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The Birds, the Bees & the Monkees
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Manufacturer: Rhino / Wea
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Binding: Audio CD
EAN: 0081227179427
Format: Original recording reissued
Label: Rhino / Wea
Manufacturer: Rhino / Wea
Number Of Discs: 1
Publisher: Rhino / Wea
Release Date: 1994-09-20
Studio: Rhino / Wea
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Sundazed introduces vinyl LP's of the first five Monkees albums! The complete original records with bonus tracks that have never before appeared on vinyl.
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Summary: Old timer's perspective
Comment: This may not have been as cohesive as Headquarters or PAC & J Ltd but to fully understand it you had to have been 'there'. I was and the times did shape what you wanted to listen to, depending on how you felt about the war. Zor & Zam had a lot of meaning for me then because of that.
I certainly can't speak for the rest of the teeny boppers who spent their allowances on these 45's & LP's but I played Tapioca Tundra as often as Valeri so some of us got it.
I always used to skip Davy's sappy songs like 'We Were Made for Each Other' which wasn't as easy as in is with the CD.
Mangolia Simms was a favorite because Mike's parody of the style was just so on target.
It's not their best effort and, like the Beatles, they were evolving with each LP but their creative vision was always fragmented and it shows here.
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Summary: Didn't know how talented they were
Comment: 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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Summary: Vastly Underrated Talents
Comment: 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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Summary: Writing Wrongs
Comment: 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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Summary: The grass is greener just around the bend.
Comment: 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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