Head (1968 Film) | 
| Artist: The Monkees
Label: Rhino / Wea
Category: Music
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Rating:  49 reviews
Sales Rank: 15466
Format: Original Recording Reissued, Original Recording Remastered, Soundtrack
Media: Audio CD
Discs: 1
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.2
Dimensions (in): 5.6 x 5 x 0.5
MPN: 71795
UPC: 081227179526
EAN: 0081227179526
ASIN: B0000033E5
Release Date: November 15, 1994
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| Tracks:
| • | Opening Ceremony - The Monkees, | | • | Porpoise Song - The Monkees, Goffin, Gerry | | • | Ditty Diego -- War Chant - The Monkees, Nicholson, Jack | | • | Circle Sky - The Monkees, Nesmith, Michael | | • | Supplico - The Monkees, | | • | Can You Dig It? - The Monkees, Tork, Peter | | • | As We Go Along - The Monkees, King, Carole | | • | Dandruff? - The Monkees, | | • | Daddy's Song - The Monkees, Nilsson, Harry | | • | Poll - The Monkees, | | • | Long Title: Do I Have to Do This All over Again - The Monkees, Tork, Peter | | • | Swami -- Plus Strings - The Monkees, Thorne, Ken | | • | Ditty Diego -- War Chant - The Monkees, Nicholson, Jack | | • | Circle Sky - The Monkees, Nesmith, Michael | | • | Happy Birthday to You - The Monkees, | | • | Can You Dig It? - The Monkees, Tork, Peter | | • | Daddy's Song - The Monkees, Nilsson, Harry | | • | Head Radio Spot - The Monkees, |
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| Customer Reviews: Read 44 more reviews...
 I sing the praise of never change. October 26, 2005
Johnny Heering (Bethel, CT United States)
14 out of 15 found this review helpful
This is the soundtrack to the Monkees' only feature film. It only has six songs, the rest of the soundtrack features sound collages assembled by Jack Nicholson, of all people. The songs are all great, it's some of the Monkees most mature work. The sound collages range from a few seconds long to five minutes long, and they are actually fairly interesting. The CD adds six great bonus tracks. On the alternate take of "Ditty Diego", you can hear Jack Nicholson instructing the boys to be "sillier". The alternate "Circle Sky" is the live version featured in the movie. There is a short recording of the other Monkees singing "Happy Birthday" to Mike. The alternate version of "Can You Dig It" features Peter on vocals instead of Micky. The alternate version of "Daddy's Song" features Mike on vocals instead of Davy. The CD closes with a radio advertisement for Head that is an incomprehensible sound collage which makes no mention of the Monkees, or even the fact that Head is a motion picture. With advertising like that, no wonder the movie flopped!
 Experimental Monkees December 1, 2000
Thomas Magnum (NJ, USA)
10 out of 11 found this review helpful
Head is the soundtrack album to a true cult classic and underrated film. After the Monkees' TV show was cancelled, the band decided to make a movie that would destroy the Monkees' myth and image. They got together with Bob Rafaelson & Jack Nicholoson, smoked alot of dope and came up with this true gem. The film opens with the killing off the group by having them jump off a bridge. What follows is a stream of conscious film that jumps between scenes at a break neck pace. The soundtrack follows that same style. The album mixes songs with dialogue from the movie and it makes for an interesting and enjoyable listening experience. The songs are all top notch including the psychedelic "The Porpoise Song" which contains sounds from actual porpoises, Mike Nesmith's powerful "Circle Sky", the middle-eastern flavored "Can You Dig It?", "As We Go Along" is the prettiest song the band has ever done, "Daddy's Song" has a vaudevillian feel with good horn play and "Do I Have To Do This all Over Again" is the best song Peter Tork sang lead on for the band. Not what you would expect from the Monkees and it shows that the group were more than just a bunch of hired actors.
My Favorite Album, by my Favorite Group of All Time... December 1, 2004
chimera68 (St. Augustine, FL USA)
9 out of 10 found this review helpful
My earliest childhood memory of listening to any kind of music, was having the pretty red and white Colgems 8-track tape of The Monkees album "Head" put in my parent's Hi-Fi for me, and I would listen to it over and over, at any opportunity. I was probably around 3 years old at the time. I was born in 1968, the year that the movie "Head" was released in theatres, but oddly enough, I did not get to see this film until the age of 15...Which may have been a good thing, because, looking back, I probably would have not understood the sad messages and imagery contained in this film, and been able to compare it to the happy-go-lucky Monkees I always watched on TV.
As said in "Porpoise Song" from this album,..."an overdub has no choice, an image cannot rejoice" which is part of what they were trying to express about their situation...but now I understand what they meant by that.
This album, and the later CD version, is a hallucinogenic journey into the world of The Monkees and their beautiful and unique entity, as four very talented and creative people. As the Guru says in the soundtrack on cut 14, "The central nervous system, which feeds its impulses directly to the brain, the conscious and the subconscious, is unable to discern between the real and the vividly imagined experience...." (paraphrasing Dr. Maxwell Maltz, by the way...) So go ahead and play this album, 8-track, or CD and imagine for yourself that you are there, and all this is happening now....just go with it, and let it carry you away. If you don't cry during Mickey Dolenz singing "As We Go Along" which is my favorite song in the universe, you might have a heart made of stone.
To program the CD to play in the exact order as the 8-track tape, enter the tracks in this order: 1,2,13,7,3,4,6,8,9,10,11,5,12,14. (skip the 6 bonus tracks.)
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 3 and one-half stars. November 25, 2004
S. R.
7 out of 10 found this review helpful
Trying th shed their teeny-booper image the band teams with Jack Nicholson the film the movie "Head", and stream-of-concious comedy with a 60's counter-culture sensibility. The movie bombed, as did the soundtrack which is why we're here. The soundtrack at first suffers from poor recording or producing, or something because the beautiful "porpoise Song" sounds thin and trebly with muddy vocals. Others offer very good sonic clarity, such as Mike's superb anti-war "Circle Sky" and Tork's remarkable "Can you Dig it", and Harry Nilsson's yeoman-like "Daddy's Song". King and Stern's "As we go along" was as close to a hit as this album could muster. The band pokes ruthless fun it it's image "...the money's in, we're made of tin, we're here to give you more..." sung to the "Monkees Theme" This is wickedly sharp and shows the band trying to gather their dignity as they grow tired of their pre-packaged status. Soundbites from the film crackle a bit too much and begin to annoy quickly, but overall worth a listen....or three. The movie a good start to get a taste of the soundtrack. A"Head" is a 180-degree turn from all previous Monkee efforts
Some Outstanding Recordings in a Mixed Bag December 11, 2004
Morten Vindberg
7 out of 7 found this review helpful
"Head" was the last Monkees album to feature all four original members. Guitarist Pete Tork left the band shortly after finishing the album.
Though it's a soundtrack and not a regular album it contains some of the Monkees' finest recordings. Especially the two Carole King songs "Porpoise Song" and "As We Go Along" are outstanding. Also Tork's "Can You Dig it" and Nesmith's "Circle Sky" are Monkees classics.
Only 6 tracks on the original album are actually music. The rest of it is soundclips and dialouge; some of it quite entertaining.
Taken from the sleeve notes Jack Nicholson played a big part in the album's/movie's creation, which sounds to be pretty weird.
The bonus tracks are mostly alternate takes - most interesting is the fine live version of "Circle Sky" recorded in May 1968.
The list of guest musicians is impressive, featuring names like Leon Russell, Bill Chadwick, Dewey Martin, Carole King, Neil Young and Ry Cooder.
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