I have no issues with the CD deluxe boxes. I think they're beautifully done and well constructed. Shame about the blu-ray box.
Yes. But he had an agenda at the time while making the album so things are magnified in his mind. Plus for being the worst album in the history of the world it contains arguably their biggest hit.
Mostly... That it's very quickly followed by Super-Deluxe Headquarters and Pisces, Aquarius & Jones Ltd.
Stereo remix of I'm A Believer and I am hoping for any kind of remix attempt on Sometime In The Morning, Laugh, and Hold On Girl. A lot more TV versions, like the last box. Backing tracks for Mary, Mary, Look Out, and other album tracks, maybe the important outtakes as well. I expect a few revelations as well.
Andrew already played a NY Sessions backing track on Come To The Sunshine, as well an alt vocals version of 99 Pounds. So, I am hopeful of the NY Sessions on this set . It really doesn't fit here or Headquarters, but I think it needs to be on this set so that Headquarters is only the sessions and backing tracks from that album. To put the NY sessions on Headquarters would be a waste of valuable disc space, since there is a ton of recordings from those session still in existence.
I agree.....include the NY sessions on MOTM. Then, the HQ SD box set can be all HQ sessions. I think it would be totally fair to reissue the HQ Sessions set in this new box format (maybe with a bonus 45 of All Of Your Toys/The Girl I Knew Somewhere), then, move right along to PAC&J.
I wonder if they'd include a backing track for "Mary, Mary" since there was already one released on "The Monkees" super deluxe edition?
I can't wait for this set. I've been waiting this one for quite a while now. More Of The Monkees is a top 3 album of theirs for me. I'm not sure why so many dislike this album. I think there are many great songs on it.
From what I remember from Andrew's book. this was a special recording session put together for Life magazine. Nesmith was in the producer's chair with Kirschner looking over his shoulder. The other 3 Monkees were supposed to provide backing vocals for Mary, Mary. However, they kept clowning, and Nez was quoted as saying "Really, no $h!t, cool it!", and told the magazine that the "New York Guys, they bug me". Supposedly Andrew played part of the session tapes at some gathering a few years ago.
Half of the album are among their best songs, the other half is lazy, Kirshner-driven crud. In my uncalled-for opinion: Great: She Mary Mary I'm a Believer Look Out Grizelda Steppin Stone Bad: When Love Comes The Day We Fall On A Pile Of Dog Poop Laugh (TERRIBLE song!) Hold On Girl Passable Kind Of Girl (Great song, LOUSY production. There's much better mixes than the original one) Sometime (Great Micky vocal, beyond lousy production.) Still - looking very forward to this release!!!!
Posted today by Andrew Sandoval on Facebook: Six years ago, I was literally on the road with The Monkees Tour in England. Today, I need to get out of bed and into the studio to do some new mixes of material for a box set of their biggest selling album, More Of The Monkees.
another post -this time on twitter stated that Andrew listened to the mono mixes of Grizelda and I'm A Believer on tape for the first time. Which begs the question: what is the mix used on the previous MOTM 2 disc set for the mono I'm A Believer? Perhaps a TV mix?
I believe in the second part of this two-part podcast interview from the Good Times tour Andrew claimed that he had scratch track listings and sufficient content to create Super Deluxe boxes for MOTM, HQ, and PAC&J. For HQ, he said that there was enough extant material to do a reconfigured box that was not a straight reissue of the Sessions box. Where's That Sound Coming From?: WTSCF Podcast Episode 18: Andrew Sandoval Interview Part Two After I heard this, I assumed it would be a fait accompli that all three remaining albums would get the treatment. We just gotta give it time, if you will. RE: the "Mary, Mary" session for reporters. I believe this took place in October 1966, three months after the original tracking session. So, if Andrew saw fit, it would fit the chronological scheme to include it on MOTM. My hope is that the third/sessions disc of MOTM is rounded out by the January 1967 NYC sessions and that some form of the Phoenix concert appears on HQ. I think those are the best fits thematically. It is interesting how quickly and convoluted the Monkees train was rolling in January 1967. I believe the Phoenix show took place on January 21, which, if memory serves correctly, was the same day Jeff Barry started tracking the last Kirshner-supervised sessions in New York. It was also five days after they tracked "She's So Far Out, She's In" and the first version of "The Girl I Knew Somewhere" in their first session as a (quasi-)self-contained unit.
