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.