Label: Light In The Attic (US), LITA 042
Style: Garage Rock, Psychedelic Rock
Country: U.S. / West Germany
Time: 47:15
Format: Flac Tracks 16/44,1 kHz
Size: 303 Mb
The
Monks, referred to by the name monks on record sleeves, were an
American rock band formed in Gelnhausen, West Germany, in 1964.
Assembled by five American GIs stationed in the country, the group grew
tired of the traditional format of rock, which motivated them to forge a
highly experimental style characterized by an emphasis on rhythm over
melody, augmented by the heavy use of distortion. The band's
unconventional blend of shrill vocals, confrontational lyrics, feedback,
and guitarist David Day's six-string banjo baffled audiences, but music
historians have since identified the Monks as one of the most
innovative rock bands of their time. The band's lyrics often voiced
objection to the Vietnam War and social alienation, prefiguring the
harsh and blunt social and political commentary of the punk rock
movement. The band's appearance was considered as shocking as their
music, as they attempted to mimic the look of Catholic monks by wearing
black habits with cinctures symbolically tied around their necks, and
hair worn in partially shaved tonsures.
In late 1964, while known as
the Torquays, the band issued the self-financed single "There She
Walks"; however, the release barely hinted at the music the group would
record the following year. With the help of a German management team,
they decided to change their name to the Monks and released the
"Complication" single to coincide with the distribution of their one and
only studio album, Black Monk Time, in May 1966 via Polydor Records.
Though the album and additional singles issued throughout 1966 and 1967
achieved limited success at the time, they have since become highly
regarded amongst music enthusiasts and commentators.
A few days after
the release of the compilation album Five Upstart Americans in 1999,
all five of the original band members held a reunion concert at the
Cavestomp festival in New York City, followed by sporadic touring in the
2000s. The band has acquired a cult following as a result of the
newfound interest in Black Monk Time and appearances on several
compilations, most notably the 1998 expanded version of Nuggets:
Original Artyfacts from the First Psychedelic Era, 1965–1968. Punk rock
bands and acts of other genres from the 1980s and 1990s, such as the
Dead Kennedys, the Fall, and Beastie Boys, have credited the Monks as an
influence on their music.
(en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Monks)
From the author of the release: a great band. Better than Pretty Things. Monks has a great sound engineer.
01. Monk Time (02:44)
02. Shut Up (03:14)
03. Boys Are Boys and Girls Are Choice (01:25)
04. Higgle-Dy - Piggle-Dy (02:28)
05. I Hate You (03:33)
06. Oh, How To Do Now (03:16)
07. Complication (02:22)
08. We Do Wie Du (02:11)
09. Drunken Maria (01:46)
10. Love Came Tumblin' Down (02:30)
11. Blast Off (02:14)
12. That's My Girl (02:25)
13. I Can't Get Over You (02:44)
14. Cuckoo (02:43)
15. Love Can Tame the Wild (02:38)
16. He Went Down To the Sea (03:01)
17. Pretty Suzanne (03:55)
18. Monk Chant (live) (01:59)
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