The Best of the Monkees

Infobox Album
Name = The Best of the Monkees
Type = compilation
Artist = The Monkees


Released = 2003
Recorded = 1966-1969
Genre = Rock
Length = 1:07:56
Label = Rhino Records
Producer = Andrew Sandoval
Reviews =
Last album = "Music Box"
(2001)
This album = "The Best of the Monkees"
(2003)
Next album =

"The Best of the Monkees" is a Monkees compilation released by Rhino Entertainment. It contains 25 songs from The Monkees' repertoire, listed in chronological order by release date. Also included is a Bonus karaoke CD with five tracks. Unlike previous Rhino compilations, this one does not include any material from the 1980s or 1990s reunions, focusing strictly on the band's 1960s output.

The album debuted on the Billboard 200 in the issue dated May 17, 2003, at number 51. It spent six weeks on the chart.

Track listing

Disc One

#"(Theme from) The Monkees" – from "The Monkees" – 2:18
#"Last Train to Clarksville" – from "The Monkees" – 2:46
#"I Wanna Be Free" – from "The Monkees" – 2:24
#"Papa Gene’s Blues" – from "The Monkees" – 1:59
#"I'm a Believer" - from "More of The Monkees" – 2:46
#"(I'm Not Your) Steppin' Stone" - from "More of the Monkees" – 2:24
#"She" - from "More of the Monkees" – 2:39
#"Mary, Mary" - from "More of the Monkees" – 2:17
#"Your Auntie Grizelda" – from "More of the Monkees" – 2:28
#"Look Out (Here Comes Tomorrow)" - from "More of the Monkees" – 2:15
#"Sometime in the Morning" - from "More of the Monkees" – 2:28
#"A Little Bit of Me, A Little Bit of You" – from single – 2:47
#"The Girl I Knew Somewhere" – from single – 2:34
#"Shades of Grey" - from "Headquarters" – 3:21
#"Randy Scouse Git" - from "Headquarters" – 2:33
#"For Pete's Sake" – from "Headquarters" – 2:10
#"You Just May Be the One" – from "Headquarters" – 2:03
#"Pleasant Valley Sunday" – from "Pisces, Aquarius, Capricorn, & Jones, Ltd." – 3:15
#"Words" - from "Pisces, Aquarius, Capricorn, & Jones, Ltd." – 2:51
#"Daydream Believer" – from "The Birds, The Bees & the Monkees" – 2:59
#"Goin' Down" – from single – 4:23
#"What Am I Doing Hanging 'Round" - from "Pisces, Aquarius, Capricorn and Jones, Ltd." – 3:07
#"Valleri" – from "The Birds, the Bees and the Monkees" – 2:20
#"Porpoise Song (Theme from Head)" – from "Head (Original Motion Picture Soundtrack)" – 4:10
#"Listen to the Band" – from "The Monkees Present" – 2:28

Bonus Karaoke CD+G

#"(Theme From) The Monkees" – 1:25
#"I'm a Believer" - 3:13
#"(I'm Not Your) Steppin' Stone" - 2:49
#"Pleasant Valley Sunday" – 3:39
#"Daydream Believer" – 3:14