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The Monkees | 
 enlarge | Artist: The Monkees
Label: Rhino / Wea
Category: Music
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Rating:  52 reviews
Sales Rank: 838552
Media: Audio Cassette
UPC: 081227014049
EAN: 0081227014049
ASIN: B00005YPVR
Release Date: October 17, 1990
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Condition: CASSETTE TAPE Out of Print-New,Never Played-Still Factory Sealed in the Original Shrinkwrap-Mint Condition-Contains the FIRST12 Tracks as shown in the Amazon Description-Ships in Bubble Mailer-FREE Upgrade to FASTER Shipping(First Class)USA,With Delivery Estimated in 2 to 5 days-Air Mail to Non USA Estimated 7 to 11 days-Outstanding 100% Positive Feedback-Buy From a Trusted Seller-Delivery Confirmation email-Orders Processed & Mailed with Packing List for FAST Delivery-5 Star Amazon Seller 26 years in Business.
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| Tracks:
| • | (Theme From) The Monkees | | • | Saturday's Child - The Monkees, Gates, David [1] | | • | I Wanna Be Free | | • | Tomorrow's Gonna Be Another Day | | • | Papa Gene's Blues - The Monkees, Nesmith, Michael | | • | Take a Giant Step - The Monkees, Goffin, Gerry | | • | Last Train to Clarksville | | • | This Just Doesn't Seem to Be My Day | | • | Let's Dance On | | • | I'll Be True to You - The Monkees, Goffin, Gerry | | • | Sweet Young Thing - The Monkees, Goffin, Gerry | | • | Gonna Buy Me a Dog | | • | I Can't Get Her Off My Mind | | • | I Don't Think You Know Me - The Monkees, Goffin, Gerry | | • | (Theme From) The Monkees |
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Album Description
Sundazed introduces vinyl LP's of the first five Monkees albums! The complete original records with bonus tracks that have never before appeared on vinyl.
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| Customer Reviews:
 The Monkees Best! May 15, 2008
David Colvin (Oak park IL)
Track Listings
1. (Theme From) The Monkees
2. Saturday's Child
3. I Wanna Be Free
4. Tomorrow's Gonna Be Another Day
5. Papa Gene's Blues
6. Take a Giant Step
7. Last Train to Clarksville
8. This Just Doesn't Seem to Be My Day
9. Let's Dance On
10. I'll Be True to You
11. Sweet Young Thing
12. Gonna Buy Me a Dog
13. I Can't Get Her Off My Mind [Previously Unissued Early Version][*]
14. I Don't Think You Know Me [Previously Unissued Alternate Version][Alter
15. (Theme From) The Monkees [Previously Unissued Early Version][*]
Correction to a correction February 10, 2006
Bobby Brogan
2 out of 3 found this review helpful
Michael Nesmith and Peter Tork DID in fact play on this album on Nesmith's songs Michael played guitar and Peter played second chair guitar...check out the session notes for this album...they are listed as muscicians
We Don't Need to Play No Stinkin' Instruments! January 25, 2006
Corey H. Marr (Dallas)
3 out of 5 found this review helpful
Great album, despite the lack of group member performance on guitar, bass and drums. Let's see...The Beach Boys, The Supremes, CSN&Y, The Temptations, Michael Jackson, David Bowie, AND Elvis all had #1 singles (and some had multiple top ten albums) in which none of the group's members play ONE LICK AT ALL.
This is one of the top 50 albums of all time...from writing to production...you can't go wrong.
Here they come, walking down the street: hey, hey, they're the Pre-Fab Four! October 16, 2005
Lawrance M. Bernabo (The Zenith City, Duluth, Minnesota)
5 out of 10 found this review helpful
Ultimately the biggest sin of the Monkees was not that the Pre-Fab Four did not play any musical instruments on their 1966 debut album, but that they pretended to when they sang these songs on their television show every Monday night on the NBC-TV network (7:30 p.m. EDT). Peter Tork did play guitar on "Papa Gene's Blues" (along with Glen Campbell), which I suppose would make up for the fact that he never does any of the vocals on any of these songs. Despite the credits on the back cover as to which Monkees play what instruments that is as far as it gets. But because they lip synched their songs each week while pretending to play instruments this became a reason to deride their music, even though the album went to #1 and produced a #1 hit single with "Last Train to Clarksville."
