The latest Monkey Tunes
Think of it as a cross between a playlist, and a reviews page. The Monkeys' review team decided earlier this year that they needed a space to rave exclusively about individual songs that were rocking their boat. And so we bring you their regularly updated meditations on single songs - ranging from classics they grew up, to the latest tunes they've discovered online or in backstreet bars.
Boyz - M.I.A.
I'm a fence-sitter (as painful as that maybe, literally and metaphorically) when it comes to the dread argument about Politics in music. Like most things in life, it all depends on how it's done. When you forget the primacy of the song, whilst evangeli
On a day like this - Elbow
Irish poet, Patrick Kavanagh, put his finger on it when he wrote in his 1950's poem 'Advent', 'We have tested and tasted too much lover, through a chink too wide comes in no wonder'. Experience too much of something, and you become immune to its sp
Waiting on a Friend - The Rolling Stones
The Rolling Stones have, with a few honourable exceptions (sympathy for the devil, and perhaps Street Fighting Man), had very little of consequence to say over their lengthy career. It's the skill and swing with which they've presented their unbearabl
Red Guitar - Loudon Wainwright III
It's hard to choose just one song from Loudon Wainwright's skeletal, bruised, shocking - and yes, at times extremely funny - 1979 live album a live one. Wainwright is a far more versaitile songwriter than he's often given credit for, and
Valerie - Mark Ronson (Amy Winehouse)
I had reservations about picking a tune so newly-lodged in my mind for the Monkeys Tunes (great idea, by the way - reviewing single songs). Ever-mindful of the 'o.k computer fallacy' (where Q readers voted radiohead's then latest album as the g
Hangin' out with excellence - Moneypenny
The artist Robert Luxemburg, in the thought-provoking Steal this film II (freely available through bit-torrent - download it, watch it, pass it on), talks about the absolute fear that record companies and the film industry have that the average...
Northern Lad - Tori Amos
An unusual choice, perhaps, given that it's probably not the strongest song on an album - from the choirgirl hotel - which is arguably not Tori Amos's strongest, even though it boasts Playboy Mommy and Jackie's strength. And yet there's...
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