care

60s Backstreet Boys/Poor Man’s Beatles. Next…

This book/list: It came out in 1967, it must be the best thing ever put to tape! I mean, no. Just no. When I think of the albums I should be listening to, it's not this. I mean, the first song is just Doctor Roberts from Revolver. I don't even think the Beatles were that great, so why would I want to listen to a Beatles rip-off?

In a nutshell: from the band that brought you "Head"... 32 minutes of your life gone listening to this mundane album. Skip this. The Monkees are more of a singles band anyway. Overall: 1/10

lackluster

Nope

nie podoba mi sie, jeden sie trafil nieprzeszkadzacz calkiem przyjemny

I only had a vague memory of the Monkees. I probably only heard their name once. I gave the album a chance. I gave it up after 18 tracks. The music was uninteresting to me and was increasingly getting on my nerves. Only Zilch promised to be more interesting. It wasn't boring, but it was so annoying that I abandoned it.

garbage. 0.

Not sure I'd call this essential listening.

some are nice. some are annoying af

It’s a no from me dog

No!

That sucked

Just can't with the Monkeys

More trash from the 60’s. I bet it was super uncool to like this band.

Oof that was rough. I felt like I was doing someone a favor by listening to it

Ngl was a snoozer. Happy Monday I guess. Had a good weekend

nah

Un álbum poco interesante que busca emular lo más posible las mejores composiciones de The Beatles en su periodo de 1966 a 1967. Un proyecto clon, bastante bien interpretado, pero con poca originalidad. A pesar de que los miembros de The Monkees pudieron escribir sus canciones, no lograron crear una pieza musical original.

It's wild that Beatles mania was so powerful that all these awful knockoff copycat acts all became popular and well regarded. It's trash.

Seeing this record come up made me laugh, as I don't take The Monkees seriously, and never had, except to recall their "hits" whenever they appear. It's definitely a 60's record. The only "starred" by Apple Music is track 6, "Shades of Gray". It's pretty bad. In summary, this record took three minutes to review and discard!

Frekar dull á heildina litið. Enginn banger, bara meh.

I ALREADY RATED THIS YOU IDIOTS

This is just…just awful. Whose idea was it to pack an hour and a half of music into one album like this? They could’ve at least split it into 3 albums.

Mieleenpainumatonta 60-luvun huttua

Saattaa toimia. Jos on alle 13-vuotias ja elää vuonna 67.

I don't like The Beatles

Big hot trash

Yuck

Had high hopes for the band name

I’m kinda bored of this kinda music

0 stars. F*ck the Monkees.

As a kid, Daydream Believer was my most favorite song. As an adult, I could not listen to any one song all the way through.

It's very twee. That isn't necessarily a bad thing if it's still interesting to listen to, but this isn't.

A mix of the Beatles, Elvis and Bowie To long to repetitive and a a lot of dobbels

I tried to give it a fair listen but just so meh.

meh. Beatles knockoff not much to it

Harkened a mother’s quest to be pretty bland and uninteresting. Should’ve stuck to the ghost writers and session musicians.

Aged

Way past its expiration date

Initial impressions was it sounded Beatlesque but didn't quite hit that spark. Fun at first but quickly became very samey and generic. After reading that this band was created for a tv show, this makes a lot of sense. It's mass appeal with with little to no soul, mimicking the popularity of others. There's not even enough for me to hate it, just very uninteresting and it just keeps going on.

Meh.

Absolutely not my style

Couldn’t get through it. Really bad.

doodoo