lou reed - coney island baby

-since 01/11/09 this link is unavailable for all the people from germany, and apparently, there is no other version right now, sry - 

oh saturday, don't go away.
can't you just stay for one more day -
or for a week, is that ok?

a former leading member of the band the velvet underground, lou reed went on in 1971 to become a successfull solo artist. known for his lyrics about personal experiences in the art culture around andy warhol, covering his excessive sex and drug life, this song "coney island baby" is a song to sit back reminiscent...
turn it up real loud, for it is recorded pretty low. you can find it on the album "coney island baby" from 1976.
have a nice day,
yours monkey man

ps: make sure to come back tomorrow, cause there is sth special coming up!

black rebel motorcycle club - stop

oh yeah, it's friday again...
black rebel motorcycle club named themselves after a biker gang from the movie "easy rider".
this is a song from their second album "take them on, on your own".
have a nice day,
yours
monkey man

blind melon - no rain

have you ever asked yourself who that guy in the guns'n'roses video don't cry is, that sings together with axl on the top of the building? no? well, i have...and i even found the answere...it is shannon hoon, the former lead singer of the band blind melon. he had actually been doing quiet some backing vocals for numerous g'n'r tracks until he became another "victim" of the magical cough suppressant, produced by pharmaceutical company bayer.
but here he is again, with his bands most famous single, no rain.
maybe this way the rain will stop...
have a nice day,
yours monkey man

firefox ak feat. tiger lou - the draft

no, this is not an update for your browser but for your music library.
these two artists do not only collaborate here for this song, but are actually a married couple from sweden, living in berlin these days.
i wouldn't think you haven't heard of tiger lou yet, but if you haven't, don't worry, for there will be much more to come, here on monkeymusics...
have a nice day

athlete - wires

when his child was born premature, athlete's singer joel pott processed his weeks of angst and aspiration in this beatiful track called "wires". it all turned out well, and hope was here, in a plastic box...
it's a song from the 2005 album "tourist".
have a nice day,
yours, monkey man

stereophonics - maybe tomorrow

stepping out of the house and into the cold, I recommend you put this on your mp3 player or whatever it is that brings you music along the way...
can't really say that i am that much of a stereophonics fan, but over the years, more and more of their songs made it into my music library. and this is probably the best one of them.
it's taken from the 2003 album "you gotta go there to come back".
have a nice day.
yours monkey man

it means nothing - album: pull the pin (2007)
mr. writer - album: just enough education to perform (2001)
                             

st. germain - sure thing

i woke up at one to find that it is actually only twelve due to daylight savings time. embracing its fortune now makes me think of the day in spring when this present will be taken away again...but who cares about tomorrow's sorrows...an interesting map can be found under this link, showing which countries of the world are actually participating in the dst. did you know that there are actually states of the us not doing it? but let's get back to music.
today's song "sure thing" is an electrical chill out tune from ludovic navarre, released under the project name "st germain" on the album "tourist" in 2000.
have a nice sunday,
yours monkey man

john mayer - who says

today's song seems perfect for a laid-back saturday, fooling around the house, doin' no things of importance which than again is something of the greatest importance to me...
in germany, john mayer is probably more known for his relationships than for his music. in the us, he is a multi-platinum selling artist who was formerly known for well-behaved soft-rock music. for the people actually listening to lyrics, this song seems to be exactly about that.
now i know what you're thinking. some people are really left up in shit creek without a paddle...but than again, we all have our issues.
this song will be on his forthcoming album "battle studies" which will be released on nov. 13.
have a nice day,
yours monkey man

sniff 'n' the tears - driver's seat

friday is my day,
with the whole weekend ahead of you, everything seems so much easier...now i know that today's song is most def not a secret, but still such a killer tune. unfortunately this is not their legendary top of the pops performance from 1978, but the one following a year later. notice the state of the art special effects. after their 1978 performance, the people went crazy about this song, but where left to find that their was no record pressed yet due to a problem with emi's pressing plant. so it never really hit the uk charts the way it should have. but anyways, this song is from their first album "fickle heart" that came out in 1978.
have a nice day
yours monkey man

paul mccartney - jenny wren

what do you do if you sold more than 1.3 billion records, collaborated with the greatest artists in the world and can probably wipe your ass with 100$ bills without ever running out of it? well, i don't know what i would do, but paul mccartney just keeps on doing what he always did...making music.
this is a song from his 2005 solo album "chaos and creation in the backyard" and reminds me of the old beatle classic "black bird".
have a nice day,
yours monkey man

pete doherty - lost art of murder

another day, another song.
this is an acoustic version of the babyshambles song "lost art of murder", performed by pete doherty himself and on his own.
whatever you've heard about him, I think he is just a pensive little self-destructive boy with a guitar...and this song is a good example for it.
have a nice day,
yours monkey man
ps: for the ones who are interested, i've posted the urls to the complete interview which followed his performance in the comments. it's really worth watching.

band of horses - the great salt lake

there is something new to learn for everyone of us. for me it was including youtube videos directly into the blog. bill gates, i'm coming for you...

band of horses - the great salt lake

band of horses formed in 2004 in seattle, usa.
their first full-length album "everything all the time" came out in 2006 and was followed by their latest album "cease to begin" in 2007.
the song "great salt lake" is from their latest album and one of my favorites for a long time.
have a nice day,
yours monkey man