Today’s Random Album of the Day is Nun More Black from Ye Nuns. This. is straight up Garage Punk. Features member of other bands including The Headoatees / The A-Lines.
I believe these are all covers of songs from The Monks. Or seem to be covers of Monks songs. Monks being a short lived band from the mid 1960s. “Nun Time” is a cover of “Monk Time” for example. This is some hilariously meta stuff going on here with this being a one off project of British punksters called Ye Nuns in the 2000s covering a 1960s era band called the Monks. The Monks were out of Germany and made up of American GIs.
And of course some of it is a bit silly. “Drunken Maria Don’t Sleep, Sleeping Maria don’t drink” is some lyrical gold I’m sure. I’m not sure what else to call that. Here is a rather strange bio of The Monks.
Regardless of the Meta stuff, it’s a great album. Garage Punk with a Surf Rock flavor. And who wouldn’t love a sound that originated with a band that described their own evolution with: “We got rid of melody. We substituted dissonance and clashing harmonics.”
Rating: 9.8 for the meta-ness…
Favorite Track(s): “Higgle-Dy – Piggly-Dy” is great. “Complication” is good. I Like all of the songs but some other good ones are “Drunker Maria”, “Pretty Suzanne”, “I Hate You”, etc…
Keep or Trash: Keep.
Background
Every day, or nearly every day anyhow, I will randomly select an album from my collection of digital music, listen to it, and share it here. – Jayne
My wife and I are board gamers and we gamify nearly everything in life. This includes our music listening. We use a dice catapult to roll dice and then use the dice results to pick our vinyl listens. So why not do something similar for the blog?
I have made the randomizer table I use for picking the album of the day available! What? It’s a simple table but uses some weird dice. If you are not familiar, if you say D30 that means a 30 sided die. These are the dice the randomizer table uses: D30, D4, D8, D10, D12, D14, and D20. The D14 and D30 are unique but you can buy cheap packs of dice with those in them off the internet.
The basic steps are to 1) roll the D30. That picks the starting letter or if it’s a number. 2) Then use the chart roll the die associated with the first letter to pick the second letter. If you get “Other” that means numbers or some other weird character. If none of those exist re-roll. 3) Once you have the second letter you can use that to roll for a third letter if needed. 4) That should get you down to a few artists and from there you pick dice based on the number of artists. 5) finally for the artist selected you roll a die for the number of albums listed. Then you have your Random Album to listen to….
Download the Random Album Selector Table here: