1. Monk Time
2. Shut Up
3. Boys Are Boys And Girls Are Choice
4. Higgle-Dy-Piggle-Dy
5. I Hate You
6. Oh How To Do Now
7. Complication
8. We Do Wie Du
9. Drunken Maria
10. Love Came Tumblin' Down
11. Blast Off
12. That's My Girl
IT'S MONK TIME!!!!
This album is something else right here. It's another one of those lost classics of the time that would only become influential years and years later, when weirdos like The Fall listened to it. As worn out as this cliche is, this album sounded like nothing else at the time. It's intensely rhythmic, loud, and bizarre in a way that most people besides the Fugs and Frank Zappa couldn't even think of in 1966.
These guys were a group of American army folks stationed in Germany in the mid-60s who decided to form a band. At first they were your stand,ard '60s garage band with the simplistic music and the endless Louie Louie covers, but then they turned into something far, far different. I suppose they figured that since they obviously weren't going to become a massive success in the English-speaking world by playing to Germans, they could experiment as much as they wanted to. The Germans just wanted loud beat music, they weren't going to care about the lyrical content! As a result we get lyrics like 'Why do you kill all those kids in Vietnam!? Mad Viet Cong! My brother died in Vietnam! James Bond, who was he?' screamed in an absolutely manic voice.
The band also chose to experiment musically as well. These guys have the loudness and the rhythmic attack of the Sonics, but much more proficient in their musicianship. There's a lot of great organ solos on here. Oh, did I mention that one of the members plays a banjo? And every instrument is fuzzed up to maximum potential. The Sonics brought the loud and simplistic playing to punk, but these guys gave it something far more important: an attitude. 9/10
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