Pisces, Aquarius, Capricorn & Jones Ltd.

Track Listings

1. Salesman

2. She Hangs Out

3. Door into Summer

4. Love Is Only Sleeping

5. Cuddly Toy

6. Words

7. Hard to Believe

8. What Am I Doing Hangin' 'Round?

9. Peter Percival Patterson's Pet Pig Porky

10. Pleasant Valley Sunday

11. Daily Nightly

12. Don't Call on Me

13. Star Collector

14. Special Announcement [#][*]

15. Goin' Down [Alternate Mix][#][*]

16. Salesman [Alternate Mix][#][*]

17. Door into Summer [Alternate Mix][#][*]

18. Love Is Only Sleeping [Alternate Mix][#][*]

19. Daily Nightly [Alternate Mix][#][*]

20. Star Collector [Alternate Mix][#][*]

Tracks:

Salesman [1]
She Hangs Out [1]
The Door Into Summer [1]
Love Is Only Sleeping [1]
Cuddly Toy [1]
Words [1]
Hard to Believe[1]
What Am I Doing Hangin' 'Round? [1]
Peter Percival Patterson's Pet Pig Porky [1]
Pleasant Valley Sunday [1]
Daily Nightly [1]
Don't Call On Me [1]
Star Collector[1]
Goin' Down [1]
Salesman (Alternate Version)[1]
She Hangs On (Alternate Version)[1]
Love is Only Sleeping (Alternate Version)[1]
What Am I Doing Hangin' 'Round? [1]
Star Collector [1]
Riu Chiu [1]

Tracks:

Salesman (Alternate Mono Version)[2]
Cuddly Toy (Alternate)[2]
Goin' Down [2]
The Door into Summer (Alternate) [2]
Daily Nightly (Alternate)[2]
Star Collector (Alternate)[2]

Album Description

In an effort to restore and remaster the music of The Monkees, Pisces, Aquarius, Capricorn & Jones, LTD is back in a new and improved way! Featuring "Pleasant Valley Sunday," "Salesman," and "Cuddly Toy," this album is a great addition to any Monkees fan's collection.

Customer Reviews:

My Neighbor Got This LP For My Bday!.......2007-07-19

Again: I'm reviewing the LP! Not the recent Rhino release. Mike's 1st with Salesman. Davy & She Hangs Out. Mike again with the Door Into Summer.Mike(w/Mickey & his Moog Sythesizer with Love Is Only Sleeping. Next: Davy's Vaudeville bit called Cuddly Toy. The 45 Words ends side 1.
S.2 is a dull Davy tune called Hard to Believe.Mike's country twanging is featured in Hangin' Round. Peter does a brief goofy spoken Pig thing. Then an extended version of Mickey's Pleasant Valley Sunday. Mick again (with the Moog, Man!) in Daily Nightly. Then Mick "MC's" Mike in Don't Call On Me. Ending with Star Collector! "Bye Bye! Bye Bye"....

I wanted to write a nasty review, but it's really superb .......2007-07-16

This deluxe edition of Pisces, Aquarius, Capricorn & Jones Ltd, is so nicely done (much like the first three in this series), I honestly couldn't write anything nasty. It's been presented with love and care.

The sound quality is great in both mono & stereo. It's very similar in sound quality to the Beatles Capitol Records releases that just came out recently. The bonus material is entertaining, as well as strong, I also loved some of the out-takes I'd never heard before. The booklet is also really good, with lots of rare photos and the in depth story of the making of this album.

The overall packaging is very classy. It makes me hope that The Beatles get this kind of treatment through Apple records, or my favorite band, Deep Purple get this sort of stunning re-packaging from Rhino.

I grew up on the mono versions of the Monkees albums, all the way up to their fifth album "The Birds, The Bees & The Monkees" in April 1968, so I was really thrilled to see that mono finally made it to CD. I've always thought that the mono mixes of this album were better overall, giving an overall impression of a heavier rock band sound with added reverb. As for the stereo mastering, it's beautiful. Overall, they've done a wonderful job on these deluxe discs. Let's hope the next two albums (released in mono & stereo) get this same kind of royal treatment.

