Shall assume its temporary for now.
Anyhow, after getting and seeing most if not all of what's available, has it coloured your appreciation of them?
I guess, after hearing the "Five Upstart Americans" and the reunion live one, I decided they were less the "punk band 20 years too early" and more "American bar band got lucky", based on the tracks "Hushi Pushi" and the (so far unheared but well described in the book) "Don't (ha-ha)".
So, the videos are more of the 'smile when performing' school, but then again there's the 'sling the guitar on the floor and we all pick at it' deconstruction on the prelude to "Oh how to do now"
Mind you, there's no call for Mr M.Ellen to describe "Cuckoo" as "the worst abomination ever recorded", although it is admittedly my least favourite Monks track.
But, in the end, classic. Even if only so we can see exactly what it was all about.
― mark grout (mark grout), Tuesday, 21 March 2006 09:04 (eighteen years ago) link
― Harpal (harpal), Tuesday, 21 March 2006 09:35 (eighteen years ago) link
― scott seward (scott seward), Tuesday, 21 March 2006 10:47 (eighteen years ago) link
― mark grout (mark grout), Tuesday, 21 March 2006 10:53 (eighteen years ago) link
― baby, disco is fuck (yournullfame), Tuesday, 21 March 2006 11:45 (eighteen years ago) link
― scott seward (scott seward), Tuesday, 21 March 2006 12:20 (eighteen years ago) link
― Dan Selzer (Dan Selzer), Tuesday, 21 March 2006 14:19 (eighteen years ago) link
― mark grout (mark grout), Tuesday, 21 March 2006 14:21 (eighteen years ago) link
CLAAASSSIIC
― c@md3n (c@md3n), Tuesday, 21 March 2006 14:23 (eighteen years ago) link
― frenchbloke (frenchbloke), Tuesday, 21 March 2006 14:48 (eighteen years ago) link
― TRG (TRG), Tuesday, 21 March 2006 15:35 (eighteen years ago) link
'ave some!
― mark grout (mark grout), Tuesday, 21 March 2006 15:58 (eighteen years ago) link
cobra killer sampled a couple of monks songs on their 76/77 cd, though not that specific thing.
― baby, disco is fuck (yournullfame), Tuesday, 21 March 2006 17:29 (eighteen years ago) link
― sleeve (sleeve), Tuesday, 21 March 2006 17:34 (eighteen years ago) link
― mark grout (mark grout), Tuesday, 21 March 2006 17:35 (eighteen years ago) link
― charlie bucket (charlie bucket), Tuesday, 21 March 2006 18:17 (eighteen years ago) link
― mark grout (mark grout), Tuesday, 21 March 2006 18:52 (eighteen years ago) link
― sleep (sleep), Friday, 24 March 2006 05:31 (eighteen years ago) link
also declares them the 'missing link' and refers to their songs, among other phrases, as an 'acid West Side Story'
― nervous (cochere), Friday, 24 March 2006 05:52 (eighteen years ago) link
― nervous (cochere), Friday, 24 March 2006 05:53 (eighteen years ago) link
― chad (chad), Friday, 24 March 2006 06:26 (eighteen years ago) link
Get one Google: http://www.the-monks.com/
Utterly 100% classic
― The Equator Lounge (Chris Barrus), Saturday, 25 March 2006 02:42 (eighteen years ago) link
― Harpal (harpal), Saturday, 25 March 2006 06:52 (eighteen years ago) link
-- Dan Selzer
sooo sooo sooo OTM
― i am not a nugget (stevie), Saturday, 25 March 2006 16:46 (eighteen years ago) link
Then I read the band's website from start to finish, laughing at some of the stories like how they "invented" feedback, and how they intentionally wanted to remove melody from music and I realize, that I am in the presence of a band that anticipated all of the dissonant music that I would come to love and do it a few years before I was born.
I sent a clip to my dad who used to have a hell of a record collection. I hope he likes it.
I sent a clip to a lifelong friend who was the punk rocker in high school to my metalhead and she responded thusly:
"and this is why I love you too! you send me awesomeshit like this. guess what just got added to myamazon wish list?!
a totally golden nugget! Thanks."
My only regret is that it took me this long to find out about this wonderful band.
Anyone who says dud is the enemy.
