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Monkey Gone to Heaven. " Monkey Gone to Heaven " is a song by the American alternative rock band Pixies. Recorded in November 1988 during the sessions for the band's 1989 album Doolittle, it was released as a single in March, and included as the seventh track on the album when it was released a month later in April.
Imagery of drowning and oceans also appears in "Mr. Grieves" and "Monkey Gone to Heaven". [33] "Here Comes Your Man" was written when Francis was a teenager; along with "Monkey Gone to Heaven", Rolling Stone 's critic Chris Mundy described the song as a melodic and "outright pop song". [34]
Additionally, the song makes a modified quote from the Pixies song "Monkey Gone to Heaven", with the lyrics, "if man is five and the devil is six then that must make me seven / this honky's gone to heaven" rather than "so if man is five / then the devil is six / then God is seven / this monkey's gone to heaven". The song is also musically ...
Academic and presenter Professor Roberts, who chose “Monkey Gone to Heaven” as one of her Desert Island Disc songs for the long-running BBC Radio show in March this year, recalled the 1980s ...
Doolittle, with Thompson-penned songs such as "Debaser" and "Monkey Gone To Heaven", [29] was released the following year to widespread critical acclaim. [30] However, by this time, tensions between Thompson and Deal, combined with exhaustion, led the band to announce a hiatus. [31]
Professional ratings. Death to the Pixies is a compilation album by the American alternative rock band Pixies, released by 4AD in the UK on October 6, 1997, and 4AD/ Elektra the following day in the United States to commemorate the 10th anniversary of the band's debut. It covered the years 1987 to 1991.
Pixies discography. The discography of Pixies, an American alternative rock band, includes nine studio albums, 26 singles, seven compilations, one mini-LP, and five EPs as of September 2024. Pixies formed in Boston, Massachusetts in 1985. Following their 1987 demo tape, the band signed to the English independent record label 4AD.
Doolittle featured the single "Here Comes Your Man", which biographers Josh Frank and Caryn Ganz describe as an unusually jaunty and pop-like song for the band. [23] "Monkey Gone to Heaven" was popular on alternative rock radio in the US, reaching the top 10 on the Billboard Modern Rock Tracks, [24] and the single entered the Top 100 in the U.K ...