Sure they seem to be milking the Monkee-cow, but when it's this strong, milk it baby. Next up, The Birds, The Bees & The Monkees?

pleasant valley tuesday.......2007-07-11

my copies of the deluxe versions of HEADQUARTERS and PISCES, AQUARIUS, CAPRICORN & JONES LTD. turned up today and they were worth the wait. both albums are special in their own way. HEADQUARTERS, the monkees' third album, featured the band playing their own instruments (augmented by their producer, chip douglas, on bass) and has a strong country rock/garage band sound, thanks mostly to the influence of mike nesmith. it's a fun, charmingly "homemade" album, but the guys decided to make PISCES a compromise, using ace session players (while still contributing plenty of guitar/keyboards/percussion of their own).

the music on this album is an eclectic mix of country/rock/pop/lounge/psychedelia sounds that blend surprisingly well. producer douglas, under-appreciated at the time by the band, helped maintain a unified overall vibe, despite the stylistic shifts from track to track. my personal favorite songs are PLEASANT VALLEY SUNDAY, WHAT AM I DOING HANGING 'ROUND?, DAILY NIGHTLY, THE DOOR INTO SUMMER, LOVE IS ONLY SLEEPING and, of course, CUDDLY TOY...but the whole album is ear candy from start to finish (even the much-maligned davy jones number, HARD TO BELIEVE).

the deluxe edition of this album features a bunch of bonus tracks, including many previously unreleased mixes. i found myself prefering some of these to the originals (i had similar feelings listening to the also-included mono mix of the entire album).

andrew sandoval's liner notes are well written and helpfully informative (well, not a whole lot of new info for my jaded ears, but still nicely presented). all-in-all, i thought the whole package was a great tribute to the original classic. i can only hope and pray that the folks in charge of the beatles' upcoming re-mixes can be half as responsible and fan-friendly as andrew.

long live the texas praire chicken!

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The Monkees at Their Peak

Pisces, Aquarius,Capricorn & Jones
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Binding: Audio CD
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Customer Reviews:

The Monkees at Their Peak.......2006-09-05

This album is middle of the road rock with very serviceable songs with a few excellent exceptions. The album dates back to 1967, the year the Monkees outsold The Beatles and the peak of the Monkees success.

The CD starts off with Michael Nesmith singing "Salesman," a bouncy country-flavored tune. Davy Jones is the lead singer on the following song, "She Hangs Out." This song is sung in a style similar to that of a number of other teen idols during the era and appears intended to target teenage girls. The vocals are among Davy's best.

Michael Nesmith sings the next track, "The Door into Summer." This song is one of my personal favorites because it was inspired by the Robert A. Heinlein novel of the same title. The song is about searching and opportunities lost, elements of which were in the Heinlein novel. This song is well constructed and superior to Michael's first track on this CD.

Michael is also the lead singer on "Love Is Only Sleeping." This song is even more inspired and better than the previous track. There are several special effects and Michael sings this song very well. While the flavor of the song is pop, the song is as original in style as any of the pop of the era, and one indication that the Monkees were trying hard to create their own sound.

"Cuddly Toy" was very good from several view points. Davy Jones was an excellent choice as the lead singer. The style of the song is deceptively innocent and light, but Harry Nilsson's lyrics were about a Hell's Angels gang bang. The innocent sounding music flew past censors and record company executives, and it was only after the release of the album that anyone other than Nilsson and the Monkees knew the meaning of the song.

"Words" is one of those wonderful Boyce/Hart songs sung by Mickey Dolenz. The song is dark with a flavor of psychedelic and is one of the most excellent and original songs on this CD. While the flavor of the songs is similar to some rockabilly singers, the sound is in a style that is purely the Monkees.

