Saturday, February 11, 2017

My 66 Favorite Monkees Songs: #35-26



Hi guys! Sorry for not posting in a while, but as you know, life gets in the way. Let's keep going with the list!


35. St. Matthew (Missing Links Volume 2, 1990; Originally recorded for Head, 1968)




34. Little Girl (The Monkees Present, 1970)




33. Nine Times Blue (Missing Links, 1987; Originally recorded for Headquarters, 1967)

Okay, technically, there are four versions of this song: The demo version, the Missing Links version, the Johnny Cash Show performance (my personal favorite), and the version on Michael Nesmith's first real solo album, Magnetic South. However, since that last one isn't really a Monkees recording, I'm just going to put the first three here.






32. Salesman (Pisces, Aquarius, Capricorn, & Jones Ltd., 1967)




31. Circle Sky (Head, 1968)

This one's a little different, because there's one version that's on the soundtrack album, and one that's in the movie. Nez himself prefers the movie version (which has only the Monkees playing on it!), so we'll just put those both here. There's also a version from Justus that was recorded in 1996...but I think most of us can agree that version's not necessary when we have these.





30. Sweet Young Thing (The Monkees, 1966)




29. Words (Pisces, Aquarius, Capricorn, & Jones Ltd., 1967)

(I'll link both the TV/Kirshner version and the final album version here.)





28. I'll Spend My Life With You (Headquarters, 1967)

(Again, I'll give you the Boyce/Hart produced version, along with the final, Chip Douglas produced version.)





27. Tear the Top Right Off My Head (Missing Links Volume 3, 1996; Originally recorded for The Birds, The Bees, & The Monkees, 1968)


(Also, here's the lovely live snippet performed by Peter and Micky in the episode "Hitting the High Seas".)



26. (I'm Not Your) Steppin' Stone (More of the Monkees, 1967)



That's all for now folks! Hopefully, I'll have #25-16 up soon.
Thanks for reading!!