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The Fugs First Album by: The Fugs List Price: $11.98 CD-Charts Price: $10.99 You Save: $0.99 ( 8%)Prices subject to change. |
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Binding: Audio CD EAN: 0025218966825 Label: Fantasy Manufacturer: Fantasy Number Of Discs: 1 Publisher: Fantasy Release Date: May 30, 1994 Studio: Fantasy Sales Rank: 30068 MPN: 9668 Disc 1:
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 Rating:  - One of a kindI'll just get right to describing the disc. Shorter songs than normal, on average. Songwriting style (lyrically) that could be considered very artisitic or just guys screing around trying to be vulgar in a pop-music format, dependign on your perspective. Singing: Too many people singing at once, with no attempt at perfection, or slick-ness. instruments: Standard pop-rock instruments, but a little heavy on the odd percussion (but so was Bo Diddley). Some guys know how to play. Some do not. Bassist John Anderson is fascinating in his "I know a little" approach, and would have been a famous musician in backwoods string bands in the early 20th century. I love his stuff. His style tends to "country folk" here, just a ... Read More: Rating:  - Don't get too excitedThe Fugs were fun. The Fugs were cool. So were the Kingsmen at one time. Sadly, I'm old enough to have listened to the Fugs in the '60s. Putting William Blake to lame music was not radical even then. The Fugs couldn't play, they couldn't sing, and -- I'm sorry -- they couldn't write. I loved "Saran Wrap" and "I Couldn't Get High," but I also loved Playboy's "Little Annie Fannie." All were equally subversive. Please don't compare the Fugs to the Ramones or the Mothers of Invention. Save your five stars for "London Calling." Rating: - Truly OriginalI had this album and The Fugs Second Album in the LP collection I inherited from my older brother who bought them when they were first issued. Sadly, the disappeared years ago from the collection (I suspect a step-brother, tho he denies it). So for years I've been wanting to buy them again and finally did so recently on CD. Was not disappointed. What can you say about songs like "Ah, Sunflower Weary of Time," "Supergirl" (perhaps my favorite), "Swinburne Stomp," "I Couldnt' Get High," "Boobs A Lot" or "Nothing"? They're too hilarious for words. This album and The Fugs Second Album are really historical snapshots of the Beat Generation coming into the hippie age, brilliant, totally irreverant, intellectual (two poems of William Blake ... Read More: Rating: - Still waiting for the re-release of "Virgin Fugs"I believe Lester Bangs once compared this album to a bunch of Neanderthals sitting around a fire beating on logs and baying at the moon. That's pretty accurate. Anyone looking for musical or production sophistication should look elsewhere. But if your looking for that primeval yalp that created music, and probably initiated procreation itself, you'll find it here. As a teenager I owned all the Fugs' LPs on ESP. "The Fugs Second Album" is more polished. It should be since actual musicians were playing on it. Ed, Tuli, and Ken are writers, not musicians (unless you want to call Tuli's erectorine a musical instrument). "Virgin Fugs" was my all-time favorite ESP album by the Fugs. It's musically as crude as the "First Album", but ... Read More: Rating: - Fuggin' hellGreat to see this re-release. I still remember the first time I saw something by The Fugs. I was in the record shop and and I found myself with an album in my hand that somehow managed to get in there. Quite curious how it got there I looked at the title: "It Crawled Into My Hand, Honest" by The Fugs. So that explained why I was holding it and it turned out to be the best excuse when somebody asked you how the H... you could have bought that album. Since I love guys with a good sense of humor, I bought the album and I never ever regretted doing so. Anarchy and nihilism, laughter and anger, bombastic rockopera in a circus package, that's The Fugs. Listening to the cd's now you hear that they were a document of their time. One can hear they are ... Read More: |
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