1966 "OUTRAEGEOUS" Orig THE MONKS "MONK TIME" CRAZED ANGRY FUZZ PUNK GARAGE LP

$

799

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• HIGHLY SOUGHT 1966 ORIGINAL ! ..|/\|...............................................|/\|..
• ~~> THE M0NKS <~~
• "  BLACK  M()NK  TIME "
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• Germany - INTERNATIONAL polydor production - 249 900
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1. Here it is...a genuinely sought, highly valued surviving 1966 MONKS album issued only in small one-off pressing in Germany near 60 years ago! 
2. The Monks album remains one of the 'missing links' in aggressive underground rock music history. Their primitive-crude attacks center on rhythmic yet distorted instruments amid a confrontational take on an aggressive rock'n'roll hyper-style earned them but a  few admirers at the time, but, with now some six decade's worth of hindsight, their still-thrilling Black Monk Time album stands as possibly among the best of garage punk 60's records, and as Americans living in Germany is the obvious birthplace in the far-out expansive world of the then coming "krautrock" scene.
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   It's 1964, and five young American military men, living in post-war West Germany, form a rock band. In the beginning, they're a generic, Beatles-aping beat-group, but soon they undergo an evolution into something they called the "anti-Beatles."
   
   Taking under the wing of a pair of Situationist-minded, German advertising gurus, Walther Niemann and Karl-H.-Remy, the Monks are rebranded as a conceptual alternative underground-rock vehicle.
   
   Composing a point-by-point Monks manifesto, their German managers re-sculpt the Monks as a reactionary outfit whose singular devotion to their band and newfound desire for audience-baiting are symbolized in one singular external gesture.
   
   The Monks took to wearing black cassocks, with tonsures shaved on their heads, and nooses hung around their neck. Their only religious devotion is to the road; the band traipsing throughout West Germany playing show after show, often to audiences who despised them.
   
   The Monks were clearly ahead of their time. With the gift of hindsight, we can see their music —as Julian Cope pointed out in his authoritarian book "Krautrocksampler"— as being a clear link between the beat-music of the '60s, and the German krautrock of the '70s. Unlike their contemporaries, the Monks played with a slavish devotion to rhythm. Drummer Roger Johnston played a kit with no cymbals, relentlessly hitting on the beat. Dave Day played a distortion effects banjo, but treated it more as a percussion instrument; his muted power-chords thumped out as dulled, metallic rhythms.
   
   Black Monk Time is the sound of a combo drilled tight, sounding at once restrained and furious. Largely dodging familiar verse/chorus templates, its songs often seize into repetitive riffs like a needle in a lock groove, occasionally breaking to a complete stop, starting again after irregular pauses. It's in compositional speaking, fascinating listening; something rock'n'roll of any era rarely is.
   
   ~> Over this rhythmic racket, guitarist Gary Burger lets out frantic yelps; squawking nonsense phrases and ad-hoc poetry with as little sense of the melody his band has.

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   [isdntekvideo] Showstopping opener "Monk Time" —essentially the band's introductory call-to-arms— is still the best example of the idiosyncratic Monks; Burger spewing the poetic equivalents of pop-art ("My brother died in Vietnam/ James Bond, who is he?/ Stop it! Stop it! I don't like it/ It's too loud for my ears") over a frenetic, unchanging tempo. 
5. Gary Burger quickly learned to control the feedback. Wielding a Gretsch Black Widow guitar, his lead lines were run through an audio atom-smasher that masqueraded as a Fender amplifier. A thick and distorted cacophony of black sound emerged. Burger trashed the speakers so often, however, that he had to switch to a heavy-duty Vox Super Beatle that had a custom-made 100 watt amp. Just imagine the sound of the Titanic scraping along an iceberg. It was like discovering fire, and the result altogether ~ it's lively, alive stuff, even 60-odd years onward.
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8. Talk about a forever price-rising artifact/investment collectible, the album started changing hands some 10+ years ago at 1000+ 
9. and only getting further extinct in time going by.

1. Monk Time
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3. Shut Up 
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5. Boys Are Boys And Girls Are Choice
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7. Higgle-Dy - Piggle-Dy
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9. I Hate You
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11. Oh, How To Do Now
    
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13. We Do Wie Du   
    
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15. Drunken Maria   
    
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17. Love Came Tumblin' Down
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19. Blast Off!
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21. That's My Girl   
    
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24. The cover: rated: front is: VG(+) Fragile 1966 original is fully laminated and reason why the lower grading from exact photo presented here is because of light scuffing wear to the front black lamination seen less or more with about ALL surviving near 60 years young original pressings - like this. The laminated back cover (not black) is by far better, near "EX" (excellent) any lamination scuffing not predominately visible. Decidedly collection keeper in view of ultra-rarity status and increasingly sky-high ^ of current market value
    
    there are no delete marks, no split seams, no bends, and no writing  ...

1. The vinyl: Rated: VG lots of lite top-surface scuffs and plays far better audio VG++/"EX" (excellent) played/enjoyed  but not abused by the original owner we purchased from... has no scratches that cause annoying audio pops
   both International labels clean despite kind of faint spindle tracks