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Aspect Ratio: 1.33:1
Audience Rating: NR (Not Rated)
Binding: DVD
Brand: DUB
EAN: 0693723435008
Format: NTSC, Dolby
Label: play loud! productions
Languages: EnglishOriginal LanguageDolby Digital 2.0 StereoEnglishUnknownDolby Digital 2.0 StereoGermanUnknownDolby Digital 2.0 StereoFrenchUnknownItalianUnknownSpanishUnknownGermanSubtitledEnglishSubtitledFrenchSubtitledItalianSubtitledSpanishSubtitledPolishSubtitledGermanDubbedDolby Digital 2.0 Stereo
Manufacturer: play loud! productions
MPN: 4
Number Of Items: 1
Publisher: play loud! productions
Release Date: May 05, 2009
Running Time: 180 minutes
Studio: play loud! productions
Theatrical Release Date: 2008
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Product Description:
Ten years in the making, winner of the German TV Oscar 2008 (Adolf-Grimme-Awards), now finally on DVD.
MONKS: THE TRANSATLANTIC FEEDBACK by internationally acclaimed play loud! film directors Dietmar Post (Germany/USA) and Lucía Palacios (Spain) tells the extraordinary story of the first avant-garde pop band in history.
The Monks were 5 American GI's in cold war Germany who billed themselves as the anti-Beatles; they were heavy on feedback, nihilism and electrical banjo. They had strange haircuts, dressed in black, mocked the military and rocked harder than any of their mid-sixties counterparts while managing to basically invent krautrock, heavy metal, punk, industrial and techno music. 'You can hear their influence across decades', states Radiohead's Colin Greenwood. How much their music survived the passage of time can be heard on the soundtrack/tribute double CD SILVER MONK TIME, featuring Jon Spencer, Fehlfarben, Goldenen Zitronen, International Noise Conspiracy, Alexander Hacke, Mouse on Mars, the Fall, Faust, Jason Forrest, F.S.K., Gudrun Gut, Alec Empire, Psychic TV3, Alan Vega, Chicks on Speed, and many others.
'A loving and penetrating documentary film.' (The Hollywood Reporter)
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Watch Video Here: http://www.amazon.com/review/R2A7DN4DXH4ZHO Watch the trailer to the film.
Silver Monk Time: A Tribute to the Monks
Demo Tapes 1965
Drunken Maria/Monk Chant
Reverend Billy and the Church of Stop Shopping
schlecht dran / gut drauf
said my say
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The Monks story is certainly one worthy of being told.
The tale of a group of American GIs based in Germany in the early 60's, who stay on after completing their term, and form a band. Together with their German managers, they work up and image and a set of tunes that are rockin, tribal and even industrial. And what a set of tunes - as evidenced by the Black Monk Time album, this was a a band with a compelling case for overdue recognition. And here it is. A wonderful story, told via all of ... Read More
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Great-GREAT Doc.!! If you want to know and understand more about the roots of any alternative music since the early 60's.
The Monks are a virtually unknown name (but a VERY important band) in the pantheon of alt. rock pioneers, and SHOULD BE next to influential bands like; The Velvet Underground,The Wailers,The Sonics,The Beatles,The Stones,Pink Floyd,Can,Faust,MC5,The Stooges,Pretty Things,Throbbing Gristle,Exit,Frank Zappa,Capt. Beefheart,etc.,etc...
A MUST SEE!!!
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Like many, I am a relative newcomer to The Monks, first hearing "Complication" on the Nuggets box set a few years back and wondering "Huh??!!" - The Monks story goes to prove that hindsight is indeed 20/20, and what is ahead of its time deserves to have its due, and preferably while the instigators are around to catch the accolades. They were indeed architects of something new and uncharted in music, it just took time for the rest of us to catch up to it!
The film is lovingly and rather ... Read More
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I'm glad this has been made available through Amazon. I was going to the Play Loud! website regularly to find out when it was coming out.
It's the documentary we've all been waiting for, and a real revelation. So little is known about the Monks, especially in the US -- just that they had a seminal sound and dark, weird presentation. And they were slightly funny, too. Most of all,they influenced all kinds of other bands and have been called the precursor to punk.
My only regret ... Read More
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