Monday Morning Music - Two Minutes Later

Monday Morning Music is whatever tune I've got in my head when I wake up.

Duran Duran - Girls On Film

"Girls on Film" is the third single by Duran Duran, released on 13 July 1981.

The single became Duran Duran's Top 10 breakthrough in the UK Singles Chart, peaking at Number 5 in July 1981. Its success was particularly gratifying for the band, who had personally selected it for release following the failure of its predecessor, "Careless Memories", which had been chosen by their record company, EMI. Its popularity provided a major boost to sales of the band's eponymous debut album, Duran Duran, which had been released a month earlier.

The song did not chart in the United States on its initial release, but it became popular and widely known after receiving heavy airplay on MTV when the Duran Duran album was re-issued in 1983.

 "Girls on Film" was originally written by Andy Wickett, one of Duran Duran's previous singers before Simon Le Bon. The original demo of the song has a very peculiar sound that differs somewhat from the final album version recorded in 1981. However, Wickett's version of the chorus remained, with very little change having been made to that part of the song's composition. When Wickett left the band, Duran Duran bought the song from him for £600 and made him sign a waiver removing his rights to the song.

 The video was made with directing duo Godley & Creme at Shepperton Studios in July 1981. It was filmed just weeks before MTV was launched in the United States and before anyone knew what an impact the music channel would have on the industry. The band expected the "Girls on Film" video to be played in the newer nightclubs that had video screens, or on pay-TV channels like the Playboy Channel. The raunchy video created an uproar, and it was consequently banned by the BBC and heavily edited for its original run on MTV; the band unabashedly enjoyed and capitalised on the controversy.

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Monday Morning Music - Everything's A Little Clearer In The Light Of Day

Monday Morning Music is whatever tune I've got in my head when I wake up.

Afternoon Delight - Starland Vocal Band

 "Afternoon Delight" is a song recorded by Starland Vocal Band, featuring close harmony and sexually suggestive wordplay.  Danoff's fellow bandmember and then-wife Kathy "Taffy" Nivert told at least one audience that the title came from a spicy menu item of the same name at Clyde's restaurant in Georgetown.^[1] Danoff enjoyed writing the song and downplayed the somewhat controversial lyrics, saying, "I didn't want to write an all-out sex song ... I just wanted to write something that was fun and hinted at sex."

 Matthew Wilkening of AOL Radio ranked the song at #26 on the list of the 100 Worst Songs Ever, stating, "If [Danoff] can sing this cheesy song, and still somehow get some in the middle of the workday, we bow to him."

But let's face it, we ALL think of Anchorman: The Legend of Ron Burgundy when we hear this mess.

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Monday Morning Music - I Ain't Wastin' No More Time

Monday Morning Music is whatever tune I've got in my head when I wake up.

Whitesnake - Here I Go Again

"Here I Go Again" is a #1 hit song recorded by Whitesnake. Originally released on their 1982 album, Saints & Sinners, the song was re-recorded for their eponymous 1987 album Whitesnake. 

The music video for the song was directed by Marty Callner,^[3] who directed most of Whitesnake's videos in the 1980s. It became memorable due to actress Tawny Kitaen's appearance wearing white lingerie. In the video she is seen prancing on the hood of Whitesnake lead singer David Coverdale's Jaguar XJ and massaging him while he is trying in vain to concentrate on driving. Kitaen would later become Coverdale's wife.

Many will remember the song from this scene in, "Old School"

 Let's try to remember Miss Kitaen like she was in the video, rather than like this, shall we?

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Monday Morning Music - No Change I Can't Change

Monday Morning Music is whatever tune I've got in my head when I wake up.

The Verve - Bitter Sweet Symphony

"Bitter Sweet Symphony" is a song by English alternative rock band The Verve, and is the lead track on their third studio album, Urban Hymns.  It is based on an Andrew Loog Oldham orchestral version of The Rolling Stones' song, "The Last Time" in which it samples a main theme, and involved some legal controversy surrounding plagiarism charge as a result.  The song's music video, which received heavy rotation on MTV, focuses on Richard Ashcroft lip-synching the song while walking down a busy London pavement, oblivious to what is going on around and refusing to change his stride or direction throughout.  In 1999, the song was used as the final song in the popular teen film Cruel Intentions and is included on the film's soundtrack.

