Pixies - Monkey Gone To Heaven (Official Video)
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- Опубліковано 8 сер 2013
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Thanks to my Dad this song was a staple of my childhood. In 2017 I went to my first Pixies concert with my Dad. Front row of the mosh. Was bloody brilliant. We went again in 2020 just a week before New Zealand went into lockdown for the first time. Dad passed in June this year and we played this at his funeral at his request. I now have “this monkey’s gone to heaven” tattooed on my arm under a modified version of the Doolittle album art for my Dad. Miss listening to Pixies with him
condolences to you and a great song choice
Mis condolencias Amelia El día que me muera y me entierren sonarán está canción y "A forest " de the Cure.
May he rest in peace
EPIC ❣️❣️❣️
Always some sob story in these comments. I call it bullshit.
One of my best friends , a damn good man , a fucking legend just passed and this song hurts. He loved the pixies and this song is for him.
A man of culture may he rest in paradise brother.
Love you brother
May he Rest In Peace🙏
So sorry you lost your friend I hope you have good memories of happy times together
If he loved the Pixies he is in a good place now. I am glad he had a friend like you.
28 years and still sounds fresh. That happens only with masterpieces.
sasarasasarasa
sasarasasarasa That is absolutely correct.
very true
yuppers its perfecto
actual music has nothing to do with time or epoch
Doolittle is a masterpiece and “Monkey gone to Heaven” is the crown jewel”
Throat, brow, and crown in fact
They belong in the rock n roll hall of fame.
+Robert Garwood The best comment i've read all week
+ZERO94AIC I don't know about the rest but the Pixies definitely deserve much more recognition they were brilliant! I don't know anything about who is in the Rock'n'Roll Hall of Fame or if that even exists but it sounds like its full of crap like the Stones and other Bands who only really were any good at the beginning and longevity but mediocre output doesn't make a Great Band. I would suggest that innovative work and the fact that their work sounds as fresh and relevant today is more to the point!
yeah i think it's partly based on votes, either way, it sounds pretty dumb and arbitrary
Anne yes that's the feeling I get like old dinosaurs of progressive rock bands or the like or some new radio friendly, formula type pop bands....it's never the bands who really count who seem to get these 'honours'.
Anne Anderson yeah I guess that's partly because your first album has to be 25 yrs old, but there's still lots of old bands that are unrecognized/underrated
No matter your musical preference when it comes to certain genres, it's impossible to not admit this is a masterpiece.
Okay, you like this song, but personally, I could pick 2 better songs that I prefer
@@sexobscura If you can only pick two its still a good sign XD 3rd best song ever
@@sexobscura American Buffalo never said it was the greatest song of all time, they said it was a masterpiece. They were correct.
@krashd
Polls are great and all in good fun, but just because it's voted #1 doesn't necessarily mean it's COMPLETELY unanimous for humanity. I slso like Led Zeppelin, but Stairway To Heaven is far from their best song (and it's absolutely adored)
Wave Of Mutilation is higher on MY list
Im a Hip-Hop head but I was also a skater so I got my friends into Wu-Tang, Nas, Tribe, Hiero etc and they got me into the Pixies, Ramones, Air, Dead Kennedys, Bad Brains, Iggy Pop, Modest Mouse and much more!!
From a production standpoint, this is an absolute masterpiece. The way there are those stripped down vocals and bass during the verses, and then that wall of guitar, fuzzy goodness that kicks off each chorus, but tapers off to allow the singers to do what they do. This should be a lesson in every music book.
The Deal sister make it.
There are music books?
“And if the grounds not cold, everything is gonna burn, we’ll all take turns.. I’ll get mine too.” Something about that lyric and the way he says it gives me chills. Great song.
Take heed
Yes we knew about global warming 30 years ago
The bass groove is dark and contagious.
kim deal strikes agaIn
So contagious. It entertains us.
