Track Listing

Disc 1:

1. You Told Me
2. I'll Spend My Life With You
3. Forget That Girl
4. Band 6
5. You Just May Be The One
6. Shades of Gray
7. I Can't Get Her Off My Mind
8. For Pete's Sake
9. Mr. Webster
10. Sunny Girlfriend
11. Zilch
12. No Time
13. Early Morning Blues and Greens
14. Randy Scouse Git
15. All of Your Toys
16. The Girl I Knew Somewhere
17. A Little Bit Me, A Little Bit You
18. She Hangs Out
19. Love To Love
20. You Can't Tie A Mustang Down
21. If I Learned to Play the Violin
22. 99 Pounds
23. The Girl I Knew Somewhere
24. Randy Scouse Git (Alternate Version)
25. Tema dei Monkees

Disc 2:

1. All of Your Toys (Mono)
2. The Girl I Knew Somewhere (Alternate Version)
3. A Little Bit Me, A Little Bit You (Mono)
4. She Hangs Out (Mono)
5. The Girl That I Knew Somewhere (Mono)
6. Nine Times Blue
7. She'll Be There
8. Midnight Train
9. Peter Gunn's Gun
10. Pillow Time

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #20286 in Music
• Released on: 2007-07-02
• Number of discs: 2
• Formats: Deluxe Edition, Original recording remastered, Extra tracks
• Dimensions: .31 pounds

CD Description
One of the Monkees' two best albums, HEADQUARTERS is also the one '60s album on which the band played nearly all the instruments, save for a string section and occasional bass from producer Chip Douglas. Since Michael Nesmith had instigated the revolt that led to the band's musical independence, he's in the forefront here, and his songs are uniformly excellent. The banjo-driven "You Told Me" and "Sunny Girlfriend" are two of his best country-influenced tunes, and "You Just May Be the One" is magnificent REVOLVER-influenced psychedelic pop.
Douglas' "Forget That Girl" features one of Micky Dolenz's best vocals, and Dolenz's own "Randy Scouse Git" isan impressionistic, trippy delight. Perhaps the album's best track is the Davy Jones lead "Early Morning Blues and Greens", a moody slice of atmospheric pop. Even oddities like "Band 6" and "Zilch" are interesting ephemera. This reissue features six interesting alternate takes and demos.

Customer Reviews

The original 'boy band' get the reissue treatment
Ah, The Monkees' first 'real' LP and the second best they ever released.

Once again Rhino have combined both mono and stereo versions of the original LP with some extras. Not just one or two as seems to be the case with many reissues, but a whopping 22 bonus tracks have found their way here, unfortunately only half that number will be of interest to those of us whom buy everything that's released. Included on this set is the worst thing they ever recorded, 'If I Learned To Play The Violin'. In defence of the group only Davy Jones was around and even he must have cringed when he sung the couplet: "I would even go and cut my hair, though my friends would point and say I'm square". Very few people have heard this track until now and you'll know why.

The rest of the unreleased bonus songs are stereo mixes of tracks already familiar to most, but welcome additions all the same. If you want to find out what the original, and best, 'boy band' was like, there's no better place than here to start.

The Monkees become a real band...And the results are great!
For their first 2 albums, The Monkees only sung, although Mike Nesmith did write two songs for both of those albums. On this album, The Monkees became a "real" band, playing instruments and writing half of the songs. The result is an album which ranks among manufactured pop musics best. Filled with fun songs like "For Pete's Sake", "Randy Scouse Git" (A top 5 hit!), "Sunny Girlfriend" and "Band 6", This is not only among The Monkees best albums, It's also one of 1967's best albums. Every member of the band gets a chance to shine, with Peter Tork writing "For Pete's Sake" and playing Piano on most of the tracks, Micky Dolenz writing "Randy Scouse Git" and singing great, Mike Nesmith not only writing several tracks but also being in great voice, and although Davy Jones didn't write anything on this album, His singing here is first-rate. That's the original album, So you may be thinking what the bonus tracks are like. Well, Some are very good ("Midnight Train", "99 Pounds", "All Of Your Toys") and others being either too sappy ("If I Learned to Play to Violin") or just plain bad (The shockingly bad "She Hangs Out", which may explain why they fired their manager), But most of the bonus tracks are very nice. Both the Mono and Stereo versions of the album are included, which is quite nice. Overall this is a great album, recommended to anyone looking for fun, smart 60's pop/rock music.