― Brian O'Neill (NYCNative), Monday, 24 April 2006 16:35 (eighteen years ago) link
― M@tt He1geson (Matt Helgeson), Monday, 24 April 2006 17:26 (eighteen years ago) link
― NYCNative, Monday, 2 April 2007 18:22 (seventeen years ago) link
― Mr. Que, Monday, 2 April 2007 18:25 (seventeen years ago) link
― Bimble, Monday, 2 April 2007 18:30 (seventeen years ago) link
― NYCNative, Monday, 2 April 2007 18:38 (seventeen years ago) link
― NYCNative, Monday, 2 April 2007 18:48 (seventeen years ago) link
― Pye Poudre, Monday, 2 April 2007 18:53 (seventeen years ago) link
― NYCNative, Saturday, 28 April 2007 14:22 (sixteen years ago) link
― ENBB, Saturday, 2 May 2009 14:00 (fourteen years ago) link
LOL oh shit wrong link. One sec . . .
Lol I didn't scroll down far enough to see the second link and just played the cat one. At first I was like "heyyyyy!....aw who am I foolin thassa pretty good trick, Erica."
But yea then I saw the other vid.
― invitation to rabies (╓abies), Saturday, 2 May 2009 14:48 (fourteen years ago) link
Monk Chanthttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-5iI0__9S1c
― Leopard Skin POLL-Box Hat (James Redd and the Blecchs), Saturday, 2 February 2013 22:57 (eleven years ago) link
Yes.
― Mark G, Saturday, 2 February 2013 23:09 (eleven years ago) link
Complicationhttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=feMvRfOQC50
― Leopard Skin POLL-Box Hat (James Redd and the Blecchs), Saturday, 2 February 2013 23:13 (eleven years ago) link
"Monk Chant" followed by "How To Do Now" is like seeing God.
― Loud guitars shit all over "Bette Davis Eyes" (NYCNative), Saturday, 2 February 2013 23:54 (eleven years ago) link
they were co-billed with Manfred Mann on the TV show!
Beat - Beat - Beat, Show #9 Gymnasium of the American Highschool, Frankfurt am Main, Germany first aired November 16, 1966 Chapters: 01 [show intro] 02 [show host mal sondock] 03 Les Knack Serre-Moi La Main 04 Les Knack The Power Of Love 05 [show host mal sondock talks to cherry wainer] 06 Cherry Wainer & Don Storer Happy Organ 07 [show host mal sondock] 08 The Monks Complication 09 The Monks I Can't Get Over You 10 [show host mal sondock] 11 Chris Farlowe Out Of Time 12 [show host mal sondock talks to chris farlowe] 13 [q&a with chris and phil] 14 The Monks Coockoo 15 [show host mal sondock] 16 Cherry Wainer & Don Storer Love For Sale 17 [show host mal sondock] 18 Manfred Mann (feat. Klaus Voormann) The Nitty Gritty 19 Manfred Mann (feat. Klaus Voormann) You Don't Know Me 20 [show host mal sondock talks to manfred mann and klaus voormann] 21 [q&a with manfred, klaus and ingrid] 22 [show host mal sondock talks to chris farlowe] 23 Chris Farlowe Ride On Baby 24 [show host mal sondock] 25 Manfred Mann Semi-Detached Suburban Mr. James 26 Manfred Mann Hound Dog
― sleeve, Sunday, 3 February 2013 06:47 (eleven years ago) link
Is that entire show available somewhere?
― Emperor Cos Dashit (Adam Bruneau), Sunday, 3 February 2013 18:07 (eleven years ago) link
I have a DVD, feel free to PM me but I am really really lazy about trades so take that into account.
originally it was on D1mead0zen.
― sleeve, Sunday, 3 February 2013 18:19 (eleven years ago) link
still one of the greatest fucking things i've ever seen, it will absolutely never get old
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Bic0lgcEjY4
― global tetrahedron, Thursday, 10 March 2022 16:07 (two years ago) link
the broken links in this thread make me think i need to get these videos into my dropbox for my own protection
these videos are really THE monks to me. their record is great but this footage gives you the full story
is the bassists book any good? i'm sure it is
― global tetrahedron, Thursday, 10 March 2022 16:08 (two years ago) link
I liked it
― Mark G, Thursday, 10 March 2022 16:14 (two years ago) link
It's really good, let's say so.
Were they actually playing live on Beat Club? I know shows like that are almost always mimed but thought I heard a little feedback and there’re was a bit at the beginning where it looked like a microphone wasn’t on.
― Otto Insurance (Boring, Maryland), Thursday, 10 March 2022 17:54 (two years ago) link
Black Monk Time, The Book, is grebt.
― Mardi Gras Mambo Sun (James Redd and the Blecchs), Thursday, 10 March 2022 18:03 (two years ago) link