“Monkey Gone to Heaven” is a song by the American alternative rock band Pixies. It was recorded in November 1988 during the sessions for the band’s 1989 album Doolittle. The song has been described as “a corrosive, compelling meditation on God and garbage”
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“Monkey Gone to Heaven” is a song by the American alternative rock band Pixies. It was recorded in November 1988 during the sessions for the band’s 1989 album Doolittle. The song was released as a single in March, and included as the seventh track on the album when it was released a month later in April. It is the first Pixies song to feature guest musicians: two cellists, Arthur Fiacco and Ann Rorich, and two violinists, Karen Karlsrud and Corine Metter. The single’s cover features figures of five, six and seven, and also a monkey with a halo. In the years since its release, the song has received several accolades from music publications. It has been described as “a corrosive, compelling meditation on God and garbage” by Rolling Stone’s David Fricke. “Monkey gone to heaven” is written in the key of D major, with Francis playing a short chord progression backed by the bass guitar of Kim Deal and the drums of David Lover. The two violins play a melody throughout the melody, accompanied by a piano in the background.
The lead guitar does not feature at all during all during the verses, with Joey Santiago playing a solo in the second verse. “If man is fivethen the Devil is sixand God is seven” is the song’s hook, which Francis came up with long before the song itself was written. “The song mainly deals with humanity’s destruction of the ocean and the confusion of man’s place in the universe,” said Black Francis. “It’s also a very mythological place where there are octopus’s gardens, the Bermuda Triangle, Atlantis, and mermaids,” he said. “Man the divine manifestation effectively dies, and what remains is his degraded animal nature; the chintzy halo stuck on the primate’s head is the symbol of that unhappy fall,” said Ben Sisario, author of the book “Doolittle 33⅓” The song’s numerology is alluded to on the cover, which features Figures of 5, 6 and seven.
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