top 100 songs about MONKEYS

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100. The Monkey Song - Disney's The Jungle Book

― chaki (chaki), Thursday, 12 June 2003 08:05 (twenty-three years ago)

99 Monkey Gone To Heaven - The Pixies

― kate (kate), Thursday, 12 June 2003 08:08 (twenty-three years ago)

98. preston school of industry - monkey heart and the horses' leg

97. xtc - the smartest monkeys

― electric sound of jim (electricsound), Thursday, 12 June 2003 08:09 (twenty-three years ago)

96. These Little Monkeys - Jonathan Fire*Eater

― kate (kate), Thursday, 12 June 2003 08:10 (twenty-three years ago)

95. mark 700 - catchy monkey

― electric sound of jim (electricsound), Thursday, 12 June 2003 08:11 (twenty-three years ago)

95. "monkeys" by echo and the bunnymen (where "echo" actually makes an appearance, at least on the original crystal days box-set version!)

― Tad (llamasfur), Thursday, 12 June 2003 08:11 (twenty-three years ago)

94. Major Lance - "The Monkey Time"

― Jody Beth Rosen (Jody Beth Rosen), Thursday, 12 June 2003 08:11 (twenty-three years ago)

92. fonda 500 - super chimpanzee

― electric sound of jim (electricsound), Thursday, 12 June 2003 08:11 (twenty-three years ago)

are there no good songs about monkeys?

― jess (dubplatestyle), Thursday, 12 June 2003 08:12 (twenty-three years ago)

chaki's notwithstanding

― jess (dubplatestyle), Thursday, 12 June 2003 08:12 (twenty-three years ago)

mwa mwa mwa mwa

― electric sound of jim (electricsound), Thursday, 12 June 2003 08:12 (twenty-three years ago)

91. Chuck Berry - "Too Much Monkey Business"

― Jody Beth Rosen (Jody Beth Rosen), Thursday, 12 June 2003 08:13 (twenty-three years ago)

90. Funky Gibbon - The Goodies

― kate (kate), Thursday, 12 June 2003 08:14 (twenty-three years ago)

89. i don't wanna live with monkeys - the higsons

― gaz (gaz), Thursday, 12 June 2003 08:16 (twenty-three years ago)

89. boss hog - monkey

― electric sound of jim (electricsound), Thursday, 12 June 2003 08:16 (twenty-three years ago)

bah!

― electric sound of jim (electricsound), Thursday, 12 June 2003 08:16 (twenty-three years ago)

an obvious one ...

88. george michael -- "monkey"

― Tad (llamasfur), Thursday, 12 June 2003 08:16 (twenty-three years ago)

86. Steely Dan - "Monkey In Your Soul"

― Jody Beth Rosen (Jody Beth Rosen), Thursday, 12 June 2003 08:16 (twenty-three years ago)

85. inspiral carpets - monkey on my back

― electric sound of jim (electricsound), Thursday, 12 June 2003 08:17 (twenty-three years ago)

84. Smokey Robinson and the Miracles - "Mickey's Monkey"

― Jody Beth Rosen (Jody Beth Rosen), Thursday, 12 June 2003 08:18 (twenty-three years ago)

83. the kinks -- king kong

82. the kinks -- apeman

― Tad (llamasfur), Thursday, 12 June 2003 08:18 (twenty-three years ago)

81. captain beefheart -- apes-ma

― Tad (llamasfur), Thursday, 12 June 2003 08:18 (twenty-three years ago)

80. Oscar Brown, Jr. - "Signifyin' Monkey"

― Jody Beth Rosen (Jody Beth Rosen), Thursday, 12 June 2003 08:19 (twenty-three years ago)

79. frank zappa and the mothers -- king kong

78. john lennon and yoko -- jamrag (which is an unattributed rip-off FZ's "king kong")

― Tad (llamasfur), Thursday, 12 June 2003 08:20 (twenty-three years ago)

77 - Royal Trux, "Edge of the Ape Oven"

― dave q, Thursday, 12 June 2003 08:21 (twenty-three years ago)

76. Hey Hey We're The Monkees - The Monkees. like, DUH!

― kate (kate), Thursday, 12 June 2003 08:21 (twenty-three years ago)

