Monkee Flips

Monkee Flips
Compilation album by The Monkees
Released	February 1984
Recorded	July 1966-April 1970
Genre	Rock
Label	Rhino
Producer	Various
The Monkees chronology
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Monkee Flips is a 1984 singles and rarities compilation album of songs by the Monkees, issued by Rhino Records. Labeled as the "Best of the Monkees, Volume Four" as it followed the two Arista compilations and Monkee Business picture disc, the album featured an all-stereo selection of single sides and album tracks, including several songs featured in The Monkees TV series. It was available in both LP record and cassette formats. This LP was reissued in 1986 with a different mix of "Forget That Girl" with some opening studio chatter, and "Love Is Only Sleeping" is now in mono. The sleeve and label are the same for both releases with only an "RE-1" denoting the update in the run-off groove of the vinyl.

The cassette version contained a small snippet of studio chatter between "I Love You Better" and "Forget That Girl." Someone sings "happy", seemingly practicing the backing vocals on "Forget The Girl", then someone (possibly Micky) says "Is President Johnson's son really a janitor?"

"Tear Drop City", "Good Clean Fun" and "Oh My My", all of which charted in the Billboard Top 100, make their American "greatest hits" debut with this package. (All three had previously appeared on the 1979 Australian compilation Monkeemania.) Seven of the 14 tracks -- "You Told Me", "I Love You Better", "Forget That Girl", "No Time", "Dream World", "Little Girl", and "Daily Nightly" -- all make their first appearance on any "greatest hits" package anywhere.

The album cover showed a still of the Monkees (with Peter Tork playing a banjo), from the television episode "It's A Nice Place To Visit". The liner notes included a detailed recap of the Monkees career, with recent interview comments from Nesmith and Dolenz.

Monkee Flips went out of print as Rhino shifted from vinyl releases to compact discs. Each of the tracks have been reissued on individual Monkees CDs, digitally remastered.

Track listing

1. "You Told Me" (1967 album track)
2. "Tear Drop City" (1969 album track/single)
3. "I Love You Better" (1970 album track/single B-side)
4. "Forget That Girl" (1967 album track)
5. "Love Is Only Sleeping" (1967 album track)
6. "Good Clean Fun" (1969 album track/single)
7. "Zor and Zam" (1968 album track)
8. "No Time" (1967 album track)
9. "Oh My My" (1970 album track/single)
10. "Dream World" (1968 album track)
11. "Circle Sky" (1968 alternate mix)
12. "Little Girl" (1969 album track)
13. "Daily Nightly" (1967 album track)
14. "Gonna Buy Me a Dog" (1966 album track)