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Welcome to our GMR store! Click on the titles or covers to listen or read all about each release.

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Green Monkey Records Alone deluxe edition

The Life - Alone deluxe edition 2 CD GM1011
The Life were named best new Northwest band in 1987, when they released their debut album Alone. This was a great band. Definitely outside what would become the Seatown mainstream – grunge-o-rama - so quick to be written off by historical revisionists. What you have here is the entire 10 song Alone album remastered from the analog masters. plus an entire second bonus disc, Witness The Will, containing 17 songs recorded for their unreleased second album.
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Green Monkey Records Bees In Your Bed Bad

Sigourney Reverb - Bees In Your Bed Bad CD GM1010
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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Green Monkey Records Green Pajama Country!

The Green Pajamas - Green Pajama Country! CD GM1009
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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Green Monkey Records Live at the Showbox 1979

The Heaters - Live at the Showbox 1979 DL GM1979
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'!
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Green Monkey Records Appointment with Destiny

The Icons - Appointment with Destiny! CD GM1008
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. Listen!

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Green Monkey Records Smashface

The Hitmen – Smashface CDR/LP GM1007
This record was really fun to make. We didn’t worry too much about whether they could do every little bit live, we just made the coolest damn record we could. We pulled in your basic Northwest cast of thousands to sing, to play some bits here and there, and to help make Smashface the masterpiece that it is. Listen!

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Green Monkey Records Red, Red Rose EP

Green Pajamas - The Red, Red Rose EP CD GM1006
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.” Listen!

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

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Green Monkey Records Masters of Disaster

The Icons - Masters of Disaster CDR GM1005
"There are lots of young musicians trying to capture this kind of guitar-driven spike-pop sound and not doing it nearly as well. With Dyer reactivating the Icons, at least as a recording unit, now is the time to give these Masters of Disaster their long overdue props." Michael Toland The Big Takover

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Green Monkey Records The Complete Book of Hours

Green Pajamas - The Complete Book of Hours CD GM1004
Out of print for twenty years, this is the first CD release for Book of Hours, with all the tracks from the original American album as well as tracks from the Australian, German and Greek versions. Listen!

"...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

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Green Monkey Records Songs From Academia Vol. 2

Tom Dyer – Songs From Academia
Vol.2: Instrumental and Spoken Word, 1980-2008
CDR GM1003
"Vol. 2 is wordless more often than not, with a jazzy/folky/psychedelic/experimental smorgasbord of shapes, scents and colors... Not as accessible as Vol. 1, perhaps, but just as entertaining if you give it a chance."
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Green Monkey Records Songs From Academia  Vol. 1

Tom Dyer – Songs From Academia
Vol.1: Songs with Singing, 1981-2009
CDR GM1002
Songs from Academia... is an intriguing listen, to say the least, the collection providing an intimate look at Dyer's free-wheeling, at times deeply experimental muse.
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Green Monkey Records The Green Monkey Records Anthology

Various Artists - It Crawled From the Basement:
The Green Monkey Records Anthology
2 CD GM1001
Over the eight years of GMR’s existence, founder Tom Dyer amassed a formidable stash of smart pop thrills. ... Ignore the best of this double dose of forty-seven pre-grunge charms at your aesthetic peril.
Michael Layne Heath - Popmatters
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Green Monkey Records Ash Wednesday Rain

Jeff Kelly – Ash Wednesday Rain CD GM040
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

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Ghosts of Love

Green Pajamas - Ghosts of Love LP GM032
Ghosts of Love was the Green Pajamas 4th or 5th album (depending who's counting) and their last on Green Monkey Records 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," Phil McMullen - Ptolmaic Terrascope.
Take my word for it - this is beautiful. Listen!
Still available on vinyl while supplies last.

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Green Monkey Records Monkey Business LP

Various Artists – Monkey Business LP GM1986
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 the Anthology, so only buy this if you must. Very Limited Quantities.

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The Green Pajamas and Jeff Kelly links to non-GMR catalog

During Green Monkey Records inactivity the Green Pajamas continued to make dozens of fine CD's over about 20 years. We welcome them back to GMR, but want you to know about the massive and beautiful catalog between their GMR releases, Ghosts of Love (1990) and The Red, Red Rose EP(2010). We hope these links will help you.

 


Green Pajamas store

Bandcamp

Official Bootlegs

Parasol/Hidden Agenda CDs

Goblin Market