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Stranger Things Have Happened | ||||
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Released | 1994 October 10, 2020 (reissue) | |||
Recorded | January 1993; August 1994 | |||
Studio | Beachwood Recording Studio, Woodland Hills, California | |||
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Length | 35:23(original release) 62:44 (2020 reissue) | |||
Label | Beachwood Recordings (original release) 7a Records (2020 reissue) | |||
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Stranger Things Have Happened is a 1994 album by former Monkees member Peter Tork. Although he had been performing since the 1960s, this was his first and only solo release.
The album includes several original compositions, and covered a range of styles from folk ("Giant Step") to hard rock ("Miracle") to pop ("MGB-GT").
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Source | Rating |
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Bruce Eder of AllMusic wrote "No one's going to believe it, but this is a good album, from Peter Tork no less. Most of the songs are sung with passion and the voice is much better than it was on, say, 'Shades of Gray' 28 years earlier. What's more, Tork reveals himself as a solid rocker, starting from a folk idiom but working with lots of wattage on the instruments and no trace of wimpy singer/songwriter affectation in the playing." He singles out the track, "'Higher and Higher', a folk/gospel song on which Tork mostly plays acoustic banjo, and which is so beguiling that one wishes he'd do an entire album in that idiom, style, and sound." [1]
In December 2020, British label 7a Records reissued Stranger Things Have Happened on CD and vinyl with new artwork and nine bonus tracks. [2]
All tracks are written by Peter Tork, except where noted.
No. | Title | Writer(s) | Notes | Length |
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1. | "Stranger Things Have Happened" |
| 3:14 | |
2. | "Get What You Pay For" | 2:50 | ||
3. | "Sea Change" | 4:02 | ||
4. | "Giant Step" | original version released on The Monkees' eponymous 1966 debut album | 2:16 | |
5. | "Milkshake" | Martin Briley | 3:07 | |
6. | "MGB-GT" | 2:44 | ||
7. | "Miracle" | 2:30 | ||
8. | "Pirates" | Nick Thorkelson | 3:50 | |
9. | "Gettin' In" | original version appeared on The Monkees' album, Pool It! (1987) | 3:35 | |
10. | "Tender Is" | 3:20 | ||
11. | "Higher and Higher" |
| 3:51 | |
Total length: | 35:23 |
No. | Title | Writer(s) | Notes | Length |
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12. | "Milkshake" (Peter Tork and James Lee Stanley) | Martin Briley | originally released on Two Man Band (1996) | 2:48 |
13. | "MGB-GT" (Peter Tork and James Lee Stanley) | originally released on Two Man Band (1996) | 2:56 | |
14. | "Miracle" (Peter Tork and James Lee Stanley) | originally released on Two Man Band (1996) | 2:42 | |
15. | "Pirates" (Peter Tork and James Lee Stanley) | Nick Thorkelson | originally released on Two Man Band (1996) | 4:32 |
16. | "Get What You Pay For" (live) | originally released on Live/Backstage at the Coffee Gallery (2006) | 1:46 | |
17. | "Easy Rockin'" (demo) | James Lee Stanley | recorded September 2010 | 4:02 |
18. | "I Truly Understand" | Traditional; arr. Peter Tork | recorded for Fast Folk Musical Magazine (The CooP) , June 1982 | 1:51 |
19. | "(I'm Not Your) Steppin' Stone" (Peter Tork and the New Monks) | A-side of single, released 1981 | 3:03 | |
20. | "Higher and Higher" (Peter Tork and the New Monks) |
| B-side of single, released 1981 | 3:41 |
Total length: | 62:44 |
Tracks 15–17 not included on 2020 vinyl reissue.
Credits adapted from 1994 release.
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