The Birds, the Bees & the Monkees [Deluxe Edition] by Monkees (The) (CD, Feb-2010, 3 Discs, Rhino Handmade)

Album Features
UPC:	603497959365
Artist:	Monkees (The)
Format:	CD
Release Year:	2010
Record Label:	Rhino Handmade
Genre:	Bubble Gum, Oldies
Number Of Discs:	3

Track Listing
DISC 1:
1. Dream World [Remastered Album Version]
2. Auntie's Municipal Court [Remastered Album Version]
3. We Were Made For Each Other [Remastered Album Version]
4. Tapioca Tundra [Remastered Album Version]
5. Daydream Believer [Remastered Album Version]
6. Writing Wrongs [Remastered Album Version]
7. I'll Be Back Up On My Feet [Remastered Album Version]
8. Poster [Remastered Album Version], The
9. P.O. Box 9847 [Remastered Album Version]
10. Magnolia Simms [Remastered Album Version]
11. Valleri [Remastered Album Version]
12. Zor and Zam [Remastered Album Version]
13. Through the Looking Glass [1968 Stereo Mix] - (remix)
14. Long Title: Do I Have To Do This All Over Again [Alternate Mix] - (remix)
15. D.W. Washburn [1968 Stereo Mix] - (remix)
16. It's Nice To Be With You [1968 Stereo Mix] - (remix)
17. Carlisle Wheeling [1967 Stereo Mix] - (remix)
18. Rosemarie [1968 Stereo Mix] - (remix)
19. My Share of the Sidewalk [1968 Stereo Mix] - (remix)
20. Alvin [Alternate Take]
21. We Were Made For Each Other [Alternate Backing Track]
22. Girl I Left Behind Me [1967 Stereo Mix], The - (remix)
23. Little Red Rider [Acoustic Version]
24. Lady's Baby [1968 Stereo Mix] - (remix)
25. Ceiling In My Room [1967 Stereo Mix] - (remix)
26. I'm a Man [Backing Track]
27. Me Without You [1968 Stereo Mix] - (remix)

DISC 2:
1. Dream World [Mono Album Version]
2. Auntie's Municipal Court [Mono Album Version]
3. We Were Made For Each Other [Mono Album Version]
4. Tapioca Tundra [Mono Album Version]
5. Daydream Believer [Mono Album Version]
6. Writing Wrongs [Mono Album Version]
7. I'll Be Back Up On My Feet [Mono Album Version]
8. Poster [Mono Album Version], The
9. P.O. Box 9847 [Mono Album Version]
10. Magnolia Simms [Mono Album Version]
11. Valleri [Mono Album Version]
12. Zor and Zam [Mono Album Version]
13. Alvin [1968 Mono Mix] - (remix)
14. While I Cry [1968 Mono Mix] - (remix)
15. D.W. Washburn [Mono Single Mix] - (remix)
16. It's Nice To Be With You [Mono Single Mix] - (remix)
17. Come On In [1968 Mono Mix] - (remix)
18. Carlisle Wheeling [1968 Mono Mix] - (remix)
19. Rosemarie [1968 Mono Mix] - (remix)
20. Girl I Left Behind Me [1967 Mono Mix], The - (remix)
21. Seeger's Theme [Alternate Version]
22. Tear the Top Right Off My Head [Micky's Vocal]
23. My Share of the Sidewalk [1968 Mono Mix] - (remix)
24. Lady's Baby [1968 Mono Mix] - (remix)
25. Ceiling In My Room [1967 Mono Mix] - (remix)
26. Merry Go Round [1968 Mono Mix] - (remix)
27. Don't Listen To Linda [1968 Mono Mix] - (remix)
28. Me Without You [1968 Mono Mix] - (remix)
29. Zor and Zam [Tv Version]
30. Birds, the Bees and the Monkees Teen Radio Spot, The

DISC 3:
1. Monkees Adult Stereo 8 Spot
2. Tear the Top Right Off My Head [Peter's Vocal]
3. Auntie's Municipal Court [Mike's Vocal]
4. P.O. Box 9847 [1968 Alternate Stereo Mix] - (remix)
5. War Games [Version One]
6. Lady's Baby
7. Tapioca Tundra [1967 Alternate Stereo Mix] - (remix)
8. D.W. Washburn [Alternate Mix With Bass Vocal]
9. Nine Times Blue [Version Two - Davy's Vocal]
10. Lady's Baby [Acoustic Version]
11. While I Cry [Alternate Mono Mix] - (remix)
12. While I Cry [Alternate Mono Mix] - (remix)
13. Laurel and Hardy
14. Seeger's Theme [Acoustic Version]
15. Tapioca Tundra [Acoustic Version]
16. Don't Say Nothin' Bad [About My Baby]
17. War Games [Version Two]
18. [I Prithee] Do Not Ask For Love [Second Recorded Version]
19. My Share of the Sidewalk [Mike's Vocal Version]
20. Shake 'Em Up and Let 'Em Roll [Alternate Vocal Version]
21. Changes [2009 Mix] - (remix)
22. Merry Go Round [Version One]
23. Magnolia Simms [Acoustic Version]
24. I'm Gonna Try
25. Seeger's Theme [Electric Version]
26. Magnolia Simms [Stereo Remix] - (remix)
27. Girl I Left Behind Me [Third Recorded Version], The
28. Merry Go Round [Third Recorded Version]
29. Nine Times Blue [Version Two - Mike's Vocal]
30. Party [2009 Mix], The - (remix)
31. I Wasn't Born To Follow [Backing Track]

