The Monkees Members of the Monkees, Nesmith in particular, cite the soundtrack album as one of the crowning achievements of the band. Tensions within the group were increasing. Peter Tork, citing exhaustion, quit by buying out the last four years of his Monkees contract at $150,000 per year, equal to about $ per year today. This was shortly after the band's Far East tour in December 1968, after completing work on their 1969 NBC television special, "33⅓ Revolutions Per Monkee", which rehashed many of the ideas from "Head", only with the Monkees playing a strangely second-string role. In the DVD commentary for
The Monkees (album) included on the 2014 Super Deluxe edition of the album. Disc 1 The Original Mono Album The Original Stereo Album Bonus Material Disc 2 The Monkees - Sessions Disc 3 David Jones - The Original Mono Album David Jones - The Singles David Jones - The Original Stereo Album Michael Blessing - The Singles The Monkees – Demos Note "(Theme from) The Monkees" "Saturday's Child" "I Wanna Be Free" "Tomorrow's Gonna Be Another Day" "Papa Gene's Blues" "Take a Giant Step" "Last Train to Clarksville" "This Just Doesn't Seem to be My Day" "Let's Dance On" "I'll Be True to