Happy Monkey carols!

pixies and pharyngula. i never thought i would see the day, a perfect combination. happy monkey day, one and all!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DoLTFQsFswM

Ahhhh, this takes me back a bit. Nice pick.

Happy Monkey indeed.

I can remember purple microdot, but only because there are about three days I can almost remember; I'm assured that I was a very happy monkey at the time.

Happy Monkey Mister Potter!
Happy Monkey you beautiful old Savings and Loan !

Bert ! My mouth's bleedin! . . .

Yes!!!! Pixies!!!!

(my personal Pixies connection: my old band's first drummer played for Kim Deal at the Plough and Stars in Cambridge, MA)

Got killed by ten million pounds of sludge from New York and New Jersey...

Boy, what an antidote for the music at the mall today.

Arctic Monkeys "Who The F*** Are The Arctic Monkeys?"
Beastie Boys "Brass Monkey"
Foo Fighters "Monkey Wrench"
Gorillaz "Fire Coming Out Of The Monkey's Head"
Jethro Tull "Steel Monkey"
Joe Satriani "Psycho Monkey"
Michael Franks "Monkey See-Monkey Do"
New York Dolls "Dance Like A Monkey"
Rush "The Main Monkey Business"
Steely Dan "Monkey In Your Soul"
The Beatles "Everyone's Got Something To Hide Except Me And My Monkey"
The Beatles "Too Much Monkey Business"
The Road Kings "Hurdy Gurdy Monkey Shine"
Traveling Wilburys "Tweeter And The Monkey Man"

Nice list Dean. An entire "Happy Monkey" compilation album. The perfect gift for the evolutionist you love.

Happy Monkey!

Don't forget the Dandy Warhols album Welcome to the Monkey House - with the title track of the same name.

What about "Monkey Man" by the Rolling Stones?

Here's another one:

Brank Bjork "Hey, Monkey Boy"

How can I be the first to mention 'Feed the Monkey' from the homecoming scene of Encino Man?

This encapsulates Happy Monkey to me.

Also "Shock the Monkey" by Peter Gabriel

Purple Micro Dot productions?

Someone ate too much mescaline ....

The Tubes did "Monkey Time" back in the 80s...

http://video.yahoo.com/watch/589910/2866822?v=589910

TOOTS

AND

MAYTALLS

(and melt banana's cover version.)

The Specials "Monkey man"

Pixies rock. I just checked the page after 3 days in hospital w/o the internet, now I've got the feeling!
Happy Monkey Professor and to all!

As an evolved-ape of the Comp Sci variety, I must mention Jonathan Coulton's "Code Monkey". (MP3 here.)

He also has a song called "My Monkey", which may be of interest.

Let us not forget Stimpson J. Cat of _The Ren and Stimpy Show_, and his song "I'm Gonna Be a Monkey".

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aMuY-bAxGec

Whee, Pixies! Also add Chuck Berry's "Too Much Monkey Business" to Dean's list above.

I have other monkey tracks, but they aren't particularly happy. Sad/angry monkey?

The Jesus Lizard - Monkey Trick
KMFDM - Urban Monkey Warfare
White Zombie - Grease Paint and Monkey Brains
Minus the Bear - Monkey!!! Knife!!! Fight!!!
Marilyn Manson - My Monkey
Turbonegro - Monkey on Your Back
Bush - Monkey
Lightning Bolt - 30000 Monkeys

And of course S.O.D.'s "Monkeys Rule" with lyrics such as:
"most people I see are less human then an ape /
cranking babies out, like factories of hate"
and
"lock them in a cage like a monkey in a zoo /
We'll see who laughs last the day when monkeys rise to rule"

"Hey, hey, we're the Monkees!"

Or am I the only one here old enough to remember that one?

The Proudest Monkey - Dave Matthews

There's James Kolchaka Superstar's "Monkey Verses Robot"

Aaaahhhh! Worlds collide! My favourite band, featured on my favourite blog! Pardon me as I get all fanboy-y!

"Mickey's Monkey" by several legendary groups including Smokey Robinson and The Miracles and Martha and the Vandellas.

Here's the Martha and the Vandella's version:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pu3I2aXxLTg

Smooth Sexy Monkey - Machine Gun Fellatio
Moonbeam Monkey - Tanya Donelly

Pixies. Sweet.

I am strangely compelled to admit now that, though I don't believe in gods because there is no evidence outside severely questionable texts, I DO believe in Mr. Grieves. Is that an inconsistency?

I proposed this in another thread, but it is not written yet. Maybe one of you can paraphrase it: Poo! the Herald Monkeys Fling.

