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Rating:  -
This CD is an eclectic blend of maybe not so known Monkees songs. The most interesting and haunting tunes were written and sung by Mike Nesmith. He even used some special sound effects that gave authenticity to the song Magnolia Sims. I love this CD. It is not bubble gum music that you may expect.
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Unlike Arista which, in 1990, put out a CD version of one of their vinyl albums without expanding on the flimsy 11 tracks, and at the same time include some liner notes, Rhino took another 12-track vinyl release and not only added five bonus tracks, but also EIGHT pages of wonderful background notes in a fold-out insert written by songwriter/musician.producer/author Andrew Sandoval, and a FULL discography of the contents. That alone is worth half the price.
The original album, as others have pointed out so well, was in the nature of an experimental departure from the norm for this most underrated group of their era, and one that has been unfairly maligned in publications such as Rolling Stone as being nothing but a manufactured aberration. Perhaps, at the outset, they were that - but not as the years went by and they consistently appeared on the charts with some of the best tunes to hit the airwaves and juke boxes, not to mention record sales, in the late 1960s.
Long, long overdue for admission into the R$&R Hall Of Fame.
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How can you give this any less than 5 stars? This is a classic, experimental, interesting listen. If this was POOL IT, I could understand!
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This was the Monkees fifth album. The original idea for the album was for all four Monkees to get three songs each, but in the end, Peter Tork got left off of the album, other than playing the piano on "Daydream Believer". Anyway, this is a very good album for the most part. There were three hit songs from the album ("Daydream Believer", "Valleri" and "Tapioca Tundra"). Michael Nesmith's contributions to the album are good, if a bit strange. Micky Dolenz adds some good songs. Most of the songs by Davy Jones are good, other than "We Were Made For Each Other", which is the kind of drippy ballad that Davy was infamous for. The CD adds five bonus tracks. "Alvin" is a very brief spoken word piece by Peter Tork. "I'm Gonna Try" is a previously unreleased song by Davy. An alternate mix of Micky's "P.O. Box 9847" features a Moog synthesizer instead of a string quartet. Davy's "The Girl I Left Behind Me" is an early version of a song that later appeared on the Instant Replay album. Peter's "Lady's Baby" is the most famous one of his songs that was recorded for, but left off of, this album; it appears here in an alternate mix with baby sounds.
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As an album, "Birds, Bees, etc" is a mixed
bag: some hits, some misses, nothing too
embarassing, but definitely not "conceptual."
None of that matters though, because this
recording contains one of Mike Nesmith's
most haunting compositions, and a very daring
one for the Monkees to undertake. This would
be the last studio album from all four members,
which makes the psychedelic implosion known
as "Writing Wrongs" all the more prophetic. It
blends Nesmith's abstract poetry with a Byrds-
inflected electrified-folk dirge anchored by
Peter Tork's omnious piano coda before the
tune careens into a post-minimalist free for
all jam session that rivals the work of Can,
Soft Machine and even Captain Beefheart! I've
played just the "instrumental bridge" for
people, and had them name the above-cited
groups as well as other well-respected acts
of the era, and not one of them guesses it was
the Monkees. If you are a true audiophile,
whether you dig The Monkees or not, you must
check out this track!
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