Yeah just a brilliant track I play bass in s punk band when guitaist breaks a string can't help filling in with the bass line til he's really ready cool bass line respect
KIM DEAL
Kim deserves more credit....after her sacking, then her own band. Does she get to play with them now, or is she forever ostracized for the kinds of things musos are always in trouble for?
Harsh judgement and not fair. With alcohol legally swamping society and causing more problems everywhere...it's not fair to hold this one mistake against her. Hypocrisy...
The breakdown with the god is 7 line is probably the greatest breakdown ive ever heard
6x7 : 42. Then go to the Way of the Tao and read Chapter 42. What Douglas Adams said about Zen cosmology - or how an uneducated person interprets it, like me. What Dionysus-Appollo said. It matters because he was the patron of (completely goofy) art interpretation. 😂😊🎉
I don't listen to this too often but when I do, so do my neighbours.
Priceless!!!
With you there mate 🤗
👌🏾Good 1.
I live in an all-Black suburban neighborhood in the South.
My neighbors think I'm weird because I play this on eleven while I do my yard
@@johnstjohn6658 👌🏾.
One of the greatest songs of all time
Agreed!!
In one of the greatest albums
I 💯 agree
@@behindyou666 Facts
Absolument !
Special special band that influenced just about every alternative band you know today.
Not so sure about that. I would hope that Alternative music was diverse enough (which it was) that influences abounded.
What is your favorite band?
Matt Williams : When I was an impressionable and insecure youth, I'd say that my favorite was The Smiths (Which I will always enjoy), but honestly in my opinion, to me there is no such thing as a favorite band being that I like many, but I'd say for the most part, I like British bands better than I do American.
Lunatic4Bizcas My go to is Modest Mouse. I thought about not having a favorite band. That's a good point. There are so many bands out there I enjoy, and it may not be true to say I have an absolute favorite. I've listened to a little bit of The Smiths. I'm listening to the The Queen Is Dead right now. It's fantastic so far. Thank you!
+Matt Williams did they influence my fav band the disco biscuits
One of the most interesting groups in the history of modern popular music.
Rock'n'roll
these lyrics are pure art ... hard to understand but pleasing our brain
Very true. I think Pixies songs often SOUND emotional, but then they really aim for the brain. That delicate element that Kim Deal provided grounded the band's stand-offish coolness/coldness in a unique way.
my brain is very pleased.
salvador augustus yes yes indeed
My brain has a boner.
but where did the monkey go?
And I naively thought he was singing " This man is going to Heaven " My mom was happy that I was listening to a good Christian Rock Band LOL
you were
Good and religious are mutually exclusive.
@@cinaralin No, they are not. They have.a weak correlation. There are good religious people and bad religious people, and there are good non-religious people and bad non-religious people.
@@cinaralin epic reddit moment
@@cinaralin nah! You equate religion with good.
How many wars have been faught over bloody religion? - shit loads.
I want this song to play at my funeral
When is it?
It's either this or the Happy Days theme.
@@paulburns1333
Hahahahah
The Pixies invented the 90s. Not a word of thanks.
I agree with this wholeheartedly, well put.
yes
They built the 90s rock
When I heard the Pixies for the first time, I connected with that band so heavily I should have been in that band - or at least in a Pixies cover band.
Kurt Cobain
@@martynstewart74 lol yes
7 is the number of perfection.
When I first heard this tune, I immediately became a Pixies fan..
I bought the album right after hearing it.
This was the song
I listened to this whole album for the first time a couple days ago and I haven’t stopped listening to it. I don’t know what’s going on, I don’t know where I am, but this might be the coolest thing I’ve ever heard
Damn go listen to The Breeders the girl Kim Deals is the lead vocalist. Pixies is next level band. So glad I grew up with Pixies.
@@omgwtflmaololrotfl2368 I gotta check them out that sounds awesome, she's got such good vocals here. I'm glad I can grow up w them too, even if it's 40 years later
@@atomicpunk8895 Lol that’s great! It’s never to late to pick up some awesome new sounds. Check out the Pointer Sisters too
Where TF you been man?
