Certain truths are self-evident in this world. Others, not so much. I stumbled onto one of those less-evident truths this week: Apparently, there are a lot of rock songs about monkeys. Who knew? This week on Stuck In Thee Garage, I played songs about monkeys in hour 2.
It packs more punch than Clint Eastwood's orangutan:
Hour 1
Artist - Song/Album
Sleater-Kinney - Hurry On Home/The Center Won't Hold
J. Robbins - Un-Becoming/Un-Becoming
The Raconteurs - Don't Bother Me/Help Us Stranger
Oxford Collapse - I Feel Better/Tiny Changes: A Tribute to Frightened Rabbit
Oceans of the Moon - Hope Will Pass/Oceans of the Moon
Purple Mountains - Margaritas at the Mall/Purple Mountains
Thom Yorke - Not the News/ANIMA
Superchunk - Driveway to Driveway/Acoustic Foolish
Palehound - In Town/Black Friday
All the Saints - Closer, Owner/Look Like You're Going Somewhere
Clinic - Rubber Bullets/Wheeltappers and Shunters
Amyl and the Sniffers - Got You/Amyl and the Sniffers
Generationals - Breaking Your Silence/Reader as Detective
Boundaries - Forgiver/Single
Stef Chura - Scream/Midnight
Hatchie - Unwanted Guest/Keepsake
Emily Wolfe - Holy Roller/Emily Wolfe
Hour 2: Monkeys
Buffalo Tom - Latest Monkey/Big Red Letter Day
Red Red Meat - Hot Nikkety Trunk Monkey/Red Red Meat
Uranium Club - Grease Monkey/The Cosmo Cleaners
Pixies - Monkey Gone to Heaven/Doolittle 20th Anniversary Live Sampler (live in Paris 2009)
Iggy Pop and James Williamson - Lucky Monkeys/Kill City
Milkpale - The Day of the Monkey/And I Forgot a Long Time Ago How You Feel
The Beatles - Everybody's Got Something to Hide Except Me and My Monkey/The White Album
The Rolling Stones - Monkey Man/Let It Bleed
The Feelies - Everybody's Got Something to Hide (Except Me and My Monkey)/Crazy Rhythms
Foo Fighters - Monkey Wrench/The Colour and the Shape
Mother Love Bone - Half Ass Monkey Boy/Shine
Earworms - Monkey ET/Earworms
The Jesus Lizard - Monkey Trick/Goat
Elliott Smith - New Monkey/New Moon
PJ Harvey - The Orange Monkey/The Hope Six Demolition Project
Peter Gabriel - Shock the Monkey/Security
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