Thursday, June 17, 2010

The Fugs - First Album (1965)

The first ten tracks of this one, I believe, were the original Fugs album, the next 11 are bonus tracks added on a 1993 reissue. Hard to say much about this record...it's weird and excellent and funny, but you can still take it seriously (sometimes). I think the songwriting is fucking superb, but the performance is so unusual. I think if the term had existed, they would have been pegged "outsider." Whatever the fuck that means.

-Released on ESP-Disk
-1965
-US
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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. The Ten Commandments
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 (from rehearsal at the Peace Eye Bookstore, February 1965)
18. War Kills Babies
19. The Fugs National Anthem
20. The Fugs Spaghetti Death (No Redemption No Redemption) - A Glop of Spaghetti for Andy Warhol
21. The Rhapsody of Tuli

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