Santa Monica Girl VS 2

Santa Monica Girl is a song recorded by the pop rock band The New Romantic Devils. It was built off a guitar riff by Archie Monroe. The song had several different evolutions during the writing process. It was a product of Hudson and Monroe ability to take songs and turn them inside out as they did with several of the covers they performed before they started working on original material. It has become a stable at their live performances. 
Recording and lyrics
Archie Monroe wrote Kiss this on acoustic guitar in the vein of The Who with a grunge feel. Keith Hudson helped him flesh it out and build off his driving lick that the sons is built around. Its subject matter is dealing with sexual frustration and how he felt about Holly. The song was first written in 2002 and recorded when the band was still performing under the 4pastmidnight moniker. The lyrics were originally written by Monroe and Hudson. The song was dug out of moth balls in February of 2003 with Holly Ridge taking the original lyrics and adding to them and changing where needed. The song was reworked with Archie focusing more on a harder edged electric guitar sound and more up-tempo. The song was re-recorded in April 2003. The song originally didn't have a solo in the middle of the song which was added. In September of 2003 the song was once again reapproached still not happy with the results. Holly suggested adding a piano intro to the beginning of the song to let it build and then go into the drive of the original lick and then get more up tempo. Archie suggested adding the acoustic guitar back in underneath the electric guitar to once again to sound like a Who song. When it was decided to cut down to final tracks for the album, they decided to keep version 1 and 2 recorded during the sessions. Version two was decided as the one to be released as a single.
Personnel
Archie Monroe-Lead Guitar (tracks 1-6, 8,9) Rhythm Guitar (tracks 7, 10-15) backing vocals all tracks
Keith Hudson -Lead Vocals (track 2) Drums all tracks
Holly Ridge-Lead Vocals (tracks 1, 3-15) Piano
Mike McCoy- Lead Guitar (tracks 7, 10-15) Rhythm all other tracks
Peyton Reed -Rhythm Guitar all tracks, backing vocals
Randy Mason-Bass all tracks, backing vocals
Produced by : The New Romantic Devils