75 - "Shock the Monkey" GODAMMIT

― dave q, Thursday, 12 June 2003 08:22 (twenty-three years ago)

94a. Tubes, Curtis Mayfield, "The Monkey Time"
75. Rolling Stones, "Monkey Man"
74. Beatles, "Everybody's Got Something to Hide Except for Me and My Monkey"
73. ABBA, "King Kong Song"
72. Dandy Warhols, "Welcome to the Monkey House"
71. Lou Reed, "The Courtly Orangutans"

― Chris Clark (Chris Clark), Thursday, 12 June 2003 08:22 (twenty-three years ago)

74. Devo - "Jocko Homo"

― Jody Beth Rosen (Jody Beth Rosen), Thursday, 12 June 2003 08:22 (twenty-three years ago)

(argh)

― Jody Beth Rosen (Jody Beth Rosen), Thursday, 12 June 2003 08:23 (twenty-three years ago)

69. Nirvana - "Very Ape"

― Jody Beth Rosen (Jody Beth Rosen), Thursday, 12 June 2003 08:25 (twenty-three years ago)

72 - Lou Reed, "My Friend George"

― dave q, Thursday, 12 June 2003 08:26 (twenty-three years ago)

71 - Redd Kross, "Zira"

― dave q, Thursday, 12 June 2003 08:26 (twenty-three years ago)

(I think we're down to 66, actually)

― Jody Beth Rosen (Jody Beth Rosen), Thursday, 12 June 2003 08:27 (twenty-three years ago)

70 (65?) - Lancelot Link, "Evolution Revolution"

― dave q, Thursday, 12 June 2003 08:28 (twenty-three years ago)

64. Bow Wow Wow - Orang-Outang
63. Bow Wow Wow - King Kong

― Jody Beth Rosen (Jody Beth Rosen), Thursday, 12 June 2003 08:30 (twenty-three years ago)

62. david byrne -- monkey man

― Tad (llamasfur), Thursday, 12 June 2003 08:31 (twenty-three years ago)

61. Quasi - "Ape Self Prevails in Me Still"

― Jody Beth Rosen (Jody Beth Rosen), Thursday, 12 June 2003 08:31 (twenty-three years ago)

60. skid row -- "monkey business" (JBR, w/ yer jersey fixation how could you have forgotten skid row!)

― Tad (llamasfur), Thursday, 12 June 2003 08:32 (twenty-three years ago)

59. Lee Perry & the Upsetters - "Super Ape"

― Jody Beth Rosen (Jody Beth Rosen), Thursday, 12 June 2003 08:32 (twenty-three years ago)

58. Up Up And Away In My Beautiful Baboon

― Tim (Tim), Thursday, 12 June 2003 08:32 (twenty-three years ago)

boo hiss

― Jody Beth Rosen (Jody Beth Rosen), Thursday, 12 June 2003 08:33 (twenty-three years ago)

57. He Hit Me And It Felt Like A Proboscis

― Tim (Tim), Thursday, 12 June 2003 08:34 (twenty-three years ago)

56. burmese - monkeys tear man to shreds
55. burmese - man never forgives ape, man destroys environment

― your null fame (yournullfame), Thursday, 12 June 2003 08:35 (twenty-three years ago)

54. gorilla -- the rubinoos

― Tad (llamasfur), Thursday, 12 June 2003 08:35 (twenty-three years ago)

53. "Big Chimpin'"

― Jody Beth Rosen (Jody Beth Rosen), Thursday, 12 June 2003 08:37 (twenty-three years ago)

52. Fishbone - Chim chim's Badass revenge

― chaki, Thursday, 12 June 2003 08:38 (twenty-three years ago)

whats that one by rollins where he goes "look into the monkey's eyes...BAD MONKEY!! BAD MONKEY!"

