POLL: Best track on The Monkees' "Pieces, Aquarius, Capricorn & Jones"

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Their best overall album, in my opinion, and lots of gems: the folky "Door Into Summer", the melody of which seems to presage CSN's "Southern Cross"; the Revolver-era psyche-rock of "Love Is Only Sleeping", with a riff as great as "Lucifer Sam"; the countrified Byrds-rock of "What Am I Doing Hangin' Round"; the Moog-drenched "Star Collector", also popular cuts like "Pleasant Valley Sunday" and "Words".

For me, I would have to ultimately give it to "Love Is Only Sleeping", followed very tightly by "What Am I Doing Hangin' Round".

Poll Results

Option	Votes
Pleasant Valley Sunday	6
Daily Nightly	3
The Door Into Summer	2
Love Is Only Sleeping	2
Words	2
What Am I Doing Hangin' 'Round	1
Star Collector	1
Love Is Only Sleeping (Prev. Unissued Alternate Mix)	0
Salesman (Prev. Unissued Alternate Mix)	0
Daily Nightly (Prev. Unissued Alternate Mix)	0
Goin' Down (Prev. Unissued Alternate Mix)	0
Special Announcement (Prev. Unissued)	0
The Door Into Summer (Prev. Unissued Alternate Mix)	0
Don't Call On Me	0
Salesman	0
Peter Percival Patterson's Pet Pig Porky	0
Hard To Believe	0
Cuddly Toy	0
She Hangs Out	0
Star Collector (Prev. Unissued Alternate Mix)	0

― Joe, Wednesday, 9 July 2008 14:33 (fifteen years ago) link

I need a change of scener

reeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee

― Mark G, Wednesday, 9 July 2008 14:36 (fifteen years ago) link

Nesmith ftw.

― Pancakes Hackman, Wednesday, 9 July 2008 14:49 (fifteen years ago) link

So what's left? Head soundtrack, this one, and "Changes"

― Mark G, Wednesday, 9 July 2008 14:51 (fifteen years ago) link

I prefer Headquarters to this.

As it is, I agree with Joe but with a reversed order.

― aldo, Wednesday, 9 July 2008 15:12 (fifteen years ago) link

Love this rec, which, if I'm not mistaken, was #1 the day I was born.

― Myonga Vön Bontee, Wednesday, 9 July 2008 18:17 (fifteen years ago) link

Damn, this one's hard.

― Eric H., Wednesday, 9 July 2008 18:19 (fifteen years ago) link

I guess "Star Collector."

― Eric H., Wednesday, 9 July 2008 18:20 (fifteen years ago) link

"Daily Nightly" is in a league of its own here.

― Geir Hongro, Wednesday, 9 July 2008 19:07 (fifteen years ago) link

Automatic thread bump. This poll is closing tomorrow.

― ILX System, Saturday, 12 July 2008 23:01 (fifteen years ago) link

Their best album, but some of the lyrics are really dodgy.

― If Timi Yuro would be still alive, most other singers could shut up, Sunday, 13 July 2008 00:35 (fifteen years ago) link

I really love a bunch of these songs to bits. Kind of shocked that I don't know the non-singles.

― HI DERE, Sunday, 13 July 2008 01:25 (fifteen years ago) link

Sure you do! (I think "Words" and "Pleasant Valley Sunday" were the only literal singles.)

"Daily Nightly" for me.

― Myonga Vön Bontee, Sunday, 13 July 2008 03:51 (fifteen years ago) link

Automatic thread bump. This poll's results are now in.

― ILX System, Sunday, 13 July 2008 23:01 (fifteen years ago) link

I think of everything that was played on the show as a single.

― HI DERE, Sunday, 13 July 2008 23:08 (fifteen years ago) link

I can understad why "Pleasant Valley Sunday" has it here. After all it's one of their best singles.

"Daily Nightly" has the uniqueness of being the first "rock" song ever with a Moog though, and it's a great psych-pastiche.

― Geir Hongro, Monday, 14 July 2008 22:49 (fifteen years ago) link

nine years pass...

this record is really wonderful

― ToddBonzalez (BradNelson), Monday, 17 July 2017 12:38 (six years ago) link

I rep hard for all of the quartet's original albums. And I unaccountably enjoy Pool It! even while acknowledging that (but also largely because) it's irredeemably awful.

― Dippin' Sauce on my Nice New Slacks (Old Lunch), Monday, 17 July 2017 12:50 (six years ago) link

Would have voted for "Pleasant Valley Sunday," which I'd easily take over "A Well Respected Man" or "Ballad of a Thin Man" or "Nowhere Man," but I also keep "The Door Into Summer" on my hard-drive.

― clemenza, Monday, 17 July 2017 13:00 (six years ago) link

Funny, I was just listening to this a couple of days ago. Was talking with a friend about the introductory guitar lead of "Pleasant Valley Sunday," which is just so sophisticated. Sort of a backwards "Paperback Writer."

― Josh in Chicago, Monday, 17 July 2017 13:08 (six years ago) link

I thought I read once that the riff actually WAS based on "Paperback Writer," but wiki says it was "I Want To Tell You."

― smug dinner-jazz atrocity (Dan Peterson), Monday, 17 July 2017 14:31 (six years ago) link

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