Sunday, May 5, 2024

The Monkees - Stars and Stripes Across America (1969)

 

Side A:
1. You're So Good
2. Steam Engine
3. Little Red Rider
4. Michigan Blackhawk
5. Time and Time Again
6. Ceiling in My Room

Side B:  
7. Goin' Down       
8. Don't Say Nothin' Bad
9. Calico Girlfriend Samba           
10. Angel Band        
11. If You Have the Time   
12. Penny Music     

After Peter Tork left the band in 1968, the Monkees' plan for their next album was to record new songs that would be mixed in with older songs. They released three albums in two years which had eight songs from 1966 to 1967 and the rest were from 1968 to 1970. Michael Nesmith later left the band in 1970. I listened to the unreleased songs from 1969 but there weren't enough to make a full album. I was thinking of spreading them across the next three albums but I found a couple older songs and thought I had enough to make a new album. This doesn't fix the problem of the next three albums not having enough songs but you could potentially mix the two albums from 1969 together along with some other unreleased songs. 

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