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
Pisces, Aquarius, Capricorn & Jones Ltd was The Monkees fourth studio album in little more than a year. Includes the top twenty hits Pleasant Valley Sunday and Words. (US:1 UK:5)
"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."
"This album by the splintering pop band is excellent with many different music styles on it. There is the straight pop of She Hangs Out and Star Collector, the folk rock of The Door Into Summer, countryesque rock of Salesman and What Am I Doing Hangin' 'Round and the psychedelic Daily Nightly. This is the album I listen to when I want to hear great 60s pop. If you like good pop you'll enjoy this album."
"Destined never to be taken seriously, The Monkees did manage to put out a couple of legitimately good albums and this is one of them. They didn't write very much of the material and they're not the greatest players or singers. But forgetting where they came from, and comparing this to other pop albums of the time, this holds it own."
"It takes a few songs to realize that this is not a typical Monkees album. For one thing, where is the sunshine pop sound, and boyish vocals of Davy Jones? They're not absent, just not featured. This has a west coast, almost San Francisco sound. Every song is much more mature than previous efforts. The songwriting is not superb, but it is still very good, way above average. One could argue that it lacks the singles of earlier albums, but it makes up for this in consistency."
"This is probably their high point as album creators, though they do have plenty of great singles. Still, there’s no denying the quality of some of these songs."
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