Me & Magdalena - The Monkees
Last week, my buddy Justin texted me a link and said "Here's a song for you." It was this song - Me & Magdalena - by The Monkees. Yeah. The Monkees. It is in the YouTube player above. (If you are reading this in your email and can't see the player above, click here to see it .) I can't stop listening to it. I haven't even been able to check out much more of the album because I keep coming back to this one song. Have a listen. I think you'll like it. Over on All Songs Considered , they give more background about how this album and this song in particular came together. In honor of The Monkees 50th anniversary, they've put out a new record full of previously unreleased songs and a few new ones written for the band. Including this song that was written by Ben Gibbard from Death Cab for Cutie. From the story : And, though Mike Nesmith won't tour to support Good Times! — he left the band a few years back — he does appear on the