"Hard to Believe" is one of the mellower songs on this CD, sung by Davy Jones. This song takes Davy Jones to the edge of his vocal limits and perhaps a touch over. This song is one of the weaker songs on this CD.

"What Am I Doing Hangin' Round" features Michael Nesmith in another country-flavored song co-penned by Michael Martin Murphy of "Wildfire" fame. The music is relatively basic but the vocals are quite good. Peter Tork voices the next track, "Peter Percival Patterson's Pet Pig Porky." I'm not sure of what The Monkees were trying to accomplish with this song, but it is an interesting inclusion.

Then we come to one of the best Monkees' songs, "Pleasant Valley Sunday," sung by Mickey Dolenz. This song receives extensive airplay on classic rock stations. The lyrics are a cynical lament regarding the materialistic and mundane existence of middle class America; a great song for the youth of every era. The lyrics and music match incredibly well to make one of the best songs of the 60s.

The Michael Nesmith penned "Daily Nightly" sung by Micky Dolenz follows. This psychedelic song features Micky's attempts to play the Moog synthesizer. The Moog provides sound effects but is significantly away from the sophistication of The Moody Blues' Mike Pinder of the same era.

Michael Nesmith co-penned "Don't Call on Me," also sung by Michael Nesmith; a very mellow and beautiful song. Michael sings this style of song very well. The fast-paced Goffin/King song "Star Collector" finished the original vinyl, sung by Davy Jones. The music is relatively repetitious and simple, and can become annoying if you focus on it. Micky again contributes more Moog synthesizer to this song, much more coherent than in "Daily Nightly."

The CD then adds an additional 7 tracks. The first short track is pure comedy. Of the remaining tracks 5 are alternate tracks to the music on this CD, and one, "Goin' Down," is an alternate mix from that released on the flip side of the "Daydream Believer" single.

This album contains some gems. Most of the songs are good, some are excellent. The Monkees were trying harder to create their own style and break away from corporate control. The results may have been a bit bizarre, but the 60s were a great time to take chances and do something different. The Monkees will forever be a wonderful part of rock's musical heritage.

Pisces, Aquarius, Capricorn & Jones Ltd.

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The greatest of The Monkees's albums, and a masterpiece in its own right....
PAC&JL: Walking the walk and talking the talk
The local rock group down the street is trying hard to learn this song.
The word 'underrated' comes to mind...
Wow!

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Tracks:

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

Customer Reviews:

The greatest of The Monkees's albums, and a masterpiece in its own right...........2007-05-29

This is not only The Monkees's best album, it's also a great album completely on its own. Too often The Monkees (as others have said here) get trashed by the establishment. Here they showed that they actually had talent, and made their most consistent and greatest album. There are many great, great songs here, including Cuddly Toy, the intense Words, the country pop masterpiece What Am I Doing Hanging Around?, and the pyschedelic (and brilliant) Daily Nightly (penned by Mike Nesmith). It also has one of their most underrated pop singles, Pleasant Valley Sunday. If you take away the fact that The Monkees were originally a band made up by record executives just to create an American Beatles, they still made great music and this album should prove that they were excellent musicians in their own right. I play this album a lot, and it keeps improving everytime I play it.

PAC&JL: Walking the walk and talking the talk.......2007-05-23

Anyone remotely familiar with the Monkees saga knows that the members of the band grew weary over being ventriloquist dummies for Don Kirschner and the songs from his "hit factory" (yes, he wanted them to record "Sugar, Sugar," and yes, he got his revenge by recording it with a cartoon band and scoring a massive hit). On "PAC&JL," the Monkees put their money where their mouths were. There's not a bad song on this album, and it actually flows like an intelligently sequenced work. It's definitely a relic of the late 60s, with Micky Dolenz adding Moog textures to "Daily Nightly" (he owned one of the first units produced). The Nesmith stuff? Every song stands on equal ground with the best of his later solo work: "Salesman," "Door Into Summer," and the transcendent "What Am I Doing Hanging Round." PAC&JL is every bit as good as the work of period bands such as Paul Revere & The Raiders. It also proved to be their peak, as subsequent projects led to the departure of Tork, then Nesmith, then a few years before the inevitable reunion tours. While there are many excellent tracks in the band's full catalog, this was the single album that showcased their talents in the best possible light.