I find this rather ironic because that song was written by Tommy Boyce & Bobby Hart, as were six other songs on "The Monkees," with Boyce teaming with Steve Venet to write "Tomorrow's Going to be Another Day." Then you throw into the mix "Take a Giant Step" by Gerry Goffin & Carole King, "Sweet Young Thing" by Coffin, King & Mike Nesmith, and "I'll be True to You" by Goffin & Russ Titelman. The key thing here is that will Boyce & Hart and Goffin & King you are talking two of the mainstay song writing teams of the Brill Building, who were always writing songs for somebody else to sing. Goffin & King wrote "Will You Love Me Tomorrow" for the Shirelles, "Take Good Care of My Baby" for Bobby Vee, "The Locomotion" for Little Eva, and "One Fine Day" for the Chiffons long before they wrote "Pleasant Valley Sunday" for the Monkees and nobody complained that the rest of those artists did not play their own instruments. But then they were not on television each week pretending to do just that.
In retrospect the key thing from this first album is that Boyce & Hart were able to write different songs for different voices. Mickey Dolenz gets the pop songs like "Tomorrow's Gonna be Another Day" and "Last Train to Clarksville," while Davy Jones gets the ballads "I Wanna Be Free" and "I'll Be True to You" (which the Hollies later recorded). Nesmith shows his country inclinations on "Papa Gene's Blues" and "Sweet Young Thing," and when Dolenz and Jones do the last track, "Gonna Buy Me a Dog," together that just underscores that this is supposed to be fun. After all, if the Monkees were imitating the Beatles they were imitating the Beatles from the movie "Help!" rather than musically. "Saturday's Child," written by David Gates, the future leader of Bread, seems rather out of place given the rest of the compositions, but it does try to give the Monkees a harder edge, for what little that is worth.
The best song on this album remains "I Wanna Be Free," and if Boyce & Hart were trying to come up with their own version of "Yesterday" then they came as close as anybody did in that regard in the 1960s and it is the one song on the album that can be considered poetic in a teenage angst sort of way. Boyce & Hart admitted "Last Train to Clarksville" based the music and lyrics on the fadeout of "Paperback Writer," so add to the sin of being a cold and calculated effort to create a pop band modeled on the success of the Beatles that the Monkees were also a relative success in that regard. The biggest complaint on that score would be that songs like "Let's Dance On" are moving in the opposite direction from what the Beatles were doing in 1966.
One of the final ironies here is that while the Monkees were not playing their own instruments they had some great sessions players, such as guitarist Louie Shelton, playing on these tracks. Whoever did the neat guitar work on "Tomorrow's Going to Be Another Day" and the keyboard on "This Just Doesn't Seem to Be My Day" were pretty good, although whoever they were is apparently lost to history. In the end I round up on this one just on the basis of found memories of standing in the store trying to decide if it was better to buy the Monkees singles or save my money to get an entire album. Nostalgia has value and nobody knows that better than Rhino, a consideration that also argues for rounding up in the end.
Each of these Rhino reissues tacks on some previously unissued bonus tracks and here we have a early versions of "I Can't Get Her Off My Mind" and the "(Theme From) The Monkees," along with an alternate version of "I Don't Think You Know Me." None of these are anything special, although they are all either Boyce & Hart or Goffin & King creations, but on these extras get more interesting as you add to your collection of Monkees CDs.
 Prior review correction September 22, 2005
S. Whyplasche (Grovers Corners, PA USA)
1 out of 10 found this review helpful
The members of the Monkees sang on this cd, but they didnt play a lick of it. Any talk of this being Monkees music is a pure falsehood.
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