Music Box (The Monkees album)

Music Box
Box set by The Monkees
Released February 20, 2001
Recorded 1966-1996
Genre Rock
Label Rhino
Producer Tommy Boyce, Bobby Hart, Jack Keller, Michael Nesmith, Jeff Barry, Gerry Goffin, Carole King, Carole Bayer Sager, Neil Sedaka, Chip Douglas, Micky Dolenz, Davy Jones, Peter Tork, Bones Howe, Felton Jarvis, Michael Lloyd, Roger Bechirian
The Monkees chronology

The Monkees Anthology
(1998)
Music Box
(2001)
The Definitive Monkees
(2001)

Music Box is a four CD set by the Monkees. It replaced the previous Monkees box set, entitled Listen to the Band. In addition to music recorded in the 1960s, it also includes music from the Monkees reunions in 1986 and 1996 as well as previously unreleased versions.

Disc 1 (1966) - Track listing

  1. "(Theme from) The Monkees" (Tommy Boyce, Bobby Hart) – 2:19
  2. "I Wanna Be Free" [Television Version] (Boyce, Hart) - 2:47
  3. "Let's Dance On" (Boyce, Hart) - 2:30
  4. "Last Train to Clarksville" (Boyce, Hart) - 2:46
  5. "Take a Giant Step" (Gerry Goffin, Carole King) - 2:33
  6. "All the King's Horses" [2001 Mono Mix] (Michael Nesmith) - 2:16
  7. "Saturday's Child" (David Gates) - 2:43
  8. "Papa Gene's Blues" (Nesmith) - 1:59
  9. "I Wanna be Free" [Album Version] (Boyce, Hart) - 2:24
  10. "Sweet Young Thing" (Goffin, King, Nesmith) - 1:56
  11. "Gonna Buy Me a Dog" (Boyce, Hart) - 2:41
  12. "I Don't Think You Know Me" [First Recorded Version + 2001 Stereo Mix + Michael Nesmith Vocal] (Goffin, King) - 2:16
  13. "I'm a Believer" (Neil Diamond) - 2:46
  14. "(I'm Not Your) Steppin' Stone" [Mono Single Master] (Boyce, Hart) - 2:19
  15. "She" (Boyce, Hart) - 2:39
  16. "Mary, Mary" (Nesmith) - 2:17
  17. "Your Auntie Grizelda" (Diane Hilderbrand, Jack Keller) - 2:28
  18. "Of You" [1966 Mono Mix + Previously Unreleased] (Bill Chadwick, John Chadwick) - 1:58
  19. "Look Out (Here Comes Tomorrow)" [2001 Extended Stereo Mix] (Diamond) - 2:48
  20. "The Kind of Girl I Could Love" [2001 Stereo Mix] (Roger Atkins, Nesmith) - 1:53
  21. "Sometime in the Morning" (Goffin, King) - 2:28
  22. "When Love Comes Knockin' (At Your Door)" (Carole Bayer Sager, Neil Sedaka) - 1:48
  23. (I Prithee) "Do Not Ask for Love" [First Recorded Version + 2001 Stereo Mix + Micky Dolenz Vocal] (Michael Martin Murphey) - 3:00
  24. "Valleri" [First Recorded Version + 2001 Stereo Television Soundtrack Mix] (Boyce, Hart) - 2:32
  25. "I'll Be Back Up On My Feet" [First Recorded Version + 1966 Mono Television Soundtrack Mix] (Sandy Linzer, Denny Randell) - 2:35

Disc 2 (1967) - Track listing

  1. "A Little Bit Me, A Little Bit You" [1987 Mono Mix] (Diamond) - 2:50
  2. "She Hangs Out" [Single Version + 1967 Mono Single Master] (Jeff Barry) - 2:34
  3. "The Girl I Knew Somewhere" [1987 Stereo Mix] (Nesmith) - 2:35
  4. "All of Your Toys" [2001 Stereo Mix] (Bill Martin) - 3:08
  5. "Love to Love" [1996 Stereo Mix] (Diamond) - 2:28
  6. "You Told Me" (Nesmith) - 2:26
  7. "I'll Spend My Life with You" (Boyce, Hart) - 2:24
  8. "Forget That Girl" (Douglas Farthing-Hatlelid) - 2:25
  9. "You Just May Be the One" (Nesmith) - 2:03
  10. "Shades of Gray" (Barry Mann, Cynthia Weil) - 3:22
  11. "For Pete's Sake" (Peter Tork, Joey Richards) - 2:11
  12. "Sunny Girlfriend" (Nesmith) - 2:33
  13. "No Time" (Hank Cicalo) - 2:07
  14. "Randy Scouse Git" (Alternate Title) (Micky Dolenz) - 2:33
  15. "Pleasant Valley Sunday" [1967 Mono Single Edit] (Goffin, King) - 3:07
  16. "Words" (Boyce, Hart) - 2:51
  17. "Daydream Believer" (John Stewart) – 3:00
  18. "Goin' Down" (Dolenz, Hilderbrand, Davy Jones, Nesmith, Tork) - 4:23
  19. "Salesman" (Craig Vincent Smith) - 2:36
  20. "The Door into Summer" (Douglas, Martin) - 2:49
  21. "Love is Only Sleeping" (Mann, Weil) - 2:31
  22. "Cuddly Toy" (Harry Nilsson) - 2:40
  23. "What am I Doing Hangin' 'Round?" (Murphey, Owen Castleman) - 3:08
  24. "Daily Nightly" (Nesmith) - 2:32
  25. "Star Collector" (Goffin, King) - 4:24

