Monkees - Music Box
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Free Music Review: A worthy starting point for the Monkee's novice
Hit: 4 Stars
It's hard to find fault with Rhino for the constant repackaging of the Monkee's catalog when they do it as well as this. I bought the 1991 Listen To The Band box set when it came out and was thrilled with it, even with it's heavy reliance on the inferior product of the band's later years. This one is pretty much the same way, with some decent cuts from the excellent Missing Links discs thrown in for something different. I tend to think of Rhino's never ending repackaging as a good thing because of the problems I had finding anything Monkee's related in the early 80's before Rhino had the rights to the music. Back then I had a collection of badly treated vinyl albums that I had scrounged from record shows and dollar bins of used record stores. From these albums I had assembled what I thought was a pretty nice 90 minute cassette filled with what I considered the best of the band's recorded output. Once I was in downtown Cincinnati to pick my mom up from work and I had my Monkees tape blaring as I drove around looking for a parking spot on a beautiful sunny afternoon. As I was sitting at a light waiting to turn with "Papa Gene's Blues" playing at full volume, a woman walked up to my car and motioned for me to turn down the music. I thought she needed directions, but it turned out that she had heard my tape as I had passed her a block or so back and had chased me down. She was a Monkee's fan from the television days who had long since lost all of her old albums to life and wanted to know where I came by the tape I was listening to. When I told her I made it she asked how much it would cost to have me make a tape for her. When I popped the tape out of the player and gave it to her, I swear I thought she was going to cry. She was still thanking me as I drove off. The point? If a poorly made analog recording made from a Frisbee looking album collection could bring a smile like that to a woman's face almost twenty years after she first heard the music, the occasional excellent digital collection from Rhino is never a thing to be scoffed at. Keep sweeping the vaults, Rhino. The whole world's listening.Free Music Review: The definitive box set
Hit: 4 Stars
I wanted to dislike this box set. As a long time fan of the Monkees who feels like he has been screwed over by Rhino's constant repackaging of Monkee material just one too many times, I honestly didn't feel that I needed to add yet another copy of the Monkee hits to my library, and probably wouldn't have had I not recieved "Music Box" as a gift.Having said that, I have to admit that "Music Box" fairly blows it's predecessor, the "Listen To The Band" box set clear out of the water. All but 4 of the tracks on "LTTB" are included in the new set, and there are enough extras in "Music Box" in the way of additional album cuts, and the occasional alternate mix that I would not hesitate in recommending this compliation to any fan who didn't have the opportunity to catch the first set originally, and may be wondering which of the two held the advantage.
But for those of us who are completists out there, there isn't going to be a whole lot in "Music Box" that will justify the heftier price tag. The liner notes are insightful, but they can be accessed online at Rhino Record's website. There are a few alternate mixes and versions included in this new repackaging, the most notable of which is a longer version of "Daddy's Song" which features David's slower rendition of the last verse, as seen on film in HEAD. But other than that, the remastered sound and sharp packaging are really the only things that this set has going for it.
Buy it if you're a completist, or if you are in need of a great, comprehensive musical anthology. Otherwise, for the casual fan who already has bought Rhino's reissue albums, take heart that you aren't missing much.
Free Music Review: the hated monkees
Hit: 4 Stars
OK,i want to 'fess up. Back in the 60's,my sister was crazy about the monkees. i absolutely loathed them. hated them. thought they were the musical equivalent to the Antichrist. etc.etc.(Nesmith was OK,tho')
But,as the years wore me down,I realized that I actually enjoyed some of their songs when they happened to be on the radio.
I bought an old cassette tape of their hits and was considering getting some CD's such as "Pisces...." and another or two until I saw this Rhino set.
I hate to admit that I was a least somewhat wrong about them.
They had some great pop tunes with great hooks,even if they were not written by them (except Nesmith).
If Mickey Dolenz is cool enough to groove to Ravi Shankar at the Monterey Pop Festival then he must have something going for him.
So,in spite of myself,I let 'em in to my collection. They're still minor-league ball compared to the Beatles,et.al.
But a good tune is a good tune,as Kurt Cobain knew so well.You can't argue with that.
Enjoy!
Free Music Review: The Best Collection
Hit: 4 Stars
I am an original Monkees fan. My friends and I knew all the songs and all the episodes and had numerous discussions about which one was the cutest. We were 11 or 12 years old, the perfect age for the kind of music and antics The Monkees brought to the TV screen. Every song I remember and then some is included in this collection. It is packaged really well; though it won't fit on a small shelf with your other CDs, it looks great as a coffee table book.
One of my favorite songs that I haven't found on any other collection is "I'm Going to Buy Me a Dog," and it's on this one. I highly recommend this set to anyone who was in love with The Monkees in 1966-1968.
Free Music Review: Oh No! Almost perfect, but disappointing enough to say "No, I can't buy this collection!"
Hit: 4 Stars
I love The Monkees. Really, I do. But, when I saw this four disc collection, I was ready to bring it home.
But No! I can't! Where's "Mr. Webster"? One of my favorite tracks from "Headquarters"? How come that great song is not here? They go and put their faggy "D.W. Washburn" in this collection, but they leave out "Mr. Webster"? What an atrocity!
Well, they blew it! I guess I'm just going to have to fabricate my own little "Best of The Monkees" by borrowing my friend's whole CD library of The Monkees. I guess I can live with that.
"D. W. Washburn", for Christ's sakes. That's disturbing!