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Arguably the first underground rock group of all time, the Fugs formed at the Peace Eye bookstore in New York's East Village in late 1964. The nucleus of the band throughout its many personnel changes was Peace Eye owner Ed Sanders and fellow poet Tuli Kupferberg. Sanders and Kupferberg had strong ties to the beat literary scene, but charged, in the manner of their friend Allen Ginsberg, full steam ahead into the maelstrom of '60s political involvement and psychedelia. Surrounded by an assortment of motley refugees from the New York folk and jug band scene (including Steve Weber and Peter Stampfel of the Holy Modal Rounders), some of whom could barely play their instruments, the group nonetheless was determined to play rock & roll their way -- which meant rife with political and social satire, as well as explicit profanity and sexual references, that were downright unheard of in 1965.
At the time of its release in 1966, the Fugs' second (self-titled) album contained the most outrageous lyrics ever heard on a Top 100 rock & roll LP. The group, with roots in New York's underground folk and poetry scenes, flung themselves wholeheartedly into all-out rock & roll on this 1966 record, which addresses concerns like free love, the madness of war, and government repression. The CD reissue of this classic includes two previously unreleased live performances and three tracks from the unreleased album they recorded for Atlantic in 1967.
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".
Tracklist:
1. "Frenzy" (Ed Sanders) – 2:00
2. "I Want to Know" (Charles Olson, Sanders) – 2:00
3. "Skin Flowers" (Pete Kearney, Sanders) – 2:20
4. "Group Grope" (Sanders) – 3:40
5. "Coming Down" (Sanders) – 3:46
6. "Dirty Old Man" (L. Goldbart, Sanders) – 2:49
7. "Kill for Peace" (Tuli Kupferberg) – 2:07
8. "Morning, Morning" (Kupferberg) – 2:07
9. "Doin' All Right" (Richard Alderson, Ted Berrigan, Lee Crabtree) – 2:37
10. "Virgin Forest" (Alderson, Crabtree, Sanders) – 11:17
CD bonus tracks
11. "I Want to Know (live)" (Olson, Sanders) – 2:37
12. "Mutant Stomp (live)" (Sanders) – 2:58
13. "Carpe Diem" (Kupferberg) – 3:39
14. "Wide, Wide River" (Goldbart, Ken Weaver) – 2:51
15. "Nameless Voices Crying for Kindness" (Sanders) – 2:52
Media Info:
Bitrate: 320 kbps
Channels: joint stereo
Samplerate: 44100
Encoder: LAME 3.99
MPEG-1 layer 3
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