Monday Morning Music is whatever tune I've got in my head when I wake up.
Smooth Criminal - Michael Jackson
"Smooth Criminal" is the seventh single from Michael Jackson's 1987 Bad
album. The song contains a fast-paced beat intertwined with Jackson's
lyrics about a woman named Annie, who has been attacked in her apartment
by a "smooth" assailant.
"Smooth Criminal" is a song written by Michael Jackson and co-produced
with Quincy Jones. Two early versions of the song were written by
Jackson in 1985 and the original demo was recorded in 1986. The first
song was called "Chicago 1945" which evolved into "Al Capone" (which was later released on the Bad 25th anniversary edition of the album). This version didn't make the album and was re-worked and re-written as "Smooth Criminal".
It was covered (successfully, in my opinion) by Alien Ant Farm in 2001.
Monday Morning Music is whatever tune I've got in my head when I wake up.
Pantera - Walk
"Walk" is a song and the fourth single from Pantera's sixth album Vulgar Display of Power. The riff for "Walk" is played in a time signature of 12/8.[1]Dimebag Darrell played the riff at a soundcheck during the tour for Cowboys from Hell and the rest of the band loved it.Phil Anselmo said that message of the song was "Take your fucking attitude and take a fuckin' walk with that. Keep that shit away from me".[1] His message was aimed at friends that treated the band differently when they arrived home after touring for Cowboys from Hell.
The song is considered to be one of the band's best tracks and is also
the band's most well known song to both Pantera fans and casual
listeners.
Wrestling fans will also remember the song used as Rob Van Dam's entrance theme during his ECW days.
Natalie Portman hosted Saturday Night Live on March 4, 2006.[62] In a SNL Digital Short, she portrays herself as an angry gangsta rapper (with Andy Samberg as her Flavor Flav-esque partner in Viking garb) during a faux-interview with Chris Parnell, saying she cheated at Harvard University while high on marijuana and cocaine.[63] The song, titled "Natalie's Rap," was released – alongside other sketches from the show – in 2009 on Incredibad, an album by the Lonely Island Sorry, the YouTube videos aren't up to snuff, so click on the vimeo link to enjoy some gold. Enjoy!
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.
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 bassistMatt 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."
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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 BillboardMainstream 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."
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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 -
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.
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.
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.
