As the lead single from Pixies’ second album Doolittle (1989), “Monkey Gone to Heaven” was the first song many people had heard from the Boston-based alternative rock band. It still stands as one of their best-known and most accessible songs. Even so, some of the message of “Monkey Gone to Heaven” is obtuse, as the […]
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