GOOD TIMES product sticker and Gatemouth Brown's "Okie Dokie

and Gatemouth Brown's "Okie Dokie Stomp" (with Brian Setzer)

The album's popularity derives in part to its relatability and its frontman's passion and charm

A good example is the way the simple 12-bar blues of "New Pony" eclipses the more elaborately constructed opener "Changing of the Guards

Fin Costello

GOOD TIMES product sticker and Gatemouth Brown's "Okie DokieDesigned as a celebration of the Monkees' 50th anniversary, Good Times! certainly is a joyous revival of the cheerful jangle that characterized the group's big '60s hits, yet underneath the frivolity is an unspoken truth: this 2016 album is quite likely the band's last. After all, two decades passed between this and its 1996 predecessor, Justus, during which time Davy Jones died; in another twenty years, the surviving Monkees would be in their