0379. The Monks
Black Monk Time

If it was only for the image this album's projecting it'd be a GotToGet for sure. Cause an all-black sleeve with only the band name and title in simple type as the only hint of color (okay, it's the label to, but still) it's the album equivalent of the (in-)famous Godfather-poster.
The Monks were, well, insane.
Okay, so not in the clinical sense, but figuratively.
Let's start over.

The Monks were a quintet of American soldiers, stationed in West Germany who, after their tour of duty was over, shaved the top of their heads (monk-style to be the anti-Beatles (who played the area at the same time)), wore nooses as neck-ties and flipped out with some - well, kind of hard to define actually - genius garage-psych making the most of the fact that Germans at the time weren't so fluid in English as to fully understand the sometimes very brutal lyrics. The Monks released one album, this one, before disbanding one year later after a career spanning almost a whole three years. But their legacy lives on.
This is definitely an album you got to hear and pretty close to being one of the must-haves. '