Monks- Black Monk Time

An absolute gem from the 60’s. Black Monk Time was recorded in 1965 in Cologne, Germany by a bunch of disenchanted ext-GI’s from the American army. I’ve pretty much been listening to this exclusively for the past week and still can’t get enough of it.

There is a sense of freedom and willingness for experimentation on this album that is rare of 60’s rock n roll, the banjo of Dave Day is thrashed and abused, guitars are distorted and organs are mashed. Using standard rock song structure The Monks then introduce snippets of their own quirkiness. Gary Burger’s vocals are incredible. They are more wild and unhinged than any other lyricist I’ve heard from that era but at the same time they always sound controlled and never exasperated.

The song I Hate You is incredible.

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More madness from the Skaters. This is Spencer Clarke, with another (eye roll) side project. These guys have so many aliases that it is hard to keep track. I haven’t listened to enough of these guys to finds differences and similarities between each project but what I’m assuming is that this is the justification.

What I can notice though is a difference between Spencer Clarke and James Ferraro and recently I’m more receptive to Spencer’s synth laden, tribal psychedelic approach rather than James’ more abrasive, haunted sound.

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The Missing Links- Driving You Insane

The Missing Links were an Australian band from Sydney around the mid sixties. With their sound focussing around RnB, garage and rock ‘n’ roll they were one of the best representations of this movement within the country at the time.

This album is part of a forgotten history of Australian music. People may remember 60’s rock ‘n’ roll as the sounds of the Troggs and the Stones but many Australians may forget about the likes of the Missing Links, the Atlantics and the Throb.

The Missing Links were one of the first bands in Australia to use distortion and feedback willingly within their songs, listen to Mama, keep your big mouth shut for some buzz saw guitar The album genre hops from rock, to Stones RnB, to proto-psychedelica. The song H’tuom tuhs, released one whole year before the Beatles’ Revolver was using backwards tracks, is a killer song.

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