The Monks Formed in the early '60s by American G.I.s stationed in Germany. After their discharge, the group settled in Germany to concentrate on finding a unique sound, and soon began to shave their hair into Monk's
tonsures and appear in
cassocks. One of the truely
original bands of the 60's, The Monks are now often refered to as '
proto-punk'. The Monks
experimented fervently, developing a unqiue sound, with heavy bass, repetitive but amelodic rhythms, nursery rhyme style, yet
powerful vocals and a
good helping of feedback. They recorded only one albumn,
Black Monk Time, until their
1999 reunion.
Hear some tracks from the albumn (in realmedia),
See and hear The Monks Live in Germany, Also, check out
Monks - The Transatlantic Feedback, a documentary (with
trailer, though there seems to be something wrong with it).
[Trivia: the song I Hate You can be heard in the background in one scene in the bowling alley in The Big Lebowski]
posted by MetaMonkey
on Apr 21, 2006 -
24 comments
Trappist Ale.
(warning, music on first link.) The six Belgian breweries
Achel (little English),
Chimay,
Orval,
Rochefort (unofficial site),
Westmalle (no English), and
Westvleteren, along with the Dutch brewery
De Konigshoeven/
La Trappe (first is English link to monastery, second is non-English brewery site.) are the only recognized producers of
Trappist beers, although
the latter was only recently granted the appellation after several years without it. Ranging from the relatively commercial and large-scale operations of
Chimay and
La Trappe to the other extreme of
Westvleteren, who want to live quietly and
don't want their beer distributed, these beers are considered some of the
best in the world.
posted by TheOnlyCoolTim
on Mar 4, 2006 -
38 comments
Long ago in the town of Palermo in Sicily some monks got together and decided that they wanted to start praying to one of their own after he had passed to the Great Beyond
so they embalmed him. Four hundred years and 8,000 corpses later you can see
the Capuchin Catacombs for yourself.
posted by euphorb
on Jul 11, 2004 -
18 comments
