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This was actually the 2nd Monkee album released. The story is that it contained songs that didn't make their debut album which angered the group. Nevertheless, most of the songs are above average Monkees tunes that you'll recognize from their hit television show.
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After the success of the Monkees first album, it was natural that a second album would be released. For this album, music supervisor Don Kirshner decided to have several producers record as many songs as possible. Then he picked out twelve songs (out of over two dozen) and slapped together an album. In theory, this wasn't such a bad idea. After all, that's pretty much how most pop albums are made today (40 years later). So it might have worked, if Kirshner actually put the twelve best songs on the album. In truth, most of the songs are quite good. "She", "Mary, Mary", "Steppin' Stone", "Look Out", "Sometime in the Morning" and "I'm a Believer" are great songs. But then there are mediocre songs "Hold On Girl" and "Laugh". But the thing that really drags the album down in "The Day We Fall in Love", the absolute worst thing ever to make it onto a Monkees album (although I suppose the 12 year old girls who were in love with Davy swooned when they heard it). Overall though, the album is quite enjoyable. Now, what we have hear is a two cd "deluxe" edition. The first disc has the stereo version of the album and the second disc has the mono version. Both discs have bonus tracks, which are the other songs recorded at the same sessions, and a few alternate versions of songs from the album. Some of these songs should have been included on the album, especially "Valleri" and "Words". But for some unknown reason, two songs from the sessions were not included as bonus tracks here, those being "Looking For the Good Times" and "I Never Thought It Peculiar". Regardless of that, this is still the "ultimate" version of the album. Whether or not you need both the stereo and mono versions of the album is up to you.
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I am fifty and male, and loved the Monkees since I was a kid. I love they way they tweek these old albums from time to time. If you are a Monkees fan, I highly recommend it.
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What can I say?
I grew up watching this show, reruns sure but this cd has some great stuff!
"SHE" is the best! How this song has never been covered is beyond me. Why?
Special edition has some great out-takes.
Monkees were cool. deal.
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This is the one album of the four re-issues that I have to skip over some of the tracks. This album suffers from too many cooks in the kitchen. The Boyce & Hart stuff as well as Mike Nesmith's stuff is great but the rest is just Brill Building dribble, especially "The Day We Fall In Love" with its sickening recitation. Apparently Don Kirschner could not hear the music over the ringing cash registers in his head because if he did he would have detected a lack of cohesion, which Boyce & Hart had with most of the first album. Instead he hired other producers and rushed this into the stores without even the band knowing about it. And he had the audacity to write the liner knows praising himself on doing such a fine job.
Fortunately there are some good songs here and a great selection of bonus tracks to make up for the dreck. You can also listen to either the mono or stereo versions but for me this is the weakest one out of the four re-issues.
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