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The Monkees Discography
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Artist...............: The Monkees
Genre................: Pop/Rock
Source...............: NMR
Year.................: 1966 - 1996
Ripper...............: NMR
Version..............: MPEG 1 Layer III
Quality..............: 192kbps (all)
Channels.............: Joint Stereo / 44100 hz
Tags.................: ID3 v1.1, ID3 v2.3
Covers...............: Front, Back
Information..........: Separate nfo/sfv for each album
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Album listing
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1966 - The Monkees
1967 - More of the Monkees
1967 - Headquarters
1967 - Pisces, Aquarius, Capricorn & Jones Ltd.
1968 - The Birds, The Bees & the Monkees
1968 - Head
1969 - Instant Replay
1969 - The Monkees Present
1970 - Changes
1987 - Pool It!
1995 - Greatest Hits
1996 - Justus
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The Monkees were a pop singing quartet assembled in Los Angeles in 1965
for the American television series The Monkees, which aired from 1965 to
1968. The primary members were Micky Dolenz, Davy Jones, Michael
Nesmith, and Peter Tork, who were the public face of a music production
system under the supervision of Don Kirshner. At the start, the band
members provided vocals, and were given some performing and production
opportunities, but they eventually fought for and earned the right to
collectively supervise all musical output under the band's name. The group
undertook several concert tours, allowing an opportunity to perform as a live
band as well as on the TV series. When the show was cancelled in 1968, the
band continued releasing records until 1971. In the 1980s, the television
show and music experienced a revival, which led to a series of reunion tours,
and new records featuring various incarnations of the band's lineup.
* Had the top-charting American single of 1967 ("I'm a Believer"). (Billboard
No 1 for 7 Weeks) with "Daydream Believer" tied for third.
* First band to use a Moog Synthesizer in a top-10 album (used on "Star
Collector", "Daily Nightly" and "Love Is Only Sleeping" from Pisces, Aquarius,
Capricorn & Jones Ltd., released in November of 1967).
* Gave the Jimi Hendrix Experience their first US concert appearances. It
should be noted that Hendrix's heavy psychedelic guitar and sexual
overtones did not go overly well with the teenage girl audience.
* Compelled another David Jones to change his surname to Bowie to avoid
being confused with Davy Jones of the Monkees.
* The Monkees reunion tour was the largest grossing tour of 1986.
* Introduced Tim Buckley to a national audience, via his appearance in the
series finale, "The Frodis Caper."
* The Monkees outsold the Beatles and the Rolling Stones combined in
1967.
* Last music artist to win the MTV Friday Night Video Fights by defeating
Bon Jovi 51% to 49%.
* First music artist to win two Emmy awards.
* First actual live concert footage to be featured in a motion picture (Head,
1968).
* Had 7 albums on the Billboard top 200 chart at the same time (6 were
re-issues during 1986/87).
* The Monkees are one of only seven artists achieving number-one hits in
the United States and United Kingdom simultaneously
* More of The Monkees spent an amazing 70 weeks on the Billboard charts
becoming the 12th biggest selling album of all time (Billboard.com).
* Four number one albums in a year span. The only act to have their first
four albums go to number 1 on the Billboard charts.
* Held the number one spot on the Billboard album chart for 31 consecutive
weeks.
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