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#182
Two vast and trunkless legs of stone / Re: The Monks: a discordian band?
October 28, 2010, 05:32:18 PMQuote from: LMNO, PhD on October 28, 2010, 05:23:24 AM
NO COPYRIGHT ON ANTI-MAINSTREAM. MINIMALISM AND ICONOCLASM IN WEST GERMANY =\= DISCORDIAN INFLUENCE.
I like the Monks, a lot. But you're fully entrenched in the Law of Fives right now.
ok ok point taken
#183
Two vast and trunkless legs of stone / Re: The Monks: a discordian band?
October 28, 2010, 01:13:46 AM
Hi again, like i always am, a late reply:
Well, that's your opinion, I just can't get over it, for example, the beat when "oh how to do now" ends, or the psychedelia in the middle part of "love can tame the wild"
well, obviously, as the principia says, being discordian has no definition... but i mean, the style of the music, being ordered by a steady, repetitive beat, and at the same time being disordered and messed up. Also the lyrics! Definitely not taking themselves too seriously, plus the "higgledypiggledy" direct reference.
yeaaaah
Anyway, to sum up, it's either the influence of the time they came together, or their creators were somehow influenced by the principia... (they knew a guy who knew a guy...)
I go for the second one, it's more fun
Granny Smith
Quote from: E.O.T. on October 16, 2010, 07:56:20 AM
THE MONKS
The 'Monks' were designed to be an alternative. Giving them the labels of 'fathers' of anything really, is absolutely stretching their influence, i think.
Well, that's your opinion, I just can't get over it, for example, the beat when "oh how to do now" ends, or the psychedelia in the middle part of "love can tame the wild"
Quote from: Doktor Howl on October 19, 2010, 04:55:40 AM
How do you define a "discordian band"?
well, obviously, as the principia says, being discordian has no definition... but i mean, the style of the music, being ordered by a steady, repetitive beat, and at the same time being disordered and messed up. Also the lyrics! Definitely not taking themselves too seriously, plus the "higgledypiggledy" direct reference.
Quote from: Cramulus on October 19, 2010, 04:31:47 AM
SWEET MERCIFUL FUCK
DOUBLE DACTYLS
(ALL THE WAY)
yeaaaah
Anyway, to sum up, it's either the influence of the time they came together, or their creators were somehow influenced by the principia... (they knew a guy who knew a guy...)
I go for the second one, it's more fun
Granny Smith
#184
Two vast and trunkless legs of stone / The Monks: a discordian band?
October 16, 2010, 07:03:45 AM
Hi,
I'm talking about the 60s revolutionary band, the Monks (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_monks). Comprised of 5 american former soldiers left back in Germany in the mid 60s, their philosophy was constructed by "a pair of loopy existentialist visionaries". Apart from being the fathers of punk, techno, etc., they influenced later bands like the Beastie Boys, Jello Biafra of the Dead Kennedys, The White Stripes, etc..
So if you listen to their only album, "black monk time" it is I think a collection of very discordian songs. Take for example "higgledy piggledy" (http://www.myspace.com/music/the-monks-6801749/songs/higgledypiggledy-2949587). Higgledy Piggledy in English means 'in confusion or disorder', and the only other lyrics of this song are "Way down, to heaven, yeah!". And Principia Discordia's heaven is down.
So my question is rather technical: does anybody have information to the discordian nature of the Monks? I mean, is it accidental or were their "designers" discordians or what?
merci, granny smith
I'm talking about the 60s revolutionary band, the Monks (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_monks). Comprised of 5 american former soldiers left back in Germany in the mid 60s, their philosophy was constructed by "a pair of loopy existentialist visionaries". Apart from being the fathers of punk, techno, etc., they influenced later bands like the Beastie Boys, Jello Biafra of the Dead Kennedys, The White Stripes, etc..
So if you listen to their only album, "black monk time" it is I think a collection of very discordian songs. Take for example "higgledy piggledy" (http://www.myspace.com/music/the-monks-6801749/songs/higgledypiggledy-2949587). Higgledy Piggledy in English means 'in confusion or disorder', and the only other lyrics of this song are "Way down, to heaven, yeah!". And Principia Discordia's heaven is down.
So my question is rather technical: does anybody have information to the discordian nature of the Monks? I mean, is it accidental or were their "designers" discordians or what?
merci, granny smith