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The Best Of The Monkees (CD)

By: The Monkees (Artist)

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DISC 1 for The Best Of The Monkees (CD) Album By The Monkees (Artist)
1   Monkees, The (Theme From)
2   Last Train To Clarksville
3   I Wanna Be Free
4   Papa Gene's Blues
5   I'm A Believer
6   Steppin' Stone, (I'm Not Your)
7   She
8   Mary, Mary
9   Your Auntie Grizelda
10   Look Out (Here Comes Tomorrow)
11   Sometime In The Morning
12   Little Bit Me, A Little Bit You, A
13   Girl I Knew Somewhere, The
14   Shades Of Gray
15   Randy Scouse Git
16   For Pete's Sake
17   You Just May Be The One
18   Pleasant Valley Sunday
19   Words
20   Daydream Believer
21   Goin' Down
22   What Am I Doing Hangin' 'Round?
23   Valleri
24   Porpoise Song (Theme From "Head")
25   Listen To The Band
 
DISC 2 for The Best Of The Monkees (CD) Album By The Monkees (Artist)
1   Monkees, The (Theme From)
2   I'm A Believer
3   Steppin' Stone, (I'm Not Your)
4   Pleasant Valley Sunday
5   Daydream Believer
 


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Title Note

Includes a bonus karaoke disc.

The Monkees: Michael Nesmith (vocals, guitar, pedal steel guitar, organ); Peter Tork (vocals, guitar, banjo, piano, celeste, electric piano, harpsichord, keyboards, bass); Micky Dolenz (vocals, guitar, zither, Moog synthesizer, drums, timpani, percussion); Davy Jones (vocals, organ, maracas, percussion, chimes).

Producers include: Tommy Boyce, Bobby Hart, Jack Keller, The Monkees, Carole King.

Compilation producers: Andrew Sandoval, Bill Inglot.

Recorded between 1966 & 1968. Includes liner notes by Andrew Sandoval.

This is as fine a job as anyone could look for in a single-disc Monkees career summary. Over the course of this generous 25-song disc, all of the Monkees numerous hits are included ("Last Train to Clarksville," "Daydream Believer," etc.), but perhaps more significantly, many lesser-known songs of equal quality can be heard. While the Monkees' many unforgettable hits were generally written by great pop composers of the day like Neil Diamond ("I'm a Believer"), Gerry Goffin & Carole King ("Pleasant Valley Sunday"), and the team of Boyce & Hart (damn near everything else), that's not the whole story.

Though the Monkees were criticized for being merely actors playing a band, Mike Nesmith was in fact a superb songwriter. He's represented by several songs here (the garagey "Mary Mary," the expansive "The Girl I Knew Somewhere," et al), and went on to release some of the best country-rock albums ever made. And though most of the playing on Monkees tracks was done by L.A. studio musicians, the blend of British-Invasion and pop-psych is totally convincing in a manner not unlike self-contained fellow Californians the Beau Brummels. Besides, as great as the Brummels were, would you really want to put their rhythm section up against the likes of Carole Kaye and Hal Blaine?



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