The Fugs: S/D

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Tell me all i need to know about the Fugs.

are they actually worth hearing? i saw the album "The Fugs Second Album" for fairly cheap and gathering dust and my local retailer. should i give it a go?

― Andrzej B. (Andrzej B.), Wednesday, 21 April 2004 21:26 (twenty-two years ago)

The Fugs First Album is a classic ("Slum Goddess", "Supergirl", "Nothing", Carpe Diem", "Boobs a Lot"...I just love that album), and the 1994 cd reisue is excellent, with 11 additional tracks, including a really funny tribute to Tuli Kupferberg and the band's cacophonous musical rendition of Ginsberg's "Howl" ("I Saw the Best Minds of My Generation Rock").

― abegrand, Wednesday, 21 April 2004 21:40 (twenty-two years ago)

That second album is pretty rockin', actually, and Ed Sanders' vocals are really good. Some of the lyrics (like "Dirty Old Man") are hard to take.

― Tim Ellison, Wednesday, 21 April 2004 21:42 (twenty-two years ago)

Hard to take? In parts but "Remember Leon Trotsky!"

― Dadaismus (Dada), Thursday, 22 April 2004 09:44 (twenty-two years ago)

The second one - that's the one with Frenzy, Group Grope and Kill For Peace right? Definitely get that! It's like a more primitive, sarcastic and indeed rocking version of Country Joe and the Fish's Electric Music. A great album.

― NickB (NickB), Thursday, 22 April 2004 10:10 (twenty-two years ago)

Agree w/search "1st album" & s/t
Destroy: tenderness juntion (too slick!)
also, be sure to see the movie "WR: mysteries of the organism"

― no opinion, Thursday, 22 April 2004 14:43 (twenty-two years ago)

And Ed Sanders book on The Family is pretty classic.

― Sean Witzman (trip maker), Thursday, 22 April 2004 14:49 (twenty-two years ago)

"Belle of Avenue A" isn't very good either - "Yodellin' Yippie" is the best song title of all time but far from the best song of all time, very far

― Dadaismus (Dada), Thursday, 22 April 2004 14:51 (twenty-two years ago)

Ditto the 1st 2 (the ones on ESP, right?). Definite searchers.
I vaguely recall being quite unimpressed by 'It Crawled Into My Hand, Honest!' and 'Golden Filth.'

― John Bullabaugh (John Bullabaugh), Thursday, 22 April 2004 17:15 (twenty-two years ago)

Search: Virgin Fugs. It's different than the first album, it's their first recording session. Harry Smith set em up in a studio. I think it was supposed to come out on Folkways originally, but (maybe) it didn't come out til years later on another label. It's got "CIA Man" and "I Command the House of the Devil" on it. Not so clear on it's origins, really. ummm...

― Sean Witzman (trip maker), Thursday, 22 April 2004 17:21 (twenty-two years ago)

five years pass...

coca cola douche ;_;

― ian, Monday, 13 July 2009 22:22 (sixteen years ago)

classick

― Bradolf Pittler (latebloomer), Monday, 13 July 2009 22:41 (sixteen years ago)

Search: Village Fugs (AKA Fugs' First Album), The Fugs (AKA Second Album) and Virgin Fugs (AKA Virgin Fugs). 94.5% classic. Destroy: Pretty much everything else (Belle, Filmore East, Crawled, all icky-icky; never heard Tenderness Junction, don't really want to). That's the Holy Modal Rounders backing 'em up on Village and (IIRC) parts of Virgin, reason enough to lick 'em down.

― staggerlee, Tuesday, 14 July 2009 01:32 (sixteen years ago)

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