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Monday Morning Music - And If You Complain Once More

Monday Morning Music is whatever tune I've got in my head when I wake up.

Bjork - Army of Me

 "Army of Me" is a song by Icelandic singer-songwriter Björk. It was released on April 21, 1995 by One Little Indian as the lead single from her second solo album Post (1995).  Lyrically, the song was inspired by the damaging behavior of Björk's brother, and in the lyrics she tells him to stand up and to regain control of his life. "Imagine you’re in a club full of heavy metal types and grunge people; "Army Of Me" is like someone’s granny blasting out over the PA and saying, ‘Snap out of it! Stop whining! Wash your hair! Smarten yourself up!’".

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Monday Morning Music - Hold This Thread As I Walk Away

Monday Morning Music is whatever tune I've got in my head when I wake up.

Weezer - Undone (The Sweater Song)

 "Undone – The Sweater Song" is a song by the American alternative rock band Weezer, released on their self-titled 1994 debut album. It was released as their debut single in 1994. 

Originally, the band intended to insert various sound clips into the song, but were wary of the cost of licensing them. Instead, the studio version of the song features a spoken introduction by then bassist Matt Sharp and longtime friend of the band Karl Koch, as well as an "intermission" set of dialogue between Karl and one of the founding members of Weezer's official fan club and early supporter of the band, Mykel Allan.

 The music video for "Undone" was Weezer's first music video. According to Rivers' Edge: The Weezer Story by John D. Luerssen, the band insisted that the video not have anything to do with a sweater. Yet Geffen received twenty five treatments for the video, all involving sweaters. The video marks one of the early directorial efforts of Spike Jonze, whose pitch was simply "A blue stage, a steadicam, a pack of wild dogs."


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Monday Morning Music - No Matter What Your Friends Might Say

Monday Morning Music is whatever tune I've got in my head when I wake up.

Warrant - Heaven

Heaven is a song by American rock band Warrant. A power ballad, it was released in 1989 as the second single from Warrant's debut album Dirty Rotten Filthy Stinking Rich. The song was Warrant's most commercially successful single, reaching number one in Rolling Stone, number two on the Billboard Hot 100 and number three on the Mainstream Rock Tracks chart.


The Heaven video was filmed during a live concert at Sandstone Amphitheater in Kansas City, KS, and at other locations around the Kansas City Metro area.

And just look at that hair!

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Monday Morning Music - Miss her, kiss her, love her

Monday Morning Music is whatever tune I've got in my head when I wake up.

Bel Biv DeVoe - Poison

"Poison" is a 1990 single by the New Edition spinoff group, Bell Biv DeVoe. This song—in the style of New Jack Swing, a late-80s hybrid of R&B and hip hop—was the group's most successful, and sings of the dangers of falling in love.  While the song samples from hip hop (Kool G. Rap's "Poison"), the lines "Never trust a big butt and a smile" and "The J, the I, the M, the M, The Y" (originally from Boogie Down Production's 1988 classic "Jimmy") reflected a new era of AIDS consciousness and would quickly become a staple of hip hop. In the outro, BBD gives shout-outs to their former New Edition bandmates, Bobby Brown, Ralph Tresvant and Johnny Gill.

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Monday Morning Music - Life In Plastic, It's Fantastic

Monday Morning Music is whatever tune I've got in my head when I wake up.

Aqua - Barbie Girl

"Barbie Girl" is a song by the Danish-Norwegian dance-pop group Aqua.  The song was written after the group saw an exhibit on kitsch culture.

 A footnote on the back of the Aquarium CD case precisely stated that "The song 'Barbie Girl' is a social comment and was not created or approved by the makers of the doll."
 
Mattel sued the band, saying they violated the Barbie trademark and turned Barbie into a sex object, referring to her as a "Blonde Bimbo".^[8] They alleged the song had violated their copyrights and trademarks of Barbie, and that its lyrics had tarnished the reputation of their trademark and impinged on their marketing plan. Aqua claimed that Mattel injected their own meanings into the song's lyrics and MCA Records was not about to let their hit single be suppressed without a fight. They contested Mattel's claims and countersued for defamation after Mattel had likened MCA to a bank robber.^[9]
The lawsuit filed by Mattel was dismissed by the lower courts, and this dismissal was upheld, though Mattel took their case up to the Supreme Court of the United States, but that appeal was later rejected. In 2002, a Court of Appeals ruled the song was protected as a parody^[10] under the trademark doctrine of nominative use and the First Amendment to the United States Constitution; the judge Alex Kozinski also threw out the defamation lawsuit that Aqua's record company filed against Mattel, concluding his ruling: "The parties are advised to chill."

