The Monks- Shut Up

[@portzblitz]

Gary is my great uncle. I'm super proud to see all this fanfare.

[@majhavicsir]

Hello! I feel the same way. The Monks deserve all the recognition they can get. I am also related to one of them. Dave , the banjo player is my dad.

[@invaderjaymz]

@@majhavicsir I listened to them with my 3 year old son whose name is Gary. I pointed out the member who shared his name and he was so pleased. I put the modern lovers on for him and the vibrators. He seems to really like the old garage rock type of stuff

[@dj-um7el]

Nice!!!

[@dj-um7el]

@@majhavicsir noice

[@famousbastard5344]

thanks garys grand nephew

[@Red1Eyed3Devil]

RIP Gary Burger, you were a true pioneer.

[@MSTFreak]

I am shocked a band this obscure is popular. It's awesome. These are the darkest corners of recorded music.

[@ihatememes3131]

elevators fan?

[@heinklug2655]

😂

[@annakelman6627]

How have I not heard this beauty doing the rounds in my psychedelic life?? 😂❤

[@SylentEcho]

These guys are one of the main reasons we have Garage Rock in it's current incarnation. Insanely ahead of their time.

[@Daniel-ts3uy]

Great name for a tune. The Monks, great name for a band.

[@sidDkid87]

*"don't talk unless you can improve the silence."* ~ jorge luis borges

[@denneker]

I just can't fuckin' believe this band recorded this music and the album it belongs to in 1966...

[@rockohale9858]

Even crazier, it was recorded late 1965.

[@alnjgove8uifjbkelbfg]

i bow before the monks and their awesome music.its a crime that they're so underrated

[@marcfedak]

Thanks vcanales 1 for posting this excellent garage psychedelic monastic minimalist proto punk rock tune -- with banjo and Vox organ. It's like a cross between "Pow R Toch" by Pink Floyd, an NHL organ led hockey song, and monastic chants.

[@ehmunro]

It's just punk rock. The term was literally coined to describe the music of the Monks, the Sonics, the Seeds and all the rest of the great American underground music scene of the mid to late 60s. Rolling Stone sucks and we shouldn't be using their revisionist history.

[@marcfedak]

Thanks vcanales for posting this. The keyboard playing reminds me of early Soft Machine.

[@bradsmith6019]

I've been listenning to punk and classic rock for thirty years. I just started exploring proto-punk a few days ago. The Damned, The New York Dolls. I feel a like I've really been missing out, but I also feel like I just found a missed, unoppened christmas present behind the couch in the middle of June. I swear, anyone that complains of no good music anymore needs to just surf KZbin. The past has plenty of good music to explore. BTW, I primarily listen to current stoner rock bands, so there is still lots of good stuff being made.

[@AndreiaSSReis]

this sound is much more than some one can imagining. At the time when this band make this tipe of sound, there was nothing even similar. they are advanced in 20 years, or more...

[@kelechi_77]

There's still nothing like it in 2022

[@dj-um7el]

​@@kelechi_77 true

[@Nay-v8y]

Here because of the no dogs pod love finding these gems !!

[@vollsticks]

Playing an amplified banjo strung with pig-gut strings like a sort of caveman version of rhythm guitar. My god The Monks were SO BASED, and completely 'out of time'. Not 'AHEAD of their time'--just completely unmoored. Check out The Fall's version of Higgle-Dy-Piggle-Dye, possibly more unhinged than the original (Larry really dug it, apparently!). In an alternate world these guys are bigger than The Beatles

[@lazlokovacs2263]

"Got a reason to laugh, Got a reason to cry. Believing you're wise, And being so dumb. World is so worried, World is so worried. Be a liar everywhere, Shut up, don't cry!" The way they destroy an apparent pop melody and the content of the lyrics makes everything terribly dark.

[@iconicshrubbery]

F-ck the RnR Hall of Fame,bring on the Museum of Modern Art.....

[@tiborvivi]

This is totally awesome, unbelivable... #1!

[@christophernagy9002]

@portzblitz That's totally cool! One of my bandmates old bands "Stonegod" recorded one of their albums at Gary's studio in Minnesota over a decade ago. I met my bandmates when I moved to Eau Claire, WI. I LOVE The Monks, wickedly innovative & unique! Album sounds good, he's a great engineer. I'd love to record our bands album with Gary, if he still has his studio, I'd assume he does ;) Keep Rockin'!!

[@filipinobean]

Pure Genius!

[@trevorknapp2570]

Own a 2015 re print of this album on vinyl i love it ☺

[@patriciopinto7145]

I'm here thanks to the book "The Best Music You've Never Heard"

[@brianorakpohit]

Heard this album for the first time about a month ago. TOTALLY blew me away and I dont know how I hadnt even heard of them. They make the Beatles sound like a pub band.

[@dzyanist]

..thee beagles WERE a pub band.🎸🤡🎸

[@robertorick6383]

@@dzyanist Just imagine if The Beatles were still stuck at The Star Club or The Cavern instead of getting worldwide success, and they met The Monks. The Monks would have blown them off the stage.

