Title: The Monkees – More Of The Monkees
Year/Genre/Sub-Genre/City: 1967, Pop, Sunshine Pop, Los Angeles, California
Matrix #: COS-102 RE
Condition: VG+, sounds great, looks good, some light marks

Cultural Facts:

1. Band Drama: The group had little control early on; that loss of authorship fueled the 1967 revolt when they fought to play and write their own material.

2. Media Narrative: Critics used them as a symbol of “manufactured pop,” but the backlash said as much about 1960s authenticity politics as it did about the band.

3. Studio Lore: Don Kirshner tightly controlled the music pipeline at first; his clash with the group became a power struggle that helped define their public story.

1/16/24 AH 3/23/25 sc 3/21/2026 CC