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Monday Melodies
| 1. “Blue Monday” — Fats Domino | 0 votes |
| 2. "Blue Monday" - New Order | 1 votes |
| 3. "Call It Stormy Monday (But Tuesday's Just As Bad)" - T-Bone Walker | 1 votes |
| 4. "I Don't Like Mondays" - The Boomtown Rats | 2 votes |
| 5. "Long Monday" - John Prine | 1 votes |
| 6. "Manic Monday" - The Bangles | 1 votes |
| 7. "Mayonnaise Taco Monday" - Five Iron Frenzy | 0 votes |
| 8. "Monday" - Wilco | 2 votes |
| 9. "Monday Morning" - Fleetwood Mac | 3 votes |
| 10. "Monday Morning Church" - Allan Jackson with Patty Loveless | 0 votes |
| 11. "Monday, Monday" - The Mamas & The Papas | 2 votes |
| 12. "Monday, Monday, Monday" - Tegan and Sara | 0 votes |
| 13. "New Moon On Monday" - Duran Duran | 0 votes |
| 14. “Rainy Days and Mondays" - The Carpenters | 2 votes |
| 15. “Rainy Days and Mondays" - Cracker | 0 votes |
| 16. “Rainy Days and Mondays" - Paul Williams | 0 votes |
| 17. "Stomy Monday" - Little Milton | 0 votes |
| 18. Other (please name, but please vote) | 4 votes |
| Edgy MD Nov 18 2013 01:39 PM |
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The first day of the week is celebrated by moon worshippers everywhere. But for most of the rest of us, it is the day we return to our work, often part from our families, and put aside the leisure clothes.
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| TransMonk Nov 18 2013 01:43 PM Re: Monday Melodies |
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Great poll!
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| Edgy MD Nov 18 2013 01:47 PM Re: Monday Melodies |
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That's a good latter-day performance video of the Bangs, too, with them doing a fun tease intro. Can't tell if that's Michael Steele back on bass or they just put out a casting call for a tall badass-looking redhead to fool folks into thinking it's her.
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| sharpie Nov 18 2013 01:48 PM Re: Monday Melodies |
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Heard the John Prine song yesterday and voted that way. Several good choices.
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| RealityChuck Nov 18 2013 01:53 PM Re: Monday Melodies |
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Tough decision between "Stormy Monday" and "I Don't Like Mondays," but the Rats win out.
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| Fman99 Nov 18 2013 02:15 PM Re: Monday Melodies |
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I am a "Stormy Monday" fan, and though it's also worth mentioning the Allman Brothers very solid version from Live at the Fillmore, I think my favorite one is actually this BBC recording.
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| seawolf17 Nov 18 2013 02:17 PM Re: Monday Melodies |
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Other.
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| Vic Sage Nov 18 2013 02:20 PM Re: Monday Melodies |
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i remember a thread a long time ago where we put together a list of best songs about each day of the week.
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| Edgy MD Nov 18 2013 02:22 PM Re: Monday Melodies |
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We've got three Other votes. Seawolf's is one, and I assume Fman for Tull is number two. What's the third?
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| John Cougar Lunchbucket Nov 18 2013 02:32 PM Re: Monday Melodies |
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This poll is for which of the above finishes 2nd to "Mayonnaise Taco Monday" yes? Because...
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| Edgy MD Nov 18 2013 02:46 PM Re: Monday Melodies |
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Interestingly, the teaser intro on the live clip of "Monday Morning" was boring seventies rawk stuff. I went Bangles.
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| d'Kong76 Nov 18 2013 04:12 PM Re: Monday Melodies |
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Funny, this popped into my head when I opened this thread:
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| Edgy MD Nov 18 2013 08:58 PM Re: Monday Melodies |
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Meandering Monday trivia: Did you know one of the songs in this poll is the artistic grandchild of one of the other songs? It's true!
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| LeiterWagnerFasterStrongr Nov 18 2013 09:21 PM Re: Monday Melodies |
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Good Lord, Buckingham's teeth were numb there, weren't they?
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| Edgy MD Nov 18 2013 09:59 PM Re: Monday Melodies |
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That big dumb rawk intro just makes me angry. The Buckingham shuffle of "Monday Morning" (along with "Secondhand News") is to my thinking what Mac does best. Cut to the chase, guys.
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| LeiterWagnerFasterStrongr Nov 18 2013 10:34 PM Re: Monday Melodies |
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| Ashie62 Nov 18 2013 10:38 PM Re: Monday Melodies |
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Monday monday...Mamas and papas
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| Edgy MD Nov 18 2013 10:43 PM Re: Monday Melodies |
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I thought so too, but current records say she last played with them in 2004, and this seems perhaps somewhat after.
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| Edgy MD Nov 19 2013 08:45 AM Re: Monday Melodies |
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So here's the deal. Prince wrote "Manic Monday," allegedly offering it to the Bangles as a Susanna Hoffs admirer, perhaps with hopes of a blossoming romance with an attractive woman short enough to step out with him on Friday night. Lesser known is he knocked it out by ripping off his own work. > "I was dreaming when I wrote this; forgive me if it goes too fast." > "Six o'clock already; I was just in the middle of a dream." Sing 'em one on top of the other and you hear it. You can't not hear it. You wonder why you didn't always hear it. The two melodies trace one another pretty nicely, and one can speculate that he delivered "Manic Monday" under a pseudonym to make the parallel a little less obvious But on top of THAT, "1999" itself started it's life as a bit of knockoff. The opening synth hook by Dr. Fink goes D, G---, D-G-D!! That's pretty much taken beat for beat from the vocal harmonies on "Monday, Monday" by the Mamas & the Papas. So "1999" has a Monday song both as a parent and a child, and I wouldn't be surprised if Prince turned it into a Monday song just because it was already in the DNA. If you've got a band and you're looking for three songs to medley together, you can do worse than "Monday, Manic 1999 Monday."
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| John Cougar Lunchbucket Nov 19 2013 08:50 AM Re: Monday Melodies |
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Wow.
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| LeiterWagnerFasterStrongr Nov 19 2013 06:19 PM Re: Monday Melodies |
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Yowza.
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