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Headquarters

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...

2004 RS: 3of 5 Stars

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With any number of punkish bar bands semi-ironically recycling "Steppin' Stone" in the late '70s, and a partially reunited Monkees touring and recording in the '80s, there's been a revisionist twist upward in appraisals of this band's slight canon. Cynically manufactured by Don Kirshner and a crew of TV producers looking to dilute A Hard Day's Night for the boob tube, Davy Jones, Michael Nesmith,...

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