# The Definitive Monkees

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The Definitive Monkees is a limited edition Monkees compilation album released in 2001. It contains 29 of the Monkees' greatest hits. The album includes two tracks from the 1980s reunions. The album featured a bonus disc which featured 31 of The Monkees' rarity songs.
It has since been re-released in other countries, but the bonus disc was not included.

## Track listing
### Disc one

* "(Theme from) The Monkees" (Tommy Boyce, Bobby Hart) – 2:20
* "Last Train to Clarksville" (Boyce, Hart) – 2:44
* "Take a Giant Step" (Gerry Goffin, Carole King) – 2:31
* "Saturday's Child" (David Gates) – 2:41
* "I'm a Believer" (Neil Diamond) – 2:45
* "I Wanna Be Free" (Album Version) (Boyce, Hart) – 2:24
* "(I'm Not Your) Steppin' Stone" (Boyce, Hart) – 2:20
* "She" (Boyce, Hart) – 2:37
* "A Little Bit Me, A Little Bit You" (Diamond) – 2:48
* "Mary, Mary" (Michael Nesmith) – 2:15
* "The Girl I Knew Somewhere" (Nesmith) – 2:32
* "Look Out (Here Comes Tomorrow)" (Diamond) – 2:13
* "Shades of Gray" (Barry Mann, Cynthia Weil) – 3:20
* "Sometime in the Morning" (Goffin, King) – 2:27
* "For Pete's Sake" (Peter Tork, Joey Richards) – 2:09
* "Forget That Girl" (Douglas Farthing Hatlelid) – 2:22
* "Randy Scouse Git (Alternate Title)" (Micky Dolenz) – 2:35
* "You Just May Be the One" (Nesmith) – 2:02
* "Pleasant Valley Sunday" (Goffin, King) – 3:07
* "Words" (Boyce, Hart) – 2:47
* "Daydream Believer" (John Stewart) – 2:56
* "Goin' Down" (Dolenz, Diane Hildebrand, Davy Jones, Nesmith, Tork) – 4:21
* "What Am I Doing Hanging 'Round" (Michael Martin Murphey, Owen Castleman) – 3:04
* "Cuddly Toy" (Harry Nilsson) – 2:37
* "Valleri" (Boyce, Hart) – 2:20
* "Porpoise Song (Theme from "Head")" (Goffin, King) – 4:09
* "Listen to the Band" (Nesmith) – 2:31
* "That Was Then, This Is Now (Vance Brescia) – 3:34
* "Heart and Soul" (Simon Byrne, Andrew Howell) – 3:17

### Bonus disc

* "Tema Dei Monkees" (Boyce, Hart, Nistri) – 1:12
* "So Goes Love" (second recorded version) (Goffin, King) – 3:08
* "Kicking Stones (Teeny Tiny Gnome)" (Wayne Erwin, Linda Castle) – 2:27
* "Mr. Webster" (first recorded version) (Boyce, Hart) – 2:54
* "Hold on Girl (Help is on its Way)" (first recorded version) (Billy Carr, Jack Keller, Ben Raleigh) – 2:44
* "Apples, Peaches, Bananas and Pears" (Boyce, Hart) – 2:17
* "Love to Love" (alternate mix) (Diamond) – 2:30
* "Midnight Train" (demo version) (Dolenz) – 2:29
* "She'll Be There" (Sharon Sheeley) – 2:35
* "Riu Chiu" (studio version) (Traditional) – 1:33
* "Circle Sky" (alternate mix) (Nesmith) – 2:32
* "Merry Go Round" (Hildebrand, Tork) – 1:44
* "War Games" (Jones, Steve Pitts) – 2:32
* "Seeger's Theme" (Seeger) – 0:45
* "Party" (Jones, Pitts) – 2:44
* "Shake 'Em Up (and Let 'Em Roll)" (Leiber & Stoller) – 2:10
* "Rosemarie" (Dolenz) – 2:29
* "Propinquity (I've Just Begun to Care)" (Nesmith) – 3:22
* "Look Down" (King, Toni Stern) – 2:51
* "The Crippled Lion" (Nesmith) – 2:51
* "Hollywood" (Nesmith) – 2:17
* "How Insensitive" (Antonio Carlos Jobim, Vinicus DeMoraes, Norman Gimbel) – 2:32
* "Down the Highway (Michigan Blackhawk)" (Goffin, King, Stern) – 2:15
* "My Share of the Sidewalk" (Nesmith) – 3:07
* "If You Have the Time" (Bill Chadwick, Jones) – 2:09
* "Time and Time Again" (Bill Chadwick, Jones) – 2:50
* "Storybook of You" (Boyce, Hart) – 2:52
* "You're So Good" (Robert Stone) – 2:41
* "Steam Engine" (alternate mix) (Chip Douglas) – 2:24
* "Angel Band" (William Bradbury, Jefferson Hascall, Traditional) – 3:25
* "Little Red Rider" (Nesmith) – 3:17