Music Box Music Cd

Monkees - Music Box

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Music Box      Artist : The Monkees      List Price : $59.98 USD        Your Price : $47.98 USD      ProductGroup: Music      Release Date : 2001-02-27      Studio : Rhino / Wea      Label : Rhino / Wea      Avg. Customer Rating : (33 reviews)

Reviews Customer Reviews for Music Box      the hated monkees      Rating:       OK,i want to 'fess up. Back in the 60's,my sister was crazy about the monkees. i absolutely loathed them. hated them. thought they were the musical equivalent to the Antichrist. etc.etc.(Nesmith was OK,tho') But,as the years wore me down,I realized that I actually enjoyed some of their songs when they happened to be on the radio. I bought an old cassette tape of their hits and was considering getting some CD's such as "Pisces...." and another or two until I saw this Rhino set. I hate to admit that I was a least somewhat wrong about them. They had some great pop tunes with great hooks,even if they were not written by them (except Nesmith). If Mickey Dolenz is cool enough to groove to Ravi Shankar at the Monterey Pop Festival then he must have something going for him. So,in spite of myself,I let 'em in to my collection. They're still minor-league ball compared to the Beatles,et.al. But a good tune is a good tune,as Kurt Cobain knew so well.You can't argue with that. Enjoy!     Customer Reviews for Music Box Cd      Nostalgia revisited      Rating:      Fantastic. I love this stuff. Why? Because you can't take life seriously when you are listening to The Monkees box set. The newer stuff on here I don't like, you can keep it. I don't think these guys realized it at the time, that they had industry powerhouses cranking out some great music... yeah, there are some clunkers, but who cares.. still worth getting. Editorial Reviews for Music Box Audio Cd      Amazon.com      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. --Jerry McCulley