@@Fuzzmo147 I wasn't alive dude, but I am now and I'm glad to be here man it's awesome. Wish I could see them live
I could listen to this song on repeat for ever and ever and ever :)
I did listen to this song for 2-3 hours on repeat one night. Nothing but this song. I've never done that!
[Verse 1]
There was a god
An under water god who controlled the sea
Got killed by ten million pounds of sludge
From New York and New Jersey
[Hook]
This monkey's gone to Heaven
This monkey's gone to Heaven
This monkey's gone to Heaven
This monkey's gone to Heaven
[Verse 2]
The creature in the sky
Got sucked in a hole
Now there's a hole in the sky
And the ground's not cold
And if the ground's not cold, everything is gonna burn
We'll all take turns, I'll get mine too
[Hook]
This monkey's gone to Heaven
This monkey's gone to Heaven
This monkey's gone to Heaven
This monkey's gone to Heaven
[Bridge]
Rock me, Joe
[Verse 3]
If Man is five, If Man is five
If Man is five, then the Devil is six
Then the Devil is six, the Devil is six
The Devil is six, and if the Devil is six
Then God is seven, then God is seven
Then God is seven
[Hook]
This monkey's gone to Heaven
This monkey's gone to Heaven
This monkey's gone to Heaven
This monkey's gone to Heaven
[Outro]
This monkey's gone to Heaven
This monkey's gone to Heaven
This monkey's gone to Heaven
This monkey's gone to Heaven
This monkey's gone to Heaven
Thanx 😊
Wow, what does it mean?
@@krishnamurti4577 I think is about contamination but I like to add that is about God leaving humanity behind as he is so beyond us he doesn't care
@@krishnamurti4577 I think this song is about humanity abandoning God.
@@leoleandro2605 Nah it's the other way around if you look at it. We're so full of ourselves we pushed God out. Like yourself.
Such intelligent music / art. Not trying to be wankey and elitist. Just a different level, 31 year later. Never gets old and leaves me in awe everytime
Easily one of the greatest bands that have ever existed. Truly wonderful music.
First Pixies song I ever heard and became a huge fan. Doolittle is still one of my top five albums.
The Pixies hold a special place in my heart and i always feel like I'm part of some sort of society called "people with taste" thanks pixies
Never agreed more with a comment
"THEN GOD IS SEVEN!" fucking awesome.
+bone torque ikr..
+bone torque ikr..
+Don Vito yeah sounds awesome, but i dont even know what it means :D
why is 7?
+Hazver because Man is 5 and Devil is 6
I think we (the generation born in the 70s) were very fortunate to grew up listening to Nirvana, Pixies, Ramones, Bad Religion, Soundgarden, Alice in Chains and so many other bands, unlikely this generation.
im this generation, still here!
pop music is for those idiotic 14 year old girls who cant get off their phone to so much as say hi, and think tik tok is an important part of their life, and speak in that slutty tone.
Each generation finds its taste.
There's always shit in every generation
bilal al' lash one person's shit is another's fertiliser.
Yeah I say so too !
They created a genre. I love this band
This monkeys definitely gone to heaven
No line in any song will ever get me more hyped than THEN GOD IS 7!!!
Kim Deals voice is a moment in time
joey santiago is a legend
+Dave-O Rock me, Joe.
he's not black
***** he's phillipino I think
Francis is the Black guy
yup the Filipino Guitar God!
Pixies are one of those rare bands that host themselves in the architecture of your mind.
I love Kim's background vocals. Her voice kind of reminds me of Sandy Denny.
Kim Deal’s got the ultimate rock bass tone🍻
One of my favorite bass grooves of all time!
I just wish this song was more popular today, it's just so relevant.
When I first used to play Pixies back in the day, I would shut the CD off if someone came into the room, worried that they would think there was something wrong with me. Pixies though taught me not to give a fuck if somebody thought there was something wrong with me, because their music was way more important than pleasing others. I am forever in their debt.
