Second Album

Marginally more commercially folk-pop than their Allen Ginsberg/Harry Smith-produced debut, the Fugs were still fuzzed-out intellectuals who, loved to wallow in the sludge on this second LP from 1966, which features such social treaties as "Dirty Old Man," "Skin Flowers" and "Kill for Peace". The expanded band can even get Velvets-pretty on occasion. (Lee Crabtree plays celeste, for god's sake.) All Fugs records are essential anachro-poetic late-beat documents of core members Ed Sanders and Tuli Kupferberg, even when they slicked up for a major label. The CD includes some live tracks, as well as some outtakes from an aborted session for Atlantic.

In 2013, David Bowie included it in a list of 25 of his favourite albums, "Confessions of a Vinyl Junkie".

This is one of the great albums of the 60s. This record has a dynamic sound that might surprise you. There are rockers like Frenzy and Group Grope, and real beauty like I Want to Know and Morning Morning. For young people this is a slice of an era when we all thought things would change for the better
"I ain't ever gonna go to Vietnam, I'd rather stay at home and f- your mom."
That about sums up what the Fugs were all about on their second album. The music can best be described as raunchy garage rock with a couple really beautiful ballads and ending with a noise rock jazz/classical masterpeice. Lyrically, are some of the most vulgar lyrics ever heard, clearly pushing the envelope of obscenity for the times though definetely told with a hint of satire. The social and political message is a huge middle finger to the establishment. Though subjects such as the Vietnam War are outdated, the struggle for peace and freedom is as relevant today as it was in 60s. This is an inspiring, creative, and fun record. The Fugs pre-dated both the hippie and punk movements and were extremely instrumental and influential in both. The best way to describe them would be Frank Zappa and The Mothers except a lot looser and less professional but still just as good if not better. I recomend it to anyone who enjoys good music. The back of the lp has a nice essay on the album by Allen Ginsberg himself. Great rock'n'roll. Don't listen to if you are politically correct or easily offended. On second thought, please do. Great for liberated and unliberated minds alike.

....beside they took their name from Norman Mailer's 1948 book, The Naked And The Dead (where The Word was censored to "fug") and used it as a poke in the eye of polite society. The Fugs were messy, vulgar, subversive, hilarious and a lot of other things Amazon won't allow to be printed. This would be the perfect album for the snot rockets on your Christmas list.

Ed Sanders and Tuli Kupferberg are the first whose lyrics are openly sexual. And their music ranges from hard driving to sweet. The original liner notes were by Allen Dinsberg!

60s revolutionaries make another wild album. Entertaining stuff.

Prehistoric Punk at it's best

Bass Guitar - John Anderson - Guitars - Pete Kearney; Percussion - Ken Weave; Piano, Celesta, Bells - Lee Crabtree; Tambourine, Maracas - Tuli Kupferberg, Ed Sanders; Vocals - Ed Sanders;