― chaki (chaki), Thursday, 12 June 2003 08:44 (twenty-three years ago)

51. J. Geils Band, "Monkey Island"
50. Presidents of the United States of America, "George of the Jungle"
49. Bush, "Monkey"
48. Robbie Williams, "Me and My Monkey"
47. Marilyn Manson, "My Monkey"
46. Bob Dylan, "I Shall Be Free No. 10" ("He's a weird monkey, very funky")

― Chris Clark (Chris Clark), Thursday, 12 June 2003 08:44 (twenty-three years ago)

45. Katell Keineg, "Hestia" ("I want you, but I don't want your monkey")

― Jody Beth Rosen (Jody Beth Rosen), Thursday, 12 June 2003 08:46 (twenty-three years ago)

44. Daniel Johnston, "Like a Monkey in a Zoo"

― Jody Beth Rosen (Jody Beth Rosen), Thursday, 12 June 2003 08:48 (twenty-three years ago)

43. Monkey Man - The Specials
42. Monkey and the Engineer - (Trad.) Grateful Dead

― chaki (chaki), Thursday, 12 June 2003 08:50 (twenty-three years ago)

41. Television - "See No Evil"

― Jody Beth Rosen (Jody Beth Rosen), Thursday, 12 June 2003 08:52 (twenty-three years ago)

40. Regular Fries "King Kong"

― Sami (Sami), Thursday, 12 June 2003 08:53 (twenty-three years ago)

40. Mildred J. Hill and Patty Smith Hill, "Happy Birthday" (Schoolyard Remix)

― Jody Beth Rosen (Jody Beth Rosen), Thursday, 12 June 2003 08:55 (twenty-three years ago)

38. Patti Smith Group - "Space Monkey"

― Jody Beth Rosen (Jody Beth Rosen), Thursday, 12 June 2003 09:18 (twenty-three years ago)

37. Plasmatics - "Monkey Suit"

― Jody Beth Rosen (Jody Beth Rosen), Thursday, 12 June 2003 09:21 (twenty-three years ago)

36. Lene Lovich - "Monkey Talk"

― Jody Beth Rosen (Jody Beth Rosen), Thursday, 12 June 2003 09:23 (twenty-three years ago)

lipps inc-monkey town

― robin (robin), Thursday, 12 June 2003 09:31 (twenty-three years ago)

(sorry)

― robin (robin), Thursday, 12 June 2003 09:31 (twenty-three years ago)

34. Robert Maxwell, "Solfeggio (Song of the Nairobi Trio)"

― Jody Beth Rosen (Jody Beth Rosen), Thursday, 12 June 2003 09:35 (twenty-three years ago)

(can I just say hurrah! for the return of Top 100 threads)

33. showbusiness giants - primate boogie

― zebedee (zebedee), Thursday, 12 June 2003 11:22 (twenty-three years ago)

32 Dan I-Monkey Chop

― Paul R (paul R), Thursday, 12 June 2003 12:21 (twenty-three years ago)

31. captain beefheart - 'making love to a vampire with a monkey on my knee'
30. butthole surfers - 'the lord is a monkey'
29. buffalo tom - 'latest monkey'

― angelo (angelo), Thursday, 12 June 2003 12:40 (twenty-three years ago)

28. "The Monkey" by Dave Bartholomew, an awesome old New Orleans R&B song. "THE MONKEY speaks his miiiiinnnd . . . "

― Lee G (Lee G), Thursday, 12 June 2003 12:45 (twenty-three years ago)

27. You Drive Me Ape (You Big Gorilla) - The Dickies

(does that count as two btw?)

― Stewart Osborne (Stewart Osborne), Thursday, 12 June 2003 12:51 (twenty-three years ago)

28. Monkey Man - Toots And The Maytals (actually that's the same song as 43. so that balances things up a bit)

― Stewart Osborne (Stewart Osborne), Thursday, 12 June 2003 12:53 (twenty-three years ago)

27. Mountain Goats - the Monkey Song

― Leon Neyfakh, Thursday, 12 June 2003 12:54 (twenty-three years ago)

26. Brass Monkey

― Jeff-PTTL (Jeff), Thursday, 12 June 2003 13:12 (twenty-three years ago)

23. Orangutago - Pigbag

― Stewart Osborne (Stewart Osborne), Thursday, 12 June 2003 13:14 (twenty-three years ago)

22. Justin Hinds - "The higher the monkey climbs"

― Jacob (Jacob), Thursday, 12 June 2003 14:05 (twenty-three years ago)

21. Rufus Thomas - "Can Your Monkey Do the Dog?"
20. King Kong - "Kingdom of Kong"
19. King Kong - "Funky Monkey"

― Horace Mann (Horace Mann), Thursday, 12 June 2003 14:10 (twenty-three years ago)

18. R.L. Burnside - "The Criminal Inside Me"

― Horace Mann (Horace Mann), Thursday, 12 June 2003 14:11 (twenty-three years ago)

(I was expecting a "songs about monkeys: pox" thread.)