One of the most underrated bands to ever make music, if it weren't for them there would be no Nirvana or any bands influenced by nirvana
U mean bam Bam
I agree , the pixies are the most underrated band ever
I hate the fact Nirvana was spawned by these gods, but eh ..
@@JetsetComedian what’s wrong with nirvana?
@@JetsetComedian nirvana changed the world
Gotta be one of the F*** greatest bands ever !!!
Never gotten tired of this song, it rules
One of the reasons I stay alive...is to listen to the Pixies!
David Bowie liked the Pixies too 😛
+zoeGrizabella Nirvana was inspired by Pixies in some albums.
+Zoë Grizabella Yeah, but David Bowie liked everything.
Caio Graciano Kurt Cobain said in an interview that Nirvana was basically a Pixies cover band.
I think Bowie was away with the pixies.
Everyone likes the Pixies, for good reason.
These guys and gal understand balance. Grunge themes. God is seven hits soooo hard
Bought Come on Pilgrim on release. Watched this video on Snub. Saw them every time they came through London. Walked seven miles through a public transport strike to see them at Kilburn. Was there as they expanded, exploded and flew away. Wonderful, wonderful, wonderful.
I see a lot of people saying they discovered in the 90s when they were younger or with their parents 😭 I just found them on youtube in 2016 in high-school, no big story lmaoo
This song is so brilliant. Evolution versus creation. Hole in the ozone. Pollution. The contradictions. The humor. Just brilliant.
If man is five
then the devil is six
and god is seven
definitely the best lyrics I have ever heard
>next, 8 rotated 90˚ [ ∞ ] is The Infinite Godhead as 8 ∞
hallelujah
I love the way he scream, “then GOOOOOOOOD IS SEVEN!!”
6 is scared of 7 because seven ate nine
Favourite. ★☆
Just a brilliant masterpiece of a song.....
Has it been 28 years, sas? Seems like 28 seconds ago.that's how powerful this is.immortal.
Pure, raw and simple. The Pixies were EVERYTHING the new generation of musicians lack.
Most 90s and 00s bands were inspired by the pixies. They may not be mainstream and under appreciated but they are a real band's band.
dismissing entire generations of musicians is lazy and disingenuous. I guarantee in the 80s/90s people were saying the exact same shit about the music from a couple decades before compared to Rick Astley and ABBA
@@basedgod6016 your coping.
@@basedgod6016 Name checks out, this is a based opinion
@@minatoarisatofrompersona3440 it's what i do
"Rock me, Joe..." (THESE PEOPLE created a MUSIC we hadn't ever QUITE heard before...) We've heard it SINCE, of course... (But, LIKE A DRUG, never as good as THE FIRST TIME...) The Pixies were one of those SEMINAL BANDS, (like The Ramones...) who opened a door where we didn't think there was a door... (And that led to many, many other rooms and places...) God Bless THE PIXIES... xx SF
im so happy ive requested this song enough at work that it now plays randomly once or twice a shift....great song !!!!!!!!!
"f Man is 5, if Man is 5, if Man is 5
Then the Devil is 6, then the Devil is 6
The Devil is 6, the Devil is 6 and if the Devil is 6
Then God is 7, then God is 7, then God is 7"
Don't know exactly how, but this clicked in me ..
One of the best lines I might have hear, actually
*heard
Its because it is the actual numbers that correspond to Man, the Devil (who was the first creature created...before Angels and Man and is therefore 6), and Man was supposedly the third, Angels being of Spirit and serving only the Will of God, don't seem to feature as highly. I think it has to do with which have Free Will. But not having any reference books on hand I'm not going to attempt to explain numerology.
Maximus Destructus I beg to differ.
One of my favorites also. Another is a line from "Can't Hardly Wait" by the Replacements : Jesus rides beside me.
He never buys any smokes.................
you have a limited grasp majickal numerics
Arguably the most influential Alternative band of all time. Unreal.
The bassline of kim deal.just that makes this a terrific song.just that.
komme periodisch immer wieder darauf zurück: "best song ever"
It's about what human are doing to the planet.
