Monkee Flips

Monkee Flips is a 1984 singles and rarities compilation album of songs by the Monkees, issued by Rhino Records. Labeled as the "Best of the Monkees, Volume Four" as it followed the two Arista compilations and Monkee Business picture disc, the album featured an all-stereo selection of single sides and album tracks, including several songs featured in The Monkees TV series. It was available in both LP record and cassette formats. This LP was reissued in 1986 with a different mix of "Forget That Girl" with some opening studio chatter, and "Love Is Only Sleeping" is now in mono. The sleeve and label are the same for both releases with only an "RE-1" denoting the update in the run-off groove of the vinyl.

"Tear Drop City", "Good Clean Fun" and "Oh My My", all of which charted in the Billboard Top 100, make their American "greatest hits" debut with this package. (All three had previously appeared on the 1979 Australian compilation Monkeemania.) Seven of the 14 tracks -- "You Told Me", "I Love You Better", "Forget That Girl", "No Time", "Dream World", "Little Girl", and "Daily Nightly" -- all make their first appearance on any "greatest hits" package anywhere.

The album cover showed a still of the Monkees (with Peter Tork playing a banjo), from the television episode "It's A Nice Place To Visit". The liner notes included a detailed recap of the Monkees career, with recent interview comments from Nesmith and Dolenz.

Monkee Flips went out of print as Rhino shifted from vinyl releases to compact discs. Each of the tracks have been reissued on individual Monkees CDs, digitally remastered.