The Monkees - The Second Disc

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Adam Schlesinger, Andy Partridge, Boyce and Hart, Carole King, Davy Jones, Gerry Goffin, Harry Nilsson, Michael Nesmith, Micky Dolenz, Noel Gallagher, Paul Weller, Peter Tork, Rivers Cuomo, The Monkees

Release Round-Up: Week of January 30

January 30, 2026 by The Second Disc | 4 Comments

Welcome to our final Release Round-Up of January, with a selection of the new titles available today. As an Amazon affiliate, we earn from qualifying purchases. The Monkees, The A’s, The B’s, and The Monkees (Rhino) (Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K. / Amazon Canada) The A’s, The B’s and The Monkees, at long last, brings together on 2 CDs all of the band’s commercial singles originally released between 1966 and 1970, from “Last Train to Clarksville” b/w “Take a Giant Step” through “Oh My My” b/w “I Love You Better.” It’s arranged with its 15 A-sides on…

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Beastie Boys, Blondie, Bob Dylan, Cream, Donna Summer, Freddie and The Dreamers, Howard Jones, Linda Ronstadt, Miles Davis, Patti Smith, Ramones, Sonic Youth, Talking Heads, Television, The Monkees

Good Clean Fun: Rhino Preps New Monkees Singles Collection

January 13, 2026 by Joe Marchese | 7 Comments

Following last year’s deluxe box of The Monkees’ Pisces, Aquarius, Capricorn and Jones, Ltd., Rhino has announced its first release from the band in 2026. The A’s, The B’s and The Monkees, at long last, brings together on 2 CDs all of the band’s commercial singles originally released between 1966 and 1970, from “Last Train to Clarksville” b/w “Take a Giant Step” through “Oh My My” b/w “I Love You Better.” The set is due from Rhino on January 30. (Some copies ordered directly from Rhino are already shipping.) The A’s, The…

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Davy Jones, Michael Nesmith, Micky Dolenz, Peter Tork, The Monkees

Woke Up with a Monster: Rhino’s Start Your Ear Off Right Titles Run the Gamut

January 8, 2026 by Mike Duquette | 9 Comments

Why wait for Record Store Day? Rhino continues their January tradition of “Start Your Ear Off Right” with just over three dozen exclusive vinyl titles being released through January at independent record stores. (A small handful, linked below, are also available at Rhino’s official web store.) The majority will be released in two waves split between last Friday (January 2) and this Friday (January 9), with five more arriving between January 23 and January 30. Altogether, this list spans all forms of rock, pop, R&B, jazz, soundtracks and even comedy. In addition…

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Holiday Gift Guide, Reviews

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Classic Rock, Comedy, Country, Everything Else, Folk, Funk, Jazz, Pop, R&B/Soul, Rap/Hip-Hop, Rock, Soundtracks

Holiday Gift Guide Review: The Monkees, “Pisces, Aquarius, Capricorn & Jones, Ltd.” [Super Deluxe Edition]

November 12, 2025 by Joe Marchese | 5 Comments

Next year marks the 60th anniversary of The Monkees, an occasion soon to be commemorated by last Monkee standing Micky Dolenz with a new tour. The group’s home of Rhino Records has started the party early with the recent release of the latest (and last?) of the label’s series of lavish album reissues. 1967’s Pisces, Aquarius, Capricorn & Jones Ltd. has been expanded as a comprehensive 4CD/1-7″ box set by producer/annotator Andrew Sandoval, and as usual, the result is manna for longtime fans and collectors. Pisces, Aquarius, Capricorn & Jones, Ltd. found Davy Jones,…

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Hard to Believe: The Monkees’ “Pisces, Aquarius, Capricorn & Jones, Ltd.” Goes Super Deluxe

October 2, 2025 by Joe Marchese | 24 Comments

The Monkees’ fourth album is returning today in two different formats: an audiophile-quality vinyl pressing sourced from the original stereo tapes for the first time and a 4CD/1-7″ super deluxe box set loaded with over 100 tracks, many of which are previously unreleased. 1967’s Pisces, Aquarius, Capricorn & Jones, Ltd. found Davy Jones, Micky Dolenz, Michael Nesmith, and Peter Tork taking advantage of the hard-won freedom they’d earned with Headquarters. Sessions began in April 1967, less than two weeks after Headquarters had been completed and the second season of the group’s sitcom…

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The Weekend Stream: June 7, 2025