Sorry folks.  I heard it over the weekend & it got stuck.  *sigh*

(Try to) Enjoy!

 

Monday Morning Music - Get Crazy With The Cheez Whiz

Monday Morning Music is whatever tune I've got in my head when I wake up.

Beck - Loser

 "Loser" is a song by the American alternative rock singer Beck.  "Loser" was written and recorded by Beck while he was visiting Stephenson's home.^[6] Although the song was created spontaneously, Beck has claimed to have had the idea for the song since the late 1980s.  Beck began writing and improvising lyrics for the recording.^[6] For the song's vocals, Beck attempted to emulate the rapping style of Public Enemy's Chuck D.^[8] According to Beck, the line that became the song's chorus originated because "When [Stephenson] played it back, I thought, 'Man, I'm the worst rapper in the world, I'm just a loser.' So I started singing 'I'm a loser baby, so why don't you kill me.'"

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Monday Morning Music - She Wanted Me Less And I Wanted Her More

Monday Morning Music is whatever tune I've got in my head when I wake up.

Seven Mary Three - Cumbersome

"Cumbersome" is a song by Seven Mary Three and the lead single from their breakthrough album, American Standard. It was originally included on their independently released debut, Churn, in 1994. The single was released in 1996 and became the band's most popular and well known song. 

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Monday Morning Music - Wastin' Time

Monday Morning Music is whatever tune I've got in my head when I wake up.

Otis Redding - (Sittin' On) The Dock Of The Bay

"(Sittin' On) The Dock of the Bay" is a song co-written by soul singer Otis Redding and guitarist Steve Cropper. It was first recorded by Otis Redding in 1967, just days before his death. It was released posthumously on Stax Records' Volt label in 1968, becoming the first posthumous single to top the charts in the US.


In a 1990 interview on NPR's Fresh Air, Cropper explained the "origins" of the song:

Otis was one of those kind of guys who had 100 ideas. Anytime he came in to record he always had 10 or 15 different intros or titles, or whatever. He had been at San Francisco playing The Fillmore, and he was staying at a boathouse, which is where he got the idea of the ship coming in. That's about all he had: "I watch the ships come in and I watch them roll away again." I took that and finished the lyrics. If you listen to the songs I wrote with Otis, most of the lyrics are about him. He didn't usually write about himself, but I did. "Mr. Pitiful," "Fa-Fa-Fa-Fa-Fa (Sad Song)"; they were about Otis' life. "Dock Of The Bay" was exactly that: "I left my home in Georgia, headed for the Frisco Bay" was all about him going out to San Francisco to perform.

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Monday Morning Music - "Sweet As Any Harmony"

Monday Morning Music is whatever tune I've got in my head when I wake up.

Thomas Dolby - She Blinded Me With Science

 "She Blinded Me With Science" is a New Wave song by British musician Thomas Dolby, released in 1982.  The song's chorus, "She blinded me with science", plays upon the colloquial British expression "to blind [someone] with science", meaning to deliberately confuse someone by giving the impression of highly complex knowledge.  The song features interjections from the British scientist and TV presenter Magnus Pyke, who repeatedly shouts "Science!" and delivers other lines in a deliberately over-the-top mad scientist voice.

In the music video (which I couldn't embed, but here's The video you remember ), Dolby commits himself to a Home for Deranged Scientists. Various mad scientist types operate fanciful inventions on the grounds of the Home and act insane with normal scientific items. Throughout the course of the video, Magnus Pyke (as the Home Doctor) tries to diagnose what he is suffering from, all the while being seduced by Miss Sakamoto, a secretary in the Home.

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Monday Morning Music - So I Tickled His Chin And Gave Him A Pinch

Monday Morning Music is whatever tune I've got in my head when I wake up.

