The first time I saw that '65 Hamburg video with the guitar on the floor and the band picking at it like crows picking at a carcass--I'll tell you what the sound was; it was the sound of about 50 bands falling off their pedestals in my head. What an incredible band.
I bet there's like a ton of real monks out there who wake up everyday and think "oh no, another day full of monk stuff ahead of me, great..." and then they hype themselves up in front of the mirror: Let's go, it's beat time, it's hop time, it's monk time! And they're like hell yeah I love this shit and go and copy the King James Bible or something.
unfortunately, it is beyond my control. those videos aren't monetized either. I suggest you download the Adblock Plus plugin for the browser you are using. it will make huge difference
Gras Tube...so much power! In germany they made a Film about Rudi Dutschke with this music behind! I wished the young people would be so political interested and fight against war and our bad condition worldwide like the people in the sixties.
Iggy Pop said so about Los Saicos the same said the singer of the Cramps, if you listen to the songs of the peruvian band los Saicos, demoler or El gato mayor or Alcatraz you'll see how in 1964 a wild band started everything, before the stooges and The Ramones.
Here’s something I wrote about them a while back. Monks, sometimes called The Monks, but incorrectly, stylistically speaking. (There is another band called The Monks, a shit band, be sure not to get them confused.) They were American GIs stationed in Germany in the mid 60s, played the clubs on the Reeperbahn just like The Beatles, but these fellows were the anti-Beatles; a two man German managerial team, big on revolutionary musical conceptualisation from a Teutonic philosophical standpoint, steered and drilled the young Americans in the ways of proto punk agit rock : musically direct, trimmed of all fat, concise sloganeering and catchphrases characterising the lyrics (remember, they were playing to German audiences) and a novel instrumental approach (incorporating amplified banjo) that was both primal, raw and advanced. Their only album 'Black Monk Time' is in my opinion one of the best AND one of the most important records ever made. The first record that can purport to be the conceptual and stylistic pre cursor to what we call Punk. Yes there was Punk before, it's always been there since day one, but a conscious modus operandi like this had not really existed before. Avail your good selves of Black Monk Time, and if you get the CD or record with 4 extra tracks tagged on the end (aaaarrrggghhh !!!) do not include them in your listening experience because they were not part of the original album and are conceptually not a part of the Black Monk Time vision.
The "other" (the) Monks were kind of a joke band. I own it, but it doesn't get played much. I listened to this earlier today and am now away from my "hi-fi" so I'm listening on the phone. Monk Chant was my first UA-cam video search.
People say these guys were punk but I disagree. If anything they were art rock. Just because a band were raw and innovative people automatically call them a punk band. Then that must make Link Wray, early Deep Purple, ACDC and loads of other bands whose early albums before they could afford better production all punk bands. I mean the organ in this does sound like Deep Purple. They clearly must of had quite impact.
"I don't care about subscriptions so do what you want." That's the true spirit of Rock and Roll.
I saw the MONKS at the Top 10 Club in Hamburg My band was playing at The Crazy Horse Club Hamburg 1966
One of the best opening songs to any 60s album
...and in another 60 years, this will still sound ahead of its time.
black monk time is the best underrated album of all time!
faith camposano it's a classic
Not really underrated - it's listed in "1001 Albums You Must Hear Before You Die".
all-time-classic
The first time I saw that '65 Hamburg video with the guitar on the floor and the band picking at it like crows picking at a carcass--I'll tell you what the sound was; it was the sound of about 50 bands falling off their pedestals in my head. What an incredible band.
Daniel Olson where can i find that video?
@@Thymamai ua-cam.com/video/-5iI0__9S1c/v-deo.html (It happens at about the 1:12 mark.)
@@nonzerovolta2541 Yeah, it's that Joey Santiago/Paul Leary shit twenty years earlier.
@@Thymamai Look up 'The Monks Chant'.
Just incredible. Who'd have thought a banjo could sound so menacing?
It snaps at your ears... delightfully!
@@jdk353 My son brought home a banjo today...i told him "Better be learning "Monk Time"!!!
The Fall came from this .
RIP Gary. Such a groudbreaking album. Brilliant.
