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.

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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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