Wynona's Big Brown Beaver - Primus

"Wynona's Big Brown Beaver" is the first single off Primus's 1995 album Tales from the Punchbowl. 
The song's lyrics constitute an absurd, rambling tale about a woman named Wynona and her "beaver". They combine an on-the-surface crude sexual double entendre in "beaver" with the more purely nonsensical silliness typical of the band (e.g., strange references to baboons, Taco Bell, carnies, and porcupines).

 Many incorrectly believed "Wynona" was about actress Winona Ryder. Claypool has stated several times that the song is not about Ryder, pointing out that the song's name is spelled and pronounced differently. While this placated Ryder, her then boyfriend Soul Asylum vocalist David Pirner took offense and renamed one of his songs "Les Claypool's A Big Fucking Asshole" in concert.

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Monday Morning Music - Just An Anchor On My Heart

Monday Morning Music is whatever tune I've got in my head when I wake up.

Soundgarden - Burden In My Hand

 "Burden in My Hand" is a song by the American rock band Soundgarden. Written by frontman Chris Cornell, "Burden in My Hand" was released on September 18, 1996 as the second single from the band's fifth studio album, Down on the Upside (1996). The song topped the Billboard Mainstream Rock Tracks chart, where it spent a total of five weeks at number one. 

The lyrics of 'Burden in My Hand' suggest the song is about a man who murders a woman he is in a relationship with and leaves her in the desert, not without regret. Some fans believe the lyrics are 'deeper' than the surface and indicative of something such as drug abuse or an abusive relationship; however, guitarist Kim Thayil called the song "the "Hey Joe" of the '90s."

Enjoy!
 

Monday Morning Music - Aren't You Such A Catch?

Monday Morning Music is whatever tune I've got in my head when I wake up.


OK Go - Get Over It

"Get Over It" is the first single released by OK Go from their self-titled debut album. It was released as a promotional single in the US (the band's very first Capitol Records release) in 2002.

 A music video was made in 2002. It features the band performing the song in a large recreation hall. Various objects are also shown from time to time such as garbage bags, a wedge of cheese, deer heads, furniture, a Cadillac and different murals. The song is stopped in the middle to show a shot of the band playing ping-pong.

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Monday Morning Music - Then We'll Admit That We're Right

Monday Morning Music is whatever tune I've got in my head when I wake up.

Sloan - Money City Maniacs

 "Money City Maniacs" is a song by Canadian rock band Sloan, released as the first single from their 1998 album, Navy Blues.  The song begins with a repeated siren, followed with a bassline and series of power chords which form the basis of the introduction and verses.  The bassline of the song bears a resemblance to AC/DC's Live Wire. The similarity is noted by Patrick Pentland in an interview with Chart magazine.

Enjoy!

Monday Morning Music - Officer Leroy Comes Up

Monday Morning Music is whatever tune I've got in my head when I wake up.

Liam Lynch - United States of Whatever

"United States of Whatever" is a song by American musician Liam Lynch. The song was released as the first single from his album Fake Songs (2003) in 2002.  Lynch has stated that the song was improvised and recorded in a single take.  The song begins with a dismissive "whatever", and each verse describes a short encounter with a person which abruptly ends with Lynch dismissing the person with the word.

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Monday Morning Music - Lookin' Like a Tramp, Like a Video Vamp

Monday Morning Music is whatever tune I've got in my head when I wake up.

Pour Some Sugar On Me - Def Leppard

"Pour Some Sugar on Me" is a song by British hard rock band Def Leppard from their 1987 album Hysteria. Near the end of recording the album, singer Joe Elliott was jamming with a riff he had come up with recently on an acoustic guitar. Producer Mutt Lange, expressing great liking of it, suggested that it be developed into another song. Although already behind schedule Lange felt that the album was still missing a strong crossover hit and that this last song had the potential to be one. Within two weeks the song was completed, smoothed out and included as the twelfth track on Hysteria.

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Monday Morning Music - You look good when you shaking my way

Monday Morning Music is whatever tune I've got in my head when I wake up.

The Sheepdogs - The Way It Is

 The Sheepdogs are a Canadian rock band from Saskatoon, Saskatchewan, who won Rolling Stone's, "Choose The Cover" in 2011:  The first unsigned act to do so.

From their self-titled album, "The Way It Is" reached #2 on Canadian rock charts, and #1 on Canadian alt. charts in 2012.

