Label: Bird Song (Japan), HYCA-2046
Style: Garage Rock, Folk Rock, Psychedelic Rock
Country: New York City, U.S.
Time: 72:50
Format: Flac Tracks 16/44,1 kHz
Size: 277 Mb
The
Fugs is the second studio album album by American rock band the Fugs.
The album charted number 95 on Billboard's "Top Pop Albums" chart. The
album was re-released on CD in 1993 as The Fugs Second Album on 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, AllMusic 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".
In 2003, David Bowie included it in a list of 25 of his favourite
albums, "Confessions of a Vinyl Junkie".
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. 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 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!'"
(en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Fugs_(album))
01. Frenzy (02:07)
02. I Want To Know (02:02)
03. Skin Flowers (02:24)
04. Group Grope (03:44)
05. Coming Down (03:50)
06. Dirty Old Man (02:53)
07. Kill For Peace (02:10)
08. Morning Morning (02:10)
09. Doin' All Right (02:40)
10. Virgin Forest (11:19)
11. I Want To Know (Live From Players Theater On MacDougal Street) (02:39)
12. Mutant Stomp (Live From Players Theater On MacDougal Street) (02:59)
13. Carpe Diem (From 'Thrown Off Atlantic') (03:41)
14. Wide, Wide River (From 'Thrown Off Atlantic') (02:52)
15. Nameless Voices Crying For Kindness (From 'Thrown Off Atlantic') (02:53)
16. Nothing (The Full Fugs Version Recorded For Folkways 1965) (05:30)
17. Community Breast NADA (05:18)
18. Players Theater NADA-DADA (03:21)
19. GARNCHT (At The Filmore East, 31 May 1968) (04:45)
20. Nothing (From The Psychedelic Supermarket, Boston 1968) (03:24)
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