June 7, 2025 by The Second Disc | 4 Comments

Welcome to another edition of The Weekend Stream, The Second Disc’s review of notable catalogue titles (and some new ones, too!) making digital debuts. This week brings posthumous recordings by Prince and Donna Summer, a new spin on Star Wars disco, and plenty of cast recordings leading into the Tony Awards this Sunday! And just a quick programming note: our Unplugged series is taking the week off, but will be back with some new and exciting Weekend Stream extra content very soon! Prince, “Free” (Acoustic) (NPG/Legacy) (Apple / Amazon) “The Vault is now…

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Albert King, Belinda Carlisle, Bill Evans, Black Eyed Peas, David Foster, Donna Summer, Frances Faye, Merry Clayton, Nicholas Britell, Pretenders, Prince, Rufus Wainwright, Sheridan Smith, The Doors, The Living Strings, The Monkees

Listen to the Music: Rhino’s Rocktober Slate Features Doobie Brothers, Yes, Fleetwood Mac, Monkees, More

October 10, 2024 by The Second Disc | 5 Comments

Rhino’s annual Rocktober campaign – this year encompassing 43 limited edition colored vinyl reissues of rockers both classic and contemporary – kicked off on October 4 with titles from Black Sabbath, Bush, Deep Purple, Devo, The Doobie Brothers, Fleetwood Mac, The Monkees, Stone Temple Pilots, and more. Next, on October 18, the collection will grow to include releases from Ramones and The Velvet Underground. The slate concludes on October 25 with The Cars, Foghat, Iron Butterfly, and more, including a second volume of Yes’ Yessingles. As usual, Rocktober titles will only be…

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RSD Round-Up: Spotlight on Omnivore, Iconoclassic, Friday Music, Dark Horse, Light in the Attic, and More

February 27, 2024 by The Second Disc | 1 Comment

Our look at this year’s Record Store Day releases continues with a look at the lineups from Omnivore Recordings, Iconoclassic Records, Friday Music, Light in the Attic, and more of our favorite labels! All titles here are due on April 20, and all descriptions are taken directly from the labels. If you are interested in any of these titles, they will be available at your local record store on April 20. Head over to recordstoreday.com for a list of participating retailers. U.K. readers, please visit recordstoreday.co.uk and Canadian readers, please visit recordstoredaycanada.ca. Watch this space close to…

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I’m a Believer: Micky Dolenz Opens Up His Archive for “I’m Told I Had a Good Time”

September 14, 2023 by Joe Marchese | 5 Comments

It’s often been said that if you remember the 1960s, you weren’t really there. Well, Micky Dolenz has incontrovertible proof that he was there, and as he says, I’m Told I Had a Good Time. That’s the title of the remarkable new tome from Beatland Books which chronicles the singer-drummer-actor’s life from 1945-1978 via previously unpublished photographs, artwork, scripts, lyrics, and assorted miscellany. I’m Told I Had a Good Time, now available for pre-order with a December 6 ship date, follows Beatland’s 2021 publication of Andrew Sandoval’s definitive The Monkees: The Day-by-Day…

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Review: The Monkees, “Headquarters: Super Deluxe Edition”

January 24, 2023 by Joe Marchese | 18 Comments

It didn’t take long for The Monkees to realize that they’d experienced a level of success far beyond their wildest dreams. Far from being mere actors on a television show portraying a band, they’d been thrust in front of capacity crowds in stadiums, arenas, and large auditoriums – a de facto band that, in reality, wasn’t yet calling the shots on their own careers and music. That changed when Michael Nesmith, Micky Dolenz, Davy Jones, and Peter Tork demanded creative freedom from impresario Don Kirshner – and got it. The road wasn’t…

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The Year In Review: The 2022 Gold Bonus Disc Awards, From A to Z – Part One

January 3, 2023 by The Second Disc | 5 Comments

Happy 2023! Welcome, friends, to The Second Disc’s 13th Annual Gold Bonus Disc Awards! A lot has happened in the last twelve months, but as we look to a new year with optimism and a hopeful spirit, we recognize the many roles music has played in our lives. With that spirit in mind, The Second Disc wishes to recognize 2022’s cream of the catalogue music crop – those exemplary reissues and box sets, big and small, that proved to be truly outstanding for music lovers worldwide. Despite the many delays caused by…

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Al Stewart, Blondie, Culture Club, David Bowie, Elton John, Eugene Ormandy, Freddie Hubbard, Gold Bonus Disc Awards, Henry Mancini, Jimi Jamison, John Barry, John Williams, Joni Mitchell, Marvin Hamlisch, The Monkees, Vince Guaraldi