Disc 3 (1968) - Track listing

  1. "Valleri" (Boyce, Hart) - 2:20
  2. "Tapioca Tundra" (Nesmith) - 3:06
  3. "Dream World" (Jones, Steve Pitts) - 3:20
  4. "Auntie's Municipal Court" [1991 Alternate Stereo Mix] (Keith Allison, Nesmith) - 4:04
  5. "P.O. Box 9847" (Boyce, Hart) - 3:13
  6. "Zor and Zam" (Chadwick, Chadwick) - 2:07
  7. "Carlisle Wheeling" [First Recorded Version + 2001 Stereo Mix] (Nesmith) - 3:33
  8. "Tear the Top Right Off My Head" [1968 Mono Mix + Lower Pitch + Peter Tork Vocal] (Tork) - 2:06
  9. "The Girl I Left Behind Me" [Second Recorded Version + 2001 Stereo Mix] (Sedaka, Bayer) - 2:41
  10. "Nine Times Blue" [1968 Stereo Mix] (Nesmith) - 2:09
  11. "Come on In" [1989 Stereo Mix] (Jo Mapes) - 3:09
  12. "D.W. Washburn" (Leiber & Stoller) - 2:49
  13. "It's Nice to Be with You" (Jerry Goldstein) - 2:52
  14. "St. Matthew" [1968 Stereo Mix] (Nesmith) - 2:43
  15. "Porpoise Song (Theme from "Head")" [1968 Stereo Single Master] (Goffin, King) - 4:10
  16. "As We Go Along" (King, Toni Stern) - 3:52
  17. "Ditty Diego - War Chant" (Jack Nicholson, Bob Rafelson) - 0:49
  18. "Circle Sky" [Live Version + 1989 Stereo Mix] (Nesmith) - 2:24
  19. "Can You Dig It?" (Tork) - 3:22
  20. "Daddy's Song" [2001 Extended Stereo Mix + David Jones Vocal] (Nilsson) - 3:27
  21. "Long Title: Do I Have to Do This All Over Again" (Tork) - 2:38

Disc 4 (1969-96) - Track listing

  1. "Tear Drop City" (Boyce, Hart) - 2:01
  2. "A Man Without a Dream" (Goffin, King) - 3:04
  3. "Through the Looking Glass" (Red Baldwin, Boyce, Hart) - 2:41
  4. "I Won't Be the Same Without Her" (Goffin, King) - 2:40
  5. "You and I" (Chadwick, Jones) - 2:13
  6. "While I Cry" (Nesmith) - 2:59
  7. "Shorty Blackwell" (Dolenz) - 5:39
  8. "If I Ever Get to Saginaw Again" [1969 Stereo Mix] (Keller, Bob Russell) - 2:44
  9. "Smile" [1994 Stereo Mix] (Jones) - 2:18
  10. "Listen to the Band" [1991 Stereo Mix] (Nesmith) - 2:29
  11. "Someday Man" (Roger Nichols, Paul Williams) - 2:40
  12. "Some of Shelly's Blues" [1968 Stereo Mix] (Nesmith) - 2:30
  13. "Mommy and Daddy" (Dolenz) - 2:13
  14. "Good Clean Fun" (Nesmith) - 2:18
  15. "Looking for the Good Times" (Boyce, Hart) - 2:03
  16. "Steam Engine" [1969 Stereo Mix] (Douglas) - 2:23
  17. "I Never Thought It Peculiar" (Boyce, Hart) - 2:27
  18. "Midnight Train" (Dolenz) - 2:07
  19. "Oh, My, My" (Barry, Andy Kim) - 3:02
  20. "I Love You Better" (Barry, Kim) - 2:28
  21. "Do You Feel It Too?" (Barry, Kim) - 2:35
  22. "Do It in the Name of Love" (Bobby Bloom, Neil Goldberg) - 2:07
  23. "That Was Then, This Is Now" (Vance Brescia) - 4:02
  24. "Heart and Soul" (Simon Byrne, Andrew Howell) - 3:56
  25. "MGB-GT" [Live] (Tork) - 2:35
  26. "Every Step of the Way" [1987 Stereo Single Edit] - 3:12
  27. "Oh, What a Night" (Jones) - 3:12
  28. "You and I" (from Justus) (Dolenz, Jones) - 2:55