Track Listing
DISC 1:
1. Monkees, (Theme From) The
2. Last Train to Clarksville
3. Take a Giant Step
4. Saturday's Child
5. I Wanna Be Free
6. Papa Gene's Blues
7. Sweet Young Thing
8. Gonna Buy Me a Dog
9. All the King's Horses
10. I'm a Believer
11. Steppin' Stone, (I'm Not Your)
12. She
13. Mary, Mary
14. Your Auntie Grizelda
15. Look Out (Here Comes Tomorrow)
16. Sometime in the Morning
17. I Don't Think You Know Me - (previously unreleased, alternate version)
18. I'll Spend My Life With You - (previously unreleased, alternate version)
19. I'll Be Back up on My Feet
DISC 2:
1. Little Bit Me, A Little Bit You, A
2. Girl I Knew Somewhere, The
3. She Hangs Out
4. All of Your Toys
5. Love to Love
6. You Told Me
7. Forget That Girl
8. You Just May Be the One
9. Shades of Gray
10. For Pete's Sake
11. No Time
12. Randy Scouse Git
13. Pleasant Valley Sunday
14. Words
15. Daydream Believer
16. Goin' Down
17. Salesman
18. Door Into Summer, The
19. Love Is Only Sleeping
20. Cuddly Toy
21. What Am I Doing Hangin' 'Round?
22. Daily Nightly
23. Star Collector
24. Steppin' Stone, (I'm Not Your) - (previously unreleased)
DISC 3:
1. Valleri
2. Tapioca Tundra
3. P.O. Box 9847
4. Auntie's Municipal Court
5. Zor and Zam
6. Nine Times Blue
7. Tear the Top Right Off of My Head - (previously unreleased)
8. Carlisle Wheeling
9. D.W. Washburn
10. It's Nice to Be With You
11. St. Matthew
12. Porpoise Song
13. As We Go Along
14. Circle Sky
15. Can You Dig It
16. Long Title: Do I Have to Do This All Over Again
17. Tear Drop City
18. Man Without a Dream, A
19. Through the Looking Glass
20. I Won't Be the Same Without Her
21. You and I
22. While I Cry
DISC 4:
1. Listen to the Band
2. Someday Man
3. Good Clean Fun
4. Mommy and Daddy
5. Looking For the Good Times
6. Some of Shelly's Blues
7. Steam Engine
8. Oh My My
9. I Love You Better
10. Do It in the Name of Love
11. That Was Then, This Is Now
12. Anytime, Anyplace, Anywhere
13. Heart and Soul
14. Gettin' In
15. Every Step of the Way
| Details | | Contributing Artists: | Carole King, Glen Campbell, Hal Blaine, Harry Nilsson, Neil Young, Stephen Stills | | Distributor: | WEA (Distributor) | | Recording Type: | Mixed | | Recording Mode: | Stereo | | SPAR Code: | AAD |
Album Notes
LISTEN TO THE BAND was released to commemorate the 25th anniversary of the Monkees' first recordings. Nearly half of the 80 songs appeared here on CD for the first time, and four tracks were previously unreleased in any form. The set includes an LP-size booklet with rare photos and track-by-track notes including comments from each of the Monkees and from other musicians and producers.
The Monkees: Michael Nesmith (vocals, acoustic & electric guitars, pedal steel, organ); Peter Tork (vocals, guitar, banjo, piano, harpsichord, keyboards, bass, snare drum); Davy Jones (vocals, organ, chimes, tree, percussion); Micky Dolenz (vocals, Moog synthesizer, drums, percussion).
Additional personnel includes: Tommy Boyce, James Burton, Glen Campbell, Danny Kortchmar, Ry Cooder, Neil Young, Clarence White, Thomas J. Tedesco, Stephen Stills (guitar); David Briggs, Carole King (piano); Billy Preston, Larry Knechtel (keyboards); Paul Beaver (Moog synthesizer); Carole Kaye, Joe Osborn (bass); Hal Blaine, Jim Gordon (drums); Harry Nilsson.
Producers include: Tommy Boyce, Bobby Hart, Michael Nesmith, Gerry Goffin, Carole King.
Compilation producers: Bill Inglot, Andrew Sandoval.
Engineers include: Dave Hassinger, Ray Hall, Al Pachucki.
Principally recorded at RCA Studios, Hollywood, California between June 25, 1966 and September 22, 1970. Includes liner notes by Andrew P. Sandoval and Eric Lefcowitz.
A four-disc box set with lavish packaging, including a thick book featuring track-by-track commentary from the Monkees and others, LISTEN TO THE BAND is an excellent treatment of one of the most underrated bands of '60s pop. The sour grapes sniping which accompanied the Monkees' multimedia success has soured public perception of the group for decades, but in a post-Milli Vanilli world where it's been revealed that even the sainted Byrds often used studio musicians, questions of authenticity are moot.
When nothing is left but the music, the Monkees are obviously one of the great bands of the '60s. The songs here are commercial, exploratory, polished, ragged and immediately memorable, often simultaneously, while the remastered sound is exquisite. LISTEN TO THE BAND is a meticulously compiled box set.
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