The Monks 'Black Monk Time' (1997)
It's Monk time — it's hop time! Blast off with their 1966 album, plus two final singles, the live "Monk Chant" and a pair of '65 demos. As the liner notes suggest: The music of the Monks is the stuff of true greatness: huge chunks of reverberating bass and drum rhythms, beaten into further frenzied overdrive by the atonal gash of an electrified banjo; this overladen with the rapid-fire piercing squeals of a delirious organ and the hum and howl of fuzz and feedback as some maniac jaggedly assaults an electric guitar; this all pushing forward the angst-driven, aggressive voices shouting: "I hate you baby with a passion..." "People go to their deaths for you..." "Boys are boys and girls are joys..." Pussy galore is coming down and we like it...we don't like the atomic bomb..." "Shut up! Don't cry!" and "Higgle-dy-piggle-dy—let's do it!!!"
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