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Monkees      Artist : The Monkees      List Price : $24.98 USD        Your Price : $24.98 USD      ProductGroup: Music      Release Date : 2006-08-15      Studio : Rhino / Wea      Label : Rhino / Wea      Avg. Customer Rating : (17 reviews)

Reviews Customer Reviews for Monkees      Mirror-Image Monkees Offering      Rating:       This one is a mixed bag: on one hand it's great to have this collection of songs (my main reason for buying it was the song called "Laugh" [originally done by The Tokens], a delightful little piece of fluff that is so typically 1960s); on the other, it's a bit pricey - not only for someone interested in only one or two otherwise unavailable tracks but also because it is a 2-CD set that is essentially mirror-image redundant, i.e., both CDs contain the same tracks - the only difference being that one is in mono and the other in stereo. I didn't realize this until after I received the set. Also, the stereo remasters/mixes are a bit harsh soundwise (something I've noticed with many re-releases of classic tunes). Still, if you love The Monkees and want a CD that contains a lot of their material on one recording - and don't mind paying what to me is a slightly exhorbitant price considering the inclusion of the IMO unnecessary mono disc - I can recommend it.     Customer Reviews for Monkees Cd      People say we monkey around      Rating:      Welcome to the original boy band. Meticulously pieced together as a controlled alternative to The Beatles, Mike, Mickey, Davy and Peter were - as the expansive liner notes indicate - an unruly prefab four. The majordomo behind all of this, Don Kirshner, even describes Nesmith as a 'pain in the a$z' during the proceedings. Funny thing was, the album still holds up 40 years later. It escapes my thinking exactly why I never bought this on CD (I have a very scratchy LP of this from my - ahem - preteen years), but this is close to revelatory. As some of the reviewers have already noted, the remastering is exemplary. This sounds like it was recorded last week...and the songwriting ringers brought on board to craft this churned out a four-million seller in an era when selling 500,000 was considered phenomenal. The four Monkees themselves had more to this than many care to admit. While "Last Train To Clarksville" is a really good song, the energy and life the guys put into guaranteed its reception. Oddly enough, it was the second album that ponied up the bigger list of hits, but this is a pretty amazing blueprint for what was to come. Nesmith was already chomping at the bit to make his own music, even getting into a collaboration with Carol King and Gerry Goffin (the country-tinged "Sweet Young Thing") and the eclectic "Papa Gene's Blues." Hit-makers Tommy Boyce and Bobby Hart brought in the TV Theme and "Last Train to Clarksville." Just as the TV show did, there was also a fair amount of goofiness. As the liner notes indicate, the screwball "Gonna Buy Me A Dog" was originally intended as a straight-up pop song; the goof take by Davy and Mickey was ultimately chosen for the album. A clumsy attempt at an obvious dance-craze record, however, falls flat ("Let's Dance On"). The bonus material is curious - first takes of Nesmith's excellent "The Kind Of Girl I Could Love," eventual country star Michael Martin Murphy's cloy "Do Not Ask For Love," and radio/TV commercials. It helps codify the historical significance of music that remains better than you may remember it - and as first class pop. Editorial Reviews for Monkees Audio Cd      Album Description      Originally released in 1966, THE MONKEES scored an amazing 78-week run on the Billboard® album chart, with 13 weeks at #1. Includes the #1 smash "Last Train To Clarksville" and the infectious "(Theme From) The Monkees," both written for the band by hit songwriting team Boyce & Hart. Also features Goffin & King?s "Take A Giant Step" and David Gates? "Saturday?s Child. " Disc 1?s nine bonus tracks include previously unreleased alternate mixes of "The Kind Of Girl I Could Love" and "Papa Gene?s Blues" plus a take of "I Don?t Think You Know Me" featuring Micky Dolenz on vocals. Disc 2?s eight bonus cuts include a previously unreleased demo version of "Propinquity (I?ve Just Begun To Care)" and a rare Kellogg?s jingle. Each 2-CD Deluxe Limited EDITION features the original stereo album with bonus rarities on Disc 1, and the original mono album with even more rare treasures on Disc 2.