The Monkees Collection

The Monkees Collection is a Monkees compilation album adapted by C.Syde65. This compilation album is based on an old cassette tape that was taped for me in the 1990's.

The first side of the tape included tracks 1-17 taped from a compact disc of The Monkees' obscure UK greatest hits album The ★ Collection: 25th Anniversary Edition which was released in 1992.

The second side of the tape included tracks 18-20 from the same compilation, along with tracks 1-14 which were already featured on the first side of the tape. The reason why tracks 1-14 were featured on both sides of the tape was obviously to fill up the large amount of blank space remaining on the second side.

While the compilation itself has not been burnt, the 2-disc adaption was compiled in 2019. It is unlikely that I'll ever actually burn this compilation onto 2 discs, because aside from tracks 1-14 appearing on both discs, the compilation is otherwise identical to the ★ Collection: 25th Anniversary Edition.

The "no pause between tracks" box would be ticked when burning this compilation, to prevent the Nero Express Essentials software from adding 2 second pauses between tracks, to free up more space on the CD - not that there wouldn't be enough space to fit 17 songs on each of the 2 discs anyway. The "normalise all audio files" box would also be ticked, to set the volume of all the tracks to a standard volume.

An interesting fact is that some of the handwritten information on some of the cassette tapes that were taped for me was inaccurate. For example, "Pleasant Valley Sunday", "Porpoise Song (Theme from Head)", "Listen to the Band", "I'm a Believer", "A Little Bit Me, A Little Bit You", "Valleri", and "Cuddly Toy" were not listed as being on the second side of the tape, so they were all hidden tracks. When I wrote down the songs and their basic information for the compact disc adaption, I included the tracks that weren't listed on the second side of the tape on the track listing in the correct order.

The copies of the songs from the ★ Collection: 25th Anniversary Edition that came into my possession were all MP3 files at 128 kbps, though I later converted them to Wma files at 192 kbps with Adobe Audition. I did this because I knew that burning MP3 files at 128 kbps onto compact discs would result in the songs being burned at a lower quality than Wma files at 192 kbps.