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Binding: Audio CD
EAN: 0081227990190
Format: Box set, Import
Item Dimensions: 96
Number Of Discs: 4
Release Date: September 30, 2008
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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
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Music Box by The Monkees is a four CD set and is four hours, twenty-nine minutes and thirty-two seconds long and was released on February 20, 2001. This CD set cover the years of the Monkees from their first album in 1966 to Justus in 1996. Included in Music Box is a brief story of the Monkees, stories behind each song written and information on that song. It tells you how high a song and album charted and the released date too. Below is some information about each disc.
Disc 1
1966 ... Read More
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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 ... Read More
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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.
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In 1991,Rhino Records released a Monkees box set called "Listen To The Band"-Ten years later,this anthology was released-Supposedly,it contained a lot more songs that the previous collection didn't have-While I was never a huge fan of "The Monkees" TV series,the music itself was a different story-The top songwriters of the time such as Carole King & Neil Diamond were brought in to create songs for this prefabricated group-There is also a massive booklet that describes the history of the group-If you're ... Read More
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