The Monkees - Missing Links (1966)

 

Side A:
1. Apples, Peaches, Bananas, and Pears
2. I Don't Think You Know Me
3. So Goes Love
4. Teeny Tiny Gnome
5. Of You
6. All the King's Horses

Side B:
7. I Prithee (Do Not Ask for Love)
8. I Won't Be the Same Without Her
9. Tear Drop City                               
10. Looking for the Good Times
11. I Never Thought It Peculiar                                   
12. Ladies Aid Society

Hey here's an idea I had. It was a Monkees alternate universe discography. I had been a fan of them since I was a kid but was only familiar with their six main albums. I never listened to the three albums made after Peter Tork left or the three volumes of the compilation series Missing Links. Did you know that they recorded those six albums in three years including three in 1967? 

Well apparently they had so much unreleased material that they could've released three more albums in that time. The band's first three years were considered the peak of their success. So much so that when it came to recording a new album after Peter Tork left the group in 1968, the decision was made to record new songs that would be mixed in with older songs. The band recorded three more albums in 1969 and 1970, each one including some of their earliest material.

When the Missing Links compilation albums came out in the '80s and '90s, it revealed that the band recorded a ton more material in their early days, some of it being unreleased. This album takes tracks from the first two volumes of Missing Links as well as the last three albums they made before breaking up. It's intended to be their second album of 1966. I took out two tracks from Volume Three, a jingle for Kellogg's and their theme song.