The Monkees, "The Porpoise Song"

Head, the Monkees' sole movie, is forever imprinted by 1968, the year innocence died. This theme song from the film was co-written by Carole King, for whom Micky Dolenz was ever an able interpreter. Here he gets valuable backing on the refrain from Davy Jones, whose "goodbye"s are as perfect a sound of suicide as is possible. And indeed, Head begins with the Prefab Four jumping off a bridge as "The Porpoise Song" swirls in the background.

The rest of the movie, while attempting to both deconstruct the Monkees and tackle Big Issues like War and Religion, meanders like an uneven (and largely unfunny) Family Guy ep, and presumably for the same reason FG so often slips: weed's blurring of concision. Yeah, it's a stoner flick whose appeal is restricted mostly to Sixtophiles. (Not to be confused with fans of Sixto Lezcano.) But as a statement of "this isn't what I bargained for," Head remains an intriguing and undercontemplated take on the trappings of dubiously attained celebrity in risible times.