Question

This band’s song “Creeque Alley” [“creaky alley”] details their founding in the Virgin Islands and ends each verse claiming that “no one's getting fat except” one member of this group. (15[1])An album by this band features an often-censored toilet bowl on the cover and shows this band sitting together in a bathtub. Denny Doherty claims the title day is “so good to me” and (*) “everything I thought it would be'' in a song by (10[1])this band. Another song by this band with the lyrics “I got down on my knees, and I pretend to pray” (10[2])is played 8 times in Chungking Express; (10[2])that song repeats the line “all the leaves are brown”. (-5[1])For 10 points, what folk rock band behind the songs “Monday, Monday” and “California Dreamin’” (10[1])is named for two plural parental figures? ■END■ (10[1])

ANSWER: the Mamas and the Papas (the album is If You Can Believe Your Eyes and Ears)
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