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Monday Morning Music - Somebody To...

Monday Morning Music is whatever tune I've got in my head when I wake up.

Queen - Somebody To Love

 "Somebody to Love" is a song by British rock band Queen, written by Freddie Mercury. The song offers listeners something similar to that of Queen's earlier hit "Bohemian Rhapsody" with its complex harmonies and guitar solos; however instead of mimicking an English choir, the band turned to a gospel choir. Mercury's fascination and admiration for Aretha Franklin was a major influence for the creation of this song. It was the first single from A Day at the Races, on which Mercury, May and Taylor multitracked their voices to create the impression of a 100-voice gospel choir.

The original is a classic, but my crush on Anne Hathaway makes my mind jump to this version -

Anne, if you're out there, call me!

Enjoy!

Monday Morning Music - So Whatcha See You Might Not Get

Monday Morning Music is whatever tune I've got in my head when I wake up.

Beastie Boys - Sabotage

"Sabotage" is a 1994 song by American hip-hop group Beastie Boys, released as the first single from their fourth studio album Ill Communication.  A moderate commercial success, the song was notable as well for its video, directed by Spike Jonze.  The video is presented as the opening credits of a fictional 1970s-style police show called Sabotage, with the band members appearing as the show characters.

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Monday Morning Music - It Took Some Time For My Hormones To Tell

Monday Morning Music is whatever tune I've got in my head when I wake up.

The Northern Pikes - She Ain't Pretty

 "She Ain't Pretty" is a single by Canadian rock band The Northern Pikes, from their 1990 album Snow in June. It is the song for which the Pikes are best known.  In 1991, Pretty was nominated for a Juno award for Single of the Year; its music video, which integrated claymation and early use of morphing, and which the National Post has described as "fantastic", was likewise nominated for a Juno.

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Monday Morning Music - When The Pimp's In The Crib, Ma

Monday Morning Music is whatever tune I've got in my head when I wake up.

Snoop Dogg (featuring Pharrell) - Drop it Like it's Hot

 "Drop It Like It's Hot" is a 2004 rap number-one hit single by Snoop Dogg featuring Pharrell. Snoop performs the chorus and the second and third verses (of three), while Pharrell performs the first verse. The song gained some critical attention for its very sparse production, which was essentially just tongue clicks, keyboards and a drum machine beat which, compared to much early 2000s rap, was very minimalist.

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Monday Morning Music - I'm Back

Monday Morning Music is whatever tune I've got in my head when I wake up.

AC/DC - Back in Black

"Back in Black" is a song by AC/DC, appearing as the first track on side two of their 1980 album of the same name. Known for its opening guitar riff, the song was AC/DC's tribute to their former singer Bon Scott. His replacement Brian Johnson recalled to Mojo magazine in 2009 that when the band asked him to write a lyric for this song, "they said, 'it can't be morbid – it has to be for Bon and it has to be a celebration.'" He added: "I thought, 'Well no pressure there, then' (laughs). I just wrote what came into my head, which at the time seemed like mumbo, jumbo. 'Nine lives. Cats eyes. Abusing every one of them and running wild.' The boys got it though. They saw Bon's life in that lyric."

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Monday Morning Music - Risin' Up To The Challenge Of Our Rivals

Monday Morning Music is whatever tune I've got in my head when I wake up.

Survivor - Eye Of The Tiger

 "Eye of the Tiger" is a song by American rock band Survivor. It was released in May 1982 as a single from their third album Eye of the Tiger. It was written at the request of actor Sylvester Stallone, who was unable to get permission for Queen's "Another One Bites the Dust". The song was to be the theme song for the movie Rocky III, in which Stallone was playing the main role.

This isn't the official video, which is just the band walking thru darkened streets to an abandoned factory.  I think I made the right choice.

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Monday Morning Music - And what you say about his company is what you say about society

Monday Morning Music is whatever tune I've got in my head when I wake up.

Rush - Tom Sawyer

 Tom Sawyer is a song by Canadian rock band Rush, named after Mark Twain's literary character.  Geddy Lee has referred to the track as the band's "defining piece of music...from the early '80s" 
"Tom Sawyer" came about during a summer rehearsal holiday that Rush spent at Ronnie Hawkins' farm outside Toronto (sounds like Peterborough to me!).