You Just May Be The One: The Monkees Revisit “Headquarters” With 55th Anniversary Box Set

November 1, 2022 by The Second Disc | 17 Comments

55 years ago, The Monkees took part in what TV Guide deemed to be “the Great Revolt of ’67.” Micky Dolenz, Davy Jones, Michael Nesmith, and Peter Tork demanded creative control from impresario Don Kirshner – and won it. The group might have been brought together as actors portraying a band, but they were ready to build upon their phenomenal success and become that band in reality, too. The Headquarters album, The Monkees’ third, was the startling result. It became their third consecutive No. 1 album in less than one year, and…

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Release Round-Up: Week of August 12

August 12, 2022 by The Second Disc | No Comments

Welcome to this week’s Release Round-Up, featuring a selection of the titles arriving in stores today! Jimi Jamison, Rock Hard (Iconoclassic) (Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K. / Amazon Canada) Iconoclassic Records is now premiering Rock Hard, Survivor lead singer Jimi Jamison’s previously unreleased 1990 album, in a deluxe, expanded CD edition. Intended to be Jamison’s solo debut, Rock Hard features 10 songs including three previously unreleased compositions, three previously unreleased recordings, and a pair of previously unreleased mixes/arrangements. Jimi’s non-LP solo single (issued in Germany, Japan, and promotionally in the U.S.) of his Survivor bandmates Jim Peterik…

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Jimi Jamison, Mary Rodgers, Michael Nesmith, Micky Dolenz, Survivor, The Monkees

Loose Salute: Michael Nesmith’s “Different Drum: The Lost RCA Victor Recordings” Comes to Vinyl in August

July 19, 2022 by The Second Disc | 3 Comments

You asked, we answered! Since Michael Nesmith’s Different Drum: The Lost RCA Victor Recordings premiered on CD in April 2021 from Real Gone Music and Second Disc Records, we’ve been inundated with requests for a vinyl edition. In a little over two weeks, on August 5, the 22-track anthology will make its debut in the format as a deluxe gatefold 2-LP set pressed on “blue smoke” vinyl. Let’s fill you in with our official press release: Michael Nesmith long travelled to the beat of a “Different Drum” – whether as the writer…

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Release Round-Up: Week of July 15

July 15, 2022 by The Second Disc | 2 Comments

Welcome to this week’s Release Round-Up! The Beatles, Get Back (Apple/Disney) DVD: Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K. / Amazon Canada BD: Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K. / Amazon Canada After a manufacturing delay scuttled a release earlier this year, The Beatles: Get Back finally made it to DVD and Blu-ray on Tuesday. Both presentations offer director Peter Jackson’s three-part, 468-minute Get Back on three discs – one part per disc. No additional bonus features have been included, although the packages do come with four photo cards (one per Beatle). Both Blu-ray and DVD boast numerous audio options. The former has Dolby Atmos, 7.1 PCM…

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Alan Parsons, Boyce and Hart, Chicago, Daryl Hall and John Oates, Dolenz Jones Boyce and Hart, Elizabeth Ward Land, Michael Jackson, The Beatles, The Monkees

Release Round-Up: Week of July 8

July 8, 2022 by The Second Disc | 5 Comments

Welcome to this week’s Release Round-Up, featuring a selection of the new titles out today! George Michael, Older: Deluxe Edition (Legacy) 5CD/3LP: Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K. / Amazon Canada 2LP: Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K. / Amazon Canada George Michael’s third solo album – and the one he believed to be his finest – returns from Legacy Recordings in a new 5CD/3LP edition and a 2LP set. This expansion of 1996’s Older features both the remastered album and the EP Upper (included with reissues of the album in 1997) on 180-gram vinyl and CD, along with an additional three CDs featuring 27 B-sides, live tracks,…

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Dio, Dolenz Jones Boyce and Hart, Elton John, George Michael, Journey, Kool and the Gang, Neil Young, Nelson, Richie Furay, Sting, The Monkees

I Remember the Feeling: 7a Records Reissues Studio and Live Albums from Dolenz, Jones, Boyce and Hart

May 18, 2022 by Joe Marchese | 2 Comments

The names of Tommy Boyce and Bobby Hart have long been inextricably linked with that of The Monkees. The duo penned many of the band’s most familiar songs including “(Theme From) ‘The Monkees,’” “I Wanna Be Free,” “(I’m Not Your) Stepping Stone,” “Valleri,” and the chart-topping “Last Train to Clarksville.” So when promoters were seeking a Monkees reunion in the mid-1970s, and with Michael Nesmith and Peter Tork unavailable, it’s unsurprising that Davy Jones and Micky Dolenz turned to Boyce and Hart – hitmakers in their own right with “I Wonder What…

