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Track Listing
DISC 1:
1. Salesman
2. She Hangs Out
3. Door Into Summer, The
4. Love Is Only Sleeping
5. Cuddly Toy
6. Words
7. Hard to Believe
8. What Am I Doing Hangin' 'Round?
9. Peter Percival Patterson's Pet Pig Porky
10. Pleasant Valley Sunday
11. Daily Nightly
12. Don't Call on Me
13. Star Collector - (remix)
14. Goin Down - (Stereo Mix)
15. Salesman - (Alternate Stereo Mix, previously unreleased)
16. She Hangs Out - (Alternate Stereo Mix)
17. Love Is Only Sleeping - (Alternate Mix, remix)
18. What Am I Doing Hangin' 'Round? - (Alternate Mix, previously unreleased)
19. Star Collector - (Alternate Stereo Mix, previously unreleased)
20. Riu Chiu - (previously unreleased, TV Version)
DISC 2:
1. Salesman - (remix)
2. She Hangs Out
3. Door Into Summer, The
4. Love Is Only Sleeping
5. Cuddly Toy
6. Words
7. Hard to Believe
8. What Am I Doing Hangin' 'Round?
9. Peter Percival Patterson's Pet Pig Porky
10. Pleasant Valley Sunday - (Mono Version)
11. Daily Nightly
12. Don't Call on Me
13. Star Collector
14. Special Announcement
15. Salesman - (Alternate Mono Mix)
16. Cuddly Toy - (Alternate Mix, previously unreleased)
17. Goin Down - (Mono Single Version)
18. Door Into Summer, The - (Alternate Mix, remix)
19. Daily Nightly - (previously unreleased)
20. Star Collector - (Alternate Mono Mix)
Album Notes
The Monkees: Micky Dolenz, Davy Jones, Michael Nesmith, Peter Tork.
The Monkees: Charlie Rockett, Bill Martin (spoken vocals); Michael Nesmith, Peter Tork (acoustic guitar); Davy Jones, Micky Dolenz (background vocals).
Additional personnel: Bill Chadwick (acoustic guitar); 'Unknown' (electric guitar); Doug Dillard (electric banjo); Leonard Atkins, Jerome Reisler, Nathan Kaproff, Wilbert Nuttycombe, Darrel Terwilliger, Arnold Belnick (violin); Edgar Lustgarten (cello); Lohn Lowe, BOBBY HELFER (bass clarinet); Ted Nash, Thomas Scott, Bud Shank (reeds); Plas Johnson, Bill Hood, Buddy Collette (saxophone); Jim Horn (baritone saxophone); Uan Rasey, Manny Stevens, Al Porcino, Pete Candoli, Virgil Evans, Bud Brisbois (trumpet); Ollie Mitchell, Tony Terran (flugelhorn); Vincent DeRosa (French horn); Dick Noel, Dick Nash, Lou Blackburn (trombone); Dick Leath, Phil Teele, Bobby Knight, Dick Leith (bass trombone); Bob Rafelson (piano); Paul Beaver (Moog synthesizer); Kim Capli (bass guitar); Eddie Hoh (drums); Harry Nilsson (unknown instrument); Chip Douglas (background vocals).
Audio Remasterers: Andrew Sandoval; Bill Inglot; Dan Hersch.
By 1967's PISCES, AQUARIUS, CAPRICORN & JONES LTD., the band had found a balance between writing and performing their own material, and utilizing the talents of their Los Angeles songwriting teams and studio musicians. The result is an artistically satisfying mix of progressive experimentalism and pop smarts; the Moog synthesizer on the tracks "Daily Nightly," "Love Is Only Sleeping," and the groupie anthem "Star Collector," was the first ever to appear on a pop album.
Besides the enormous hit "Pleasant Valley Sunday," highlights include the simply beautiful jazz-pop of Michael Nesmith's "Don't Call On Me," and the atmospheric and lovely "Words," featuring Peter Tork's best-ever vocals. The entire album is superb, and the handful of alternate takes and outtakes are nearly its equal. A '60s pop classic.
Industry Reviews
4 Stars - Excellent - ...shows the prefab four aware of their limitations as a band and allowing some sessionmen back into the studio for a minor pop psychedelic masterpiece...
Q (05/01/1995)
4 stars out of 5 -- [I]t reveals both Micky Dolenz and Michael Nesmith as highly individual vocalists, the latter a ringer for Stephen Stills on his country-rock tunes.
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