The Cheeky Monkeys of Pop (now with added Robbie)

The original cheeky monkey, or Monkee - rather amazingly Mickey Dolenz was closely associated with some actual monkeys, early in his career...

  • Clever Dick Pop (invented genres 1 of ?)
    Love this tune by J Dilla Imagine my surprise on discovering that it is very largely composed out of a single 10cc song, "The Worst Ban...
  • Dropped Away, Part 2 - the 1985 consensus
    Okay, let's see how things had shifted, in terms of the canon, slightly more than a decade after the 1974 appraisal  by the critics of t...
  • The Dropped Away
    I have written before about the Drops Away Syndrome... that thing where artists seem supremely relevant and core-canonic at a particular mo...