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The Monks, referred to by the name monks on record sleeves, were an American garage rock band formed in Gelnhausen, West Germany in 1964. Assembled by five American GIs stationed in the country, the group grew tired of the traditional format of rock, which motivated them to forge a highly experimental style characterized by an emphasis on hypnotic rhythms that minimized the role of melody, augmented by the use of sound manipulation techniques. The band's unconventional blend of shrill vocals, feedback, and guitarist David Day's six-string banjo baffled audiences, but music historians have since identified the Monks as a pioneering force in avant-garde music. The band's lyrics often voiced objection to the Vietnam War and the apparently dehumanized state of society, while prefiguring the harsh and blunt commentary of the punk rock movement of the 1970s and 1980s. The band's appearance was considered as shocking as its music, as they attempted to mimic the look of Catholic monks by wearing black habits with cinctures symbolically tied around their necks, and hair worn in partially shaved tonsures.
The Fugs are a band formed in New York City in late 1964[1] by the poets Ed Sanders and Tuli Kupferberg, with Ken Weaver on drums. Soon afterward, they were joined by Peter Stampfel and Steve Weber of the Holy Modal Rounders. Kupferberg named the band from a euphemism for **** used in Norman Mailer's novel The Naked and the Dead.
The band lead the underground scene of the 1960s and became an important part of the American counterculture of that decade.[2] The group is known for its comedic, even lewd, nature but also earned fame through their persistent anti-Vietnam War sentiment during the 1960s.[3] Some 1969 correspondence found inside an FBI file on the rock group The Doors called The Fugs the "most vulgar thing the human mind could possibly conceive".[4]
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Who can kill a general in his bed?
Overthrow dictators if they're red?
****ing-a man!
CIA Man!
"The Watts Riot song"
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Take your TV tube and eat it
'N all that phony stuff on sports
'N all THOSE unconfirmed reports
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Hey you know something people
I'm not black
But there's a whole lots a times
I wish I could say I'm not white
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