BANGLES: Manic Monday 7″ UK 1985 Check video

Description

Bangles – Manic Monday
Label: CBS
Catalog#: A 6796
Format: Vinyl, 7″
Country: UK
Released: 1985
Genre: Rock
Style: Pop Rock

Tracklist
A Manic Monday 3:03
Written-By – Christopher
B In A Different Light 2:50
Written-By – S. Hoffs* , V. Peterson*

Producer – David Kahne

Pop at its best in the 80s. Bangles was more than a girl-band – they were an icon that sets a standard for all all-girls bands that came and went after them. Both songs of this single define how great the Bangles were.

“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 American musician Prince using the pseudonym “Christopher” and was originally intended for the group Apollonia 6 in 1984. Lyrically, it describes a woman who is waking up to go to work on Monday, wishing it was still Sunday so she could continue relaxing.

The single, released by Columbia Records on Monday, January 27, 1986, 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 in Australia, New Zealand, Norway and Switzerland. It was later certified silver in the UK by the British Phonographic Industry (BPI).