Pop
United Kingdom
The Monks
![Dengarkan Raise (Give It Up) [feat. Brother E, The Monks, Laurian Bougaardt, TeOp & MP Ancient] dari Krosswerdz, lihat lirik, video musik & lainnya!](/mkimage/image/thumb/Music124/v4/9a/5a/79/9a5a7946-4a1f-0bc9-754a-f127aa943f9f/5059580741310_cover.jpg/375x375bb.webp "Dengarkan Raise (Give It Up) [feat. Brother E, The Monks, Laurian Bougaardt, TeOp & MP Ancient] dari Krosswerdz, lihat lirik, video musik & lainnya!")
Tentang The Monks
Asal
United Kingdom
Dibentuk
June 1, 1979
Genre
Pop
After a four-year stint as the rhythm section for respected English trad rockers the Strawbs and a subsequent four-album run as Hudson-Ford, John Ford and Richard Hudson emerged in this utterly unexpected incarnation. As the '70s closed with punk at its apex, the Monks changed with the times. Unlike truly ticked-off punkers such as the Sex Pistols, they played it for a lark on their debut Bad Habits, which featured a leggy, cigarette-smoking, stocking-revealing nun on the cover. Revelling in their Englishness, they jabbed mirthfully at headbangers and ska-fanciers alike with spot-on spoofs including "Drugs in My Pocket," "Spotty Face" and of course "Johnny B. Rotten." Likely surprisingly even themselves, they watched as "Nice Legs Shame About Her Face" climbed to No. 19, borrowing the rhythmic strum Lou Reed perfected with Velvet Underground. Former drummer Hudson was playing bass by now, allowing one-time bassist Ford to be the band's guitarist. Terry Cassidy had full band member status as the writer or co-writer of half of the album's 12 tracks. Chris Pearce allowed Hudson to get out from behind the drum kit. Perhaps realizing the punk spoof concept didn't have much longevity, they had a fling with 1930s-style music as High Society in 1980. They returned to the ersatz punk of the Monks with Suspended Animation, an only-in-Canada release that didn't chart. ~ Mark Allan
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