Saturday, May 4, 2024

The Monkees - Head (1968)

 


Side A:
1. Porpoise Song (Theme From "Head")
2. Circle Sky
3. Can You Dig It?
4. As We Go Along
5. Daddy's Song
6. Do I Have to Do This All Over Again?

Side B:
7. If I Ever Get to Saginaw Again
8. Some of Shelly's Blues
9. The Crippled Lion                                       
10. D.W. Washburn                                           
11. Tear the Top Right Off My Head
12. Laurel and Hardy
13. How Insensitive

This is the soundtrack to the movie Head which The Monkees put out in 1968 after their TV show got cancelled. It would be the third album they released that year and the last to be considered part of their main canon. It contained a couple songs and a couple tracks that sampled dialogue and sound effects from the movie. I cut out the short tracks but needed a side's worth. 

Around the time the soundtrack was released, they were working on a new TV special called 33 1/3 Revolutions Per Monkee, but Peter Tork left the band at the end of the year and the special wouldn't air till the following year. I thought of using songs from the special since they were apparently released as bonus tracks on reissues of their albums, but I can only find the versions of them from the TV special, so I'm reluctantly forced the include the country songs I cut out from the last album. I did however exclude one track and replace it with a new Davy track.

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