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Monday Morning Music - BAH Bah Bah!

Monday Morning Music is whatever tune I've got in my head when I wake up.

Neil Diamond - Sweet Caroline

 "Sweet Caroline" is a soft rock song written and performed by Neil Diamond and officially released on September 16th 1969, as a single. It was later released on December 9, 1972 as a part of Diamond's Hot August Night album.  In a 2007 interview, Diamond revealed the inspiration for "Sweet Caroline" was President John F. Kennedy's daughter, Caroline Kennedy, who was eleven years old at the time.  Boston's Fenway Park has played the song since at least 1997, and it has been played at every game in the middle of the eighth inning since 2002.

This is how it sounds with the Fenway faithful -

I'll always think of this rendition, myself - 

Enjoy!

Monday Morning Music - Don't Waste My Time

Monday Morning Music is whatever tune I've got in my head when I wake up.

Lay It On The Line - Triumph

 Triumph is a Canadian hard rock power trio that was popular in the late 1970s through the 1980s.  The heavy-rotation FM radio airplay of 'Lay It On The Line' solidified the band in the minds of classic rock audiences. In 'oldies' classic rock formats, it remains the most widely played and recognized song from the Triumph catalogue.

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Monday Morning Music - When You Wanna Go To It

Monday Morning Music is whatever tune I've got in my head when I wake up.

Frankie Goes To Hollywood - Relax

Frankie Goes to Hollywood (FGTH) were a British band popular in the mid-1980s.  The group's debut single "Relax" was banned by the BBC in 1984 while at number six in the charts and subsequently topped the UK singles chart for five consecutive weeks, going on to enjoy prolonged chart success throughout that year and ultimately becoming the seventh best-selling UK single of all time.

the BBC banned the record from all its TV and radio outlets, with the exception of its Top 40 show.^[7] "Relax" immediately shot to Number One in the UK charts and stayed there for five weeks, during which time the BBC could not feature the nation's best-selling single on Top Of The Pops.

I always think "Zoolander" when I hear this song, but couldn't find a good clip online.  This'll have to do.

 Enjoy!

Monday Morning Music - "I just wanna tell you how I'm feeling"

Monday Morning Music is whatever tune I've got in my head when I wake up.

Rick Astley - Never Gonna Give You Up

"Never Gonna Give You Up" is a 1987 song by British singer Rick Astley.  The song was a worldwide number-one hit, initially in the singer's native United Kingdom in 1987.  In 2004, it was voted #28 in 50 Most Awesomely Bad Songs ... Ever by VH1. In 2008, Rick Astley won the MTV EMA awards for "Best Act Ever" with the song "Never Gonna Give You Up", as a result of collective voting from thousands of people on the internet, due to the popular phenomenon of Rickrolling.

 "Never Gonna Give You Up" is the subject of a popular Internet prank known as "Rickrolling" involving misleading links redirecting to the song's music video.^[6] By May 2007, the practice had achieved notoriety on the Internet, and it increased in popularity after its use as a 2008 April Fool's Day joke by various media companies and websites, including YouTube rickrolling all of its featured videos on that day and a website allowing people to Rickroll their friends' phones.

Enjoy (if you can)!

Monday Morning Music - And this bird you cannot change

Monday Morning Music is whatever tune I've got in my head when I wake up.


Lynyrd Skynyrd - Free Bird

"Free Bird" (often spelled "Freebird", including by the band itself on the cover of the single) is a song by the American southern rock band Lynyrd Skynyrd. It first featured on the band's debut album in 1973. 

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Monday Morning Music - "You're the victim"

Monday Morning Music is whatever tune I've got in my head when I wake up.

The Prodigy - Breathe

 "Breathe" is a song by English electronic duo The Prodigy. It was released in November 1996 as the second single from the album The Fat of the Land.

Enjoy!

Monday Morning Music - "Superman where are you now?"

Monday Morning Music is whatever tune I've got in my head when I wake up.

Genesis - Land of Confusion

 "Land of Confusion" is a rock song written by the band Genesis for their 1986 album Invisible Touch. The song is widely remembered for its music video, which had heavy airplay on MTV. The video features bizarre puppets by the British television show Spitting Image.

Disturbed covered the song in 2006, providing a video with a significantly different feel.

 Enjoy!

