With “Your Auntie Grizelda,” The Monkees got even more madcap

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In Hear This, A.V. Club writers sing the praises of songs they know well. This week, we’re talking about songs we loved from our first favorite bands.
The Monkees, “Your Auntie Grizelda” (1967)
I’m not entirely sure why MTV and Nickelodeon got behind The Monkees in the mid-’80s. Maybe it had something to do with Mike Nesmith’s tangential relation to MTV’s actual existence. Whatever the reason, I’ll always be grateful to those Viacom properties for picking up the band’s short-lived TV series and running the shit out of it, because, as a 5- or 6-year-old kid, I loved it. They had a wacky house! And a silly car! And their jokes were all things I could kind of understand and felt good about getting. Plus, Davy Jones was just so fun and dreamy.