Monkey Gone to Heaven
"Monkey Gone to Heaven" could be a song by the yank different dance band Pixies and is that the seventh track on their 1989 album Doolittle. The song was written and sung by frontman Black Francis and was made by Gil Norton. Referencing environmentalism and biblical field of study, the song's lyrics reflected themes that were explored in Doolittle. "Monkey Gone to Heaven" was the primary Pixies song to feature guest musicians: 2 cellists, Arthur Fiacco and Ann Rorich, and 2 violinists, Tibeto-Burman language Karlsrud and Corine Metter.
"Monkey Gone to Heaven" was free because the initial single from Doolittle within the u. s. and uk. because the band had signed to Elektra Records shortly before, the one additionally marked their initial yank and major label unleash. it absolutely was critically well-received; Rolling Stone's David Fricke aforementioned "Monkey Gone to Heaven" was "a corrosive, compelling meditation on God and garbage".[1] within the years since its unleash, the song has received many accolades from music publications.
Lyrics and meaning[edit]
"Monkey Gone to Heaven"'s main theme is environmentalism. The song principally deals with man's destruction of the ocean and "confusion of man's place within the universe". "On one hand, it's [the ocean] this massive organic bathroom. Things get flushed and repurified or rotten and it's this massive, dark, mysterious place", Black later aforementioned, "It's additionally a awfully mythological place wherever there square measure octopus's gardens, the Atlantic, Atlantis, and mermaids."[2] Francis came up with the song's hook, "this monkey's gone to heaven", long before the song itself was written. the road itself forms a basis for the song, that revolves around man's relationship with the divine and environmentalism. once Francis set the developing lyrics to music, he hurried to guide guitar player Joey Santiago's housing to play it to him. Santiago later commented on the emergent performance: "It was early within the morning, i used to be still therefore tired. [Francis said] 'Hey Joe, i want to return over. i want to point out you one thing.' [...] it absolutely was impressive, really expert. He had the 'If man is five' half there, and he was happy. [...] it absolutely was hilarious".[2]
"Monkey Gone to Heaven" includes references to field of study within the lyrics "If man is five/then the Devil is six/and God is seven". Francis later enlarged on the importance of the lyrics in associate interview to different Press, expression "It's a reference from what I perceive to be Hebrew field of study, and that i do not know lots regarding it or any of it very. I simply keep in mind somebody telling Pine Tree State of the supposed incontrovertible fact that within the Hebrew language, particularly within the Bible, you'll realize many references to man within the fifth and Devil within the sixth and God within the seventh. [...] I did not visit the library and figure it out".[3] The song's field of study is alluded to on the single's cowl, that options figures of 5, six and 7, and additionally a monkey with a halo.
Ben Sisario, author of Doolittle 33⅓, offers a rather completely different interpretation of the song: "Neptune, the god of this realm [in respect to Francis' ocean comment], the 'underwater guy WHO controlled the ocean,' spent time down there, the personification of man's relationship with the world. And what happens to Neptune? He gets 'killed by 10 million pounds of sludge from the big apple to New Jersey.' Same issue with the "creature within the sky," WHO gets stuck up there in an exceedingly hole within the layer. Man the divine manifestation effectively dies, and what remains is his degraded animal nature; the chintzy halo stuck on the primate's head is that the image of that sad fall".
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