Sunday morning moment of bliss...

I love playing this song on quiet, sunny Sunday mornings.  The song features a celesta, a keyboard instrument that sounds like a tinkly metal xylophone.  The mood of the lyrics is wistful and poignant, and even slightly cautious and wary.

The track comes from the wonderful The Velvet Underground & Nico LP, released in 1967.

Lyrics:

Sunday morning, praise the dawning
It’s just a restless feeling by my side
Early dawning, Sunday morning
It’s just the wasted years so close behind
Watch out, the world’s behind you
There’s always someone around you who will call
It’s nothing at all

Sunday morning and I’m falling
I’ve got a feeling I don’t want to know
Early dawning, Sunday morning
It’s all the streets you crossed, not so long ago
Watch out, the world’s behind you
There’s always someone around you who will call
It’s nothing at all

Watch out, the world’s behind you
There’s always someone around you who will call
It’s nothing at all

Sunday morning...
Sunday morning...
Sunday morning...

Back to the twentieth century with the Monks...

We just got a re-issue of Black Monk Time by legendary garage rock proto-punksters The Monks.  I highly recommend this release for anybody who likes raw American garage rock.

For those of you unfamiliar with this band, they were basically just a bunch of bored American GIs stationed in Germany during the ’60s who decided to form an experimental and very raucous rock band.  For added absurdity, they actually dressed like monks (see the video below for an example of a live performance).