Talk:Christmas Party (The Monkees album)

Album should be a redirect until after release[edit]

@Rhindle The Red: The reason it should currently be a redirect is because of practices around notability. This includes WP:TOOSOON and WP:NALBUM. We have WP:NODEADLINE so waiting until the album is in-line with Wikipedia practices costs us nothing. Best, Barkeep49 (talk)

And noting the possibility (however unlikely) that it may not be notable and leaving it alone does, as well.Rhindle The Red (talk) 01:07, 24 September 2018 (UTC)[reply]

Album charts[edit]

The link provided doesn't mention the album at all, let alone give a chart position (Billboard), and going back several weeks through the Billboard 200 on-line, I can't find any Monkees albums at #66.Squad51 (talk) 02:15, 25 December 2018 (UTC)[reply]

It's under "Top Albums", which Billboard shows as a separate list, but Wikipedia thinks is the same as the Billboard 200. I've fixed it.Rhindle The Red (talk) 13:56, 12 March 2019 (UTC)[reply]

Did Peter Tork actively participate in the recording of this album?[edit]

The album features surviving Monkees Micky Dolenz, Mike Nesmith, and Peter Tork, as well as two posthumous contributions from Davy Jones.

Variety did not rate the album, but described it as feeling "mostly like a Micky Dolenz solo album — co-produced by Fountains of Wayne’s Adam Schlesinger — that happens to have a few odd interjections from Michael Nesmith, Peter Tork and, yes, the late Davy Jones."

These two sentences create the impression that Peter Tork did actively participate in the recording of this album. But as far as I'm aware, the last time Peter Tork actively participated in any recordings issued under The Monkees' name was 2016.

So either the information that he didn't actively participate in any recording after 2016 is incorrect, or they used already started recordings from earlier sessions as a way to include him on the album, much like they did with the already deceased David Jones.

I would change the first sentence to reflect the fact that Peter Tork didn't actively contribute to any of the recordings that took place in 2018, but now that I think of it, I haven't been able to trace any information that confirms or denies that Peter actively contributed to this album. ― C.Syde (talk | contribs) 07:11, 6 September 2020 (UTC)[reply]

Seems Peter Tork did contribute to this album, as one source here claims that he did, albeit to only one track. And I checked the page that gave me the impression that he didn't contribute to any Monkees recordings after 2016, and it seems that the last year he contributed to any recordings was 2018. The information was fixed with this edit it seems, although I had previously reverted the edit with this edit. ― C.Syde (talk | contribs) 07:35, 6 September 2020 (UTC)[reply]