The local rock group down the street is trying hard to learn this song........2007-01-01

This is arguably the Monkees' best album (it's either this or Headquarters). The Monkees didn't play all of the instruments on this album, but they did play a great deal of them, and they were definitely in charge of the recording sessions. There are many great songs on this album, and nothing really bad. Some of the my favorites include "The Door Into Summer", "Love is Only Sleeping", "What Am I Doing Hangin' Round", "Star Collector" and "Pleasant Valley Sunday" (my very favorite Monkees song). The CD adds several bonus tracks. The great "Goin' Down" was recorded at the same sessions as the rest of this album, and was the b-side of "Daydream Believer", which was also recorded at these sessions. ("Daydream Believer" was included on the album after this one.) There are also five interesting alternate mixes of songs from this album. These feature different vocals and/or instrumentation than the "regular" versions of the songs. Anyone interested in the Monkees should own this CD.

The word 'underrated' comes to mind..........2006-09-13

After the debacle of trying to record "Headquarters" by themselves, the Monkees got wise and brought back in the studio hands. The result is one of the better albums of the late 60s. There is some schmaltz here, but it's more than displaced by the excellent singing, songwriting, and musicianship displayed by all four Monkees. Michael Nesmith's lead line on "Pleasant Valley Sunday", although admittedly lifted from "Paperback Writer", is particularily well executed (never mind the fact Lennon borrowed it from Bobby Parker's "Watch Your Step"). Nesmith's reading of his early 60s Greenwich Village torch song "Don't Call On Me" is a wonderfully poignant counterpoint to some of the more overly pop elements on the disc, and "Love Is Only Sleeping" is easily the high point of his Monkees output. Here's hoping Rhino reissues the mono mix of this album as well, as "Sleeping" has some radical and ear-pleasing differences from its stereo counterpart.

As usual with a Rhino reissue, the liner notes don't disappoint. Another bonus is the original track-listing of the album, which you can recreate by programming your cd player. Both versions are contenders in my book!

Wow!.......2006-06-18

One simple word I would use to describe this album would be "wow". The Monkees were performing were once again performing as a band together (although you find out from reading the liner notes, that they had many more musicians involved on this album). This is the beginning of some of the Monkees psycadelic work, with songs like "Daily Nightly", "Star Collector", and "Words". This is my second favorite Monkees album, next to "Headquarters", and it is fantastic. Here is my review of the songs:

1. "Salesman" - A perfect way to start off the album with a great rockin' Mike song. Very catchy tune, that sounds like classic Mike. 9/10

2. "She Hangs Out" - This is definitely one of the Monkees more popular non-singles. They usually perform it at their concerts. Good Davy song. 8/10

3. "The Door Into Summer" - This is a song written by Chip Douglas and sung by Mike. Excellent song, with a great chorus, and one of my favorite Monkees tunes. 10/10

4. "Love Is Only Sleeping" - A fantastic song, which was originally supposed to be a single, instead of "Daydream Believer". I like this song more everytime I hear it, and might be in my top 10 Monkees songs. 10/10

5. "Cuddly Toy" - Definitely not one of my favorites, although it's a fairly popular song. It's just kind of a cheesy Davy tune to me. 5/10

6. "Words" - The flipside of "Pleasant Valley Sunday", and a very psycadellic Boyce/Hart song. Has a sound that defines this album, and even features some vocals from Peter. 10/10

7. "Hard To Believe" - Probably my least favorite song on the album, and it seems like it just doesn't fit in with the rest. I usually skip over it. 5/10

8. "What Am I Doing Hangin' 'Round" - This is another very popular song that was not a single. It's classic Mike with his country rock, and it was always one of my favorites when I was little. 10/10

9. "Peter Percival Paterson's Pet Pig Porky" - Just an intro by Peter to "Pleasant Valley Sunday".

