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EAN: 0081227179045 Label: Rhino / Wea Manufacturer: Rhino / Wea Publisher: Rhino / Wea Release Date: September 20, 1994 Studio: Rhino / Wea Editorial Review: Album Description: 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. Average Rating:
 Rating:  - The Monkees Best! Track Listings 1. (Theme From) The Monkees 2. Saturday's Child 3. I Wanna Be Free 4. Tomorrow's Gonna Be Another Day 5. Papa Gene's Blues 6. Take a Giant Step 7. Last Train to Clarksville 8. This Just Doesn't Seem to Be My Day 9. Let's Dance On 10. I'll Be True to You 11. Sweet Young Thing 12. Gonna Buy Me a Dog 13. I Can't Get Her Off My Mind [Previously Unissued Early Version][*] 14. I ... Read More Rating: - Correction to a correctionMichael Nesmith and Peter Tork DID in fact play on this album on Nesmith's songs Michael played guitar and Peter played second chair guitar...check out the session notes for this album...they are listed as muscicians Rating: - We Don't Need to Play No Stinkin' Instruments!Great album, despite the lack of group member performance on guitar, bass and drums. Let's see...The Beach Boys, The Supremes, CSN&Y, The Temptations, Michael Jackson, David Bowie, AND Elvis all had #1 singles (and some had multiple top ten albums) in which none of the group's members play ONE LICK AT ALL. This is one of the top 50 albums of all time...from writing to production...you can't go wrong. Rating: - Here they come, walking down the street: hey, hey, they're the Pre-Fab Four!Ultimately the biggest sin of the Monkees was not that the Pre-Fab Four did not play any musical instruments on their 1966 debut album, but that they pretended to when they sang these songs on their television show every Monday night on the NBC-TV network (7:30 p.m. EDT). Peter Tork did play guitar on "Papa Gene's Blues" (along with Glen Campbell), which I suppose would make up for the fact that he never does any of the vocals on any of these songs. Despite the credits on the back cover as to which ... Read More Rating:  - Prior review correctionThe members of the Monkees sang on this cd, but they didnt play a lick of it. Any talk of this being Monkees music is a pure falsehood. |
