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Good Morning Songs

 
 
Fist Fun
08:03 / 03.03.08
I would like to gather together some songs about morning.

So far I have two.

Good Morning - Kanye West
Good Morning Heartache - ODB feat Lil Mo

Which ones do you know?
 
 
ghadis
08:18 / 03.03.08
Saturday Morning by eels springs to mind
 
 
ONLY NICE THINGS
08:24 / 03.03.08
And, of course, Sunday Morning by the Velvet Underground and Nico. Early Morning by A-Ha... erm. Good Morning by the Beatles. Pure Morning by Placebo, which is, of course, balls.
 
 
Tsuga
09:20 / 03.03.08
Good morning, beautiful, by the the, Morning is a long way home by Leo Kottke, Wake Up by XTC (I'm really starting to date myself here, so) or Dr. Dog or Arcade Fire, Nick Drake's From the morning, Joni Mitchell's Chelsea Morning, Bob Marley's Misty Morning, crap, I know there are more, and more recent ones, it's just too early.
 
 
Jawsus-son Starship
09:44 / 03.03.08
Tell Me in the Morning by the Cold War Kids works. I guess Red Morning Light by the Kings of Leon works too, if only because it has morning in the title. I've been tired by the Pixies doesn't fit, but should.
 
 
jentacular dreams
10:11 / 03.03.08
The Boo Radleys "Wake Up Boo!" is usually a good tip, or would be if they hadn't been horrifically overplayed (is this still going on, or has it been left alone of late?). Obviously depends whether you've had enough of it to last a lifetime or not.

There's also "Hello Sunshine" by the SFA, and the Beatles "Here Comes the Sun", which for me is a very morningy song.
 
 
Saint Keggers
11:22 / 03.03.08
I recommend Faith No More's cover of Lionel Richie's Easy (like sunday morning), Cat Steven's Morning Has Broken and Kris Kristofferson's Sunday Morning Coming Down
 
 
grant
12:23 / 03.03.08
Tooth Fairy & The Princess by Husker Du, which seems to be stream of consciousness psychedelia at the moment of waking - not quite willing to accept that it's time to rise.

Angel of the Morning has been covered numerous times by numerous artists, but is still a virulent earworm. Juice Newton sounds canonic to me, but hers was just another cover.

Wake Up, Little Susie probably came out around the same time the original "Angel of the Morning" did, and is a favorite of the President of the United States in our long national nightmare.

The middle bit of A Day in the Life is also about waking up out of a dream, falling back into a dream and sounds like a busy morning. Of course, it's wrapped in OTHER.

Too Much to Dream Last Night by the Electric Prunes is similar in theme - whoah. What did I do last night? Sunday Morning Coming Down (mentioned above) is a much milder version of this - the Electric Prunes were still a little wired and panicky, while Kristofferson was just taking it easy and settling into that pleasant sledgehammer exhaustion.
 
 
Jack Fear
13:43 / 03.03.08
For an even more paranoid, freaked-out vibe than the Electric Prunes, try the Butthole Surfers' "Who Was In My Room Last Night?"

"Tuesday Morning," by the Pogues, of course. Lovely song—wistful and sweet. The one good thing they did post-MacGowan—and it's impossible to imagine them doing it while he was still in the band; his whole persona was predicated on the heartbreak lurking inside every joy. I imagine they had to exorcise his presence from the band before Spider Stacy could reach into his trunk of unrecorded songs and lay down something so purely optimistic.

Razorlight are (like Placebo) probably shit, but I still sing along with "In The Morning."

"Touch Me In The Morning" is originally by Diana Ross, I think—there's a nice reggae version by John Holt that's worth seeking out.

"Into Brooklyn, Early In The Morning," by The Innocence Mission, captures that magic hour when the streets are empty, when it seems like the city is waiting for you: "Beautiful life, full of grieving / so will sing the Russian choir / They will sing in the square / as you come down /through the Brooklyn air to the ground." The music sounds a bit like "Sunday Morning," too, which I think is no coincidence.

There's a traditional Cherokee chant that translates "I am of the Great Spirit"—there's a gorgeous arrangement of it on Robbie Robertson's soundtrack for the documentary The Native Americans, where it's sung by Rita Coolidge. It appears under the title "Cherokee Morning Song."

My favorite morning song of all, though, is probably David Baerwald's "Brand New Morning." It comes near the end of his album Triage; it's a fiercely political record, its lyrics a catalog of horrors and existential dread, of power, corruption, and lies—until the closing, which holds out the possibility of solace in simplicity, in honesty, and, yeah, maybe love. A snippet:

A woman's asleep in the bedroom
A man is prowling up and down the hall
Coffee brewing in the new machine
He'll be making eggs and all

She's going to college, she's gonna get a degree
She knows one thing now—she knows she loves me
We could get married, we could be so happy
The truth wouldn't be like we were covering up


...all to a groove that's gentle but sturdy. It may not look like much on paper, but in context it feels hugely redemptive.
 
 
All Acting Regiment
15:03 / 03.03.08
I can't remember the title, but surely

Wake me up
Before you go-go...
 
 
Mistoffelees
17:09 / 03.03.08
I´ve looked through my mp3s and found some songs, that might fit as morning songs.

There is Tim Buckley´s song "Morning Glory", which might be about the drug, but still has a nice atmosphere of the early morning hours.

Then there is Radiohead - Morning Bell, which like the Buckley song starts with the lighting of a candle, so early morning it is!

