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Music CD 1

(Theme From) The Monkees
I Wanna Be Free [Fast Version]
Let's Dance On
Last Train to Clarksville
Take a Giant Step
All the King's Horses
Saturday's Child
Papa Gene's Blues
I Wanna Be Free
Sweet Young Thing
Gonna Buy Me a Dog
I Don't Think You Know Me [First Recorded Version]
I'm a Believer
(I'm Not Your) Steppin' Stone
She
Mary, Mary
Your Auntie Grizelda
Look Out (Here Comes Tomorrow) [Previously Unissued Extended Version]
Of You [Previously Unissued Mix]
Look Out (Here Comes Tomorrow) [Previously Unissued Extended Version]
Sometime in the Morning
When Love Comes Knockin' (At Your Door)
Do Not Ask for Love [First Recorded Version]
Valleri [First Recorded Version]
I'll Be Back up on My Feet

Music CD 2

Little Bit Me, A Little Bit You
She Hangs Out [Single Version]
Girl I Knew Somewhere
All of Your Toys
Love to Love
You Told Me
I'll Spend My Life With You
Forget That Girl
You Just May Be the One
Shades of Gray
For Pete's Sake
Sunny Girlfriend
No Time
Randy Scouse Git
Pleasant Valley Sunday [Single Version]
Words
Daydream Believer
Goin' Down
Salesman
Door into Summer
Love Is Only Sleeping
Cuddly Toy
What Am I Doing Hangin' 'Round?
Daily Nightly
Star Collector

Music CD 3

Valleri
Tapioca Tundra
Dream World
Auntie's Municipal Court
P.O. Box 9847
Zor and Zam
Carlisle Wheeling [First Recorded Version]
Tear the Top Right off My Head
Girl I Left Behind Me [First Recorded Version]
Nine Times Blue
Come on In
D.W. Washburn
It's Nice to Be With You
St. Matthew
Porpoise Song [Single Version]
As We Go Along
Ditty Diego -- War Chant
Circle Sky [Live]
Can You Dig It?
Daddy's Song [*]
Long Title: Do I Have to Do This All over Again

Music CD 4

Tear Drop City
Man Without a Dream
Through the Looking Glass
I Won't Be the Same Without Her
You and I
While I Cry
Shorty Blackwell
If I Ever Get to Saginaw Again
Smile
Listen to the Band [Single Version]
Someday Man
Some of Shelly's Blues
Mommy and Daddy
Good Clean Fun
Looking for the Good Times
Steam Engine
I Never Thought It Peculiar
Midnight Train
Oh My My
I Love You Better
Do You Feel It Too?
Do It in the Name of Love - Micky Dolenz, Davy Jones, Monkees
That Was Then, This Is Now - Micky Dolenz, Monkees, Peter Tork
Heart and Soul
MGB-GT [Live]
Every Step of the Way [Single Version]
Oh, What a Night
You and I

Though Rhino has previously reissued and anthologized the Monkees' catalog to seemingly exhaustive extremes, this four-disc collection of 99 tracks (each individually annotated by band members and songwriters in the set's colorful booklet) is the only one that spans their full recorded output. Structured around the A- and B-sides of the band's singles, strong album cuts, and outtakes (including three previously unreleased), it's a journey that's both comfortably familiar and occasionally surprising. The Monkees' individual parts--Mike Nesmith's tuneful, pioneering country-rock; Davy Jones's Broadway-honed panache; Peter Tork's spirituality and innate musical chemistry; and Micky Dolenz's loopiness and occasionally avant-garde instincts--are showcased well. But by the sometimes-spotty fourth disc (largely spanning the mid-'70s to mid-'90s), the band's output was hampered by partial lineups, part-time commitments, and, perhaps ironically, the lack of the very pop song-crafter thoroughbreds who'd helped to establish their legend in the first place. --Jerry McCulley