The Monkees

The Monkees' first two albums deserved to be massive hits, but the band started to get fed up with being derided for neither writing nor playing on their records. So they took artistic control and came up with a winning set that almost matches their first two albums in terms of pure rock pleasure. The album's highlight is "Randy Scouse Git," an amazing Beatles/Kinks psych-rock pastiche.

All through the Summer of Love, while Sgt. Pepper was Number One on the charts, the
Monkees locked down the Number Two spot (for eleven weeks!) with Headquarters.
Nobody has ever called Headquarters the second-greatest album of all time, but as a pop
encounter with the hippie moment, it's hard to beat. Enjoying creative control for their
third album, high on the hippie vibes in the air, the Prefab Four cruise through L.... More >