The Best of the Monkees

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The Best of the Monkees
The Best of the Monkees cover
Compilation album by The Monkees
Released 2003
Recorded 1966-1969
Genre Rock
Length 1:07:56
Label Rhino Records
Producer Andrew Sandoval
The Monkees chronology
Music Box
(2001)		 The Best of the Monkees
(2003)

The Best of the Monkees is a Monkees compilation released by Rhino Entertainment. It contains 25 songs from The Monkees' repertoire, listed in chronological order by release date. Also included is a Bonus karaoke CD with five tracks. Unlike previous Rhino compilations, this one does not include any material from the 1980s or 1990s reunions, focusing strictly on the band's 1960s output.

The album debuted on the Billboard 200 on May 17, 2003 at number 51. It spent six weeks on the chart.

[edit] Track listing

[edit] Disc One

  1. "(Theme From) The Monkees" – from The Monkees – 2:18
  2. "Last Train to Clarksville" – from The Monkees – 2:46
  3. "I Wanna Be Free" – from The Monkees – 2:24
  4. "Papa Gene’s Blues" – from The Monkees – 1:59
  5. "I'm a Believer" - from More of The Monkees – 2:46
  6. "(I'm Not Your) Steppin' Stone" - from More of the Monkees – 2:24
  7. "She" - from More of the Monkees – 2:39
  8. "Mary, Mary" - from More of the Monkees – 2:17
  9. "Your Auntie Grizelda" – from More of the Monkees – 2:28
  10. "Look Out (Here Comes Tomorrow)" - from More of the Monkees – 2:15
  11. "Sometime in the Morning" - from More of the Monkees – 2:28
  12. "A Little Bit of Me, A Little Bit of You" – from single – 2:47
  13. "The Girl I Knew Somewhere" – from single – 2:34
  14. "Shades of Grey" - from Headquarters – 3:21
  15. "Randy Scouse Git" - from Headquarters – 2:33
  16. "For Pete’s Sake" – from Headquarters – 2:10
  17. "You Just May Be the One" – from Headquarters – 2:03
  18. "Pleasant Valley Sunday" – from Pisces, Aquarius, Capricorn, & Jones, Ltd. – 3:15
  19. "Words" - from Pisces, Aquarius, Capricorn, & Jones, Ltd. – 2:51
  20. "Daydream Believer" – from The Birds, The Bees & the Monkees – 2:59
  21. "Goin' Down" – from single – 4:23
  22. "What Am I Doing Hanging 'Round" - from Pisces, Aquarius, Capricorn and Jones, Ltd. – 3:07
  23. "Valleri" – from The Birds, the Bees and the Monkees – 2:20
  24. "Porpoise Song (Theme from Head)" – from Head (Original Motion Picture Soundtrack) – 4:10
  25. "Listen to the Band" – from The Monkees Present – 2:28

[edit] Bonus Karaoke CD+G

  1. "(Theme From) The Monkees" – 1:25
  2. "I'm a Believer" - 3:13
  3. "(I'm Not Your) Steppin' Stone" - 2:49
  4. "Pleasant Valley Sunday" – 3:39
  5. "Daydream Believer" – 3:14