Welcome to the Green Monkey Records Catalog! Click on a cover to see more about the releases. You can still stream GM1001 - GM1010 and GM032, 40 and GM1979. More to come!

GM1010: Sigourney Reverb - Bees In Your Bed Bad
This is Sigourney Reverb’s first record. The Reverbs are Kings of the 65th Street Ballard Scene, a separatist community located in Seattle, WA, and home to hipsters, musicians, fisherman, and Scandinavians. They have been playing together for a year and change. They came to Green Monkey and said we want to make a record. Green Monkey said ok and this is your result. A damn fine result.
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GM1009: The Green Pajamas - Green Pajama Country!
Jeff Kelly and bass player Joe Ross have toyed with the idea of this album for ten years. It needed to age. In the last two it finally took shape. It was worth the wait. This is not a gimmick. It is not a marketing ploy. It is just plain good music played from the heart. From its sly opening tribute to the classic westerns to the mournful close, Green Pajama Country is a Classic.
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GM1979: The Heaters - Live at the Showbox 1979
1979. The Heaters were about to become the next big Seattle thing. What the Seattle bars wanted out of local bands was songs that their clientele would relate to, dance to and drink more beer to. The Heaters/Heats managed to hit every mark. Their audience not only shouted out the names of the covers they wanted to hear, they called out the names of the Heaters/Heats songs too! This is prime time Heaters - live and rockin'!

GM1008: The Icons - Appointment with Destiny!
Recorded and mixed over the course of a year at Icons Underground World Headquarters in Seattle, Destiny is built around the songwriting prolificacy and prowess of singing guitarists Tom Dyer and Steve Trettevik simultaneously featuring Hades’ own rhythm section, James Gascoigne on drums and Rick Yust on bass and vocals. Destiny also includes Rick’s compositional debut on the dreamlike nightmare that is Made by Parker Posey. Add in Green Pajamas Jeff Kelly’s Dancin’ in the Jailhouse and you’ve got sixteen brutally fresh, intoxicating songs.

GM1007: The Hitmen - Smashface
Rock/pop/metal/ska/whatever spiritually linked to the Bonzo Dog Band or some such. The record features a raft of local guest stars from The Posies, The Green Pajamas, The Life and in what was probably a total suck-up job to get airplay (didn't work), KZOK DJ Mike Jones. Now out on CDR and mp3. Damn fine stuff!

GM1006: Green Pajamas - The Red, Red Rose E.P.
A five song EP with “The Red, Red Rose,” a song about the tragic death of Phoebe Prince. Also contains 3 songs previously unreleased on CD, “Little Dreams,” “Just Another Perfect Day,” “Raise Ravens” and the previously unreleased anywhere, “If Forever Comes.”

"...in a word, haunting, recalling vintage Sandy Denny-era Fairport Convention as envisioned through a dark psychedelic lens." Fred Mills Blurt

GM1005: The Icons - Masters of Disaster
It was a different world in Seattle in 1983. No Sub Pop. No grunge. No double lattes. It was in this setting The (Mighty) Icons were born. There was a definite desire to make some alcohol-fueled, brain-bashing, post-punk rock and roll. I decided to clean these tracks up, rather than just remastering, I decided there was nothing in the old mixes that I cared about. I remixed it all from scratch. So there you have it. td 2010

GM1004: Green Pajamas - The Complete Book of Hours
We are thrilled with the first-ever CD release of the Green Pajamas - Book of Hours. Originally released in 1987 on Green Monkey, with subsequent versions in Australia, Germany and Greece, this edition marks the first time all the tracks from the Book sessions have been released together. It is now complete.

"...more than worthy of its' comprehensive CD issue. It's a thrilling, psychedelic-tinged tome from start to finish and it should never be left to gather dust again." Tim Peacock whisperinandhollerin

GM1003: Tom Dyer - Songs From Academia Vol. 2: Instrumental and Spoken Words, 1980-2008
"I have always had a fondness for creating instrumentals, essentially sculpting some sort of sonic structure out of out of varied elements. Even the two spoken word pieces on this collection are really more about the texture of sound than any great message.
Bands I’ve played in often have had an instrumental or two, but you won’t see much of that here. Except for Ornette, played by the Adults and Van Vliet Street with Al and Peter, this is pretty much one guy in the studio making it up as he goes. I would usually have figured out some starting part before I began recording and then embellish that," Dyer said.

GM1002: Tom Dyer – Songs From Academia Vol. 1: Songs with Singing, 1981 -2009
The 15 song album is my first official release since 1984. The album cuts a wide swath stylistically, ranging from “mad-bull in a China shop” real-band-rock, to experimental studio pop where I play anything required, from saxophone to Theremin. Or to put it another way, it is eclectic, electric guitar/other stuff rock, ranging from scientific to specious, with other in-between philosophical notions.

GM1001: IT CRAWLED FROM THE BASEMENT: THE GREEN MONKEY RECORDS ANTHOLOGY
1983 to 1991 in Seattle, Washington. All things were possible in the post-punk world - the Nirvana grunge explosion had not yet subsumed the city. In this world, Green Monkey Records came and lived and went.
It was rock. It was art. It was beautiful.

GM040: Jeff Kelly – Ash Wednesday Rain
Another fine solo Jeff CD from 1995, when he was on Pajama sabbatical.

"As soon as the record ends, we start it again, hunting for additional clues to hidden meanings missed the first go round, savoring each note as if it were his last, yet immediately yearning for more: another album, another song...." Jeff Penczak - Perfect Sound Forever

GM032: The Green Pajamas - Ghosts of Love

Ghosts was the PJs 4th or 5th album (depending who's counting) and their last on GMR in 1990. Many people consider it one of their very finest.

"An astonishing album of such incandescent intensity that the Pajamas all but self-destructed during its making," wrote Phil McMullen of Ptolmaic Terrascope.

Take my word for it - this is beautiful!

GM1986: Various - Monkey Business Lp

12” vinyl classic from 1986 for all vinyl freaks. Featuring GMR superstars Green Pajamas, The Icons, The Fastbacks, The Queen Annes & yep, even TD hisself. Every song on here is on "It Crawled..", so only buy this if you must. Very Limited Quantities. $20 with Free S/H from GMR.

GM001: Various Artists - Local Product
GMR's first release, a 1983 compilation with The Fastbacks, Mr. Epp, The Icons, Bob Blackburn, The Queen Annes, Al Bloch, Group Sex, the Bombardiers, Evan Presley and the Extreme Being, Tom Dyer, the Cosmic Tunas, Sherry and the Mudmen, David Richard, The Chicklets, Stevie Nations and the United States.
"Garage pop ... the kind with guts as well as hooks." - Backfire
"Raw and undisciplined ... not a dud here." The Rocket
"Highly recommended if you're interested in hearing what real people are doing."
Trout Rodeo