Pop does include rock by definition... Pop is an abbreviation of Popular... and popular music includes rock, hip hop and all that...
I'm saying, the music that the Monkees put out, considering it was ghost written... (but who's isn't?) was far superior to the tweeny rock scene that was starting up in the mid60's. But the music was gravy. These guys were pretty talented actors... I really liked Mickey Dolenz's voice acting in the first season of The Tick and Secret files of the Spy Dogs... much much better than the Diz stuff today.