Music Box

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Genre: Popular Music
Media Format: Compact Disk
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Release Date: 27-FEB-2001

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

Disc 1

1. (Theme From) The Monkees - The Monkees, Boyce, Tommy
2. I Wanna Be Free [Fast Version] - The Monkees, Boyce, Tommy
3. Let's Dance On - The Monkees, Boyce, Tommy
4. Last Train to Clarksville - The Monkees, Boyce, Tommy
5. Take a Giant Step - The Monkees, Goffin, Gerry
6. All the King's Horses - The Monkees, Nesmith, Michael
7. Saturday's Child - The Monkees, Gates, David [1]
8. Papa Gene's Blues - The Monkees, Nesmith, Michael
9. I Wanna Be Free - The Monkees, Boyce, Tommy
10. Sweet Young Thing - The Monkees, Goffin, Gerry
11. Gonna Buy Me a Dog - The Monkees, Boyce, Tommy
12. I Don't Think You Know Me [First Recorded Version] - The Monkees, Goffin, Gerry
13. I'm a Believer - The Monkees, Diamond, Neil
14. (I'm Not Your) Steppin' Stone - The Monkees, Boyce, Tommy
15. She - The Monkees, Boyce, Tommy
16. Mary, Mary - The Monkees, Nesmith, Michael
17. Your Auntie Grizelda - The Monkees, Hildebrand, Diane
18. Look Out (Here Comes Tomorrow) [Previously Unissued Extended Version][# - The Monkees, Diamond, Neil
19. Of You [Previously Unissued Mix][#] - The Monkees, Chadwick, Bill
20. Look Out (Here Comes Tomorrow) [Previously Unissued Extended Version][# - The Monkees, Diamond, Neil
21. Sometime in the Morning - The Monkees, Goffin, Gerry
22. When Love Comes Knockin' (At Your Door) - The Monkees, Sager, Carole Bayer
23. Do Not Ask for Love [First Recorded Version] - The Monkees, Murphey, Michael Ma
24. Valleri [First Recorded Version] - The Monkees, Boyce, Tommy
25. I'll Be Back up on My Feet - The Monkees, Linzer, Sandy

Disc 2

1. A Little Bit Me, A Little Bit You - The Monkees, Diamond, Neil
2. She Hangs Out [Single Version] - The Monkees, Barry, Jeff
3. The Girl I Knew Somewhere - The Monkees, Nesmith, Michael
4. All of Your Toys - The Monkees, Martin, Bill
5. Love to Love - The Monkees, Diamond, Neil
6. You Told Me - The Monkees, Nesmith, Michael
7. I'll Spend My Life With You - The Monkees, Boyce, Tommy
8. Forget That Girl - The Monkees, Hatlelid, Douglas F
9. You Just May Be the One - The Monkees, Nesmith, Michael
10. Shades of Gray - The Monkees, Mann, Barry
11. For Pete's Sake - The Monkees, Richards, Joey
12. Sunny Girlfriend - The Monkees, Nesmith, Michael
13. No Time - The Monkees, Cicalo, Hank
14. Randy Scouse Git - The Monkees, Dolenz, Micky
15. Pleasant Valley Sunday [Single Version] - The Monkees, Goffin, Gerry
16. Words - The Monkees, Boyce, Tommy
17. Daydream Believer - The Monkees, Stewart, John [1]
18. Goin' Down - The Monkees, Dolenz, Micky
19. Salesman - The Monkees, Smith, Craig Vincen
20. The Door into Summer - The Monkees, Douglas, Chip
21. Love Is Only Sleeping - The Monkees, Mann, Barry
22. Cuddly Toy - The Monkees, Nilsson, Harry
23. What Am I Doing Hangin' 'Round? - The Monkees, Castleman, Owen "Bo
24. Daily Nightly - The Monkees, Nesmith, Michael
25. Star Collector - The Monkees, Goffin, Gerry

Disc 3

1. Valleri - The Monkees, Boyce, Tommy
2. Tapioca Tundra - The Monkees, Nesmith, Michael
3. Dream World - The Monkees, Jones, Davy
4. Auntie's Municipal Court - The Monkees, Allison, Keith
5. P.O. Box 9847 - The Monkees, Boyce, Tommy
6. Zor and Zam - The Monkees, Chadwick, Bill
7. Carlisle Wheeling [First Recorded Version] - The Monkees, Nesmith, Michael
8. Tear the Top Right off My Head - The Monkees, Tork, Peter
9. The Girl I Left Behind Me [First Recorded Version] - The Monkees, Sager, Carole Bayer
10. Nine Times Blue - The Monkees, Nesmith, Michael
11. Come on In - The Monkees, Mapes, Jo
12. D.W. Washburn - The Monkees, Leiber, Jerry
13. It's Nice to Be With You - The Monkees, Goldstein, Jerry
14. St. Matthew - The Monkees, Nesmith, Michael
15. Porpoise Song [Theme from Head][Version] - The Monkees, Goffin, Gerry
16. As We Go Along - The Monkees, King, Carole [1]
17. Ditty Diego -- War Chant - The Monkees, Nicholson, Jack
18. Circle Sky [Live] - The Monkees, Nesmith, Michael
19. Can You Dig It? - The Monkees, Tork, Peter
20. Daddy's Song [*] - The Monkees, Nilsson, Harry
21. Long Title: Do I Have to Do This All over Again - The Monkees, Tork, Peter

Disc 4

1. Tear Drop City - The Monkees, Boyce, Tommy
2. A Man Without a Dream - The Monkees, Goffin, Gerry
3. Through the Looking Glass - The Monkees, Baldwin, Red
4. I Won't Be the Same Without Her - The Monkees, Goffin, Gerry
5. You and I - The Monkees, Chadwick, Bill
6. While I Cry - The Monkees, Nesmith, Michael
7. Shorty Blackwell - The Monkees, Dolenz, Micky
8. If I Ever Get to Saginaw Again - The Monkees, Keller, Jack
9. Smile - The Monkees, Jones, Davy
10. Listen to the Band [Single Version] - The Monkees, Nesmith, Michael
11. Someday Man - The Monkees, Nichols, Roger [Son
12. Some of Shelly's Blues - The Monkees, Nesmith, Michael
13. Mommy and Daddy - The Monkees, Dolenz, Micky
14. Good Clean Fun - The Monkees, Nesmith, Michael
15. Looking for the Good Times - The Monkees, Boyce, Tommy
16. Steam Engine - The Monkees, Douglas, Chip
17. I Never Thought It Peculiar - The Monkees, Boyce, Tommy
18. Midnight Train - The Monkees, Dolenz, Micky
19. Oh My My - The Monkees, Barry, Jeff
20. I Love You Better - The Monkees, Barry, Jeff
21. Do You Feel It Too? - The Monkees, Barry, Jeff
22. Do It in the Name of Love - The Monkees, Bloom, Bobby
23. That Was Then, This Is Now - The Monkees, Brescia, Vance
24. Heart and Soul - The Monkees, Byrne, Simon
25. Every Step of the Way [Single Version] - The Monkees, Clarke, Mark
26. Oh, What a Night - The Monkees, Jones, Davy
27. You and I - The Monkees, Chadwick, Bill
28. MGB-GT [Live] - The Monkees, Tork, Peter

Title: Music Box
Sales Rank: 22393 in Music
Artist: Monkees
Label: Rhino / Wea, 2001-02-27, Audio CD, 4 Discs
Format: Box set
Item Dimensions: 1.2 pounds
Package Dimensions: 10.1 x 6.1 x 0.8 inches, 1.2 pounds

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