Tribute to The Monks
Remember the “Nice Legs, Shame About Her Face” people? John Ford of The Monks will play a show at the Horseshoe in Toronto Thursday night. (Get a history of the band and a download of a tribute album here.)
After his set is over, a Monks tribute band (featuring members of Sloan, the New Pornographers, Pursuit of Happiness, the Doughboys, Limblifter, C’mon and more) will perform.
Check out “Love in Stereo” featuring Chris Murphy from Sloan and Kurt Dahle from New Pornographers and Ryan Dahle from Limblifter.
First album I ever bought was Bad Habits. I was 11 and my older cousin liked it so I bought it. That record set my personal taste in music for the rest of my life.
A girlfriend introduced me to Bad Habits and I loved it ever since!
"Drugs In My Pocket" was one of the first 45's I ever bought
I really enjoyed 'Bad Habits' but I thought that 'Suspended Animation' went the wrong direction, just my opinion.
Also, I didn't like the cover of 'Love in Stereo' above, again, just my opinion.
Or as they were better known, The Strawbs.
I had no idea until years later that the whole thing was a farce (songs like "Johnny B. Rotten" should have given it away) featuring most of the Strawbs. I suppose the idea of taking the piss out of punk was something we could appreciate in Canada. Really, outside of a handful of brilliant punk bands in Toronto (eg. Diodes) and Vancouver (eg. DOA), New Wave was the sound that took Canada by storm. Better produced, more humour, and cleverly irreverent rather than simplistically blasphemous. It's no wonder bands like XTC and the Stranglers were big in Canada years before anyone else had heard of them. And the influence of these bands, including The Monks, can still be heard in the Canadian alternative scene.