VINYL FORMAT. Limited edition double vinyl features 180 gram wax, gate-fold hand-numbered old school tip-on jacket, lyrics, and notes. The Monks were five beat playing American GIs stationed in Germany who, after their discharge, decided to stay and continue their musical mission. Meeting up with a team of local managers, they transformed themselves and their sound into a holy racket like the world had never known. This five-person order literally birthed the garage, psych and punk genres throug   [ read more ]

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Reissue of their landmark studio album. Lovingly researched, 36-pg deluxe booklet featuring in-depth notes, interviews with band, lyrics and trove of unseen photos. Bonus material dating back to pre-Monks Torquays and up to post Black Monk Time 7"s are also included!

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The Monks were five beat playing American GIs stationed in Germany who, after their discharge, decided to stay and continue their musical mission. Meeting up with a team of local managers, they transformed themselves and their sound into a holy racket like the world had never known. This five-person order literally birthed the above genres through a fuzz-drenched evolution of sound, bursting with social commentary and future primitive rhythms.

CD $17.99

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My Bloody Valentine  Loveless, Love  Forever Changes, Spoon  Kill the Moonlight

VINYL FORMAT. Limited edition double inyl features 180 gram wax, gate-fold hand-numbered old school tip-on jacket, lyrics, and notes. Reissue of their landmark studio album. The Monks were five beat playing American GIs stationed in Germany who, after their discharge, decided to stay and continue their musical mission. Meeting up with a team of local managers, they transformed themselves and their sound into a holy racket like the world had never known. This five-person order literally birthed th   [ read more ]

2xLP $31.99

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VINYL FORMAT. A collection of tracks recorded before The Monks' seminal Black Monk Time. Also includes bonus tracks from the groups pre-Monk days as "The 5 Torquays." Offers a nice, alternative take on a catalog of familiar tunes.

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VINYL FORMAT. 1967 unreleased heavy fuzz version culled from a mega-rare one-sided acetate. This is the one to change the history books. So far we were lead to believe that The Monks, after their LP failed to chart, toned it down and tried a couple more pop tunes before vanishing into oblivion. The truth is far from that. Bound by their contract with Polydor, the Monks were unable to develop their music the way they envisioned. In 1967 they went into Tonstudio Pfanz near Hamburg on their dime to record this   [ read more ]

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A spoof of punk rock led by the former rhythm section of trad rockers the Strawbs, this release holds up surprisingly well thanks to a clatch of engagingly humorous tunes. The subsequently politically incorrect "Nice Legs Shame About Her Face" was a surprise number 19 hit single. Other spot-on spoofs include "Drugs in My Pocket" and "Johnny B. Rotten." The gag wears thin over the whole album but about half of the album's 12 songs by Richard Hudson, John Ford, and Terry Cassidy stand up    [ read more ]

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