The Monkees - Good Times! album flac

Good Times! is the twelfth studio album by the Monkees. Produced mainly by Adam Schlesinger (with some additional bonus tracks produced by Andrew Sandoval), the album was recorded to commemorate the band's 50th anniversary. It is the first Monkees studio album since Justus (1996) the longest gap to date and the first since the death of founder member Davy Jones. The album features surviving Monkees Micky Dolenz, Michael Nesmith, and Peter Tork, as well as a posthumous contribution from Jones.

Good Times! is as contemporary as it is a wander into the past. Over the album's 13 tracks (15 on the download), there is a seamless mixture of new and old, with material supplied by those who wrote some their biggest hits as well as songs by those who grew up on the band. The title track, for example, was based on a 1968 demo by Harry Nilsson, who wrote "Cuddly Toy" and "Daddy's Song" for them. Good Times! is certainly the best Monkees LP since their '60s heyday, but it also stands firmly on its own as one hell of an album circa 2016. To be honest, you'd be hard-pressed to find another act from the same era who has made an album this good in recent memory, and that includes any of the heavyweights still alive and kicking out there. The Top 100 Albums of the '60s. Next: Top 10 Monkees Songs. Filed Under: The Monkees.

Designed as a celebration of the Monkees' 50th anniversary, Good Times! certainly is a joyous revival of the cheerful jangle that characterized the group's big '60s hits, yet underneath the frivolity is an unspoken truth: this 2016 album is quite likely the band's last. After all, two decades passed between this and its 1996 predecessor, Justus, during which time Davy Jones died; in another twenty years, the surviving Monkees would be in their nineties, an unlikely age to rock & roll.

All told, probably The Monkees’ best album, after their hits compilation. 80. Micky looks at the past not with sad reverence but with a smile, happy that he was there and happy to be able to sing about it still, and that's the vibe of Good Times!: it was a blast to live it then and it's a blast to relive those times too.

GOOD TIMES! features all three surviving band members – Micky Dolenz, Michael Nesmith, and Peter Tork. The unmistakable voice of the late Davy Jones is also included with a vintage vocal featured on one song. To produce the new album, the band found the perfect musical co-conspirator in Grammy® and Emmy®-winning songwriter Adam Schlesinger (Fountains Of Wayne, Ivy). Who's ready to have some fun with The Monkees as they celebrate their 50th anniversary? With a tour kicking off in May and the group’s first new album in 20 years, GOOD TIMES!, due June 10th, Monkee-mania will be taking 2016 by storm! GOOD TIMES! features all three surviving band members – Micky Dolenz, Michael Nesmith, and Peter Tork.

Billboard reported Good Times! sold 23,000 album units in the week ending June 2 with 22,000 in what the magazine called pure album sales. It said was the group’s best showing by Nielsen Music since it began tracking data in 1991. I’d be happy if we just had made the Top 40, Micky Dolenz said in an earlier statement to Monkees Examiner. The reception is unexpected and exciting. I knew the album was good and the reaction makes it even more rewarding.

I loved Good Times, the Monkees' 2016 comeback album that IMO was the best thing they've recorded since their fourth LP in '67. When I heard they were following it up with a Christmas album, I was a bit disappointed. I wanted (and still want) more Good Times! But this is better than nothing, and not a bad effort by mastermind Adam Schlesinger and company

Good Times! A fantastic comeback assisted by super-fans like Rivers Cuomo and Noel Gallagher. The Monkees’ first album in nearly 20 years is also their best since the Sixties – to be precise, since the Head soundtrack in 1968. Sorry, Instant Replay diehards. It’s a labor of love – not just for the three surviving lads, but for all the Monkeemaniacs pitching in, headed by producer Adam Schlesinger (from Ivy and Fountains of Wayne), who contributes the gem Our Own World. It nails the classic summer-jangle Monkees sound, with seriously fantastic new tunes from Rivers Cuomo, Andy Partridge and the none-more-mod squad of Noel Gallagher and Paul Weller