Love the word 'lipstuck'. Monster Monkeys is my favourite on the new album but perhaps it could be jazzed up a little. The pace is a bit pedestrian -maybe Pete could do a remix to slightly liven it up a bit. I'll have a listen again and see how it could be 'improved'.😀
Jules, I agree that it sounds like it began as a Bob/Pete song. I wrote a review of COB and said this:
“Monster Monkeys” has swamp-rock mojo and the talking-blues sizzle of John Lee Hooker, before veering toward urbane club textures. The sting of Garry Roberts’ razor-sharp fretwork makes for a unique hybrid electropop-blues and hints at what might have happened if songs like “$6,000,000 Loser” from Geldof’s solo catalog had been entrusted to his old mates. Geldof’s lyric makes a sly nod to Chuck Berry and John Lennon, and the song serves as the tipping point from the Rats you knew toward the Rats you hope to hear again.
The nod to John Lennon and Chuck Berry caught my attention the first time I heard this song and made me laugh. Nice one, Bob. This is my favorite COB track.
cool. there's also that line of 'why speak to the monkey when you can speak to the organ grinder', or similar. Makes me think of the reference of monkey as being a represenative of the monster.
'Monster monsoon monkeys' I take from the lyrics to be sort of fevered dream/nightmare characters that just spontaneously emerged from Bob's subconscious. I believe this song was largely 'written live', on the fly, or certainly the words were spawned 'on the spot's according to a few interviews I've read.
The lyrics read well and have the same soft of vibe as Please Dont Go from Mondo Bongo, ie surrealist imagery, dreamlike storytelling.
Will have to consult some Carl Jung or Freud for meaning but I just like the imagery.
Love the word 'lipstuck'. Monster Monkeys is my favourite on the new album but perhaps it could be jazzed up a little. The pace is a bit pedestrian -maybe Pete could do a remix to slightly liven it up a bit. I'll have a listen again and see how it could be 'improved'.😀
Jules, I agree that it sounds like it began as a Bob/Pete song. I wrote a review of COB and said this:
“Monster Monkeys” has swamp-rock mojo and the talking-blues sizzle of John Lee Hooker, before veering toward urbane club textures. The sting of Garry Roberts’ razor-sharp fretwork makes for a unique hybrid electropop-blues and hints at what might have happened if songs like “$6,000,000 Loser” from Geldof’s solo catalog had been entrusted to his old mates. Geldof’s lyric makes a sly nod to Chuck Berry and John Lennon, and the song serves as the tipping point from the Rats you knew toward the Rats you hope to hear again.
To me, this is very much a solo Bob song rather than Rats.
The nod to John Lennon and Chuck Berry caught my attention the first time I heard this song and made me laugh. Nice one, Bob. This is my favorite COB track.
cool. there's also that line of 'why speak to the monkey when you can speak to the organ grinder', or similar. Makes me think of the reference of monkey as being a represenative of the monster.
'Monster monsoon monkeys' I take from the lyrics to be sort of fevered dream/nightmare characters that just spontaneously emerged from Bob's subconscious. I believe this song was largely 'written live', on the fly, or certainly the words were spawned 'on the spot's according to a few interviews I've read.
The lyrics read well and have the same soft of vibe as Please Dont Go from Mondo Bongo, ie surrealist imagery, dreamlike storytelling.
Will have to consult some Carl Jung or Freud for meaning but I just like the imagery.