Cover is G+ (shelf wear, taped seam)  
Record is G++
Labels are very clean

Visually Graded

Tracklist

Side 1

1    "(Theme from) The Monkees" - 2:18
2    "Saturday's Child" (David Gates) - 2:43
3    "I Wanna Be Free" - 2:24
4    "Tomorrow's Gonna Be Another Day" (Boyce, Steve Venet) - 2:39
5    "Papa Gene's Blues" (Michael Nesmith) - 1:57
6    "Take a Giant Step" (Gerry Goffin, Carole King) - 2:33

Side 2

1    "Last Train to Clarksville" - 2:44
2    "This Just Doesn't Seem to Be My Day" - 2:09
3    "Let's Dance On" - 2:30
4    "I'll Be True to You" (Goffin, Russ Titelman) - 2:50
5    "Sweet Young Thing" (Goffin, King, Nesmith) - 1:56
6    "Gonna Buy Me a Dog" - 2:41

The Monkees is the first album by the band the Monkees. It was released in October 1966 by Colgems Records in the United States and RCA Records in the rest of the world. It was the first of four consecutive U.S. number one albums for the group, taking the top spot on the Billboard 200 for 13 weeks, after which it was displaced by the band's second album.  It also topped the UK charts in 1967. The Monkees has been certified quintuple platinum by the RIAA, with sales of over five million copies.

The song "Last Train to Clarksville" was released as a single shortly before the release of the album and went to the top of the Billboard Hot 100 chart. It was the only hit single from the album.

The Monkees are an American pop/rock band that released music in their original incarnation between 1966 and 1970, with subsequent reunion albums and tours in the decades that followed. Formed in Los Angeles in 1965 by Robert "Bob" Rafelson and Bert Schneider for the American television series The Monkees, which aired from 1966–1968, the musical acting quartet was composed of Americans Micky Dolenz, Michael Nesmith, and Peter Tork, and Englishman Davy Jones. The band's music was initially supervised by producer Don Kirshner.

Described by Dolenz as initially being "a TV show about an imaginary band [...] that wanted to be The Beatles, [but] that was never successful", the actor-musicians soon became a real band. As Dolenz would later describe it, "The Monkees really becoming a band was like the equivalent of Leonard Nimoy really becoming a Vulcan."

For the first few months of their almost five-year initial career, the four actor-musicians were allowed only limited roles in the recording studio. This was due in part to the excessive time spent filming the television series, which in turn limited the amount of time available to the group to rehearse and coalesce as a band. Nonetheless, Nesmith did compose and produce some songs from the beginning, and Peter Tork contributed limited guitar work on the Nesmith-produced sessions. They soon fought for and earned the right to collectively supervise all musical output under the band's name. Although the sitcom was canceled in 1968, the band continued to record music through 1971.

In 1986, the television show experienced a revival, which led to a series of reunion tours and new records. Up until 2011, the group has reunited and toured several times, to varying degrees of success.  Despite the sudden death of Davy Jones in February 2012, the surviving members reunited for a tour in November–December 2012, and again in 2013 for a 24-date tour.

The Monkees had international hits, including "Last Train to Clarksville", "Pleasant Valley Sunday", and "Daydream Believer". At their peak in 1967, the band outsold both the Beatles and the Rolling Stones.  As of 2012, their albums and singles have sold over 65 million copies worldwide.