Name: The Monkeys are Asleep Today (Troggs Remix)
Duration: P00H03M50S
Description: We hear a portion of the infamous Troggs Tape (see credits) which has been carefully bleeped. This leads into the song 'The Monkeys Are Asleep Today' by NCN. The lyrics are read in electronic voice and the music is from 'Sex Farm' by Spinal Tap who The Troggs inspired. Bleeped portions of Midnight Voicejail Episode 17: 'Monkey Pizza' are heard at the end. This was the inspiration for this show.

The Monkeys are Asleep Today (Troggs Remix)

from Monkey Pizza by NCN

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We hear a portion of the infamous Troggs Tape (see credits) which has been carefully bleeped. This leads into the song 'The Monkeys Are Asleep Today' by NCN. The lyrics are read in electronic voice and the music is from 'Sex Farm' by Spinal Tap who The Troggs inspired. Bleeped portions of Midnight Voicejail Episode 17: 'Monkey Pizza' are heard at the end. This was the inspiration for this show.

lyrics

The monkeys are asleep today
I saw them down on fifth street
bumming cigarettes and staring
at the cracks there in the floor

The monkeys are asleep today
they're sending out their resumes
auditioning for plays we've seen
a thousand times before

The monkeys are asleep today
I see them laughing nervously
their bare-faced painted smiles
they just don't cut it anymore

The monkeys are asleep today
They're trying to walk upright
but the lives upon their backs
won't let them quite fit through the door

The monkeys are asleep today
they're getting laid in restroom stalls
their backs are up against the walls
with nothing in their hands

The monkeys are asleep today
they're crawling in the sidewalk cracks
they're much too tired for fighting back
they fill the shopping malls

The monkeys are asleep today
they're sitting in their cubicles
I saw them crossing Market Street
with briefcases in tow

The monkeys are asleep today
they're getting stuck in traffic jams
they haven't figured out quite yet
they've got nowhere to go.

credits

from Monkey Pizza, released February 10, 2014
From Wikipedia about The Troggs Tape:

An in-studio tape of Reg Presley's running commentary on a recording session, filled with in-fighting and swearing (known as "The Troggs Tapes"), was widely circulated in the music underground, and was included in the Archaeology box set, as well as the compilation album, The Rhino Brothers Present the World's Worst Records. The in-group infighting is believed to be the inspiration for a scene in the comedy film, This is Spinal Tap, where the band members are arguing. Some of this dialogue was sampled by the California punk band The Dwarves on their recording of a cover version of the Troggs song "Strange Movies".

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The National Cynical Network (NCN) is a long-running, SF Bay Area alternate programming media remix project. It originally consisted of a trio of SF Bay-Area based radio collage artists: Phineas Narco, Ronald Redball and Alexander T. Newport. NCN seeks to play *with* music , using sound, and video media samples in the process of media collage or 'mediage'. ... more

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