She/When Love Comes Knockin’(At Your Door)/Mary Mary/Hold On Girl/Your Auntie Grizelda/(I’m Not Your) Steppin’ Stone/(Look Out) Here Comes Tomorrow/The Kind Of Girl I Could Love/The Day We Fell In Love/ Sometime In The Morning/Laugh/I’m A Believer
Pop phenomenon The Monkees speedy follow up album More Of The Monkees topped the album charts in both the US and the UK. Contains the No. 1 single I'm A Believer plus the US No. 20 (I'm Not Your) Steppin' Stone. (US:1 UK:1)
"Who cares if they didn't play their instruments, were created as a TV vehicle, and were pretty sappy. These melodies are sing-able until the end of time. My very favourite childhood record and still a great pop moment."
"Extremely commercially oriented pop, featuring many catchy tunes and great song writing. This is what all pop albums strive to emulate. Some minor psych influences make their presence known on this one. Excellent period flavour as well."
"The best-selling album of 1967 in the United States. Who cares if they didn't play their own instruments for this album? Nesmith and Tork, the only guys in the band who actually could play an instrument, were not the reason that this album was great anyway."
"The second Monkees' album - you pretty well know what to expect. So while it doesn't really contain any surprises, it does contain a lot of good songs. In fact, some of these songs are pretty much 60s pop perfection."
"In More Of we hear a band that, while stylistically is in near-perfect alignment with the debut, comes off as a much more confident, even cocky, group of overnight superstars. While clearly not in control of their musical direction, they begin to spread their wings."
"Album suffers from too many cooks in the kitchen. The Boyce & Hart stuff, as well as that of Mike Nesmith, is great but the rest is just Brill Building dribble, especially The Day We Fall In Love with its sickening recitation."
"With the possible exception of Your Auntie Grizelda, none of the tracks are too bad. Good music was in fashion in 1966 and 1967."
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