Monkee Flips
{{Infobox album
| name = Monkee Flips
| type = compilation
| artist = the Monkees
| cover = Monkee Flips.JPG
| alt =
| released = February 1984
| recorded = July 1966–April 1970
| venue =
| studio =
| genre = Rock
| length =
| label = Rhino
| producer = Various
| prev_title = Monkee Business
| prev_year = 1982
| next_title = Hit Factory
| next_year = 1985
}}
Monkee Flips is a compilation album of songs by the Monkees, issued by Rhino Records in 1984. Labeled as the "Best of the Monkees, Volume Four" (as it followed the two Arista Records compilations Greatest Hits (1976) and More Greatest Hits (1982) and the Rhino Records picture disc Monkee Business (1982), 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 on both LP record and cassette formats.
"Tear Drop City", "Good Clean Fun" and "Oh My My", all of which charted in the Billboard Top 100, make their American "greatest hits" debut with this package (the latter two had previously appeared on the 1979 Australian compilation Monkeemania (40 Timeless Hits)).{{Cite web | url=https://www.monkeeslivealmanac.com/blog/monkeemania-40-timeless-hits-from-the-monkees-lp | title="Monkeemania: 40 Timeless Hits from the Monkees" }} Seven of the 14 tracks — "You Told Me", "I Love You Better", "Forget That Girl", "No Time", "Dream World", "Little Girl" and "Daily Nightly" — all make their first appearance on any Monkees "greatest hits" package here. The album is also notable for containing a previously unreleased alternate mix of "Circle Sky" with a different lead vocal from Michael Nesmith.{{Cite web|url=https://www.monkeeslivealmanac.com/blog/missing-links-volume-three|title="Missing Links Volume Three"}}{{Cite web |url=http://monkeesmixography.wikidot.com/1967-12-09-circle-sky |title=1967-12-09 · Circle Sky - monkeesmixography |access-date=2016-06-09 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160609070354/http://monkeesmixography.wikidot.com/1967-12-09-circle-sky |archive-date=2016-06-09 |url-status=live }}
The LP was reissued in 1986 with a different mix of "Forget That Girl" featuring some opening studio chatter and a mono mix of "Love Is Only Sleeping". The sleeve and label are the same for both releases, with only an "RE-1" in the run-off groove of the vinyl denoting the update.{{Cite web|url=https://www.discogs.com/The-Monkees-Monkee-Flips/release/8114682|title = The Monkees – Monkee Flips (1984, Vinyl)|website = Discogs}}{{Cite web|url=https://www.monkeeslivealmanac.com/blog/monkee-flips-lp|title = "Monkee Flips"}}
The album cover shows a still photograph of the Monkees (with Peter Tork playing banjo) from a filmed performance of "What Am I Doing Hangin' 'Round", featured in the second season episode of The Monkees entitled "A Nice Place to Visit".
The liner notes included a detailed recap of the Monkees' career, with then-recent interview comments from Nesmith and Dolenz.
Monkee Flips went out of print as Rhino shifted from vinyl releases to compact discs. Each of the tracks have since been reissued, digitally remastered, on various individual Monkees CDs.
Track listing
;Side 1
{{tracklist
|headline =
|extra_column = Source
|title1 = You Told Me
|extra1 = From Headquarters
|note1 = Michael Nesmith
|title2 = Tear Drop City
|extra2 = Single A-side; from Instant Replay
|note2 = Tommy Boyce / Bobby Hart
|title3 = I Love You Better
|extra3 = B-side of "Oh My My"; from Changes
|note3 = Jeff Barry / Andy Kim
|title4 = Forget That Girl
|extra4 = From Headquarters
|note4 = Chip Douglas
|title5 = Love Is Only Sleeping
|extra5 = From Pisces, Aquarius, Capricorn & Jones, Ltd.
|note5 = Barry Mann / Cynthia Weil
|title6 = Good Clean Fun
|extra6 = Single A-side, from The Monkees Present
|note6 = Michael Nesmith
|title7 = Zor and Zam
|extra7 = From The Birds, The Bees & The Monkees
|note7 = Bill Chadwick / John Chadwick
}}
;Side 2
{{tracklist
|headline =
|extra_column = Source
|title1 = No Time
|extra1 = From Headquarters
|note1 = Hank Cicalo
|title2 = Oh My My
|extra2 = Single A-side; from Changes
|note2 = Jeff Barry / Andy Kim
|title3 = Dream World
|extra3 = From The Birds, The Bees & The Monkees
|note3 = David Jones / Steve Pitts
|title4 = Circle Sky
|extra4 = Alternate mix with different vocal; original version from Head
|note4 = Michael Nesmith
|title5 = Little Girl
|extra5 = From The Monkees Present
|note5 = Micky Dolenz
|title6 = Daily Nightly
|extra6 = From Pisces, Aquarius, Capricorn & Jones, Ltd.
|note6 = Michael Nesmith
|title7 = Gonna Buy Me a Dog
|extra7 = From The Monkees
|note7 = Tommy Boyce / Bobby Hart
}}
References
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{{The Monkees}}
Category:The Monkees compilation albums