"I Know What I Know"

At the beginning of "I Know What I Know," the production is rather sparse, just Nesmith's voice and piano.  Musically, this reflects the solitude mentioned in the bridge:  "Alone I am, with waiting heart / Alone I am, a world apart."

"Wasn't Born to Follow"

In the line "I will want to dive beneath the white cascading water" in "Wasn't Born to Follow," "water" is sung with a descending melisma (B A G), musically giving a sense of that "cascading."

"Birth of an Accidental Hipster"

In the repeated line "Do you know where we go?" in "Birth of an Accidental Hipster," the "go" is sung with a glissando (at first A to E but later it's B to F#), musically giving a sense of movement.

Extra voices sing the line "All sing along," giving a sense of "all" and demonstrating that "sing[ing] along."

"Little Girl"

The first two lines of "Little Girl" are "Little girl, don't you be brought down / Cheer up, I'll turn your frown sunnyside up," and the "down" and "up" are illustrated through the melodies to which they're sung.  "Be brought down" is sung to descending notes (D C# A), and "up" is sung with an ascending melisma (E F# G#).

"Me & Magdalena"

Under the lines "As the sun is slowly sinking / Into a distant ocean wave," in "Me & Magdalena," the bass part descends, musically reflecting that "sinking."  Furthermore, the first two pitches are C and B, and since these form the smallest possible interval (a half-step), there's even a sense of that "slowly."

"Our Own World"

The second verse of "Our Own World" starts with the lines "We been writing rhymes / And trading lines / It sounds so good."  That "good" is sung with a melisma (G Bb G F G Bb G F), musically giving a sense of degree (for that "so").

"She Makes Me Laugh"

In the chorus of "She Makes Me Laugh," there's the line "And I could hang out with her all day and night."  "Day and night" is a merism.

"Good Times"

I still have quite a few notes from the last two years that I need to flesh out into posts here.  I'm going to try to catch up over the next week or so.

In the lines "Till there's dancin' in the streets again / And music ev'rywhere" in "Good Times," the three syllables of "ev'rywhere" are each sung to a different pitch (Eb D C), musically giving a sense of that breadth.

Changes

According to Andrew Sandoval's The Monkees: The Day-by-Day Story of the 60s TV Pop Sensation, the Monkees' ninth album - Changes (Colgems COS-119) - was released in the U.S. fifty years ago this month (June 1970).  Sandoval doesn't mention a U.K. release.

Side One:

1. "Oh My My"
2. "Ticket on a Ferry Ride"
3. "You're So Good to Me"
4. "It's Got to Be Love"
5. "Acapulco Sun"
6. "99 Pounds"

Side Two:

1. "Tell Me Love"
2. "Do You Feel It Too?"
3. "I Love You Better"
4. "All Alone in the Dark"
5. "Midnight Train"
6. "I Never Thought It Peculiar"