Tuesday, October 05, 2010

Words Fail Me (An Occasional Series): Hey, Hey, We're the....Yeah, Whatever.

Those who know me well are aware that I have long held that gorilla suits are intrinsically hilarious. But Oh. My. God.

Seriously -- I think this is the funniest thing I've ever seen or heard.

The Kongsmen(!) and "King Kong." Not the Kinks song, BTW.




Incidentally, I have no idea who these guys are or when this was done. I was going to Google them, but then I figured -- nah, this way madness lies. So fuck it.

14 comments:

DaveB said...

Call me mad, but I had to know.

This stuff is brand new this year.

So say their ... are you ready? ... Facebook and MySpace pages.

Damn dirty apes.

steve simels said...

This year, really?

Man, they sure have that 60s crappy mono sound down to an art.
:-)

Edward said...

I dunno, they sound pretty good for guys wearing monkey suits;>

steve simels said...

I thought the K's on their frat sweaters were an especially nice touch.
:-)

TMink said...

Hmmm, too many of them to be Los Straitjackets.

Trey

Faze said...

I had no idea that Kingsmen cover had become so iconic. The album itself was such a comedown from the darkly exciting "Kingsmen in Person". The joke resonates.

Michael said...

They follow through in their on stage persona. Not sure how the Ape with the red Danelectro maintains his Kong like figure.

Anonymous said...

"Finally, really did it! YOU MANIACS! YOU BLEW IT UP!! DAMN YOU! G*D DAMN YOU ALL TO HELL!!!'

AP

Anonymous said...

I should be working but . . . Following up on previous responses, I note that the YouTube of the Kongsmen singing "Can Your Monkey Do The Dog?" is a dollup of performance genius.

Follow up Question: They're Spanish?

AP

Gummo said...

That's just fun!

Anonymous said...

Listomania suggestion: King Kong songs. (Kinks, ABBA, Kirsty MacColl -- even our pal Zappa had one.)

Anonymous said...

The Original version of this is by Big "T" Tyler. I'll send it to you. It's better then this version. A classic old R & B number.

ROTP(lumber)

Anonymous said...

this is good but dig out Barence Whitfield and the Savages' version from the mid 80's. White hot!!

Anonymous said...

Is a band from Barcelona (Spain)
Formed by other band's members.
can't unveil too much more...
True party see them playing