― Lindsey Slowhand (Roger Fidelity), Sunday, 27 August 2006 00:11 (seventeen years ago) link
― Tim Ellison (Tim Ellison), Sunday, 27 August 2006 00:22 (seventeen years ago) link
So if all one knows of The Monks is "Complication," where does one go from there?
― Dan Heilman (The Deacon), Sunday, 27 August 2006 00:36 (seventeen years ago) link
― GOD PUNCH TO HAWKWIND (yournullfame), Sunday, 27 August 2006 02:21 (seventeen years ago) link
― Dan Heilman (The Deacon), Sunday, 27 August 2006 03:14 (seventeen years ago) link
as much as i like 'black monk time' i somewhat agree, at least with the recontextualising of them going a bit overboard
great article as usual, Pete
― =[[ (eman), Sunday, 27 August 2006 03:15 (seventeen years ago) link
-one is by a different band with the same name-one is an collection of Black Monk Time demos-one is a live album recorded in 1999
Therefore, the winner is...the one that appears first on the search page, has all the reviews, and is described as a "reissue of their sole album". When researching artists you're not familiar with, try AMG instead of Amazon; everything is organized much more clearly.
― musically (musically), Sunday, 27 August 2006 03:54 (seventeen years ago) link
Maybe listen to the album again--most of the seven or so classic songs don't take right away. Watching the videos might help:
The Monks vids from YouTube - Classic or Dud?
Otherwise just remember that people on here hate the Clash or dislike James Brown, too, so there's always room for not getting something that's plainly obviously great to my ears...
― Pete Scholtes (Pete Scholtes), Monday, 28 August 2006 01:23 (seventeen years ago) link
― Pete Scholtes (Pete Scholtes), Monday, 28 August 2006 07:10 (seventeen years ago) link
― mark grout (mark grout), Tuesday, 29 August 2006 07:31 (seventeen years ago) link
www.posteverything.com had the info.
― Charles Daraghy (BearTunes), Friday, 22 September 2006 19:52 (seventeen years ago) link
http://blogs.citypages.com/pscholtes/2006/10/the_monks_reuni.asp
― Pete Scholtes (Pete Scholtes), Monday, 9 October 2006 21:52 (seventeen years ago) link
― Hoosteen (Hoosteen), Monday, 9 October 2006 23:55 (seventeen years ago) link
― mark grout (mark grout), Tuesday, 10 October 2006 11:52 (seventeen years ago) link
― i am not a nugget (stevie), Tuesday, 10 October 2006 15:09 (seventeen years ago) link
― mark grout (mark grout), Monday, 6 November 2006 12:30 (seventeen years ago) link
― i am not a nugget (stevie), Monday, 6 November 2006 14:37 (seventeen years ago) link
― Raw Patrick (Raw Patrick), Monday, 6 November 2006 14:37 (seventeen years ago) link
― Pete Scholtes, Saturday, 28 April 2007 02:02 (seventeen years ago) link
― NYCNative, Saturday, 28 April 2007 14:20 (seventeen years ago) link
― Pete Scholtes, Sunday, 29 April 2007 03:28 (seventeen years ago) link
Here's that article at the top again, since the link is broken, ugh:
Living Like a Monk: How Minnesota musicians revived '60s rockers the Monkshttp://www.citypages.com/2006-08-16/movies/living-like-a-monk/all
― Pete Scholtes, Friday, 20 March 2009 01:54 (fifteen years ago) link
By the way the DVD is coming out on May 5th in the US:Amazon Link
― NYCNative, Friday, 3 April 2009 05:26 (fifteen years ago) link
They're showing this in the cinema next to me tonight at an 11 o'clock screening with a Monks cover band on first, but I have a cold. Bah
― Chewshabadoo, Friday, 3 April 2009 14:49 (fifteen years ago) link
this was on sundance last night! awesome.
― GÖTT DAT SCHING (GOTT PUNCH II HAWKWINDZ), Saturday, 2 May 2009 14:06 (fifteen years ago) link
I gotta see it.
― invitation to rabies (╓abies), Saturday, 2 May 2009 14:25 (fifteen years ago) link
Pretty depressing to see them now.
― Reatards Unite, Saturday, 2 May 2009 15:05 (fifteen years ago) link
Why, because people get old?
― Pete Scholtes, Saturday, 2 May 2009 19:42 (fifteen years ago) link
Damn that was a pretty cool movie. I knew nothing at all about the Monks (besides their music) going into it and the general idea you get coming out is that these were totally regular guys that liked rock 'n' roll and had lots of chops and got to participate in a German Mad Scientist's anti-pop experiment. It's great cos their music is so insane yet they come across as the most down-to-earth, dorky, unpretentious people on the planet.
The only sad part of this movie for me was at the end when they were doing the reunion show and they'd interview someone who'd say 'It's funny that they are looking at all this attention they are getting now and wondering, why the big fuss?' Cos a good half-hour of the documentary is about how they basically broke up cos nobody liked their music, they got constantly heckled, wrong place wrong time, etc. If they've all resigned themselves to not making a big deal of the Monks in their new lives it's understandable since they got a lot of shit for it at the time....
I loved the section where they talk about the managers and how they'd come in and tell them to take a song down from five chords to two chords or one chord, and take the lyrics from 15 words to 3 words. I don't know if they remastered the tunes for this movie but they sound more amazing than I've ever heard.
Plus, the DVD comes with the full Beat Club and Beat Beat Beat TV performances! Plus it's on Netflix!!
― Adam Bruneau, Thursday, 11 June 2009 14:41 (fourteen years ago) link