Advantages: bonus tracks, sleevenotes Disadvantages: film extracts
...starts Diego Ditto on the Head LP. Like the Head film itself this album sticks the boot into the cheesey teen hero image the monkees had, and the film and album achieved this successfully with Peter Tork leaving before making any further new recordings and the hits drying up - probably as Jack Nicholson (co-producer of the film and cd intended.
The cd itself shows both sides of the group with top quality songwriters (Carole King / Harry Nilsson) ... ...with Mike Nesmith and Peter Tork each contributing 2 songs each as well. On the performing front the album proper shows each Monkees has their own gang who played on their songs, but the bonus tracks on the rhino issue show the group playing a blistering version of "circle sky" showing exactly what they could do.
The album itself also contains several extracts from the film, which while a historical record do not add anything to the album. The sleevenotes ...
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