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Look Out (Here Comes Tomorrow): Run Out Groove Announces Deluxe Edition of “More of the Monkees”

July 19, 2021 by The Second Disc | No Comments

Following its recent deluxe LP reissue of The Monkees’ debut, Run Out Groove is turning its attention to More of the Monkees, the group’s sophomore LP featuring the chart-topping “I’m a Believer” and top 20 hit “(I’m Not Your) Steppin’ Stone.” More of the Monkees displaced its predecessor from the top of the Billboard 200 where it remained for a staggering 18 weeks. A sign of the times, it became the first pop-rock LP to top Billboard‘s year-end sales chart. In addition to Neil Diamond’s ‘I’m a Believer” and Tommy Boyce and…

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Wrong Side of the Tracks: Run Out Groove Reissues Biohazard’s “Urban Discipline,” Votes Open for Next Release with Monkees, More

June 16, 2021 by Joe Marchese | No Comments

The votes are in, and the next title to be released by Run Out Groove will be a 2-LP, 30th anniversary deluxe vinyl edition of metal band Biohazard’s 1992 sophomore album Urban Discipline. Pre-orders are open now for this set which will feature bonus tracks making their debut on vinyl as well as an exclusive fold-out poster. The Brooklyn-formed band came together in 1987 and is now recognized as one of the earliest groups to fuse hardcore metal, punk, and rap/hip-hop. The four-piece line-up of Evan Seinfeld (vocals/bass), Billy Graziadei (vocals/guitar), Bobby…

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Biohazard, Flotsam and Jetsam, Mance Lipscomb, The Monkees

Listen to the Band: Andrew Sandoval Reveals “The Monkees: The Day-by-Day Story” In June

March 11, 2021 by Joe Marchese | 4 Comments

Since its publication in 2005, author Andrew Sandoval’s The Monkees: The Day-by-Day Story has been an indispensable reference tool for fans of Davy, Micky, Peter, and Michael – not to mention one helluva read. But as the years passed, the guide to all things Monkees went out of print, with secondhand copies fetching in the three-figure range. Happily, Sandoval has returned to the book for a completely new edition due this June. We were thrilled to have the chance to speak with the author about the upcoming 2021 presentation. “It’s been 15…

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Propinquity: 7a Records Announces Micky’s “Dolenz Sings Nesmith” For May Release

March 11, 2021 by Joe Marchese | 4 Comments

Micky Dolenz and Michael Nesmith have shared a musical journey together since 1966 when The Monkees first hit the NBC airwaves and the group’s chart-topping debut album arrived in stores on the Colgems label. When COVID-19 unexpectedly struck one year ago, Dolenz and Nesmith were preparing to take to the road once again for An Evening with The Monkees; once the virus rendered that impossible, Dolenz got to work on a celebration of his dedicated friend’s classic songs. The result is Dolenz Sings Nesmith, due on May 21 in CD and LP…

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Second Disc Records, Real Gone Music Premiere Michael Nesmith’s “Different Drum: The Lost RCA Victor Recordings” on CD in April

March 9, 2021 by The Second Disc | 28 Comments

Michael Nesmith Different Drum The Lost RCA Victor Recordings

The Second Disc is proud to announce the first Second Disc Records/Real Gone Music release of 2021 – and it’s one that’s been years in the making! Michael Nesmith has always travelled to the beat of a “Different Drum”-whether as the writer of that classic hit for Linda Ronstadt and The Stone Poneys, the wool hat-clad member of The Monkees, or one of the earliest progenitors of the country-rock genre. In recent years, Nesmith has penned the critically acclaimed autobiography Infinite Tuesday, reformed the First National Band to sold-out audiences, and both…

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Take a Giant Step: 7a Reissues and Expands Peter Tork’s Solo Album on CD, Vinyl

October 13, 2020 by Joe Marchese | 9 Comments

Peter Tork Stranger Things Have Happened

7a Records has already delivered a treasure trove of releases from Micky Dolenz, Davy Jones, and Michael Nesmith on CD and vinyl. Is anyone missing from that list? Now, 7a has just announced its first release from the late Peter Tork: the first-time reissue of his only solo album, 1994’s Stranger Things Have Happened, in a deluxe, expanded edition. It’s due on December 4 in the U.K. and December 11 in the U.S., and will feature a generous nine bonus tracks on CD – including several seeing their first release in the…

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