Punk before punk......10 years or so before.....
perhaps the first punk album to ever be written and recorded
I believe so very much
"Well, ackthually..."
hi mazor
@@murmuring_of_things_antique hi
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Maybe the 1st punk band formed in the U.S. Army. For that matter maybe the first punk band. Wonder where they are ?
A standard book for every music enthusiast.
I bet there's like a ton of real monks out there who wake up everyday and think "oh no, another day full of monk stuff ahead of me, great..." and then they hype themselves up in front of the mirror: Let's go, it's beat time, it's hop time, it's monk time! And they're like hell yeah I love this shit and go and copy the King James Bible or something.
RIP Gary.....
We're the Monks and we don't like UA-cam ads, stop them, stop them we don't like them!
unfortunately, it is beyond my control. those videos aren't monetized either. I suggest you download the Adblock Plus plugin for the browser you are using. it will make huge difference
holy shit this is great
Like sounds great Funk Rock Garage Music.
I think I search for "Black Monk Time" on Spotify on a monthly basis to see if it's finally there
Its on there for me
Gras Tube...so much power! In germany they made a Film about Rudi Dutschke with this music behind! I wished the young people would be so political interested and fight against war and our bad condition worldwide like the people in the sixties.
The Monks are the real troops
you think like I think.
Gary was/is one of the greatest singers in R&R
Iggy Pop said so about Los Saicos the same said the singer of the Cramps, if you listen to the songs of the peruvian band los Saicos, demoler or El gato mayor or Alcatraz you'll see how in 1964 a wild band started everything, before the stooges and The Ramones.
The sonics
Saicos is ok. Monks, Sonics, Wailers...Rocket From The Tombs a mere 5 or 6 years later.
orblife sayd it right.....Punk Before Punk....
ie, proto-punk
The roots of punk rock...
Punk 1964
Punk before punk was punk.
Thank you
Here’s something I wrote about them a while back.
Monks, sometimes called The Monks, but incorrectly, stylistically speaking. (There is another band called The Monks, a shit band, be sure not to get them confused.)
They were American GIs stationed in Germany in the mid 60s, played the clubs on the Reeperbahn just like The Beatles, but these fellows were the anti-Beatles; a two man German managerial team, big on revolutionary musical conceptualisation from a Teutonic philosophical standpoint, steered and drilled the young Americans in the ways of proto punk agit rock : musically direct, trimmed of all fat, concise sloganeering and catchphrases characterising the lyrics (remember, they were playing to German audiences) and a novel instrumental approach (incorporating amplified banjo) that was both primal, raw and advanced.
Their only album 'Black Monk Time' is in my opinion one of the best AND one of the most important records ever made. The first record that can purport to be the conceptual and stylistic pre cursor to what we call Punk.
Yes there was Punk before, it's always been there since day one, but a conscious modus operandi like this had not really existed before. Avail your good selves of Black Monk Time, and if you get the CD or record with 4 extra tracks tagged on the end (aaaarrrggghhh !!!) do not include them in your listening experience because they were not part of the original album and are conceptually not a part of the Black Monk Time vision.
the other Monks are actually pretty awesome, "Bad Habits" is a pretty fun album.
The "other" (the) Monks were kind of a joke band. I own it, but it doesn't get played much.
I listened to this earlier today and am now away from my "hi-fi" so I'm listening on the phone.
Monk Chant was my first UA-cam video search.
Feels Like Mark E Smith and the Fall,I hear that anyway.
amo esta cancion
Yo tambien
The Hives
….suck. I’m sure you meant to have added that.
1:58 WOW
The Canadian Studmuffin brought me here
some would say the first punks
Punk before punk existed
People say these guys were punk but I disagree. If anything they were art rock. Just because a band were raw and innovative people automatically call them a punk band. Then that must make Link Wray, early Deep Purple, ACDC and loads of other bands whose early albums before they could afford better production all punk bands. I mean the organ in this does sound like Deep Purple. They clearly must of had quite impact.
If this is the first punk album, then surfin bird was the first punk song
ELECTRIC BANJO!
is this the first punk record? Maybe...
Be a monk or....you are nuthin'....
Wow theres 2 bands called with the same name
ALBUM DE 1966
LIKE
and what did you think?
F'it,it's "Monk Time."
This kinda sounds like the UA-camr Jschlatt.....