Music Box
![]() | By Monkees Rhino / Wea, 2001, Audio CD Customer Rating: 37 reviews Recommend |
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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 1Disc 2
- (Theme From) The Monkees - The Monkees, Boyce, Tommy
- I Wanna Be Free [Fast Version] - The Monkees, Boyce, Tommy
- Let's Dance On - The Monkees, Boyce, Tommy
- Last Train to Clarksville - The Monkees, Boyce, Tommy
- Take a Giant Step - The Monkees, Goffin, Gerry
- All the King's Horses - The Monkees, Nesmith, Michael
- Saturday's Child - The Monkees, Gates, David [1]
- Papa Gene's Blues - The Monkees, Nesmith, Michael
- I Wanna Be Free - The Monkees, Boyce, Tommy
- Sweet Young Thing - The Monkees, Goffin, Gerry
- Gonna Buy Me a Dog - The Monkees, Boyce, Tommy
- I Don't Think You Know Me [First Recorded Version] - The Monkees, Goffin, Gerry
- I'm a Believer - The Monkees, Diamond, Neil
- (I'm Not Your) Steppin' Stone - The Monkees, Boyce, Tommy
- She - The Monkees, Boyce, Tommy
- Mary, Mary - The Monkees, Nesmith, Michael
- Your Auntie Grizelda - The Monkees, Hildebrand, Diane
- Look Out (Here Comes Tomorrow) [Previously Unissued Extended Version][# - The Monkees, Diamond, Neil
- Of You [Previously Unissued Mix][#] - The Monkees, Chadwick, Bill
- Look Out (Here Comes Tomorrow) [Previously Unissued Extended Version][# - The Monkees, Diamond, Neil
- Sometime in the Morning - The Monkees, Goffin, Gerry
- When Love Comes Knockin' (At Your Door) - The Monkees, Sager, Carole Bayer
- Do Not Ask for Love [First Recorded Version] - The Monkees, Murphey, Michael Ma
- Valleri [First Recorded Version] - The Monkees, Boyce, Tommy
- I'll Be Back up on My Feet - The Monkees, Linzer, Sandy
Disc 3
- A Little Bit Me, A Little Bit You - The Monkees, Diamond, Neil
- She Hangs Out [Single Version] - The Monkees, Barry, Jeff
- The Girl I Knew Somewhere - The Monkees, Nesmith, Michael
- All of Your Toys - The Monkees, Martin, Bill
- Love to Love - The Monkees, Diamond, Neil
- You Told Me - The Monkees, Nesmith, Michael
- I'll Spend My Life With You - The Monkees, Boyce, Tommy
- Forget That Girl - The Monkees, Hatlelid, Douglas F
- You Just May Be the One - The Monkees, Nesmith, Michael
- Shades of Gray - The Monkees, Mann, Barry
- For Pete's Sake - The Monkees, Richards, Joey
- Sunny Girlfriend - The Monkees, Nesmith, Michael
- No Time - The Monkees, Cicalo, Hank
- Randy Scouse Git - The Monkees, Dolenz, Micky
- Pleasant Valley Sunday [Single Version] - The Monkees, Goffin, Gerry
- Words - The Monkees, Boyce, Tommy
- Daydream Believer - The Monkees, Stewart, John [1]
- Goin' Down - The Monkees, Dolenz, Micky
- Salesman - The Monkees, Smith, Craig Vincen
- The Door into Summer - The Monkees, Douglas, Chip
- Love Is Only Sleeping - The Monkees, Mann, Barry
- Cuddly Toy - The Monkees, Nilsson, Harry
- What Am I Doing Hangin' 'Round? - The Monkees, Castleman, Owen "Bo
- Daily Nightly - The Monkees, Nesmith, Michael
- Star Collector - The Monkees, Goffin, Gerry
Disc 4
- Valleri - The Monkees, Boyce, Tommy
- Tapioca Tundra - The Monkees, Nesmith, Michael
- Dream World - The Monkees, Jones, Davy
- Auntie's Municipal Court - The Monkees, Allison, Keith
- P.O. Box 9847 - The Monkees, Boyce, Tommy
- Zor and Zam - The Monkees, Chadwick, Bill
- Carlisle Wheeling [First Recorded Version] - The Monkees, Nesmith, Michael
- Tear the Top Right off My Head - The Monkees, Tork, Peter
- The Girl I Left Behind Me [First Recorded Version] - The Monkees, Sager, Carole Bayer
- Nine Times Blue - The Monkees, Nesmith, Michael
- Come on In - The Monkees, Mapes, Jo
- D.W. Washburn - The Monkees, Leiber, Jerry
- It's Nice to Be With You - The Monkees, Goldstein, Jerry
- St. Matthew - The Monkees, Nesmith, Michael
- Porpoise Song [Theme from Head][Version] - The Monkees, Goffin, Gerry
- As We Go Along - The Monkees, King, Carole [1]
- Ditty Diego -- War Chant - The Monkees, Nicholson, Jack
- Circle Sky [Live] - The Monkees, Nesmith, Michael
- Can You Dig It? - The Monkees, Tork, Peter
- Daddy's Song [*] - The Monkees, Nilsson, Harry
- Long Title: Do I Have to Do This All over Again - The Monkees, Tork, Peter
- Tear Drop City - The Monkees, Boyce, Tommy
- A Man Without a Dream - The Monkees, Goffin, Gerry
- Through the Looking Glass - The Monkees, Baldwin, Red
- I Won't Be the Same Without Her - The Monkees, Goffin, Gerry
- You and I - The Monkees, Chadwick, Bill
- While I Cry - The Monkees, Nesmith, Michael
- Shorty Blackwell - The Monkees, Dolenz, Micky
- If I Ever Get to Saginaw Again - The Monkees, Keller, Jack
- Smile - The Monkees, Jones, Davy
- Listen to the Band [Single Version] - The Monkees, Nesmith, Michael
- Someday Man - The Monkees, Nichols, Roger [Son
- Some of Shelly's Blues - The Monkees, Nesmith, Michael
- Mommy and Daddy - The Monkees, Dolenz, Micky
- Good Clean Fun - The Monkees, Nesmith, Michael
- Looking for the Good Times - The Monkees, Boyce, Tommy
- Steam Engine - The Monkees, Douglas, Chip
- I Never Thought It Peculiar - The Monkees, Boyce, Tommy
- Midnight Train - The Monkees, Dolenz, Micky
- Oh My My - The Monkees, Barry, Jeff
- I Love You Better - The Monkees, Barry, Jeff
- Do You Feel It Too? - The Monkees, Barry, Jeff
- Do It in the Name of Love - The Monkees, Bloom, Bobby
- That Was Then, This Is Now - The Monkees, Brescia, Vance
- Heart and Soul - The Monkees, Byrne, Simon
- Every Step of the Way [Single Version] - The Monkees, Clarke, Mark
- Oh, What a Night - The Monkees, Jones, Davy
- You and I - The Monkees, Chadwick, Bill
- 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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