The Fugs: First Album (CD)

The Fugs

First Album

CD

CD (Compact Disc)

Conventional CD, playable with all CD players and computer drives, but also with most SACD or multiplayers.

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Label: Fantasy, 1965
Release date: 30.5.1994

*** US-Import

A loping, ridiculous, and scabrous release, the Fugs' debut mashed everything from folk and beat poetry to rock and rhythm & blues -- all with a casual disregard for sounding note perfect, though not without definite goals in mind. Actually compiled from two separate sessions originally done for Folkways Records, and with slightly different lineups as a result, it's a short but utterly worthy release that pushed any number of 1964-era buttons at once (and could still tick off plenty of people). Sanders produced the sessions in collaboration with the legendary Harry Smith, who was able to sneak the collective onto Folkways' accounts by describing them as a "jug band," and it's not a far-off description. A number of songs sound like calm-enough folk-boom fare, at least on casual listening, though often with odd extra touches like weirdly muffled drums or out of nowhere whistles and chimes. Others, meanwhile, are just out there -- thus, the details of the perfect "Supergirl." Then there's "Boobs a Lot," the post-toke / acid lament "I Couldn't Get High," and the pie-in-the-face to acceptable standards of the time, "Slum Goddess." Throughout it all, the Fugs sound like they're having a perfectly fun time; the feeling is loose, ragged, but right, and while things may be sloppy around the edges, often that's totally intentional. Certainly little else could explain the random jamming and rhythmic chanting / shouting on "Swinburne Stomp." Good as the original album is, the CD version is what any serious fan needs to find, thanks to the inclusion of 11 bonus tracks. Some come from the original sessions, including the signature tune "We're the Fugs" and "The Ten Commandments," while others appear from various live jams. Then there's the self-explanatory "In the Middle of Their First Recording Session the Fugs Sign the Worst Contract Since Leadbelly's." ~ Ned Raggett, All Music Guide

Tracklisting
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Disk 1 von 1 (CD)

1 Slum Goddess
2 Ah, Sunflower Weary Of Time
3 Supergirl
4 Swinburne Stomp
5 I Couldn't Get High
6 How Sweet I Roamed From Field To Field
7 Carpe Diem
8 My Baby Done Left Me
9 Boobs A Lot
10 Nothing
11 We're The Fugs
12 Defeated
13 Ten Commandments, The
14 Cia Man
15 In The Middle Of Their First Recording Session The Fugs Sign The Worst Contract Since Leadbelly's
16 I Saw The Best Minds Of My Generation Rock
17 Spontaneous Salute To Andy Warhol
18 War Kills Babies (live)
19 The Fugs National Anthem (live)
20 Fugs Spaghettie Death (No Redemption No Redemption)-A Glop Of Spaghetti For Andy Warhol (live)
21 The Rhapsody Of Tuli