The Definitive Monkees

The Definitive Monkees
Greatest hits album by The Monkees
Released 26 Feb 2001
Recorded 1966 - 1969, 1986 - 1987
Genre Rock, pop
Label WEA
Producer Tommy Boyce, Bobby Hart, Jack Keller, Jeff Barry, Michael Nesmith, Chip Douglas, Gerry Goffin, Carole King, Micky Dolenz, Davy Jones, Peter Tork, Michael Lloyd, Roger Bechirian, Felton Jarvis
The Monkees chronology
Music Box
(2001)
The Definitive Monkees
(2001)
Summer 1967: The Complete U.S. Concert Recordings
(2001)

The Definitive Monkees is a limited edition Monkees compilation album released in 2001. It contains 29 of The Monkees' greatest hits. The album includes two tracks from the 1980s reunions. The album featured a bonus disc which featured 31 of The Monkees' rarity songs.

It has since been re-released in other countries, but the bonus disc was not included.

Disc 1 - Track listing

  1. "(Theme from) The Monkees" (Tommy Boyce, Bobby Hart) – 2:20
  2. "Last Train to Clarksville" (Boyce, Hart) – 2:44
  3. "Take a Giant Step" (Gerry Goffin, Carole King) – 2:31
  4. "Saturday's Child" (David Gates) - 2:41
  5. "I'm a Believer" (Neil Diamond) – 2:45
  6. "I Wanna Be Free" (Album Version) (Boyce, Hart) – 2:24
  7. "(I'm Not Your) Steppin' Stone" (Boyce, Hart) – 2:20
  8. "She" (Boyce, Hart) – 2:37
  9. "A Little Bit Me, A Little Bit You" (Diamond) – 2:48
  10. "Mary, Mary" (Michael Nesmith) - 2:15
  11. "The Girl I Knew Somewhere" (Nesmith) – 2:32
  12. "Look Out (Here Comes Tomorrow)" (Diamond) – 2:13
  13. "Shades of Gray" (Barry Mann, Cynthia Weil) – 3:20
  14. "Sometime in the Morning" (Goffin, King) - 2:27
  15. "For Pete's Sake" (Peter Tork, Joey Richards) – 2:09
  16. "Forget That Girl" (Douglas Farthing Hatlelid) - 2:22
  17. "Randy Scouse Git (Alternate Title)" (Micky Dolenz) – 2:35
  18. "You Just May Be the One" (Nesmith) - 2:02
  19. "Pleasant Valley Sunday" (Goffin, King) – 3:07
  20. "Words" (Boyce, Hart) – 2:47
  21. "Daydream Believer" (John Stewart) – 2:56
  22. "Goin' Down" (Dolenz, Diane Hilderbrand, Davy Jones, Nesmith, Tork) - 4:21
  23. "What Am I Doing Hanging 'Round" (Michael Martin Murphey, Owen Castleman) – 3:04
  24. "Cuddly Toy" (Harry Nilsson) – 2:37
  25. "Valleri" (Boyce, Hart) – 2:20
  26. "Porpoise Song (Theme from "Head")" (Goffin, King) – 4:09
  27. "Listen to the Band" (Nesmith) – 2:31
  28. "That Was Then, This Is Now (Vance Brescia) - 3:34
  29. "Heart and Soul" (Simon Byrne, Andrew Howell) - 3:17

Bonus disc - Track listing

  1. "Tema Dei Monkees" (Boyce, Hart, Nistri) - 1:12
  2. "So Goes Love" (Second Recorded Version) (Goffin, King) - 3:08
  3. "Kicking Stones (Teeny Tiny Gnome)" (Wayne Erwin, Linda Castle) - 2:27
  4. "Mr. Webster" (First Recorded Version) (Boyce, Hart) - 2:54
  5. "Hold on Girl (Help is on its Way)" (First Recorded Version) (Billy Carr, Jack Keller, Ben Raleigh) - 2:44
  6. "Apples, Peaches, Bananas and Pears" (Boyce, Hart) - 2:17
  7. "Love to Love" (Alternate Mix) (Diamond) - 2:30
  8. "Midnight Train" (Demo Version) (Dolenz) - 2:29
  9. "She'll Be There" - 2:35
  10. "Riu Chiu" (Studio Version) (Traditional) - 1:33
  11. "Circle Sky" (Alternate Mix) (Nesmith) - 2:32
  12. "Merry Go Round" (Hilderbrand, Tork) - 1:44
  13. "War Games" (Jones, Steve Pitts) - 2:32
  14. "Seeger's Theme" (Seeger) - 0:45
  15. "Party" (Jones, Pitts) - 2:44
  16. "Shake 'Em Up (and Let 'Em Roll)" (Leiber & Stoller) - 2:10
  17. "Rosemarie" (Dolenz) - 2:29
  18. "Propinquity (I've Just Begun to Care)" (Nesmith) - 3:22
  19. "Look Down" (King, Toni Stern) - 2:51
  20. "The Crippled Lion" (Nesmith) - 2:51
  21. "Hollywood" (Nesmith) - 2:17
  22. "How Insensitive" (Antonio Carlos Jobim, Vinicus DeMoraes, Norman Gimbel) - 2:32
  23. "Down the Highway (Michigan Blackhawk)" (Goffin, King, Stern) - 2:15
  24. "My Share of the Sidewalk" (Nesmith) - 3:07
  25. "If You Have the Time" (Bill Chadwick, Jones) - 2:09
  26. "Time and Time Again" (Bill Chadwick, Jones) - 2:50
  27. "Storybook of You" (Boyce, Hart) - 2:52
  28. "You're So Good" (Robert Stone) - 2:41
  29. "Steam Engine" (Alternate Mix) (Chip Douglas) - 2:24
  30. "Angel Band" (William Bradbury, Jefferson Hascall, Traditional) - 3:25
  31. "Little Red Rider" (Nesmith) - 3:17

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