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TRACKLIST
CD 1
1. Monk time
2. Shut up
3. Boys are boys and girls are choice
4. Higgle-Dy-Piggle-Dy
5. I hate you
6. Oh, What To Do Now
CD 2
1. Complication
2. We do wie du
3. Drunken Maria
4. Love came tumblin' down
5. Blast off!
6. That's my girl
CD 1
1. Monk time
2. Shut up
3. Boys are boys and girls are choice
4. Higgle-Dy-Piggle-Dy
5. I hate you
6. Oh, What To Do Now
CD 2
1. Complication
2. We do wie du
3. Drunken Maria
4. Love came tumblin' down
5. Blast off!
6. That's my girl
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20 of 20 people found the following review helpful
Format:Audio CD
Once upon a time the Monks were 5 ex-GIs playing R&B and instrumentals as the Five Torquays on the German club circuit. They met up with a German management team with ideas and the music got transformed into something more brutal and repetitive. The music was stripped down to its basic elements, with a concentration on the rhythm. The resulting LP, Black Monk Time, sounds like nothing else that was around at the time - it appeared out of nowhere and disappeared to nowhere, for a while, anyway. Songs (chants?) like Shut up and Complication feature chanted vocals, clanging electric banjo, mad organ and a football chant-like rhythm. Nowadays the Monks are filed alongside the Stooges and the Velvet Underground but they stand on their own. If you like Black Monk Time then think about picking up the demo album Five Upstart Americans. It's poppier and more repetitve (in a good way) than BMT and provides the ideal introduction to the Monks for the under-fives - get them hooked young.
15 of 15 people found the following review helpful
Format:Audio CD
Just the hottest most jumping baddest most thumping surf-punk-rock'n'roll-beat-scuzz album ever ground out - and in 1966, too! (not that the date matters - it could have been recorded yesterday). From before the rulebook was written, so it makes complete sense to have chewed-up organ and distorted banjo accompanying the rabid yelps and outright evil nonsense of The Monk's fevered, evangelic vocals. I heard it was the great lost cult rock'n'roll album - that's such an understatement; it's the greatest rock'n'roll album ever cut, no word of exaggeration.
The twist comes at the end of this cd, where the singles they were forced to make by their record company are included - they were selling zero records, so were told to sound "commercial". Well, they tried their best - it sounds nothing like the racket of the album, but if they aimed at pop it was a complete girl's throw - not even close. How anyone could consider the anodyne dementia of "Cuckoo" likely to appeal to a mass market is beyond me.
If you love rock'n'roll, you must hear this album.
17 of 18 people found the following review helpful
Format:Audio CD
Black Monk Time. 3 words and a sentence. Confusion, darkness, austerity rotting into decadance...Now.
This album is proof that punk was simply a label for a cultural current that had existed for decades. Emotionally and lyricly this is as punk as it gets: desperate, naive, angry.
Musically this is 60s pop, but taken in a strange and dark direction. There is no deliberate attempt to be avant-garde or artistic, this is mainstream music accidentally reinvented by marginal people. These songs are pure punk rock'n'roll in the way the Ramones or the Rezillos are, but there is no postmodern distance, no implied irony.
You can taste the isolation that this record was made in, and this is what makes it truly special. The Monks exist outside the conventional history of popular music. You cannot place them alongside The Stooges or VU in a Q magazine history of punk music.
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Truely manic.
It's true! This fabled 'lost' garage classic is as good as it is said to be, or so it seems to me. Manic, edgy, disturbing... Read more
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superfuzz before bigmuff!
The reviews here already have pointed out why this record is important - all I can add is wait until you hear the bass on 'Boys are Boys...'! Read more
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The Torquays were formed in 1964 in Germany by five American GIs based over there. They were really your typical bog standard Beat covers act, which most average bands of that... Read more
Published on 28 July 2008 by The Mancunian Candidate
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punk before punk knew anything.
If you can imagine joy division playing captain beefheart songs with a head full of ketamine in the foul year of our lord 1966, then you've got the right mind for this.
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I have hardly had this off my CD player in the week since it arrived. Black Monk Time must be the greatest hick surf punk record ever. Read more
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