Black Monk Time
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| Released | March 1966 | |||
| Recorded | November 1965 in Cologne, West Germany | |||
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| Length | 29:48 | |||
| Label | Polydor | |||
| Producer | Jimmy Bowien | |||
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Black Monk Time is the only studio album by German-based American garage rock band the Monks, released in March 1966 through Polydor Records. It was later retrospectively recognized by music critics as a forerunner to punk rock.
Black Monk Time was ranked number 56 on Spin magazine's list of "Top 100 Alternative Albums of the 1960s", number 127 on Pitchfork's greatest albums of the 1960s, and has been featured on the Word's "Hidden Treasure: Great Underrated Albums of Our Time", as well as the Sunday Herald's "The 103 Best Albums Ever, Honest", and the book, 1001 Albums You Must Hear Before You Die.