[@Thatchersbastardchild]

When the Beatles were living /playing in Hamburg , on the other side of town the freaks were watching another band also residing in Hamburg yeahhhh the monks ✌️

[@fernandoy.narciso]

I could give an arm and a leg as this song was the inspiration for Wendy Carlo to write Clockwork Orange's theme song

[@GrouchyJelly]

The theme song for "A Clockwork Orange" is an excerpt from Music for the Funeral of Queen Mary. It was composed in 1695.

[@Dales815]

I found them on a documentary on Showtime. I began to seek them out on KZbin. I really can decide If they were influential, or just ahead of their time.

[@fayekerr6421]

that's the same thing...just enjoy the music!

[@nickwatson9746]

Also covered by The Fall. Shut Up!

[@EstTerminus]

Didnt know that cool. R.I.P. Mark

[@666UFO666]

GREAT TUNE!!!!!

[@MrBrainpan]

I cannot stop listening.... God these guys should be famous! What the hell happened?!

[@Soundeagle3456]

THE STONES AND DOORS AND BEATLES HAPPENED so yeah they had no chance in succeeding but I bet they blew their audiences away

[@christophervanzetta]

Too much acid bruhhh.

[@ronaldspies3876]

They are, among the people with music IQ's that reaches the heavens .

[@elconejito99]

Got a reason to love........ nice as song lalalalalala

[@bundolo48]

psychedelic punk 🤟

[@LordStompyHarpLoonyTunes]

Hell yeah! With added carnival weirdness

[@skaworld509]

Incredible band

[@soso-zz9qf]

They were formed on the basis that they didn't like rock at the time

[@heinklug2655]

Wrong! They were a concept band which was formed by the german art students Carl Remy and Walter Niemann out of a predecessor-band named The Torquays. The concept behind it was to create a band which was in every way and as much as possible the contrary to the Beatles. Or in short: the Anti-Beatles.

[@phicticious]

@TheForkedtoungue that's right. The little success (unfortunately) they had, happened entirely in Germany and they all returned to the States in '67, after they dissolved. There is a great documentary on the Monks called "The Transatlantic Feedback", definitely worth a watch.

[@steveslingeneyer]

i love this

[@hotchipco1]

DO THE CHA! CHA! CHA!

[@robertorick6383]

Perhaps the only time you can call a banjo a "punk" instrument. The US should have taken notice of this song when they were in the middle of a garage punk invasion. At the time only Germany took notice.

[@earshoes3282]

This is hilarious i love the sound

[@LordGodofMercy]

What a band

[@MrApacheRosePeacock]

too raw

[@likklej8]

Sadly Ive only had late issues and dodgy repro copies of that great album. Garage wonderment. Thanks

[@johnrossini3594]

cool tough early garage

[@xmax1212]

20 years ahead of their time.

[@keithleeuwen877]

Great !

[@glenmcculley9752]

Just stay together and in ten years you will headline your back up bands will be the Ramones, sex pistols, Butthole surfer's, black flag This is so right at the wrong time

[@MaceMn]

Hellz ya!

[@tertommy]

the other '60's

[@iconicshrubbery]

the-Hippies meet the Punks,meet Rolf on acid on the stylofone

[@lesbuckwalter8988]

wow! Buck

[@TheWhistlingCysts]

in a clockwork orange style movie, i'm imagining.

[@bealtown]

The kick TOTAL ASS or totally kick ass? That's two very different things there.

[@malodorustheodorus]

Fucking hell. They spit the words like bleach.

[@MGSorDie]

I'm here because of The Big Lebowski.

[@Ian64]

CJ Snyder Me too

[@ftbhoy]

there you again creamy ... oan yer self creamy

[@adhhxgxhhg]

Anyone know the chords?

[@sverigetv1]

+adhh xgxhhg It's C, D and C#

[@adhhxgxhhg]

Olov Runesson Thank you very much! I don't yet have the talent of being able to figure out songs like that, how ever simple they may be, so it is greatly appreciated.

[@sverigetv1]

You're welcome!

[@mikehunt8992]

the vinyl lp is crazy expensive.

[@ihatememes3131]

i think i saw one for $50, but maybe that was the disc...

[@ShoutingAtHam]

I got a vinyl re-issue a few months ago for about £20 on ebay. They are about.

[@mikehunt8992]

i will try there. thanx.

[@461Masterchief]

Goth music 20 years before it was invented.

[@TheForkedtoungue]

I was under the impression they recorded everything they did in Germany in the late sixties, they were all American G.I.s stationed there and only lasted a short while. I think your friend was bullshiting you.

[@pascalarcade2330]

vital, si, je te le dis gamin

[@gwugluud]

I wonder who knows what kind of organ they used?

[@milkmansteve1]

hammond

[@nickark4807]

sounds like Pink Floyd

[@kongatthegates]

engrish not native wrangwridge