1967 UNRELEASED Heavy FUZZ Version from Mega Rare One-sided Acetate) This is the one to change the History Books. So far we were lead to believe that the Monks, after their LP failed to Chart tuned it down and tried a couple more pop tunes before vanishing in oblivion. The truth is far from that: Bound by their contract with Polydor, the Monks were unable to develope their music the way they really wanted to. In 1967 the Monks went on their own time and money into Tonstudio Pfanz near Hamburg to record this smashing Fuzz driven Freak Beat Version of Pretty Suzanne behind Polydors back!!Trying to fuck over Germanys biggest Record Label? It doesnt get more Punk than that in my book. Sure enough they got in trouble for it and this killer Version remained unreleased to this day. First ever Legit Re-issue in full Cooperation with the Monks. Mastered from the Original ( Only Known) Acetate. In Amazing High Fidelity Fuzz Sound.
fuckin love the monks, mental to think that this was too mad to go on 'black monk time' when that record itself was so angry and groundbreaking - criminally unknown by the general populace . . .I first heard about the monks reading Julian Cope's Krautrocksampler, which is a crackin read by the way. He talks about how while other bands were trying to get away from all cliche, the monks were just adopting every possible cliche from the history of rock and roll and belting them out, sometimes all in the same tune.Fuckin amazin.
ReplyDeleteThe clips of them playing live on youtube are all amazin too, it's mental watching this that it was 1965, this could easily be some post-punk band on the tube in 1985
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-2TM8e3Vo1c
work that fuckin banjo!
Where is the kick ass music from disaffected american GIs these days by the way? Why can't soldiers out in Iraq form high octane genre busting rock and roll bands? They probably make really awful nu metal and frat-rap. Fannies.
Wow, can't wait to hear this!
ReplyDeletethe second track is amazin.
ReplyDeleteHere although its not tunes, read Generation Kill for an account of modern GI folk thats not a load of bollocks.