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| 1. You Told Me |
| 2. I'll Spend My Life With You |
| 3. Forget That Girl |
| 4. Band 6 |
| 5. You Just May Be The One |
| 6. Shades Of Gray |
| 7. I Can't Get Her Off My Mind |
| 8. All Of Your Toys* (prev. unissued alt. mix) |
| 9. For Pete's Sake |
| 10. Mr. Webster |
| 11. Sunny Girlfriend |
| 12. Zilch / No Time |
| 13. Early Morning Blues and Greens |
| 14. Randy Scouse Git |
| 15. The Girl I Knew Somewhere |
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Customer Reviews
From then on it produces one great track after another, with stand out songs "I'll Spend My Life With You" beautifully sung by Micky, "Early Morning Blues and Greens", my favourite Davy Jones track of all time and of course the fabulous "Randy Scouse Git (Alternate Title)".
Now of course you can get Headquarters with bonus tracks added and these are a real treat, the Bill Martin song "All Of Your Toys" should have been released on the original album, it is so good and the haunting echoes of "Pillow Time" finish off the album to perfection.
The thing i like most about this album is the fact that you get in-between dialogue and out-takes which somehow make you feel that you were right along with them when they made this album. For a group who were originally picked to sing and act, but not play their instruments, this album proves to the critics that dubbed them second rate Beatles that they are far from that and the songwriting and music ability excedes what many had expected from them.
All i can say that if you are curious as to how the Monkees sound, buy this album and you will soon find out that the musical Marx Brothers are so much more than that.
The highlights of this album are all the Mike Nesmith songs. He shows by songs like You Just May be the One and Sunny Girlfriend, plus the bonus tracks on the album such as Nine Times Blue and the original version of The Girl I Knew Somewhere, in which he sings the lead vocals, that he is quite possibly the best songwriter the 60s ever produced. And I include Lennon and McCartney and Pete Townshend of The Who in that statement.
This is the album that The Monkees themselves love more than the others. And you can hear for yourself why. They ARE truly talented musicians. Headquarters is the only album which used session musicians only when completely necessary, and even then it was only Chip Douglas (ex of The Turtles, poached by Nesmith to produce the album) who played the occasional bass part, and one french horn player, who appeared in Shades of Gray.
It is a sad miscarriage of justice that Headquarters didn't get as much credit as it deserved back in 1967 when it was released. I don't think I'm going overboard when I say it was one of the best albums of the 60s.
Once again Rhino have combined both mono and stereo versions of the original LP with some extras. Not just one or two as seems to be the case with many reissues, but a whopping 22 bonus tracks have found their way here, unfortunately only half that number will be of interest to those of us whom buy everything that's released. Included on this set is the worst thing they ever recorded, 'If I Learned To Play The Violin'. In defence of the group only Davy Jones was around and even he must have cringed when he sung the couplet: "I would even go and cut my hair, though my friends would point and say I'm square". Very few people have heard this track until now and you'll know why.
The rest of the unreleased bonus songs are stereo mixes of tracks already familiar to most, but welcome additions all the same. If you want to find out what the original, and best, 'boy band' was like, there's no better place than here to start.
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