Eighteenth Day of May has two songs about morning on their self titled record: "Cold Early Morning" and "Monday Morning's No Good Coming Down", both wonderful but I couldn´t find anything on youtube.

Another acoustic (only guitar) morning song is John Ritter´s "Morning Is A Long Way Down", which sounds a bit selfpitiying and Leonhard Cohen wannabe.

More fun is My Morning Jacket rock song "Easy Morning Rebel", with trumpets and greater than life lyrics, "Well the easy mornin rebel, well he has come.
Come down from heaven, all bathed in sun".

And I´ll mention my favourite group Phish with Silent In The Morning. A very laid back song, that has a quick pace at the same time, and they are singing in canon.

And for some harder music, there is always the Spiritual Beggars with their Stoner Rock song "Until The Morning". That song can even wake the neighbours.

And how could this list be ever complete without Good Morning Starshine from Hair?! The Earth says Hello!
 
 
Janean Patience
17:47 / 03.03.08
I used to be very found of a house song by Rollo, of Faithless, which was under the name Rollo Goes Spiritual and featured Pauline Taylor singing. It begins beautifully: In the morning... when you're feeling so tired..." I think it was called Let This Be My Prayer.
 
 
grant
13:27 / 05.03.08
There's a song by an American-sounding band - possibly on Unrest's label, or an Unrest side project - called whatever "An Episode of Love in the Morning" is in French.

I can't find it on Google - it's all whispered lyrics between a man and a woman in the Serge Gainsbourg vein.

Funnily enough, looking for it turns up "How D'you Like Your Eggs in the Morning?" by Dean Martin.

My French also isn't existent enough to know if "7 Heurs du Matin" by Jacqueline Taieb is really about the morning or about the hours before morning. It certainly sounds like an all-night party - oh, that page has an English version! It's about it being 7 in the morning, alright. And her toothbrush.
 
 
HCE
17:46 / 05.03.08
1st of Tha Month, by Bone Thugs-N-Harmony?

Wake up, wake up, wake up
It's the first of the month
So cash your checks and get up
It's the first of the month

(from memory, apologies for errors)
 
 
at the scarwash
17:51 / 05.03.08
Although I haven't listened to it in ages, Spiritualized's "Medication" is a pretty chipper up and at 'em tune.

Also, a long time favorite of mine is Austin, TX world music magpies Poi Dog Pondering's"Postcard From a Dream", with its insipid-yet-catchy coda of "Breakfast, good morning everybody/The sun is up, and there's lots of toast and jelly."
 
 
Fist Fun
07:24 / 07.03.08
Thanks everyone. Great stuff. Discoevered some cool stuff there. Love the Jacqueline Taieb one. Never heard of her before.
 
 
grant
14:18 / 07.03.08
First heard her on a Barbelith mix CD, actually. And she turned up on Rizla's "Stereo Sanctity," too.

She should have honorary membership, because of that song being great.
 
 
TeN
18:18 / 07.03.08
Japanther - "Mornings"
 
 
Jack Fear
18:50 / 07.03.08
Because...? Which sounds like...? Which has a video that you can watch...? Which you can hear at...? The lyrics of which are...?

It's morning: WAKE UP.
 
 
astrojax69
09:25 / 23.03.08
special aka's 'friday night, saturday morning'? more a night song, really, but it does end in the morning...

'morning has broken'? cat's classic.
 
 
johnny enigma
19:10 / 23.03.08
Do I win special credability points for mentioning "Good Morning" by the Dandy Warhols?

*gnaws own leg off for foolishly trying to gain credability with a Dandy Warhols' reference*
 
 
This Sunday
19:41 / 23.03.08
Bob Dylan's got Meet Me in the Morning and As I Went Out One Morning.

The Pillow's have Beautiful Morning With You and Another Morning.

I just listened to Primal Scream do Some Velvet Morning, there's Pulp's Monday Morning, and the Pogues have Misty Morning, Albert Bridge.

The Kinks' Love Me Till The Sun Shines is arguably about morning.
 
 
astrojax69
06:37 / 24.03.08
dang, clean forgot - THE best morning song, ian dury's 'wake up and make love'


desmond dekker's 'israelites' is also a bit of a morning song: "get up in the morning/slaving for bread..."


and ub40's fabulous 'sitting in a bus stop' is another one. "seven on a monday morning/ and it's a sunny day..." although it gets a bit less happy from there.


and has no-one mentioned maureen mcgovern's '(there's got to be) a morning after'??


or the gap band's 'early in the morning'? i see early morning in your eyes.


oh, and kevin ayers' first psychadelic classic, which had syd barrett on, was 'singing a song in the morning'.


and dylan's album 'new morning' had an eponymous track. not sure this was one of his best albums, though. my brother in law has it, so i can't recall the year, etc (mebbe late 60's?)


then we've cold chisel's 'breakfast at sweethearts', which is an aussie rock classic. the coffee's hot and the toast is brown.


and there's the old country classic 'i did what i did for maria', about being hanged at dawn, but all for love, so's ok... sweet. [gotta love a song that rhymes 'fear' and 'maria']


or what about 'stay with me til dawn'? i know the version as a wicked beat sound system song but is a judy tzuke cover. anyone remember judy? she and mrs brady could be twins...


and while we're on 80's hairstyles, we can't forget juice newton's 'angel of the morning'. or maybe we can...


and there is neil diamond's 'morningside', of course (t'is a fantasy, pure fantasy, about an old man, who dies alone. but leaves a gift behind. and it is a fantasy)


is that enough??
 
  
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