Your personal Monkees alternate tracklistings

We all have our own alternate tracklistings of Monkees albums, mainly because:
1. Personal tastes
2. Some of them are badly sequenced
3. Don Kirschner!
So I'd like you to share yours, so we can all compare them. Here's my alternate PAC&J:

Side A
1. Salesman
2. She Hangs Out
3. Love Is Only Sleeping
4. Words
5. Cuddly Toy
6. Don't Call on Me (w/o lounge intro and outro)
7. Goin' Down (single mix)
Side B
1. The Door Into Summer
2. Daydream Believer
3. What Am I Doin' Hangin' 'Round
4. Daily, Nightly
5. Pleasant Valley Sunday
6. Star Collector (extended version, PAC&J deluxe)

Gone is "Hard to Believe", which I don't really like, and isn't a "real" Monkees track, being only Davy and Kim Calpri, and in is the Daydream Believer single and B-Side, making this great album even greater. I based my tracklist loosely on the real alternate tracklist, making some changes here and there

 

THE MONKEES

1. All The King's Horses
2. The Kind Of Girl I Could Love
3. I Don't Think You Know Me
4. So Goes Love
5. Papa Gene's Blues
6. I Won't Be The Same Without Her

1. Sweet Young Thing
2. You Just May Be The One
3. (I Prithee) Do Not Ask For Love
4. Of You
5. Mary Mary

MORE OF THE MONKEES

1. (Theme From) The Monkees
2. Let's Dance On
3. Saturday's Child
4. Tomorrow's Gonna Be Another Day
5. Last Train To Clarksville
6. Gonna Buy Me A Dog

1. Valleri
2. Words
3. She
4. Looking For The Good Times
5. Tear Drop City
6. Ladies Aide Society

HEADQUARTERS

1. Zilch
2. You Told Me
3. Forget That Girl
4. The Girl I Knew Somewhere
5. Sunny Girlfriend
6. Band 6

1. For Pete's Sake
2. Early Morning Blues & Greens
3. All Of Your Toys
4. No Time
5. Shades Of Gray
6. Randy Scouse Git

PISCES AQUARIUS CAPRICORN & JONES LTD

1. Salesman
2. Cuddly Toy
3. What Am I Doing Hangin' 'Round?
4. Goin' Down
5. Door Into Summer
6. Don't Call On Me

1. Peter Percival Patterson's Pet Pig Porky
2. Pleasant Valley Sunday
3. Daydream Believer
4. Love Is Only Sleeping
5. Daily Nightly
6. Star Collector

THE BIRDS, THE BEES & THE MONKEES

1. Circle Sky
2. Auntie's Municipal Court
3. Tapioca Tundra
4. My Share Of The Sidewalk
5. Magnolia Simms
6. Daddy's Song

1. While I Cry
2. Nine Times Blue
3. Carlisle Wheeling
4. War Games
5. Writing Wrongs

HEAD

1. Opening Ceremony
2. Lady's Baby
3. Ditty Diego - War Chant
4. Can You Dig It?
5. Supplico
6. Long Title
7. Gravy

1. Superstitious
2. Tear The Top Right Off Your Head
3. Dandruff?
4. Come On In
5. Poll
6. Merry-Go-Round
7. Alvin
8. Seeger's Theme

INSTANT REPLAY

1. You And I
2. Just A Game
3. Listen To The Band
4. Changes
5. Zor And Zam
6. St. Matthew

1. A Man Without A Dream
2. Good Clean Fun
3. D.W. Washburn
4. Someday Man
5. How Insensitive
6. Shorty Blackwell

THE MONKEES PRESENT

1. Calico Girlfriend Samba
2. The French Song
3. Little Girl
4. Little Red Rider
5. If I Knew
6. Midnight Train

1. Angel Band
2. If You Have The Time
3. Pillow Time
4. Down The Highway
5. Time And Time Again
6. Bye Bye Baby Bye Bye

CHANGES

1. Oh My My
2. I Love You Better
3. Ticket On A Ferry Ride
4. You're So Good To Me
5. Tell Me Love

1. It's Got To Be Love
2. Do It In The Name Of Love
3. Acapulco Sun
4. Ticket On A Ferry Ride
5. Lady Jane
6. Do You Feel It Too?

 

Great idea for a thread...

I need to do some thinking.

 

I always thought PVS should be the lead track. I like side one ending with Goin' Down. I've tossed around kicking off side two with Daydream Believer. In the end I decided not to rock the boat very much at all. I think my side one would have been the greatest side of music for any band in 1967. My perfect Pisces is:

SIDE ONE
Special Announcement
Pleasant Valley Sunday
She Hangs Out
The Door Into Summer
Cuddly Toy
Words
Love Is Only Sleeping
SIDE TWO
Salesman
Hard To Believe
What Am I Doing Hangin' Round
Daily Nightly
Don't Call On Me
Star Collector

I wanted BB&M to be a little more commercial, taking a different approach with a mid 1968 album (which I created, but was never actually realized....should have).
As interesting as the actual album was, I think there was some hodgepodgy sequencing that might have turned away some of the fans still hanging around at the time. I also would have had this album out a month earlier. Here's my alternate BB&M:

SIDE ONE
Though The Looking Glass (Boyce/Hart)
Don't Listen To Linda (Boyce/Hart)
Tapioca Tundra (Nesmith)
Auntie's Municipal Court (Nesmith)
Me Without You (Boyce/Hart)
Carlisle Wheeling (Nesmith)
SIDE TWO
Alvin (Tork)
Daydream Believer (Stewart)
P.O. Box 9847 (Boyce/Hart)
My Share Of The Sidewalk (Nesmith)
Magnolia Simms (Nesmith)
Valleri (Boyce/Hart)
Goin' Down (Monkees/Hilderbrand)

 

Changes (haven't thought too much about tracklist order)

1. Oh My My
2. Someday Man
3. It's Got to Be Love
4. Rainy Jane
5. Acapulco Sun
6. Time and Time Again

7. Midnight Train
8. You're So Good to Me
9. Do It in the Name of Love
10.Ticket on a Ferry Ride
11.Love to Love
12.I Love You Better

 

HEAD, but as a "A Hard Day's Night" like album:

Side 1:
1. Porpoise Song (Theme From Head) [w/ the single coda]
2. Ditty Diego: War Chant
3. Circle Sky [studio version]
4. As We Go Along
5. Can You Dig It?
6. Daddy's Song
7. Long Title: Do I Have to Do This All Over Again?
Side 2:
1. Shorty Blackwell
2. Changes
3. St. Matthew
4. Carlisle Wheeling
5. War Games
6. Listen to the Band

 

Essentially turning these two into Mike Nesmith albums? (Not that that's a bad thing!) Even with a Micky or Davy lead on a few of these, the bulk of them are Nesmith compositions and productions. They'd stand up as albums for me, but Don K. wouldn't have approved of album # 1, and Lester Sill probably wouldn't have let album # 2 pass either. I just don't think the powers that be would have ever approved of such Nesmith heavy albums, even though time has proven that a lot of folks like Nesmith's stuff more than what the powers that be "thought" everybody in their fanbase wanted.

HEAD as Peter Tork's album? I think he would have loved that back in '68.

 

This is a very cool thread! However, it's worth pointing out that there's also an earlier thread with the same idea:

Alternate/Fantasy MONKEES albums

Mind you, nothing wrong with having more than one thread. I just didn't want you to miss out on what others had posted. (And there are some great choices here, too!)

 

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