Zinnser

You have my support this album is wicked for it's time. You can still hear a lot of garage rock elements but they beat the Velvet Underground in the avant-rock department by half a year.

TheCellarTapes

Right fellow Monks



On Saturday Night at the following times.....
1pm California
4pm New York
9pm Britain
10pm Berlin
at http://pureradio.org.uk/silo/files/live-streaming.m3u

Gary Burger of The Monks will be on The Cellar Tapes radio show, I spoke to him last night, he's such a lovely and cool guy, real honour.

So expect wall to wall Monk marvellousness on Saturday, tune in....

Piss Me Off

Annoyingly awkward time for me, i trust there'll be a repeat or something?

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On Tonight at the following times.....
12pm California
3pm New York
8pm Britain
9pm Berlin
at http://pureradio.org.uk/silo/files/live-streaming.m3u

Gary Burger of The Monks will be on The Cellar Tapes radio show, So expect wall to wall Monk marvellousness tonight, tune in....

Screen13

An excellent album! I bought the CD when it was released ('97) and was pleased that it lived up to everything I read about them. One of the most important and wall-crushing albums in a year of many mind-bending works which sadly went under-noticed. The extra post-LP single tracks on the disc are for me hard to go through after a great 12-track experience, but still they are far more listenable than a good amout of what was going on at the time.

LP Favorites - "Monk Time," "I Hate You," "Complication," and "Blast Off."

Extra favorites - "Monk Chant" (Live, 1965) and "He Went Down to the Sea" (B-side favorite)

Screen13

When it came to the release, yes, but both bands were developing their own styles around the same time, still...

Keep in mind that this is just a though going through my brian, open for discussion.

If one is to compare the effects of these two legends who were very ahead of their time, The Monks could be the true pioneers of Punk while The VU turned out to be Alternative Pioneers who seriously have a strong influence with Post-Punk and (Especially with the third album) what was called in College Rock in The States through The 80's (With the influence going into hailed bands like The Jesus and Mary Chain). The results are equally important, although with The Monks importance taking longer to get through due to Black Monk Time being all too rare before the reissue, but you can see a bit of a compare and contrast when all is said and done.

Monks - Simple but very strong and soulful attacks, an angry slightly-political statement this time based in experience ("Monk Time"), usually a harsh or at least to the point lyric style, and no artistic/hip scene backing. Just a hard sound, a classic self made image, and a good amount of anger and rage showing. Being primitive and bold resulted in very little mainstream media interest to build up on the following they had. Post-LP attempts to smooth out the sound proved that The Monks' anger was a major part of their identity, resulting in recordings that lacked the strong effect of their classic debut (Something which met the histories of many Punk bands through The 70's and 80's).

VU's debut - Harsh sound that early on had some artistic concepts, a style that was aided by the Warhol connections, Nico (Leading to a strong influence on Goth), a small but effective hip scene backing that led to the small interest in the album in it's original time, and street-wise lyrics that had no protests but containing a strong poetic style usually based in reality. Post-debut albums show Lou Reed's willingness to blend a powerful original style with a more melodic flair after WL/WH...something already hinted on "Sunday Morning."

OccultHawk

I like the Monks but I don't love them. I think there's a certain lack of sincerity in their music and it shows.