'Manic Monday' by The Bangles

Punch Up The Jam

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🗓️ 21 April 2022

⏱️ 66 minutes

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Summary

MONDAYS AMIRITE???? Is the very controversial claim at the heart of this huge 80s hit from the Bangles. Evan and Andrew investigate whether Mondays are really persecuting The Bangles orrrrrr was this song perhaps written by an alien who had just learned about human jobs? No, in fact, it was written by Prince, and this episode reveals that he plagiarized one of his own @%#$ songs when phoning in the writing of this overgrown nursery rhyme. DJs and producers, don’t miss the absolutely sick sample pack of snares that Evan drops at 17:45, completely manic. Historians, don’t miss Andrew’s insights about Mike Myers, Fun Days, and Sex Shooters.

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0:00.0	This is a head gamma original.
0:06.0	These are the days that you wish your bed was already made. There's no day that your beds already made.
0:14.0	Well, she's not saying it's gonna happen that somebody else is gonna make her best. She's just saying that she's wishing for it.
0:19.0	These are the days you wish your bed is already made. That's every day.
0:22.0	I disagree. I think she's saying that. She's saying that some days, the only days that your bed is already made,
0:27.0	are the days that you were so tired the night before or so drunk the night before, that instead of getting under your own covers,
0:33.0	you slept on top of your covers and you still kind of have to plump up the duvet.
0:38.0	You're making it a very small scale.
0:40.0	But you know what? She's denying herself here. You know that thing that you've heard a hundred times in the last couple years
0:45.0	from those productivity gurus. Like make sure every morning you make your bed.
0:50.0	Because then you start your day with a feeling of accomplishment.
0:54.0	Right. If her bed was already made, she wouldn't get the feeling of accomplishment.
0:58.0	It would just be a wish. Huge downside. She didn't think about that.
1:01.0	Yeah, I mean, this seems like a song that could learn a lot from productivity gurus.
1:07.0	Let's punch it.
1:25.0	It's just another manic Thursday.
1:28.0	Yes.
1:29.0	This is his and her's day to listen to podcasts. This is bunch of the jam. This is as far as I know, the only podcast in the universe where every week we take one of the greatest hits ever and make it even better.
1:44.0	Yeah, baby. This week we got a great one.
1:46.0	And this week, everybody knows this talking about manic Monday by the Bengals. And this is a song I hate.
1:54.0	I hate it when it comes on the radio. Of course, it's always coming on the radio on a Monday.
1:59.0	And I thought of it to radio stations that only play 80 songs about days.
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