Se aprendo il libretto trovate morbosi ma in qualche modo seducenti gli sguardi psichiatrici, le tonache nere e le chieriche monastiche di questi cinque ex marines americani abitanti in Germania, avete già qualcosa che non va, e allora forse la loro versione disturbata e nerissima del garage sound fa proprio al caso vostro.
Se siete di stomaco forte iniziate a gustarvi i grattugiamenti del banjo elettrico, le acidità dell'organo e delle chitarre fuzzate, e il collante di un implacabile e tellurico motore batteria-basso... come se non bastasse si aggiunge una voce che ora sembra quella di un Captain Beefheart strafatto di elio, ora quella di un Frank Zappa alle prese con il doppiaggio di un cartoon malefico/demente.

Sindrome da Shock post traumatico e conseguente rifiuto per l'American Way Of Life?
Sicuramente la vita militare ha qualche responsabilità nei confronti dell'alienazione che trasudano queste più che nichiliste illustrazioni di vita sub-umana...
Ma allora non resta che ringraziare lo Zio Tom se, dopo tutto, il risultato in chiave rock'n'roll di decenni di guerra fredda è questo impossibile soundtrack per feste in casa Addams.

La spiegazione si potrebbe trovare, se nel 1966 fosse esistita una macchina del tempo tramite la quale i cinque psicopatici avessero potuto vedere un concerto dei Cramps del 1980, e uno dei Devo nel 1977, non prima di sbirciato nelle cantine in cui i Velvet Underground stavano vomitando Sister Ray...
So che non dovrei cadere nel peggior vizio dei CritiCazzi, ma la tentazione di sciorinare una valanga di prefissi come "proto-punk-psych-hardcore" è piuttosto forte per un gruppo che in tempi di nascente flower power batte tutti sul tempo con un suono, prima ancora che "avanti", semplicemente "spostato". E per di più in Germania, cioè lontano geograficamente dai fermenti lisergici anglo-americani, e temporalmente anche da certi futuri viaggi cosmici...

It's beat time,
it's hop time,
it's monk time now!

Elenco tracce testi samples e video

01   Monk Time (02:47)

02   Shut Up (03:14)

It's just a song
It's just a song
It's just a song
It's just a song
It's just a song about ping pong

Money order money order hear it today
I got another fifteen seconds and I'm ready to play I say
Money order money order hear it today
I got another fifteen seconds and I'm ready to play I say
I got my got my got my got my racket in hand
Not leaving till I play don't think you understand
With that dirty dirty dirty dirty look on your face
I bet you know beef jerky has an after taste GO!

Money order money order hear it today
I got another fifteen seconds and I'm ready to play I say
Money order money order hear it today
I got another fifteen seconds and I'm ready to play I say
I got my got my got my got my racket in hand
Not leaving till I play don't think you understand
With that dirty dirty dirty dirty look on your face
I bet you know beef jerky has an after taste GO!

If I know you're running
Then I know you're hiding
If I know you're running
Then I know you're hiding
If I know you're running
Then I know you're hiding
If I know you're running

CHEATER
You're favouritising the
I said LIAR
Opposing team
I said CHEATER
You're favouritising the
I said LIAR
Opposing team
I said CHEATER
You're favouritising the
I said LIAR
Opposing team
I said CHEATER
You're favouritising the
I said LIAR
Opposing team

If I know you're running
Then I know you're hiding
If I know you're running
Then I know you're hiding
If I know you're running
Then I know you're hiding
If I know you're running

CHEATER
You're favouritising the
I said LIAR
Opposing team
I said CHEATER
You're favouritising the
I said LIAR
Opposing team
I said CHEATER
You're favouritising the
I said LIAR
Opposing team
I said CHEATER
You're favouritising the
I said LIAR
Opposing team

It's just a song
It's just a song
It's just a song
It's just a song
It's just a song about Ping Pong.

It's just a song
It's just a song
It's just a song
It's just a song
It's just a song about Ping Pong

03   Boys Are Boys and Girls Are Girls (01:26)

04   Higgledy Piggledy (02:31)

05   I Hate You (03:35)

"Hey, well i hate you with a passion baby yeah (but call me)
Well you know my hate's everlastin' baby yeahyeah (but call me)
do you, do you, do you, do you, do you, do you, do you, do you,
do you know why i hate you baby? Huh, do you know?(but call me)
Cause because you make, make me, make me hate you baby, yeahyeahyeahyeahyeah
Well allright

Well i hate you baby with a passion yeah you know i do (but call me)
Oh you know my hate's everlastin' baby, yeah yeah yeah (but call me)
Ohhh you know you know you know you know why i hate you baby? Huh, do you? (but call me)
Ohhh it's because you make me hate you baby, yeahyeahyeahyeah (but call me)
Well alright"

06   Oh, How to Do Now (03:17)

Oh, how to do now.
Well, I been waiting a long long long time.
Well, I'm gonna make you you you you mine.
Well, I don't know how how how how to say.
Well, I'm gonna make you you you you mine today.
Well, I don't know how how how how to do.
Hey girl, I'm gonna put the make make make on you.
Well, that will do that will do that will do.
Make you mine, long long time today.
Oh, how to do now

07   Complication (02:24)

Complication,
Complication,
Complication,
Constipation!
People cry,
People die for you.
People kill,
People will for you.
People run,
Ain't it fun for you.
People go
To their deaths for you.
Complication!!

08   We Do Wie Du (02:12)

09   Drunken Maria (01:46)

10   Love Came Tumblin' Down (02:30)

11   Blast Off! (02:15)

12   That's My Girl (02:27)

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