Monday Morning Music is whatever tune I've got in my head when I wake up.
Dropkick Murphys - I'm Shipping Up To Boston
"I'm Shipping Up to Boston" is a song with lyrics written by the folk singer Woody Guthrie and music written and performed by the Celtic punk band Dropkick Murphys. It appeared on their 2005 album, The Warrior's Code. The single is the band's most successful to date and was certified platinum. The video features the Dropkick Murphys performing the song on the
waterfront in East Boston. The band is also seen "hanging out" with
hooligans while being chased by Boston police officers. The song's
simple lyrics describe a sailor who had lost a leg climbing the topsail, and is shipping up to Boston to "find my wooden leg."
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.
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.
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?
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.
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!’".
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.
Aqua - Barbie Girl
"Barbie Girl" is a song by the Danish-Norwegiandance-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 "BlondeBimbo".[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*
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.'"
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.
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.
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.
Lay It On The Line - Triumph
Triumph is a Canadianhard rockpower 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.
