Table of contents

1 Track listing 2 Credits 3 Trivia 4 External Links

Track listing

Black Francis - vocals, guitar
Kim Deal - bass guitar (slide guitar on "Silver")
Joey Santiago - lead guitar, backing vocals
David Lovering - drums (lead vocal on "La La Love You", bass guitar on "Silver")

Produced and Engineered by Gil Norton
Assistant Engineers: Dave Snider and Matt Lane
Mixing Engineer: Steve Haigler
Recorded at Downtown Records, Boston, M.A
Mixed at Carriage House Studios, Stamford, C.T
All songs written by Black Francis
except "Silver" (Black Francis/Kim Deal)
Published by Rice 'n' Beans Music BMI

Additional musicians on Monkey:
Karen Karlsrud - violin   Corine Metter - violin
Arthur Fiacco - cello     Ann Rorich - cello
Art Direction and Design: Vaughan Oliver/v23
Photography: Simon Larbalestier
Managed by Ken Goes, Box 9515, North Dartmouth
M.a 02746, United States of America

• The first track, "Debaser", references a short surrealist silent film, Un Chien Andalou, made in 1928 by Luis Buñuel and Salvador Dalí:
  • The song's lyrics, "I am un chien andalusia", mix
    • part of the French movie title,
    • the English name of the place Andalusia that Andalou ("Andalusian") pertains to, and
    • a Spanish pronunciation of "Un".
  • The lyrics "Slicing up eyeballs, I want you to know" refer to the first scene of the movie. (That scene's visuals imply that a woman's eye is cut with a razor, and it is often recalled as actually protraying the cut.)
  • The line "Got me a movie, I want you to know" reinforces both of these parallels by its explicit mention of film.

• Doolittle lyrics