The Monks – Black Monk Time

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As off-beat, acceptably odd acts go, it doesn’t get more monumental than the Monks. A cheeky, avant-garage group gone legend when its members — American soldiers stationed in Germany — shaved the crowns of their heads and began to wear monk attire on stage. Hardly reverent, their tunes are jaunty, wry, and often hilarious sendups of early-’60s Puritanism that defy rock structures in a vicious, if not entirely earnest, proto-punk assault of the senses. The groups frontman, Gary Burger, passed away last weekend, and in his honor, let’s enjoy the band’s circus of a debut with the kind of irreverence he’d appreciate.