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CD Details

Number of Discs: 4
Released: October 7, 2008
Originally Released: 2008
Label: RHINO IMPORTS

Tracks:

1.Monkees
2.I Wanna Be Free
3.Let's Dance On
4.Last Train To Clarksville
5.Take A Giant Step
6.All The King's Horses
7.Saturday's Child
8.Papa Gene's Blues
9.I Wanna Be Free
10.Sweet Young Thing
11.Gonna Buy Me A Dog
12.I Don't Think You Know Me
13.I'm A Believer
14.I'm Not Your Steppin' Stone
15.She
16.Mary Mary
17.Your Auntie Grizelda
18.of You
19.Look Out (Here Comes Tomorrow)
20.Kind of Girl I Could Love
21.Sometime In The Morning
22.When Love Comes Knockin' (At Your Door)
23.Do Not Ask For Love
24.Valleri
25.I'll Be Back Upon My Feet
26.Little Bit Me A Little Bit You
27.She Hangs Out
28.Girl I Knew Somewhere
29.All of Your Toys
30.Love To Love
31.You Told Me
32.I'll Spend My Life With You
33.Forget That Girl
34.You Just May Be The One
35.Shades of Gray
36.For Pete's Sake
37.Sunny Girlfriend
38.No Time
39.Randy Scouse Git
40.Pleasant Valley Sunday
41.Words
42.Daydream Believer
43.Goin' Down
44.Salesman
45.Door Into Summer
46.Love Is Only Sleeping
47.Cuddly Toy
48.What Am I Doing Hangin' Around
49.Daily Nightly
50.Star Collector
51.Valleri
52.Tapioca Tundra
53.Dreamworld
54.Auntie's Municipal Court
55.Po Box 9847
56.Zor and Zam
57.Carlisle Wheeling
58.Tear The Top Right Off My Head
59.Girl I Left Behind Me
60.Nine Times Blue
61.Come On In
62.D. W. Washburn
63.It's Nice To Be With You
64.St. Matthew
65.Popoise Song
66.As We Go Along
67.Ditty Diego / War Chant
68.Circle Sky
69.Can You Dig It
70.Daddy's Song
71.Long Title / Do I Have To Do This All Over Again
72.Teardrop City
73.Man Without A Dream
74.Through The Looking Glass
75.I Won't Be The Same Without Her
76.You and I
77.While I Cry
78.Shorty Blackwell
79.If I Ever Get To Saginaw Again
80.Smile
81.Listen To The Band
82.Someday Man
83.Some of Shelly's Blues
84.Mommy and Daddy
85.Good Clean Fun
86.Looking For The Good Times
87.Steam Engine
88.I Never Thought It Peculiar
89.Midnight Train
90.Oh My My
91.I Love You Better
92.Do You Feel It Too
93.Do It In The Name of Love
94.That Was Then This Is Now - Dolenz, Micky; Peter Tork
95.Heart and Soul
96.Mgbgt
97.Every Step of The Way
98.Oh What A Night
99.You and I

Product Description:

Assembled via casting call as American television's answer to the Beatles, the Monkees incurred the wrath of "serious" critics from L.A. to London. But, though initially a manufactured pop commodity, they displayed a willful, sometimes perverse, drive to wrest control of their musical destiny from the all-star stable of songwriters and producers (including Boyce and Hart, King and Goffin, Mann and Weil, Neil Diamond, and Chip Douglas) who made them pop stars. Maybe the notoriously frenzied '60s had something to do with it: their artistic legacy in that decade bridged both Don Kirshner and Jack Nicholson; and Jimi Hendrix opened for them, if only a few times, on a 1967 tour. Even more unlikely, that legacy had a three-decade-plus staying power well beyond its obvious nostalgic charms. Though Rhino has previously reissued and anthologized the Monkees' catalog to seemingly exhaustive extremes, this four-disc collection of 99 tracks (each individually annotated by band members and songwriters in the set's colorful booklet) is the only one that spans their full recorded output. Structured around the A- and B-sides of the band's singles, strong album cuts, and outtakes (including three previously unreleased), it's a journey that's both comfortably familiar and occasionally surprising. The Monkees' individual parts--Mike Nesmith's tuneful, pioneering country-rock; Davy Jones's Broadway-honed panache; Peter Tork's spirituality and innate musical chemistry; and Micky Dolenz's loopiness and occasionally avant-garde instincts--are showcased well. But by the sometimes-spotty fourth disc (largely spanning the mid-'70s to mid-'90s), the band's output was hampered by partial lineups, part-time commitments, and, perhaps ironically, the lack of the very pop song-crafter thoroughbreds who'd helped to establish their legend in the first place.