The Fugs (album)

The Fugs (album)

Infobox Album
Name = The Fugs
Type = studio
Artist = The Fugs


Released = 1966
Recorded = 1966
Genre = Rock, protopunk, psychedelic
Length =
Label = ESP-Disk
Producer =
Reviews = Allmusic Rating|4.5|5 [http://wc03.allmusic.com/cg/amg.dll?p=amg&sql=10:0ifyxqy5ldfe~T1 link]
Last album = "The Fugs First Album"
(1965)
This album = "The Fugs"
(1966)
Next album = "Virgin Fugs"
(1967)
Misc = Extra album cover 2
Upper caption = "The Fugs Second Album"
Type =studio


Lower caption = Cover of CD rerelease

"The Fugs" is a 1966 album by The Fugs, described in their All Music profile as "arguably the first underground rock group of all time". [allmusicguide |id=3ifwxqe5ldke~T0 |label=The Fugs] The album charted #95 on Billboard's "Top Pop Albums" chart. The album was re-released on CD in 1993 as "The Fugs Second Album" under the Fantasy label with five additional tracks: two live performances and three tracks recorded for Atlantic in 1967 for an album that was never released. In its review of the re-release, All Music finds them "very ahead of their time lyrically" and compares them to the punk band Dead Kennedys, both lyrically and in their shared "weakness for crude humor". [allmusicguide |id=ajfwxqugldse|label=The Fugs Second Album]

History

After the release of their first album on Folkways Records, The Fugs signed a contract allowing ESP-Disk to publish its material in exchange for usage of an Off-Broadway theater as practice space and what Fugs' frontman Ed Sanders describes as "one of the lower percentages in the history of western civilization. [Section source. Sanders, Ed. [http://www.thefugs.com/history2.html The History of The Fugs] . The Fugs official website. Accessed October 3 2007.] While finding the contract binding and disadvantageous in many ways, The Fugs were pleased with the opportunity to work with and at the studio of Richard Alderson, who allowed them to experiment with his state-of-the-art equipment. The album was produced over a four week period through January and February of 1966 at the same time that the band was performing weekly at the Astor Place Playhouse and making television appearances with David Susskind and Les Crane. The band's controversial lyrics and stage antics allegedly attracted the attention of the FBI and New York City fire and building inspectors and eventually resulted in their being banned from Astor Place Playhouse. According to Sanders, the FBI's final report of its investigation of the band concluded that "The Fugs is a group of musicians who perform in NYC. They are considered to be beatniks and free thinkers, i.e., free love, free use of narcotics, etc. .... it is recommended that this case be placed in a closed status since the recording is not considered to be obscene." Sanders jokes that "If we'd only known about this, we could have put a disclaimer on the record, 'Ruled NOT obscene by the FBI!'"

Track listing

#"Frenzy" (Ed Sanders) – 2:00
#"I Want to Know" (Charles Olson, Sanders) – 2:00
#"Skin Flowers" (Pete Kearney, Sanders) – 2:20
#"Group Grope" (Sanders) – 3:40
#"Coming Down" (Sanders) – 3:46
#"Dirty Old Man" (L. Goldbart, Sanders) – 2:49
#"Kill for Peace" (Tuli Kupferberg) – 2:07
#"Morning, Morning" (Kupferberg) – 2:07
#"Doin' All Right" (Richard Alderson, Ted Berrifan, Lee Crabtree) – 2:37
#"Virgin Forest" (Alderson, Crabtree, Sanders) – 1:17

CD bonus tracks

#

  • "I Want to Know (live)" (Olson, Sanders) – 2:37
    #"Mutant Stomp (live)" (Sanders) – 2:58
    #"Carpe Diem" (Kupferberg) – 3:39
    #"Wide, Wide River" (Goldbart, Ken Weaver) – 2:51
    #"Nameless Voices Crying for Kindness" (Sanders) – 2:52

    Personnel

    Performance

    *John Anderson – bass guitar, vocals
    *Lee Crabtree – piano, celeste, bells
    *Pete Kearney – guitar
    *Betsy Klein – vocals
    *Tuli Kupferbergmaracas, tambourine, vocals
    *Vinny Leary – bass, guitar
    *Ed Sanders – vocals
    *Ken Weaverconga, drums, vocals

    Production

    *Richard Alderson – engineer
    *Bill Beckman – cover design
    *Allen Ginsberg – liner notes
    *Jim Nelson – photography

    References


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