Music Box

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By Monkees Rhino, 2001, Audio CD Customer Rating: Recommend List Price: $59.98 Our Price: $48.83 (Price details) You Save: $11.15 (19%) Availability: Temporarily out of stock. Order now and we'll deliver when available. We'll e-mail you with an estimated delivery date as soon as we have more information. Your credit card will not be charged until we ship the item. Ships from and sold by Amazon.com. Free Shipping on orders over $25.

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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
2. I Wanna Be Free [Fast Version]
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 [First Recorded Version]
13. I'm a Believer
14. (I'm Not Your) Steppin' Stone
15. She
16. Mary, Mary
17. Your Auntie Grizelda
18. Look Out (Here Comes Tomorrow) [Previously Unissued Extended Version][#
19. Of You [Previously Unissued Mix][#]
20. Look Out (Here Comes Tomorrow) [Previously Unissued Extended Version][#
21. Sometime in the Morning
22. When Love Comes Knockin' (At Your Door)
23. Do Not Ask for Love [First Recorded Version]
24. Valleri [First Recorded Version]
25. I'll Be Back up on My Feet

Disc 2

1. A Little Bit Me, A Little Bit You
2. She Hangs Out [Single Version]
3. The Girl I Knew Somewhere
4. All of Your Toys
5. Love to Love
6. You Told Me
7. I'll Spend My Life With You
8. Forget That Girl
9. You Just May Be the One
10. Shades of Gray
11. For Pete's Sake
12. Sunny Girlfriend
13. No Time
14. Randy Scouse Git
15. Pleasant Valley Sunday [Single Version]
16. Words
17. Daydream Believer
18. Goin' Down
19. Salesman
20. The Door into Summer
21. Love Is Only Sleeping
22. Cuddly Toy
23. What Am I Doing Hangin' 'Round?
24. Daily Nightly
25. Star Collector

Disc 3

1. Valleri
2. Tapioca Tundra
3. Dream World
4. Auntie's Municipal Court
5. P.O. Box 9847
6. Zor and Zam
7. Carlisle Wheeling [First Recorded Version]
8. Tear the Top Right off My Head
9. The Girl I Left Behind Me [First Recorded Version]
10. Nine Times Blue
11. Come on In
12. D.W. Washburn
13. It's Nice to Be With You
14. St. Matthew
15. Porpoise Song [Theme from Head][Version]
16. As We Go Along
17. Ditty Diego -- War Chant
18. Circle Sky [Live]
19. Can You Dig It?
20. Daddy's Song [*]
21. Long Title: Do I Have to Do This All over Again

Disc 4

1. Tear Drop City
2. A Man Without a Dream
3. Through the Looking Glass
4. I Won't Be the Same Without Her
5. You and I
6. While I Cry
7. Shorty Blackwell
8. If I Ever Get to Saginaw Again
9. Smile
10. Listen to the Band [Single Version]
11. Someday Man
12. Some of Shelly's Blues
13. Mommy and Daddy
14. Good Clean Fun
15. Looking for the Good Times
16. Steam Engine
17. I Never Thought It Peculiar
18. Midnight Train
19. Oh My My
20. I Love You Better
21. Do You Feel It Too?
22. Do It in the Name of Love
23. That Was Then, This Is Now
24. Heart and Soul
25. Every Step of the Way [Single Version]
26. Oh, What a Night
27. You and I
28. MGB-GT [Live]

Title: Music Box
Sales Rank: 82576 in Music
Artist: Monkees
Label: Rhino, 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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