But since so many have proposed rock carols, I will be the stiff upper lip cultural elitist and propose

Pavel Haas' string quartet no.2, op.7: From the Monkey Mountains, movm. I-IV,
Henry Purcell's Monkeys' Dance from The Fairy Queen and
Saint Vitus' Ice Monkey

I know it's already been mentioned but we have to have a link to the New York Dolls not only because the song and the video are great but also because they're taking the piss out of creationists.

http://uk.youtube.com/watch?v=8_XEiV-l97o

(Apologies for second post, wrong section last time)

Happy monkey, happy monkey on the dusty road
Got to keep on plodding onwards with your precious load
Been a long time, happy monkey, through the winters night
Dont give up now, happy monkey,
Galapagos in sight

Ring out those bells tonight
Galapagos, Galapagos
Follow that star tonight
Galapagos, Galapagos

Happy monkey, happy monkey, had a heavy day
Happy monkey, carry Darwin safely on his way
Happy monkey, happy monkey, journey's end is near
There are monkies waiting for a sign to bring them here

Do not falter happy monkey, there's a star above
It will guide you, happy monkey, to some islands with a very rich local fauna that will help you formulate a theory to explain the apparent miraculous design of life and overturn the stranglehold of millennia of superstitious nonsense.

Ring out those bells tonight
Galapagos, Galapagos
Follow that star tonight
Galapagos, Galapagos

Happy monkey, happy monkey, had a heavy day
Happy monkey, carry Darwin, safely on his way
Happy monkey, carry Darwin, safely on his way

Bloodhound Gang: "The bad touch" (Monkey Clip more than song, but with a good evilutionary meme "We ain't nothing but mammal" :D )

More monkey music?
I know apes ain't monkeys, but here you go anyway.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eEep67akIn4

Brass Monkey - Beastie Boys
Welcome To The Monkey House - The Dandy Warhols
Monkeyland - The Chameleons
Champagne For Monkeys - Gomez
Monkey Dot - Money Mark (Monkey Mark?)
Monkey Island - 13th Floor Elevators
and finally Shock The Monkey - Peter Gabriel
just a sampling of the Happy Monkey carols in my iTunes music. There a few others, but this is the cream of stuff not already mentioned.
And to echo #1, Pharyngula and The Pixies...two great tastes that taste great together.

Has anybody mentioned "Monkey Wash, Donkey Rinse" by Warren Zevon?

How 'bout "Gorilla, You're a Desperado"?

"We Are Monkeys" By Travis, a band I only know of from that one song on the Malcolm in the Middle soundtrack. But it seems to fit.

I offer up Robbie William's Me & My Monkey, cos no one else writes a song about a Monkey in dungarees and rollerblades and monkey whores!

Happy Monkey to all and to all a good day!

Elvis Costello - Monkey to Man

It's been headed this way since the world began
when a vicious creature took the jump from Monkey to Man

@18
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i71NC9-s__A
Specials: Monkey Man

Does this mean the Pixies are now officially Old People Music?

@41
I'm 26 and I absolutely love them. I'll echo everyone else here saying Pixies + Pharyngula = more awesome than you can possibly imagine.

Can't forget the classic Guitarzan!

James Taylor Gorilla

He's got arms like legs
He's got hands on his feet
He's got a nose like a doughnut
He's got a tendency to over eat
He don't use tools or weapons
He don't eat meat
He likes to stick to the bushes
Tends to avoid the street

But he rides my El Dorado baby
When he comes to town
You know he's out there somewhere
Tryin' to track you down

Bass players that use picks are L-A-M-E!!!

Kim Deal? Now that's the best deal ever!

I was gonna post the original "Monkey Man" by Toots and the Maytals, but I am compelled to post the unrelated, but sublime, "Sweet and Dandy":

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_St8Kbo4uwU&feature=related

Does it get any better than that?

Another Postcard, Barenaked Ladies. Chimpanzees and Monkeys in one video.

I'm in the Monkey spirit already.

I'm dancing like a monkey!

http://i42.photobucket.com/albums/e309/ghostoflife4land/Gir_Dance_by_Ch…

I once tried to make "The Monkey Album" out of some MP3's I had laying around. I didn't get very far, though -- only to EP length:

2001 - Also Sprach Zarathustra
Pixies - Monkey Gone to Heaven
George Michael - Monkey
Ren & Stimpy - I Wanna Be a Monkey
Peter Gabriel - Shock the Monkey
Warren Zevon - Leave My Monkey Alone

P.S. This was before "Code Monkey" came out.

I grew up singing Aba Daba Honeymoon. I can't think of a more festive monkey song.

http://www.firstworldwar.com/audio/Collins%20&%20Harlan%20-%20Aba%20Dab…

Happy Monkey to all and to all a good night!

Don't forget the Cramps and "Monkey With Your Tail".

The best band ever on my favourite blog. Sweet. Happy Monkey indeed!