Salesman

[Deja Q]

Salesman, where you gonna go?
To sell all your of your goods today
Salesman, gonna walk along the street, see friends along the way
Well salesman, with your wooden cart that you push along while you walk
Hey, salesman, got a little dog whose tail wags when you talk
You always wear a smile, even though you've gotta walk ten miles
Short lifespan, goodtime salesman
Yep, yep salesman got it on the street, whether it's hot or cold
It's salesman, well, you work real hard,
Until every part is sold
Salesman as the years go by,
People changing every day
Hey, salesman 'til the end of time you'll be livin in the same way
You always wear a smile, you love 'em fast and you live wild
Short life span, but ain't life grand?

[SCRUBDASHRUB]

1. Monkees!

[johnnie]

2. One of my favorites from them

I just better not be singing it the rest of the night.

[SCRUBDASHRUB]

3. Love their psychedelic stuff. Circle Sky is cool, too.

[johnnie]

4. "Head" is a great soundtrack album

"The Porpoise song" is a good one. About 10 years ago they put out a made for TV movie and redid "Circle Sky" for it, it turned out pretty well. I believe they put it on an album back then too.

[SCRUBDASHRUB]

5. I had a music appreciation professor in college who dissed the

Monkees big time, basically calling them frauds. I rolled my eyes. Nesmith and Peter Tork knew how to play instruments. From what I recall reading, Micky Dolenz played a bit of guitar, and eventually, they learned to play their own instruments (i.e. "Headquarters"). More than I can say for some of the lame ass boy bands of the late 1990s.

I saw them in concert back in the mid-1990s (minus Nesmith). They were actually pretty good.

[mac56]

6. It's fashionable to diss the Monkees.

Sort of conveys hipster cred in some circles.

Didn't play their own instruments? Neither did the Temptations.

Used studio musicians for augmentation? So did the Beach Boys. And they're brilliant.

Got put together from a "cattle call"? So did Led Zeppelin. Page needed three other musicians to fulfill his obligations for the Yardbirds. One cattle call later, he had the New Yardbirds, who became Zep. Look it up.

The Monkees rule.

[johnnie]

7. I saw them twice in the 80s

I still but Nesmith's stuff when he releases it. He has a new one in the works.

[Deja Q]

9. They DID start as a corporate gimmick but Michael Nesmith saw to

fixing that, fortunately.

Their 3rd through 5th albums (plus "Head" soundtrack) are easily their best and it's actually their stuff too. (though Nesmith had written a couple songs that managed to get on to the first two albums...)

The boy/girl bands of modern days are just empty sellouts. Today is about money. Not art. Not integrity. Not even art. Just money.

Which means our society has lost its soul.

[Deja Q]

8. There's like 3 or 4 cuts of it; the one on 'Greatest Links 3' is my fave.

:D

[Deja Q]

10. Nesmith wrote it.

:D

[mac56]

11. Copper kettles, different kinds of tin

There goes salesman, and he's sailin' high again

Sailin' high
Sailin' so high

[SCRUBDASHRUB]

12. Mike Nesmith, August 2004

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