POP-A-LOOZA: The Monkees, "I Never Thought It Peculiar"

Each week, the pop culture website Pop-A-Looza shares some posts from my vast 'n' captivating Boppin' (Like The Hip Folks Do) archives. The latest shared post is my pulpit-pounding on behalf of a song many others might describe as a guilty pleasure: "I Never Thought It Peculiar" by The Monkees.

There is really no such thing as a guilty pleasure in pop music. Unless you happen to love neo-Nazi ditties or glorifications of hatred or violence, I'd say it's okay for you to dig whatever you wanna dig. Yes, even the hits of The Eagles. Why? BECAUSE THEY'RE POP SONGS! Guilt-Free Pleasures (A Defense Against The Dark Arts) celebrates pop songs. The guilty need not apply.

The above paragraph is the boilerplate intro for my Guilt-Free Pleasures series, which was where the piece about "I Never Thought It Peculiar" first appeared. The inaugural Guilt-Free Pleasures was a 2019 celebration of "Freedom" by Wham! Pieces about KISS and Milli Vanilli followed (though the latter turned out to be as much about Michael Jackson as it was about Milli Vanilli). I'll be getting around to a Guilt-Free Pleasures spotlight on The Partridge Family...soon. Definitely soon. Two of the published pieces will reappear in revamped form in my eventual book The Greatest Record Ever Made! (Volume 1).

Meanwhile, both Boppin' (Like The Hip Folks Do) and This Is Rock 'n' Roll Radio with Dana & Carl continue the good fight: dig what you wanna dig. We've even played The Eagles. And we've played an unhip, gawky-but-nifty little Monkees song called "I Never Thought It Peculiar." It's the subject of the latest Boppin' Pop-A-Looza.



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