{"id":791360,"date":"2018-12-17T13:06:25","date_gmt":"2018-12-17T20:06:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/?p=770272"},"modified":"2018-12-17T13:06:25","modified_gmt":"2018-12-17T20:06:25","slug":"watch-the-monkees-trippy-new-christmas-song-video","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/music-news\/watch-the-monkees-trippy-new-christmas-song-video\/","title":{"rendered":"Watch the Monkees\u2019 Trippy New \u2018Christmas Song\u2019 Video"},"content":{"rendered":"<div><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/12\/the-monkees-christmas-song.jpg\" class=\"ff-og-image-inserted\"\/><\/div>\n<p>The vast majority of the new Monkees holiday album <em>Christmas Party<\/em> was produced by Adam Schlesinger of Fountains of Wayne, but on the two tracks where <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/t\/michael-nesmith\/\" id=\"auto-tag_michael-nesmith\" data-tag=\"michael-nesmith\">Michael Nesmith<\/a> sings lead (\u201cThe Christmas Song\u201d and \u201cSnowfall\u201d) he instead worked with his sons Christian and Jonathan. Here\u2019s a new animated video for \u201cThe Christmas Song\u201d that was directed by Jonathan Nesmith, though the song itself was produced by Christian.<\/p>\n<p>The video takes place in the surreal, psychedelic world of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/t\/the-monkees\/\" id=\"auto-tag_the-monkees\" data-tag=\"the-monkees\">the Monkees<\/a> TV show at Christmas time, complete with their mascot Mr. Schneider wearing a Santa hat, Davy Jones dodging kisses under a mistletoe and the four members of the group wrapping up presents while dressed as elves. It\u2019s bookended by Nesmith and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/t\/micky-dolenz\/\" id=\"auto-tag_micky-dolenz\" data-tag=\"micky-dolenz\">Micky Dolenz<\/a> chatting about the holiday and taking a boat ride through the cartoon world.<\/p>\n<p><em>Christmas Party<\/em> \u2014 which features songs by Rivers Cuomo, Alex Chilton and Andy Partridge \u2014 arrived in stores on October 12th. \u201cThe idea of doing a Monkees Christmas album had been floating for 50 years,\u201d Dolenz tells <em>Rolling Stone<\/em>. \u201cAfter the success of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/music\/music-news\/how-the-monkees-got-their-1960s-groove-back-188924\/\"><em>Good Times!<\/em><\/a> the idea got re-kindled. Then it all came together very quickly.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Monkees guitarist <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/t\/peter-tork\/\" id=\"auto-tag_peter-tork\" data-tag=\"peter-tork\">Peter Tork<\/a> only appears on a single song on <em>Christmas Party<\/em> and hasn\u2019t played with the band since 2016. \u201cThere\u2019s a lot of stuff going \u2019round, and I want to let you all know how it is for me,\u201d he wrote in an <a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/notes\/the-real-peter-tork-official\/a-note-from-peter-regarding-some-concerns-101118\/2322958851052151\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">October Facebook message<\/a> in response to rumors about his health. \u201cWhile it is true that my health has required a little more attention these days, I\u2019m feeling pretty good \u2026 Thanks for your good wishes. This is a private time and I won\u2019t be posting updates.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The Monkees Featuring Mike Nesmith and Micky Dolenz are playing a series of American dates in March and then heading to Australia and New Zealand in June. The latter shows will mark Nesmith\u2019s first appearance there as a Monkee since 1968.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/music\/music-news\/watch-monkees-christmas-song-video-770272\/\" target=\"_blank\">via:: Rolling Stone<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The vast majority of the new Monkees holiday album Christmas Party was produced by Adam Schlesinger of Fountains of Wayne, but on the two tracks where Michael Nesmith sings lead (\u201cThe Christmas Song\u201d and \u201cSnowfall\u201d) he instead worked with his sons Christian and Jonathan. Here\u2019s a new animated video for \u201cThe Christmas Song\u201d that was [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[98],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-791360","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-music-news"},"acf":[],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-06-11 11:35:20","action":"change-status","newStatus":"draft","terms":[],"taxonomy":"category","extraData":[]},"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"distributor_meta":false,"distributor_terms":false,"distributor_media":false,"distributor_original_site_name":"KSMT The Mountain","distributor_original_site_url":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt","push-errors":false,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/791360","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=791360"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/791360\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=791360"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=791360"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=791360"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}