The memories this song brings up is incredible.
Simply one of the best bands from ever. Unforgettable
I grew up singing "this man has gone to heaven" xD
Was introduced to The Pixies late 80's by a former flame when I lived in Boston , MA... I turned 54 in December 2019...this music, while it still definitely resonates, leaves me feeling anxious, maudlin, and afraid...seems like I can go "back" mentally and FEEL what /how I felt then. I don't want to die... BEFORE I have lived!
Carry on...
And the ground's not cold
And if the ground's not cold
Everything is gonna burn
We'll all take turns, I'll get mine too
shane devereux
Awesome song!
that might be the best line in the song
One of the greatest songs ever made from the greatest albums ever made.
グランジと括られる中で一番の曲だよオイラんで中では。歌詞にたいした意味なんて無いんだろうかな?
そんな物を超越した素晴らしさがこの曲には有る。ロックだよ!
pixies wrote this for harambe, they were truly ahead of their time
Where ARE all you people?!?!? I can't find ANYONE in person who listens to good music like this! These comments have mentioned so many good bands! I'm glad this music is still appreciated.
Oh, the song about an underwater guy, who controlled the sea. My favourite one !
the pixies knew about harambe before anyone else
Dix outt!
Matt Crawley shut the fuck up
tylerden hmm yeah it does see. to make sense. good sentiment, thanks for sharing this perspective
@@MrTylerden or maybe they are referring to humans as monkeys? physically evolved from monkeys but pretty much still there behaviour wise i.e looking out for ourselves
@@sphenoidjjj We did not "evolve from monkeys". We share a common, protosimian ancestor.
The more I listen to this band, the more I like'em...
SUCH A GREAT SONG & BAND!
Then The Pixies is eight.
one of the greatest songs to ever be recorded period
Thank you pixies. So much beautiful work.
Fantastic!
I had no idea this was the Pixies. Let me tell you a story:
My mum always used to sing this to me when I was younger. She doesn't do it much now,and I really loved it when she sung it.
A few years later...
I found the Pixies via 'where is my mind?' And, through a three am music session (now) I find this, and find out it's by one of my favourite bands. Small world, eh?
Again, it's three in the morning, so sorry for the bad English
better than some actual English people
@@carl.5756and especially Americans, and I’m one, so…
@@kellywalburn1568😂
I'd forgotten how much I love this song. :)
Great song, I love jamming out in the bass to this. Fantastic song. LOVE IT
Got to love it
The first times I heard this on the radio, I thought the lyrics were "This month is going to happen" I never heard the title of the song. Now I sometimes still hear it like that in the back of my mind. But thank you so much student radio for introducing me to the Pixies and so many other great bands.
One word UNDERRATED
Seen em live twice. They’ve still got it after all these years
saw this on tv when it came out...loved it saw em live a few times since
Playing this at my wedding. Radiohead, portishead, pixies and a few others ❤
That bass though.
OldA Days. OldA Memories.. You listen that song in the unknown radiofrequency, far from home, in a hard work week.. and then you say to yourself.. Your Life is good. You are good. All is good. thx PixieS
Pioneering artists and bands rarely get the recognition they deserve. Pixies are one of those bands
Una de mis bandas favoritas!
This is such a masterpiece
love it!
Love this song so much😩 such an underrated band!!!
This song is about how humans destroy the natural world, and how we only care about our own society, and how we don’t consider the impact of our actions on the environment. Pixies had a statement they were trying to make, and half the people who hear this song dismiss it as nonsense.
Psychotic Beatles.
agree with ya
beautiful
Love this
Kim laughing right before Francis goes man is 5 Makes my soul blush
I LOVE this song it still sounds AMAZING and it's sad that it's not more recognized but Us PIXIES FANS KNOW IT,DON'T WE??✌👍🙏💜❣🌹🦋
First time I heard this today and I love it!!! How did I ever miss this track!
What a great band. Glad I've finally discovered them.