Details
Contributing Artists:	Harry Nilsson, Buddy Miles, James Burton, Stephen Stills, Hal Blaine
Distributor:	n/a
Recording Type:	Studio
Recording Mode:	Stereo
SPAR Code:	n/a

Album Notes
The Monkees: Peter Tork (vocals, guitar, piano); Michael Nesmith (vocals, guitar); Davy Jones, Micky Dolenz (vocals).Additional personnel includes: Michael Deasy, Al Hendrickson, Gerry McGee, Keith Allison, Bill Chadwick, Dennis Budimir, James Burton, Al Casey, Howard Roberts, Louie Shelton, Lance Wakely, Stephen Stills (guitar); Michael Melvoin (piano, harpsichord); Don Randi, Paul T. Smith, Keith "Red" Mitchell (piano); Harry Nilsson (keyboards); Max Bennett, Richard Dey, Chip Douglas, Lyle Ritz, Joe Osborne, Red Callender (bass); Earl Palmer, Eddie Hoh, Billy Lewis, Milt Holland, Hal Blaine, Buddy Miles (drums).Producers: The Monkees, Chip Douglas.Reissue producers: Andrew Sandoval, Bill Inglot.Recorded at Western Recorders, RCA Victor Studios and United Recorders, Hollywood, California between June 1967 and March 1968. Tracks 1-12 originally released on Colgems (109). Includes liner notes by Andrew Sandoval.For a Top Three album (their final high-charting LP) by a group considered by most listeners to be a fairly lightweight pop/rock band, The Birds, The Bees & the Monkees was in some ways a pretty strange -- if pretty inconsistent -- mix of material. That goes triple for Rhino Handmade's deluxe box set edition of the album, a pull-out-the-stops production that even the most ardent Monkees fanatic would have considered absolutely unfathomable back in the 20th century. It does feature both the stereo and mono versions of the original album, but that's almost the least of it, for the three CDs feature a whopping 80 tracks in all. Even discounting the two-dozen cuts comprising the stereo and mono versions of the record, that leaves 56 bonus tracks. Most of that bonus material was previously unreleased, and much of the remaining had first appeared on specialized CD compilations. It's not so much an expanded version of an album as a massive compendium of Monkees sessions from late 1967 and early 1968, including quite a few efforts on which just one Monkee is present.It goes without saying that you've got to be a major fan to wade through this mountain. It's both stylistically eclectic and maddeningly artistically inconsistent, and the presence of multiple versions of many of the tracks makes it something that can challenge the non-obsessive, no matter how intelligently they're spaced apart. Regardless of whether you're fanatical about or dismissive of the Monkees, however, anyone would have to agree that the sheer variety is extraordinary. There's dippy pop dominated by outside writers and session players; pleasant country-folk-rock, sometimes with support from Stephen Stills and Dewey Martin of Buffalo Springfield; quasi-theatrical tunes (especially "My Share of the Sidewalk," in different versions featuring both Davy Jones and Mike Nesmith on lead vocals); weirdness verging on unstable psychedelia ("Merry Go Round"); and even a cover of a Pete Seeger song, "Seeger's Theme."Some of the material comprises their best non-hits, and features Peter Tork (who did not play or sing a note on the tracks released on The Birds, The Bees & the Monkees), both of which benefit from the chance for retrospective exposure. His "Lady's Baby," unsurprisingly similar to Buffalo Springfield down to the presence of Stills and Martin, is the best of his compositions ever released; his reading of Michael Martin Murphey's stark, almost medieval-ish "(I Prithee) Do Not Ask for Love" is also worth hearing, as is "Merry Go Round," which he co-wrote with Diane Hildebrand, an occasional composer of other Monkees material. At the other end of the extreme, Micky Dolenz's rehearsal of "Shorty Blackwell" is positively painful. Most of it falls somewhere between the two poles, and might leave the impression the Monkees were a more avant-garde band than they actually were, owing to how different the songs and production were depending on which member was showcased and whether the track was intended as singles material or a vehicle for their ...

Editorial Reviews
3 stars out of 5 -- [With] a wealth of two-dozen plus previously unreleased songs and alternative mixes...
Uncut

6 - Good - ...display[s]...[Michael] Nesmith's burgeoning West Coast country-rock sound...
NME

4 Stars - Excellent - ...It's a strange, daring, even deep album, moving from Nesmith's sci-fi C&W to Dolenz's nightmare vaudeville, using the full limit of studio gimmickry to make its courageous point...
Q (19950301)