Binding: Audio CD
EAN: 0796028346397
Format: Import
Label: Repertoire
Manufacturer: Repertoire
Number Of Discs: 1
Publisher: Repertoire
Release Date: April 09, 2001
Studio: Repertoire

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Disc 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 How To Do Now
7. Complication
8. We Do Wie Du
9. Drunken Maria
10. Love Came Tumblin' Down
11. Blast Off
12. That's My Girl
13. I Can't Get Over You
14. Cuckoo
15. Love Can Tame The Wild
16. He Went Down To The Sea

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Rating: - Black Monk Time - The Monks
After being discharged from the US army, The Torquays were formed in 1964 in Germany by now 5 ex-American GIs based over there. They played your typical bog standard Beat covers as most average bands of that period were doing.

But in 1966 they emerged with monk styled bald patches on their heads, a new name and a totally new and unique style all of their own, The Monks were born with a live act and a sound quite simply in a league of their own.

Black Monk Time was released ... Read More

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Rating: - ITS GOOD...... but dated
well, this is ok i guess.. doesnt really know who it is meant to be.. starts off garage like... but ends up just like 60's.

thats not a bad thing, just the fact that bands like 'the chob' or 'bare facts' sound similar and also do it better.

thats the only bad thing i can say about it, now, unless you own these other bands mentioned on lp, (i think cd is pretty much out the question..! unless u get a compilation...)

i guess also its a pretty important document and you ... Read More

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Rating: - An important and unique record.
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 ... Read More

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Rating: - Ok it good but not that good
Great sound, great beats, great attitude, but a bit short on songs. I know they are legends, and Mark E Smith thinks they are genius, but to claim that they are the true beginning of punk or whatever is getting a bit carried away.

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Rating: - 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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