10 Albums That Will Make You Love Garage Rock Music

10. Black Monk Time - The Monks

When you go back to the stone age of rock and roll, most bands were just making what they could with the bare minimum. Even when you look at acts like Little Richard or Chuck Berry who paved the way for modern day rock and roll, there's not really a lot going on in a majority of the mixes of these tracks. They still had the basic foundation, the Monks had next to nothing and still came through with a classic.

Because these guys were never really cut out to be rockstars. Forming after meeting up in the Army, they went ahead and sought music out in their spare time, and came out with something much more caustic than what people were used to in the '60s. Compared to the stuff that was coming out during the British Invasion era of pop music, this feels like the Americanized dirty version of it, like taking those Little Richard tunes that the Beatles were covering and somehow making them sound even more off the rails.

Although there is a timestamp for this record in the '60s, the whole thing almost seems to verge on punk music in its aesthetic, sounding like everyone just messing around the studio and just seeing what comes of it. The Ramones may have presented the idea of punk to the world, but the real rebels of the rock scene started to get in touch with the dangerous side a few years earlier.