http://www.metafilter.com/tags/tonsure Posts tagged with 'tonsure' at MetaFilter. Fri, 21 Apr 2006 15:44:39 -0800 Fri, 21 Apr 2006 15:44:39 -0800 en-us http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/tech/rss 60 http://www.metafilter.com/51088/Black%2DMonk%2DTime <a href="http://www.the-monks.com/">The Monks</a> <br /><a href="http://www.allmusic.com/cg/amg.dll?p=amg&sql=11:mmbyxdgbjoly~T1">Formed in the early '60s by American G.I.s stationed in Germany</a>. 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 <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tonsure">tonsures</a> and appear in <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cassock">cassocks</a>. One of the truely <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_monks#The_group.27s_sound">original</a> bands of the 60's, The Monks are now often refered to as '<a href="http://www.poptones.co.uk/index.php?/questions_of_doom/more/the_monks/">proto-punk</a>'. The Monks <a href="http://www.the-monks.com/year1.htm">experimented</a> fervently, developing a unqiue sound, with heavy bass, repetitive but amelodic rhythms, nursery rhyme style, yet <a href="http://www.electrovoice.com/Electrovoice3/endorsements.nsf/allpages/D924EFEBCD7AB56186256FD200664363">powerful vocals</a> and a <a href="http://www.the-monks.com/feedback.htm">good helping of feedback</a>. They recorded only one albumn, <a href="http://http://www.the-monks.com/review_bmt2.htm">Black Monk Time</a>, until their <a href="http://www.roctober.com/roctober/greatness/monks.html">1999</a> <a href="http://members.aol.com/Shake6677/DFmonks.html">reunion</a>.<br /><a href="http://www.the-monks.com/sounds.htm">Hear some tracks from the albumn</a> (in realmedia), <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Mu8qGjUfpTw&search=the%20monks%20live">See and hear The Monks</a> <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T8zEqCB0KOE&search=the%20monks%20live">Live in Germany</a>, Also, check out <a href="http://www.playloud.org/monks.html">Monks - The Transatlantic Feedback</a>, a documentary (with <a href="http://www.playloud.org/sound/Monkstrailer.mov">trailer</a>, though there seems to be something wrong with it). <small>[Trivia: the song <a href="http://www.last.fm/music/The+Monks/_/I+Hate+You">I Hate You</a> can be heard in the background in one scene in the bowling alley in The Big Lebowski]</small> tag:metafilter.com,2006:site.51088 Fri, 21 Apr 2006 15:44:39 -0800 bass dada feedback germany gi ihateyou insanity monk monks punk themonks tonsure MetaMonkey