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Manic Monday About the song...   (Credit: Wikipedia) "Manic Monday" is a song by the American pop rock band The Bangles, and the first single released from their second studio album, Different Light (1986). It was written by Prince, using the pseudonym "Christopher". Originally intended for the group Apollonia 6 in 1984, he offered the song to The Bangles two years later. Lyrically it describes a woman who is waking up on Monday, wishing it were still Sunday. The song, which was released on Monday January 27, 1986 by Columbia Records, received generally positive reviews from music critics and some comparisons with The Mamas & the Papas' "Monday, Monday". It became The Bangles' first hit, reaching number two in the United States and the United Kingdom, as well as in Austria, Canada, Germany and Ireland, and peaked within the top five of New Zealand, Norway and Switzerland. It was later certified silver in the UK by the British Phono...

Filled with psychedelic imagery that it will obviously have for it belongs to Pink Floyd, I love the song for the beautiful imaginations, instrumental passages, sound effects and instrumental improvisation one will come across in the underwritten lyrics... blood-curdling first line " Overhead the albatross hangs motionless upon the air." I sat for nearly an hour making images of just this line in my mind the first time I listened the song. I could think of nothing else, just the bird hanging midway perhaps above an ocean or a beaming steamer as I pictured it. Extremely beautiful scenes created by the words 'rolling waves' , 'labyrinths of coral caves' and  'echo of a distant tide'. I have fallen in love with the first stanza. "Overhead the albatross hangs motionless upon the air And deep beneath the rolling waves in labyrinths of coral caves The echo of a distant tide Comes willowing across the sand And everything is green and subma...