For those who have followed me and my band Cry Ugly through the years: yes, you’ve spotted it well, this is ‘Monica’, the same song that we’ve released on our first album ‘Book Of Dreams’. The song that once went straight to number one in the Westpop Top 10, and stayed there for weeks on end. The same song.
Except, this version is a remake. I was never really happy with my lead vocals on the old version and with the fact that it started too slow to my liking and then only further on started to get the right amount of energy. Oh well. Not a lot of other people seemed to bother with it. Just me. 
But anyway, I redid the whole thing, if only for myself. I only used, in a sliced-up-kind-of-way, the organ-part old-Cry Ugly bandmember Erwin once played on a rehearsal recording, because I really liked the sounds.
It’s a rocking song I still think. Hope you like it too….
Hey! I'm Andrew Vroomans. A singer/songwriter/producer from Amsterdam, The Netherlands. In Europe, that is. It feels like I have been writing and singing songs about life and love and emotions since birth. These days I even do that professionally. The musical thing, not birth.... I love playing either my own songs, or those tons of great magical songs that have been written in the past 50-odd years. The songs I write are in whichever style I feel fits the songs' subjects best. Melody and harmony and atmospheres and words are my means to get the stories across. I perform and record these songs both solo and with my bands The Rodberries and Cry Ugly.
Song: Monica (2008)
Dec 1st
4 Comments
And what wonderful organs & parts I possess! The endless and unstopable tweaking-urge makes you a true MASTER.
Hi Andrew,
I just heard your song "Monica" for the first time, and … well, loved it! Thanks for brightening my day!
Best, Monica
Hi Monica,
Thanks for your comment. I love brightening people’s days and I’m happy you like my song!
Cheers, Andrew
thanks for writing a song with my name in it
i don’t think there’s very many out there =)