The Monks Drugs in My Pocket

The Monks were an English punk band formed in the 1970s, by former members of Strawbs - Richard Hudson, John Ford and Terry Cassidy, along with Clive

Pearce (drums). Hudson played guitar, having switched from drums. Their first album, Bad Habits, was released in 1979. The album spawned a number 19 hit

single in the UK Singles Chart — "Nice Legs Shame About Her Face".[1] The song was originally a demo not intended for release and Ford later commented in

Mojo magazine, that "it was a bit of a problem when it was a hit." [2] They dabbled with 1930s style music in 1980 as 'High Society', before returning to

the pseudo-punk format of The Monks for a follow-up album released in Canada only. Brian Willoughby (guitar) and Chris Parren (keyboards) joined for that

second album, Suspended Animation.

While the album failed to produce further UK chart success, the band were huge in Canada particularly, playing stadium gigs; Suspended Animation went

gold in Canada, and pushed sales of Bad Habits to double platinum certification in 1982. The CD re-release of Suspended Animation included six bonus

tracks, recorded for a third album, but never before released, by Hudson, Ford and Cassidy — Huw Gower guested on one track on lead guitar.

Their song "Ain't Gettin' Any" was covered by The Slickee Boys, and appears on their live album, A Postcard from the Day.

Singles

"Nice Legs Shame About Her Face"
"Johnny B. Rotten"
"Drugs In My Pocket"
"Love in Stereo"

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[Itzakadoodle]

We silly Canadians will listen to just about anything. Only country in the world where this song was a major hit. :-P

[phitoerocks]

4 people dont have pockets to put their drugs in

[theonlymoo5e]

Debuted on the CHUM (Canada) chart in Oct 1980, peaked at #4 & charted for 16 weeks

[Ra Freeborn]

I adored this album!! Thanks for the upload!!

[ghostslive]

sorry not the real Monks...

[guyinNB69]

thanks danny!! He got me this cassette for my 12t or 13th Bday..thanks bro!

[apemellowman]

omg...i had this tune in my head the other night for the first time in 20 yrs.I got here via Goddo...lol

[madscally1]

i've got this on vinyl :)

[1969tiamo]

lol don`t know what to do with them?  do them!

[Matty73]

Bad Habits was reasonably big in the UK, Nice Legs was my first ever 45 as a kid. It never crossed my mind that they were big(ger) here in Canada until recently when a mate went to a Monks tribute show in Toronto. I did lol.

[sk9807]

seriously? I'm Canadian and yea I loved it! I assumed it was super popular everywhere though. hehe