{"id":559972,"date":"2026-05-01T05:02:11","date_gmt":"2026-05-01T05:02:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/559972\/"},"modified":"2026-05-01T05:02:11","modified_gmt":"2026-05-01T05:02:11","slug":"you-bring-the-summer-the-monkees-good-times-revisited-for-10th-anniversary","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/559972\/","title":{"rendered":"You Bring the Summer: The Monkees’ ‘Good Times!’ Revisited for 10th Anniversary"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Back in 2016, The Monkees celebrated their 50th anniversary with their first album of new material since 1996\u2019s Justus.\u00a0 The appropriately-titled Good Times!, produced by Fountains of Wayne\u2019s Adam Schlesinger, was a true return to form.\u00a0 As TSD noted in its original review<\/a>, \u201cThe Monkees have just released their first new album in twenty years, and all is right with the world\u2026Good Times makes no concession to the sound of modern pop.\u00a0 Rather, it\u2019s most often the classic Monkees style refracted through a muscular, power-pop prism\u2026Don\u2019t hesitate.\u00a0 Listen to the band!\u201d\u00a0 The acclaimed album reached No. 14 on the Billboard 200, becoming the group\u2019s highest-charting release in 48 years.<\/p>\n

Now, on May 29, Rhino is revisiting Good Times! in a 10th Anniversary Deluxe Edition which celebrates not only the album, but the 60th anniversary of The Monkees and the memory of Schlesinger, Michael Nesmith, and Peter Tork (all of whom died following its release) and Davy Jones (who had passed away in 2012 but was nonetheless featured on Good Times! via archival material).\u00a0 The 2CD set rounds up four non-LP sides originally presented as bonus tracks on various exclusive editions (and later pressed on vinyl as the Good Times Plus! EP) as well as an instrumental presentation of all thirteen songs.\u00a0 And what songs they are! Good Times! features compositions written specifically for the group by the likes of Schlesinger (\u201cOur Own World\u201d), Weezer\u2019s Rivers Cuomo (\u201cShe Makes Me Laugh\u201d), Death Cab for Cutie\u2019s Ben Gibbard (\u201cMe and Magdalena\u201d), XTC\u2019s Andy Partridge (\u201cYou Bring the Summer\u201d), Oasis\u2019 Noel Gallagher and The Jam\u2019s Paul Weller (\u201cBirth of an Accidental Hipster\u201d).\u00a0 In addition to vintage tunes by Harry Nilsson (the title track), Neil Diamond (\u201cLove to Love\u201d), Jeff Barry and Joey Levine (\u201cGotta Give It Time\u201d), Tommy Boyce and Bobby Hart (\u201cWhatever\u2019s Right\u201d), and Carole King and Gerry Goffin (\u201cWasn\u2019t Born to Follow\u201d), Nesmith and Tork also wrote songs for the new album: \u201cI Know What I Know\u201d and \u201cA Better World,\u201d respectively, while Dolenz collaborated with Schlesinger on the closing cut \u201cI Was There (And I\u2019m Told I Had a Good Time).\u201d<\/p>\n

On the same date as the 2CD Deluxe Edition, Rhino will release an audiophile vinyl edition of the original album as part of the Rhino Reserve series. The 180-gram pressing was cut from the original analog master tapes by Matthew Lutthans at The Mastering Lab and pressed at Fidelity Record Pressing in Oxnard, California. The LP will be available exclusively through independent retailers in the U.S. and via Rhino.com<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Between now and November, Micky Dolenz is also hitting the road in celebration of 60 years of The Monkees.\u00a0 Visit here for Micky\u2019s tour schedule, and look for Good Times! from Rhino in both 2CD and Rhino Reserve LP formats on May 29.\u00a0 You\u2019ll find the track listing and pre-order links below.<\/p>\n

Good Times! (10th Anniversary Deluxe Edition)\u00a0(Rhino, 2026) (Amazon U.S.<\/a> \/ Amazon U.K.<\/a> \/ Amazon Canada<\/a>)<\/p>\n

CD 1: Original album\u00a0(released as Rhino R2 553592, 2016)<\/p>\n

Good Times
\nYou Bring the Summer
\nShe Makes Me Laugh
\nOur Own World
\nGotta Give It Time
\nMe & Magdalena
\nWhatever\u2019s Right
\nLove to Love
\nLittle Girl
\nBirth of An Accidental Hipster
\nWasn\u2019t Born to Follow
\nI Know What I Know
\nI Was There (And I\u2019m Told I Had a Good Time)<\/p>\n

CD 2: Bonus material\u00a0(previously unreleased except where noted)<\/p>\n

Terrifying (digital bonus track)
\nMe & Magdalena (Version 2) (digital bonus track)
\nA Better World (F.Y.E. bonus track \u2013 Rhino R2 555731, 2016)
\nLove\u2019s What I Want (Japanese bonus track \u2013 Rhino WPCR-17267, 2016)
\nGood Times (Instrumental)
\nYou Bring the Summer (Instrumental)
\nShe Makes Me Laugh (Instrumental)
\nOur Own World (Instrumental)
\nGotta Give It Time (Instrumental)
\nMe & Magdalena (Instrumental)
\nWhatever\u2019s Right (Instrumental)
\nLove to Love (Instrumental)
\nLittle Girl (Instrumental)
\nBirth of An Accidental Hipster (Instrumental)
\nWasn\u2019t Born to Follow (Instrumental)
\nI Know What I Know (Instrumental)
\nI Was There (and I\u2019m Told I Had a Good Time) (Instrumental)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"BUY NOW FROM AMAZON.COM Back in 2016, The Monkees celebrated their 50th anniversary with their first album of…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":559973,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[28],"tags":[96,128,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-559972","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-music","tag-entertainment","tag-music","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/559972","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=559972"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/559972\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/559973"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=559972"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=559972"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=559972"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}