10. "Pleasant Valley Sunday" - I'm sure most people know this song, as it was one of their more popular singles. It was also probably their most psycadellic to date. And I think this single really shows how the Monkees were trying to break away from that bubble gum image. 10/10

11. "Daily Nightly" - This is a song that was written by Mike and features some great Micky vocals. The best part of the song, however, is Micky's incredible use of the moog synthesizer. Very psycadellic. 10/10

12. "Don't Call On Me" - Perhaps the strangest song on the album. It's a Mike song which almost sounds like lounge music. I never liked it when I was younger, but it has definitely grown on me. It might not seem like it fits in, but I think it's so weird that it just works for the album. 10/10

13. "Star Collecotr" - Might be the most psycadellic song on the album, with a whole lot of synthesizer, and keyboards. Another strange song, but I think it's great. 10/10

Nothing jumps out too much in the bonus tracks, excepts "Goin' Down", which was the flipside of "Daydream Believer", and never released on an album. Most everything else is different versions of the songs. The most interesting one of those is "Daily Nightly", without the synthesizer. You can really see what Micky added to the song.

So, in my opinion, this is just an amazing album, and definiely worth a purchase, whether you are a Monkees fan or not.

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I. Primeval Sounds (Genesis I) - Cancer
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V. The Phantom Gondolier - Scorpio
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IX. The Abyss Of Time - Virgo
X. Spring-Fire - Aries
XI. Dream Images (Love-Death Music)-Gemini
XII. Spiral Galaxy (Symbol) - Aquarius
I. Morning Music (Genius II) - Cancer
II. The Mystic Chord - Sagittarius
III. Rain-Death Variations - Pisces
IV. Twin Suns (Symbol) - Gemini
V. Ghost-Nocturne: For The Druids Of Stonehenge (Night-Spell II) - Virgo
VI. Gargoyles - Taurus
VII. Tora! Tora! Tora! (Cadenza Apocalittica) - Scorpio
VIII. A Prophecy Of The Nostradamus (Symbol) - Aries
IX. Cosmic Wind - Libra
X. Voices From The 'Corona Borealis' - Aquarius
XI. Litany Of The Galactic Bells - Leo
XII. Agnus Dei (Symbol) - Capricorn
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Pisces, Aquarius, Capricorn & Jones Ltd. [JAPAN]

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Track Listings 1. Salesman 2. She Hangs Out 3. Door into Summer 4. Love Is Only Sleeping 5. Cuddly Toy 6. Words 7. Hard to Believe 8. What Am I Doing Hangin' 'Round? 9. Peter Percival Patterson's Pet Pig Porky Pleasant Valley Sunday 10. Daily Nightly 11. Don't Call on Me 12. Star Collector ------ Japanese release from 1992. Comes in a standard jewel case with booklet, back artwork and OBI strip. Text is in both Japanese and English.

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1. Salesman
2. She Hangs Out
3. Door into Summer
4. Love Is Only Sleeping
5. Cuddly Toy
6. Words
7. Hard to Believe
8. What Am I Doing Hangin' 'Round?
9. Peter Percival Patterson's Pet Pig Porky
10. Pleasant Valley Sunday
11. Daily Nightly
12. Don't Call on Me
13. Star Collector
14. Special Announcement [#][*]
15. Goin' Down [Alternate Mix][#][*]
16. Salesman [Alternate Mix][#][*]
17. Door into Summer [Alternate Mix][#][*]
18. Love Is Only Sleeping [Alternate Mix][#][*]
19. Daily Nightly [Alternate Mix][#][*]
20. Star Collector [Alternate Mix][#][*]