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THE MONKEES - CHANGES ORIGINAL CANADIAN PRESSING - ULTRA-RARE ORIGINAL 1970 RCA CANADA STEREO LP COS-119
ORIGINAL CANADIAN PRESSING
ORIGINAL ORANGE RCA VICTOR LABEL, LATE 60 S/EARLY 70 S STYLE
ULTRA-RARE MONKEES FINAL ALBUM, NEXT TO IMPOSSIBLE TO FIND IN ANY CONDITION.
DEEP GROOVE PRESSING
THIS IS THE ORIGINAL, AUTHENTIC, FIRST CANADIAN PRESSING THIS IS NOT A REISSUE, AN IMPORT, OR A COUNTERFEIT PRESSING.
ORIGINAL, THICK CARDBOARD COVER AMERICAN STYLE
CLEAN, WEAR-FREE LABELS.
COVER IS STILL IN ITS ORIGINAL SHRINK CELLOPHANE WRAP
THICK, HEAVY VINYL PRESSING
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Calling their final album Changes made sense for the Monkees. Mike Nesmith had just departed, leaving only Mickey Dolenz and Davy Jones to hold down the fort. The other big change was that after years of struggling to have their voices as songwriters and musicians heard, the remaining duo basically gave up and let the producers take over. The musical reins were given to legendary producer Jeff Barry who had just come from a huge success with the Archies and he and his cronies like Bobby Bloom wrote and performed the songs. Apart from one track written by Dolenz the goofy country rock novelty Midnight Train , the Monkees were on hand to provide vocals only. While this could be seen as some kind of defeat and the end of the Monkees as an actual rock band, Changes ends up being a very good bubblegum record. Barry s production is light and frothy, the songs are hooky and fun, and both Dolenz and Jones perform admirably given the likely somewhat humiliating situation. There are songs that rock harder than you d expect 99 Pounds, Oh My My , very sweet ballads the gospelly Tell My Love and You re So Good to Me , silly novelty songs I Love You Better , a fun tropical-themed love song Acapulco Sun , and even a vaudeville-y a Boyce Hart number tacked on the end of the album the wickedly out of place I Never Thought It Peculiar . There are even a couple songs that might make a discerning fan s homemade best-of comp, namely the achingly pretty Dolenz-sung ballad Ticket on a Ferry Ride and Do You Feel It Too, a heartfelt love song that shows Jones at his sincere best. It may not be an incredibly inspired album, but it is a lot of fun and if they had stuck together and with Barry , they could have had a nice little run of albums. Sadly, though, the record tanked completely and the Monkees name was retired soon after its release. Rhino s 1994 reissue of the album added three very good bonus tracks, two of which Do It in the Name of Love and Lady Jane were taken from the duo s final sessions with Barry and were eventually released under Dolenz and Jones own names on Bell Records in 1971. The other track Time and Time Again is a Jones co-write that was supposed to be on the record but was cut. Possibly because its hazy folk-jazz feel was too out of place. It is one of Jones stronger efforts and shows that had he stayed serious about making music, he could have done some interesting things.
EXCERPT FROM AN ONLINE REVIEW BY TIM SENDRA, ALL MUSIC GUIDE /ALLMUSIC.COM/
And then there were gasp -- TWO? ? This is the Monkees BRUTALLY hard to find last studio album, recorded after the membership dwindled to only two of the least musically competent members. With the exception of various reunions over the past 20 years, this was it for the Monkees. There would be no more Monkee business after this. The album received miserable promotion from RCA and Colgems, sold in low thousands not millions of copies, and disappeared without a trace shortly thereafter. Needless to say, decently preserved copies have been all but impossible to find in decades.
Track listing:
Side 1:
1. Oh My My
2. Ticket On A Ferry Ride
3. You re So Good To Me
4. It s Got To Be Love
5. Acapulco Sun
6. 99 Pounds
Side 2
1. Tell Me Love
2. Do You Feel It Too?
3. I Love You Better
4. All Alone In The Dark
5. Midnight Train
6. I Never Thought It Peculiar
Produced by Jeff Barry, Micky Dolenz and Tommy Boyce/Bobby Hart
CONDITION:
RECORD
IMPORTANT NOTE: unless otherwise noted, ALL records are graded visually, and NOT play-graded we grade records under the strong, diffuse room light or discrete sunlight
a WE GRADE THE VINYL AS NEAR MINT. Some VERY LIGHT AND SUPERFICIAL abrasions mostly sleeve scuffs - are barely visible, but are probably inaudible, and do not affect visual integrity or beauty of the vinyl. The original luster is very much intact, and the vinyl shines and sparkles almost like new.
