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- Date Released: March 1, 1966
- Genre: Rock/Pop
- Style: Psychedelic Rock
- Label: Light In The Attic / IODA
Legendary proto-garage rock madness
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We Say...
The Monks were a bunch of American G.I.s in Germany who picked up on the beat-group fad; they started a bar band called the 5 Torquays that seems, from the evidence, to have been just like every other group of Beatles wannabes. After they got their official discharges, they got a lot weirder, changing their name, adopting costumes and turning considerably more confrontational to keep the attention of easily bored audiences in Hamburg nightclubs — six hours of originals and covers a night, bassist Eddie Shaw has claimed, and eight hours on Sundays. Sometime in 1965, they recorded a bunch of demos (originally released in the late '90s as Five Upstart Americans, most recently reissued as The Early Years); their gimmick at that point was that every song began with a churchy introduction by organist Larry Clark before singer/guitarist Gary Burger started screaming.
By the time the Monks' sole full-on studio album Black Monk Time came out in early 1966, they were frothing, feverish punk rockers, a decade ahead of their time, whose best songs were called "I Hate You" and "Shut Up." A review of a performance in the German paper Bild-Zeitung declared them "noise, noise and no melody — robot music." It would be a good long while before many people could read that as a compliment.
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| 01. |  |
Monk Time |
2:44 |
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| 02. | |
Shut Up |
3:14 |
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| 03. | |
Boys Are Boys and Girls Are Choice |
1:25 |
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| 04. | |
Higgle-Dy - Piggle-Dy |
2:28 |
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| 05. | |
I Hate You |
3:33 |
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| 06. | |
Oh, How To Do Now |
3:16 |
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| 07. | |
Complication |
2:22 |
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| 08. | |
We Do Wie Du |
2:11 |
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| 09. | |
Drunken Maria |
1:46 |
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| 10. | |
Love Came Tumblin' Down |
2:30 |
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| 11. | |
Blast Off! |
2:14 |
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| 12. | |
That's My Girl |
2:25 |
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| 13. | |
I Can't Get Over You (Bonus Track) |
2:44 |
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| 14. | |
Cuckoo (Bonus Track) |
2:43 |
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| 15. | |
Love Can Tame the Wild (Bonus Track) |
2:38 |
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| 16. | |
He Went Down To the Sea (Bonus Track) |
3:01 |
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| 17. | |
Pretty Suzanne (Unreleased Bonus Track) |
3:55 |
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| 18. | |
Monk Chant (Live Bonus Track) |
1:59 |
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18 Total Tracks, 47:08 Total Length
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