Monkee Flips

Monkee Flips
Compilation album by The Monkees
Released	1984
Recorded	1966-1970
Genre	Rock
Label	Rhino Records
Producer	Various
The Monkees chronology
Monkee Business (1982) Monkee Flips (1984) Hit Factory (1985)

Monkee Flips was a 1984 singles and rarities compilation album of songs by the Monkees, issued by Rhino Records. Labeled as the "Best of the Monkees, Volume Four" as it followed the two Arista compilations and Monkee Business picture disc, the album featured an all-stereo selection of single sides and album tracks, including several songs featured in The Monkees TV series. It was available in both LP record and cassette formats.

Until Rhino reissued the whole series of original Monkees albums in 1986, the compilation was the only way to obtain several key Monkees tracks in the mid-Eighties, including "You Told Me" and "No Time" (from Headquarters), "Love is Only Sleeping" and "Daily Nightly" (from Pisces, Aquarius, Capricorn, & Jones, Ltd.), and "Oh My My" and "I Love You Better" (from the final Monkees album, 1970's Changes).

The album also included Michael Nesmith's song "Circle Sky", in an alternate version to the one appearing on the Head album. "Forget That Girl" includes a rare snippet, of Micky Dolenz asking if President Johnson's son is really a janitor, in its intro.

"Tear Drop City", "Good Clean Fun" and "Oh My My", all of which charted in the Billboard Top 100, make their "greatest hits" debut with this package.

The album cover showed a still of the Monkees (with Peter Tork playing a banjo), from the television episode "It's A Nice Place To Visit". The liner notes included a detailed recap of the Monkees career, with recent interview comments from Nesmith and Dolenz. The audio quality of the record was about par for reissues of the period, and notably better than Rhino's earlier Monkee Business.

Monkee Flips went out of print as Rhino shifted from vinyl releases to compact discs. Each of the tracks have been reissued on individual Monkees CDs, carefully digitally remastered.

Track listing

1. "You Told Me" (1967 album track)
2. "Tear Drop City" (1969 single)
3. "I Love You Better" (1970 single B-side)
4. "Forget That Girl" (1967 album track/single B-side)
5. "Love Is Only Sleeping" (1967 album track)
6. "Good Clean Fun" (1969 single)
7. "Zor and Zam" (1968 album track)
8. "No Time" (1967 album track)
9. "Oh My My" (1970 single)
10. "Dream World" (1968 album track)
11. "Circle Sky" (1968 alternate mix)
12. "Little Girl" (1969 album track)
13. "Daily Nightly" (1967 album track)
14. "Gonna Buy Me a Dog" (1966 album track)