Old Enough to Forget

Best known for "Nice Legs, Shame About the Face," The Monks were a short-lived band who seemed to come out of nowhere from the UK along with a host of other imports and disappeared almost as quickly after they released Suspended Animation in 1981. The band was part of the early wave of British New Wave with punk leanings that seemed to catch on with Canadians in the very early '80s. Bad Habits , although released in 1979, didn't hit the shore here until the first quarter of 1980, and while "Drugs in My Pocket" cracked the top 20 on the Canadian charts, it's not the song most of us associate with the band. I suppose it depended on where you were at the time. Growing up in a small town where radio was somewhat problematic, we tended to rely more on word of mouth and Music Express . The band would draw the ire of the record-buying public in the UK because John Ford and Richard Hudson were not real punk rockers, as they were once members of The Strawbs - th...