At the Swinging Monkeys’ Ball
May 2nd, 2005King Louie and the Swinging Monkeys - Loneliness
My friend Hallie is from Houston, and these are some kids she went to high school with. Most of their songs are good-natured love letters to drugs and that sort of thing, and fine, as far as they go. But this one’s the best, with a fantastic, murky sound and sleepy vocals, plus a groove that does the dancing for you, although it obviously wants you to help. Their web page and the guy in the picture’s Marley shirt say that they’re a reggae band, but they’re really not at all. The page is pretty 1997-core, and it doesn’t look like it’s been updated too much recently, but there’s some MP3s you can download. I don’t really know that much about King Louie, but I think maybe some of the members go to USC now. I want them to make a real CD, but I’m not standing on one foot or anything waiting for it.
One Response to “At the Swinging Monkeys’ Ball”
May 3rd, 2005 at 1:44 am
oh man. definitely none of them go to usc. that was the other part of my band-o presentation. most of king louies members are still in houston and performing in various other bands. king louie was awesome while it lasted, but i think for the most part, that is an era now long gone, although i did hear much after the fact that they played a show sometime around christmas. probably the most amazing king louie moment ever was when they played a show on valentines day 2003 and a mosh pit formed when they did a ska/reggae/punk cover of “let’s get it on”…well, that and the time my drunk dad tried to hit on the “fucking supermodel in the back”…