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Digging for Gold: The Time-Life “AM Gold” Series, Part 5

Popdose Staff August 3, 2011 3

Our celebration of AM Gold's compilation series continues with the first batch of songs from 1963. Hello Beach Boys!

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Greatest Un-Hits: The Monkees’ “Every Step of the Way” (1987)

Brian Boone July 13, 2011 11

MTV started airing 20-year-old reruns of The Monkees in 1986, a perfect fit for the fledgling network—quick cuts, youth culture, wild and crazy attitude—such were the things MTV aimed to stand for. It was

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The Popdose Interview: Session Bass Legend Joe Chemay

Jeff Giles March 22, 2011 0

After a few years of plundering my parents’ vinyl collection and taping songs off the radio, I finally got around to buying my first cassette in late 1985. This was it: I don’t really

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The Eighteenth Day of Mellowmas: Mulletmas

Jeff Giles and Jason Hare December 18, 2010 14

Because when you're calling yourselves the New Monkees, you might as well just go ahead and sing Christmas lyrics over one of your songs

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Cutouts Gone Wild!: New Monkees, “New Monkees” (1987)

Jeff Giles January 24, 2008 43

New Monkees – New Monkees (1987) purchase this album (Amazon) When all is said and done, the 1980s may not go down as the decade with the highest per-capita quotient of misbegotten sequels —

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