Monday Morning Music - Well I remember

Monday Morning Music is whatever tune I've got in my head when I wake up.

Phil Collins - In The Air Tonight

"In the Air Tonight" is a song written and recorded in 1979 by British singer and musician, Phil Collins. It first appeared on Collins' 1981 solo album entitled Face Value.

 An urban legend has arisen around "In the Air Tonight" according to which the lyrics are based on a real drowning incident that Collins witnessed. Various, increasingly embroidered variations on the legend emerged over time, with the stories often culminating in Collins singling out the guilty party while singing the song at a concert.^[8] Collins has denied all such stories.

I defy you to listen to this song and not think about Mike Tyson's scene in "The Hangover."

 Enjoy!

Monday Morning Music - "Rivers flow into the sea"

Monday Morning Music is whatever tune I've got in my head when I wake up.

Extreme - Hole Hearted

"Hole Hearted" is a folk rock song by American group Extreme. The song was released as the 4th single from their successful Pornograffitti album in 1991 and reached #4 on the Billboard Top 100.  Like "More Than Words", the style of this song is different from the majority of its parent album.

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Monday Morning Music - I was F.I.N.E. fine

Monday Morning Music is whatever tune I've got in my head when I wake up.

Aerosmith - What It Takes

"What It Takes" is a power ballad by American hard rock band Aerosmith. It was written by Steven Tyler, Joe Perry, and Desmond Child. It was released in 1990 as the third single from Aerosmith's critically and commercially successful 1989 album Pump

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Monday Morning Music - It's not much, but it's the best I got

Monday Morning Music is whatever tune I've got in my head when I wake up.

Sloan - The Good In Everyone

 "The Good in Everyone" is the first single by Canadian rock band Sloan from the band's third studio album, One Chord to Another.

 The song is currently the theme for the CBC television program George Stroumboulopoulos Tonight

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Monday Morning Music - Tonto!

Monday Morning Music is whatever tune I've got in my head when I wake up.

Sugarhill Gang - Apache (Jump On It)

The Sugarhill Gang is a '70's rap group, whose single, "Apache" reached #13 on the US R & B charts in 1981.  The song is best remembered by the current generation for its appearance on, "The Fresh Prince of Bel-Air"

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Monday Morning Music - "We Feel Miles Apart Inside"

Monday Morning Music is whatever tune I've got in my head when I wake up.

Poison - Every Rose Has Its Thorn

 "Every Rose Has Its Thorn" is the title of a power ballad song by American glam metal band Poison. It was released in October 1988 as the third single from Poison's second album Open Up And Say... Ahh!. It is the band's only number-one hit in the U.S., reaching the top spot on Christmas Eve in 1988.

Bret Michaels said the inspiration for the song came from a night when he was in a laundromat waiting for his clothes to dry, and called his girlfriend on a pay phone. Michaels said he heard a male voice in the background and was devastated; he said he went into the laundromat and wrote "Every Rose Has Its Thorn" as a result.

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Monday Morning Music - "C'mon party people"

Monday Morning Music is whatever tune I've got in my head when I wake up.

Bloodhound Gang - Fire Water Burn

 "Fire Water Burn" is the second single from The Bloodhound Gang's 1996 (re-released in 1998) album One Fierce Beer Coaster. The chorus of the song is taken from the song "The Roof Is on Fire" by Rock Master Scott & the Dynamic Three, yet sung considerably slower.

 "Fire Water Burn" makes a variety of references to figures from popular culture. These include the musicians Barry White, Frank Black, Marvin Gaye, Martha Raye, Lawrence Welk, Kurt Cobain and Jimi Hendrix, the fictional characters Han Solo and Webster, the television show Kojak, the author Mark Twain and U.S. president John F. Kennedy.

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Monday Morning Music - Cool is the Rule

Monday Morning Music is whatever tune I've got in my head when I wake up.

Huey Lewis and the News - Bad is Bad

 From the album, "Sports" "Bad is Bad" had a video that was never released.  Not much of a video, but the song came to mind this morning.

Enjoy!

I Tell Ya Tuesday - "Beef Jerky Time."

I Tell Ya Tuesday is a quick-hit thought of the day.

I Tell Ya...

When it comes to New Year's, my thoughts always go to this seriously underrated movie.