McM & the Monster - Hyde Street Studio RecordingsArchive release from the legendary San Francisco based band. In addition to their frequent and raucous live performances at clubs in the Bay Area, it is this first recording (1988), made at Hyde Street Studio with Sandy Pearlman and Blue Oyster Cult's recording engineer, Paul "Dr. Blades" Mandl, that cemented interest in MCM and the Monster. Here are 10 infectiously hooky, puerile, distinctly not politically correct at all, hard rock hip hop numbers

joined by the choicest soloists

augmented by Arabic and Turkish vocals

Mikolaj Gomólka

Fanfare reflects our obsession with fame back at itself

'The Last Slimeto

and has been awarded the prestigious 2019 Grawemeyer Award for Music Composition

like "Core 'ngrato"

" (The Guardian)

is Armenian by birth

is a mesmerizing Tosca

leaves the listener to contemplate in silence

40 (much as Shostakovich did in the finale of his Second Violin Concerto