The Monks / Black Time (Vinyl LP)

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Vinyl  LP / Reissue

1966-US/Germany

Format: Vinyl LP

#Ref: 2499000

Release date: N/A

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Rock ‘n’ roll’s most cantankerous punk band – a group of American ex-GI’s who performed a scathing and rebellious noise that was unprecedented for its time. Their music was a furious display of anti-social feelings that pre-dated the angry squalor of the Sex Pistols by nearly a decade and a half. It was a sound so far ahead of its time that the band members were ignored and avoided as foreign outcasts by the European crowds who saw them.

…Some of the most deranged, demented ramblings ever committed to vinyl. The band’s album is a unique experience of raw staccato bursts cradled in feedback, a pre-Devo mechanization of sound coupled with shrieking, venomous vocals and jagged rhythms. It’s easy to understand the harsh judgment of crowds that witnessed a shaven-headed band in the ’60s who taunted audiences and provoked confrontation onstage with cynical lyrics like, “My hate is everlasting, baby.”

LP reissue of the classic Black Monk Time LP with a slight title adjustment and alternate artwork. Primitive demented ’60s punk at its best. “The Monks’ only album is packed with angst anthems on the order of ‘Shut Up,’ ‘I Hate You,’ ‘Complication,’ and ‘Drunken Maria.’ One of the strangest recordings of all time.”

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