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 - Monkees #2??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. Rating:  - Donnie sees $$$$$ and this record suffers for it.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. Rating:  - My 2nd Monkees LP...I got this at E.J. Korvettes for $1.59! What a deal! Again: this is my LP review, NOT the Rhino Reissue.Micky rox with She/ Davy sings When Love Comes Knocking at Your Door.Micky gets down & dirty with Mary Mary! Cool! Davy with Hold on Girl. Peter is silly with Auntie Grizelda. Then Micky jams with I'm Not Your Steppin' Stone. Side 2 starts with Davy & Look Out (Here Comes Tomorrow). Mike Yeehahs with the Kind Of Girl I Could Love.Davy's a drag in the Day We Fall In Love. Micky's calm for Sometime in the Morning. Davy & Company with Laugh & we conclude with I'm a Believer (written by Neil Diamond). Great 60's fun. Rating: - 60s Pop ExcellenceI just don't have the patience to type out a complete commentary about this favorite album of mine, which is in the top of my list of fave albums I grew up with as a child, and one that had a major impact on me. But, to those Monkees die-hards and collectors of all their recordings, this re-issue is practically worth it alone for the 2 bonus track stereo mixes: The out-take of "I'm a Believer" on disc 1, is like hearing the song for the first time again, (albeit a different vocal take) being in an amazing stereo mix, the way I wish the regular version sounded like. It's great to really hear Neil Diamond's acoustic guitar so clearly. Same goes for "Look Out", the stereo mix with the organ break in the middle and count-in, on Disc 2. I was blasting it on my car speakers the other day- it's like a whole new song. Get this and the first album re-issues. The gathering of so many bonus tracks from the time are worth it alone. Both re-issues are definitive. Rating: - Part 2 Monkees 1966 Anthlogy Shines! More of the Monkees" is truly a wonderful album and this Rhino deluxe edition really shines. From the first bars of "She" through the ultimate garage rock classic, "I'm Not Your Stepping Stone" this album exhibts the pure "ear candy" that has turned on fans for 40 years. To put in perspective how popular this album was and is, in 1967 and 1968 it was in the top album charts for 70 weeks, and was again a top ten album for 13 weeks in 1986 upon the LP reissue by Rhino Records. In addition to the stereo and mono album versions, this deluxe edition compiles the remaining 1966 recordings including alternate versions of Monkee classics such as "I'm a Believer." In addition, the packaging is wonderful and features rare pictures and insightful liner notes by the foremost Monkee expert and author Andrew Sandoval (he also helps research and compile the tracks for all of Rhino's Monkee projects). Get this collection and "The Monkees" deluxe edition also.
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