Friday March 29th 2024

Mongorellis – “People Zoo”

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Mongorellis – “People Zoo”

 

Mongorellis is the name of this band.

Goddamn, if this is not one of the hardest names I’ve had to remember, always spelling it wrong. It’s like these metal bands with these long words you’ve never seen in your life that mean something delightful like the process of doing an autopsy on a cat!- Ha! Necropsy is the term and a band does indeed exist with that name!

Why couldn’t this band have called themselves, “Grilled Cheese Sandwich”? No way I’d get that wrong. Or something like “Kangaroos With Leprosy.” It’s that easy! Just don’t use words that don’t exist and I promise not too either.

But I won’t promise not to introduce you to a band that is punk with a capital P.

On their bandcamp they use tags like pop/punk, punk rock, Ramones, Stooges, garage rock. Let me add I think there’s glam/glitter tag needed there too. (I recently realized that all the glitter/glam fans in the early seventies, like myself, here or in the UK, all became early punk aficionados when punk reared it’s spikey head.)

I also hear some AC/DC rock’n’roll crunch, lots of humor and loads of energy and fun. If your eardrums were thinking of a small van then I think now is the time for an upgrade because you have a heapin’ big load of punk’n’fun’n’energy right here.

But you don’t have to take my word for it, take a load of this fine music yourself:

“Politician Death Camp” starts with a simple, rockin’ drum beat that could’ve led off nicely any eighties hit glam tune. “Take all the Republicans and put them in a death camp, yeah, yeah. Take all the Democrats and put them in a death camp, yeah, yeah.” Such a shocking solution! “Take all the politicians and put them in a death camp, yeah, yeah.” No loss there. This song grooves along like an early Ramones song only to have a great, Johnny Thunders like guitar lead do a drive by and slice through the heart of this song. And though any political dilemmas may not be solved by this song, any musical ones you may have are surely, solved right here. And here’s the video:

 

Mongorellis – “People Zoo”
Politician Death Camp

 

“Audio Ruffie” is a song that starts off making me think of Slade or Sweet, maybe a touch of Oi? Either way here’s another rockin’, slammin’ song to enjoy. “She’s a real groupie/ For the audio ruffie.” This song is actually something you want someone to slip in your drink or at least something you want to listen to while you sip your drink.

“70’s Again” plays a lot like an early Ramones slow song, you know, where Joey got all sensitive, reflective and emotive. “Let’s pretend it’s the seventies again/ Let’s pretend you’re molesting me again/ I’ll wear my frown face/ I miss the good old days.” Those are the complete lyrics and this is a completely great song that completely encapsulates the seventies, man!

“Coney Island Hop” comes out blasting at 100 M.P.H. towards the checkered flags. “Sittin’ around and you got nothin’ to do/ You drank all the beer and you sniffed all the glue/ Supposed to be in school but you know you ain’t/ Hop on over to Coney Island and huff some paint.” This song is like an amalgam of “Now I Wanna Sniff Some Glue,” “Rockaway Beach,” and “Cretin Hop.” All dropped in a blender, mixed and stirred and then served chilled onto a greasy rag for you to huff away. But this is also a song that is way better than all legal and illegal drugs taken at once.

“Schlomo” lays down a great, heavy, AC/DC like rhythmic groove. “You’re a bozo/ like at the circus/ you’re a schlomo.” And my favorite lyrics are, according to their bandcamp, “You’re the only one who doesn’t know your gay/ You walk and talk like Robert Goblet.” Which actually refers to the singer, Robert Goulet, popular from the Frank Sinatra days. (Google Robert Goblet and it will bring you to him!) So, in deference to his immaculate talent and his immeasurable influence on the current hardcore/punk scene, here is a video of him singing, “The Impossible Dream.”

 

Mongorellis – “People Zoo”
Impossible Dream

 

Mongorellis may never reach the height of Robert Goulet. They may never reach the heights of Kangaroos With Leprosy. They may never reach out and touch somebody’s hand, make this a better world if you can.

And though Slimedog may be touching himself, in all likelihood, when you read this, or perhaps passed out in a pool of his own vomit and piss.

We must all reach forwards, towards the common good. Starting with the Mongorellis simple, humble plea of “putting all the politicians in the death camp, yeah, yeah.”

You know, though they may be the last to admit it and certainly the last to realize it- most of our politicians ideas are- right now, slowly expiring, drifting away. They’re rotting away, in fact, much like Slimedog’s mind and liver.

But in the meantime, which is always a groovy time, as Jimi Hendrix said.

I entreat you to have fun listening to Mongorellis.

It’s what Robert Goulet, it’s what the Kangaroos With Leprosy, it’s all that any decent thinking patriot of America… would want you to do.

(Slimedog)

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