― bnw (bnw), Thursday, 12 June 2003 14:11 (twenty-three years ago)

17. Lexxus - "Monkey's Out" (really this may be the best monkey related song ever)

― Alex in SF (Alex in SF), Thursday, 12 June 2003 14:36 (twenty-three years ago)

16. Cornelius - "Volunteer Ape Man (Disco)"

― Orange, Thursday, 12 June 2003 16:37 (twenty-three years ago)

(Or maybe "Magoo Opening" would be better.)

― Orange, Thursday, 12 June 2003 16:38 (twenty-three years ago)

Charlie McAlister, "Island of the Robot-Building Monkey"

― J0hn Darn1elle (J0hn Darn1elle), Thursday, 12 June 2003 16:55 (twenty-three years ago)

14. I Go Ape - Neil Sedaka

― Taylor Parkes (Taylor Parkes), Thursday, 12 June 2003 16:56 (twenty-three years ago)

I heart the mention of Charlie McAlister here. :-)

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Thursday, 12 June 2003 17:00 (twenty-three years ago)

13. King Kong - Jimmy Castor Bunch

― arch Ibog (arch Ibog), Thursday, 12 June 2003 18:06 (twenty-three years ago)

12. Le Gorille - Georges Brassens

― arch Ibog (arch Ibog), Thursday, 12 June 2003 18:14 (twenty-three years ago)

11. One Monkey Don't Stop No Show - Joe Tex

― arch Ibog (arch Ibog), Thursday, 12 June 2003 18:18 (twenty-three years ago)

10. Monkey Talk - Stevie Wonder

― arch Ibog (arch Ibog), Thursday, 12 June 2003 18:20 (twenty-three years ago)

9. One Monkey Don't Stop No Show--Honey Cone (a different song!)

― Douglas (Douglas), Thursday, 12 June 2003 18:24 (twenty-three years ago)

(i like pick #41)
8. Six Finger Satellite - Simian Fever

― willem (willem), Thursday, 12 June 2003 18:40 (twenty-three years ago)

7. Fela Kuti = Expensive Shit

― J0hn Darn1elle (J0hn Darn1elle), Thursday, 12 June 2003 19:33 (twenty-three years ago)

6. Fela Kuti - Monkey Banana

― chaki (chaki), Thursday, 12 June 2003 20:08 (twenty-three years ago)

5) Theme from the hit TV series "Monkey"

― William Bloody Swygart (mrswygart), Thursday, 12 June 2003 20:10 (twenty-three years ago)

No idea if anybody listed these, if so, I'm sorry

4- Hoagy Carmichael - Monkey Song
3 - J Geils Band - Monkey Island
2 - Starz - Monkey Business
1!!!!!!!!!!! - Kix - Get Your Monkeys Out

― chuck, Thursday, 12 June 2003 20:21 (twenty-three years ago)

(Alternate choice, if one of those is a duplicate {unless this is a duplicates too}: Nervous Norvous "Ape Call." Unless nobody listed Redman's Monkey song....I forget what it's called, but it's great.

"Marmoset" by Rapeman, inasmuch as I remember it, was NOT great.

― chuck, Thursday, 12 June 2003 20:23 (twenty-three years ago)

And oh yeah, "King Kong" by the Jimmy Castor Bunch.

― chuck, Thursday, 12 June 2003 20:25 (twenty-three years ago)

I got Geils already, so

3. Aerosmith, "Monkey on My Back"

― Chris Clark (Chris Clark), Thursday, 12 June 2003 20:27 (twenty-three years ago)

Nomeansno - Humans

Little monkeys making money
Naked monkey looking funny
Mighty males are strong and free
Female monkey, not so lucky
Rocking monkeys, funky monkeys
Monkeys sticking other monkeys
Monkeys wrong or monkeys right
Mostly flexing monkey might

― Øystein Holm-Olsen (Øystein H-O), Thursday, 12 June 2003 21:51 (twenty-three years ago)

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