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The Stones’ fourth #1 hit in the United States, “Ruby Tuesday,” tells the tale of a broken relationship and heartbreak. Tuesday songs “Ruby Tuesday” by The Rolling Stones “Rainy Days And Mondays” by the CarpentersĢ.“I Don’t Like Mondays” by The Boomtown Rats.“Monday, Monday” is the group’s only song to ever reach #1 on the U.S. “Nothing about it stood out to me,” Doherty said. But his bandmates Mama Cass, Michelle Phillips, and Denny Doherty were reportedly unimpressed with the song. Their album “If You Can Believe Your Eyes And Ears” is credited with four hit singles, including “California Dreaming” and “Monday, Monday” and ranks among Rolling Stone magazine’s 500 greatest albums of all time.Īccording to band member and songwriter John Phillips, “Monday, Monday” is about what a downer it is to end a fun weekend and start the new work week.
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The Mamas & The Papas debut album captured the popular 1960’s folk-rock sound with the band’s groovy, radio-friendly harmonies. Flying over the United States, he looks down with regret and revulsion at life below: "I wouldn't live there if you paid me." Yet, at the same time, he's "tired of traveling" and wants "to be somewhere." Like a hijacked airplane that no nation will permit to land,the singer seems doomed to fly until his fuel is exhausted and he plummets to a fiery death.Album: If You Can Believe Your Eyes And Ears The tension between the two, like the similar tension Bryan Ferry creates between sentimentality and sophistication, is excruciating, and when it snaps in the album's final song, "The Big Country" (a title taken from a line in Ferry's "Prairie Rose"), Byrne is bounced into the void. He sings about this improvement with considerable sarcasm, though, and elsewhere on the LP, love and logic are at loggerheads. Love and work, of course, is what Freud said all of us need, but on More Songs about Buildings and Food, Byrne appears able to imagine the proper equilibrium only in "Found a Job," wherein a bickering couple's relationship improves while collaborating on television scripts. Indeed, the word work recurs throughout the record as the singer both pushes and parodies the Protestant ethic: (Not since the Four Freshmen has there been a group as Protestant and downright preppie as Talking Heads.) Love wreaks havoc on the rational, workaday world, and David Byrne's comic cold shoulder recalls the more strenuous resistance of Joni Mitchell, so many of whose songs have expressed a similar fear that love will deflect her artistic career. Even the ostensibly jubilant "Thank You for Sending Me an Angel" hurtles to an abrupt coitus interruptus: "But first, show me what you can do!" If, in one song, Byrne chides the girls for ignoring the boys ("Girls, they're getting into abstract analysis"), in most of the others, Byrne himself seems frantically to be staving off amorous involvement: "I've got to get to work now" (the traditional male equivalent of "Not tonight, honey - I've got a headache"). On More Songs about Buildings and Food, David Byrne sings the word feelingssssss with a puppy's yelp that turns into a snaky hiss.