Pisces, Aquarius, Capricorn & Jones Ltd. [Remaster]

Performer: Monkees
Engineer: Richie Schmitt; Hank Cicalo; Pete Abbott
Producer: Chip Douglas; Andrew Sandoval (Reissue); Bill Inglot (Reissue)
Distributor: WEA (Distributor)

Notes: The Monkees: Micky Dolenz, Davy Jones, Michael Nesmith, Peter Tork. Monkees: Charlie Rockett, Bill Martin (spoken vocals); Michael Nesmith, Peter Tork (acoustic guitar); Davy Jones, Micky Dolenz (background vocals). Additional personnel: Bill Chadwick (acoustic guitar); 'Unknown' (electric guitar); Doug Dillard (electric banjo); Leonard Atkins, Jerome Reisler, Nathan Kaproff, Wilbert Nuttycombe, Darrel Terwilliger, Arnold Belnick (violin); Edgar Lustgarten (cello); Lohn Lowe, BOBBY HELFER (bass clarinet); Ted Nash, Thomas Scott, Bud Shank (reeds); Plas Johnson , Bill Hood, Buddy Collette (saxophone); Jim Horn (baritone saxophone); Uan Rasey, Manny Stevens, Al Porcino, Pete Candoli, Virgil Evans, Bud Brisbois (trumpet); Ollie Mitchell, Tony Terran (flugelhorn); Vincent DeRosa (French horn); Dick Noel, Dick Nash , Lou Blackburn (trombone); Dick Leath, Phil Teele, Bobby Knight, Dick Leith (bass trombone); Bob Rafelson (piano); Paul Beaver (Moog synthesizer); Kim Capli (bass guitar); Eddie Hoh (drums); Harry Nilsson (unknown instrument); Chip Douglas (background vocals). Audio Remasterers: Andrew Sandoval; Bill Inglot; Dan Hersch. By 1967's PISCES, AQUARIUS, CAPRICORN & JONES LTD., the band had found a balance between writing and performing their own material, and utilizing the talents of their Los Angeles songwriting teams and studio musicians. The result is an artistically satisfying mix of progressive experimentalism and pop smarts; the Moog synthesizer on the tracks "Daily Nightly," "Love Is Only Sleeping," and the groupie anthem "Star Collector," was the first ever to appear on a pop album. Besides the enormous hit "Pleasant Valley Sunday," highlights include the simply beautiful jazz-pop of Michael Nesmith's "Don't Call On Me," and the atmospheric and lovely "Words," featuring Peter Tork's best-ever vocals. The entire album is superb, and the handful of alternate takes and outtakes are nearly its equal. A '60s pop classic.

Q (5/95, p.127) - 4 Stars - Excellent - "...shows the prefab four aware of their limitations as a band and allowing some sessionmen back into the studio for a minor pop psychedelic masterpiece..." Mojo (Publisher) (p.116) - 4 stars out of 5 -- "[I]t reveals both Micky Dolenz and Michael Nesmith as highly individual vocalists, the latter a ringer for Stephen Stills on his country-rock tunes."

One of the most memorable '60s US pop groups, the Monkees were put together by US television producers to play members of a pop band based on the Beatles. They were critcized as a pre-fabricated outfit, but the passage of time has left behind much of the critical drubbing, leaving in its place some great, catchy pop music. By the late '60s HEADQUARTERS, BEES & THE MONKEES, and their musical/cinematic classic HEAD, showed a proper band writing, recording, and producing their own records while garnering commercial and critical success. Michael Nesmith went on to pioneering work in country-rock and music video, while the rest of the band reunited periodically over the years to the delight of an unflagging fanbase.

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