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I Like The Monkees

Bill Holdship, Creem, December 1986

ONE OF THE worst aspects of rock 'n' roll is that it's often centered on this debate as to whether something is "cool" or not. Taste, like beauty, is always in the eye of the beholder – but it sure makes for humorous observations today when someone uses musical phlegm like Depeche Mode as a "cool" status symbol.

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