The Fugs
The Fugs are a band formed in New York City in mid-1963 by poets Ed Sanders and Tuli Kupferberg, with Ken Weaver on drums. Soon afterward, they were joined by Peter Stampfel and Steve Weber of the Holy Modal Rounders. Kupferberg named the band from a euphemism for "fuck" used in Norman Mailer's novel, The Naked and the Dead.
Formation
The band's original core members, Ed Sanders, Tuli Kupferberg, and Ken Weaver, were joined at various times in the 1960s by a number of others, some of whom were noted session musicians or members of other bands. These included Weber and Stampfel, bassist John Anderson, guitarist Vinny Leary, guitarist Peter Kearney, keyboardist Lee Crabtree, guitarist Jon Kalb, guitarist Stefan Grossman, singer/guitarist Jake Jacobs, guitarist Eric Gale, bassist Chuck Rainey, keyboardist Robert Banks, bassist Charles Larkey, guitarist Ken Pine, guitarist Danny Kortchmar, clarinetist Perry Robinson, bassist Bill Wolf and drummer Bob Mason.
For most of the last twenty-five years, The Fugs have been composed of primary singer/songwriters Sanders and, until his death, Kupferberg; composer, song writer, guitarist and long-time Allen Ginsberg-collaborator Steven Taylor; singer/songwriter and percussionist Coby Batty; and Scott Petito, a musician and music producer.
The Fugs (album)
The Fugs is a 1966 album by The Fugs, described in their AllMusic profile as "arguably the first underground rock group of all time". 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, AllMusic 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".
In 2013, David Bowie included it in a list of 25 of his favourite albums, "Confessions of a Vinyl Junkie".
History
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ALBUMS
- The Fugs First Album released: 2011
- The Fugs Second Album released: 2011
- Be Free! - Final CD, Part 2 released: 2010
- Electromagnetic Steamboat: The Reprise Recordings released: 2003
- Final CD (Part 1) released: 2003
- No More Slavery released: 1996
- The Real Woodstock Festival released: 1995
- The Fugs First Album released: 1993
- No More Slavery released: 1986
- Refuse to Be Burnt-Out released: 1985
- Golden Filth released: 1969
- It Crawled Into My Hand, Honest released: 1968
- Tenderness Junction released: 1967
- The Fugs released: 1966
- Virgin Fugs released:
- Live from the 60s released:
The Fugs First Album
Released 2011- Slum Goddess
- Ah! Sunflower, Weary of Time
- Supergirl
- Swinburne Stomp
- I Couldn't Get High
- How Sweet I Roamed From Field to Field
- Carpe Diem
- My Baby Done Left Me
- Boobs a Lot
- Nothing
- We're the Fugs
- Defeated
- The Ten Commandments
- C.I.A. Man
- In the Middle of Their First Recording Session the Fugs Sign the Worst Contract Since Leadbelly's
- I Saw the Best Minds of My Generation Rock
- Spontaneous Salute to Andy Warhol
- War Kills Babies (live at the Bridge Theater)
- The Fugs National Anthem (live at the Bridge Theater)
- The Fugs Spaghetti Death (No Redemption No Redemption) - A Glop of Spaghetti for Andy Warhol
- Rhapsody of Tuli (From the Tuli Tapes)
- Supergirl (The Write Underwater version) (From alternate Takes)
- Ah, Sunflower, Weary of Time (From alternate Takes)
- I'm Going to Kill Myself Over (From alternate Takes)
The Fugs Second Album
Released 2011- Frenzy
- I Want to Know
- Skin Flowers
- Group Grope
- Coming Down
- Dirty Old Man
- Kill for Peace
- Morning Morning
- Doin' All Right
- Virgin Forest
- I Want to Know (live)
- Mutant Stomp (live)
- Carpe Diem
- Wide, Wide River
- Nameless Voices Crying for Kindness
- Nothing (The Full Fugs version Recorded for Folkways 1965)
- Community Breast Nada
- Players Theater Nada-Nada
- Garncht (At the Filmore East, 31 May 1968)
- Nothing (From the Psychedelic Supermarket, Boston 1968)
Electromagnetic Steamboat: The Reprise Recordings
Released 2003- Turn On/Tune In/Drop Out
- Knock Knock
- The Garden Is Open
- Wet Dream
- Hare Krishna
- Exorcising the Evil Spirits From the Pentagon October 21, 1967
- War Song
- Dover Beach
- Fingers of the Sun
- Aphrodite Mass (In 5 Sections): Litany of the Street Grope / Genuflection at the Temple of Squack / Petals in the Sea / Sappho's Hymn to Aphrodite / Homage to Throb Thrills
- Crystal Liaison
- Ramses II Is Dead, My Love
- Burial Waltz
- Wide Wide River
- Life Is Strange
- Johnny Pissoff Meets the Red Angel
- Marijuana
- Leprechaun
- When the Mode of the Music Changes
- Whimpers From the Jello
- The Divine Toe (Part I)
- We're Both Dead Now, Alice
- Life Is Funny
- Grope Need (Part I)
- Tuli, Visited by the Ghost of Plontinus / More Grope Need (Grope Need, Part II)
- Robinson Crusoe
- Claude Pelieu and J.J. Lebel Discuss the Early Verlaine Bread Crust Fragments
- The National Haiku Contest
- The Divine Toe (Part II)
- Irene
Final CD (Part 1)
Released 2003- Burn Bridges Burn
- Try to Be Joyful
- Government Surveillance Yodel
- Septuagenarian in Love
- Where is My Wandering Jew?
- Miriam
- I Will Be a Shadow
- A Western Ballad
- Ultimate Things
- Advice From the Fugs
- I've Been Working for the Landlord
- Go Down Congress
- Perpitude
- A Short History of the Human Race
- Is
- Chameleon
- A Poem by Charles Bukowski
- Luke Was a Physician and a Saint
No More Slavery
Released 1996- No More Slavery
- Cold War
- Dreams of Sexual Perfection
- South Africa
- Dover Beach
- The Smoking Gun
- Working for the Yankee Dollar
- Just Like a Jail
- Here Comes the Levellers
- What Would Tom Paine Do?
- Five Feet (live)
- Nova Slum Goddess (live)
- Fingers of the Sun (live)
- Nicaragua (live)
- Refuse to Be Burnt Out (live)
- CIA Man (live)
The Real Woodstock Festival
Released 1995- Nova Slum Goddess
- Poe Job
- CIA Man
- Crystal Liaison
- The Golden Age
- Tuli Kupferberg: Rock and Roll Hall of Fame
- Frenzy
- Sonnet 29: Fortune and Men’s Eyes
- The Postmodern Nothing
- Ramses the II Is Dead, My Love
- When the Mode of the Music Changes
- The Ten Commandments (Together With the Ten Amendments)
- Woodstock Nation
The Fugs First Album
Released 1993- Slum Goddess
- Ah, Sunflower Weary of Time
- Supergirl
- Swinburne Stomp
- I Couldn't Get High
- How Sweet I Roamed From Field to Field
- Carpe Diem
- My Baby Done Left Me
- Boobs a Lot
- Nothing
- We're The Fugs
- Defeated
- The Ten Commandments
- CIA Man
- In the Middle of Their First Recording Session The Fugs Sign the Worst Recording Contract Since Leadbelly's
- I Saw the Best Minds of My Generation Rock
- Spontaneous Salute to Andy Warhol
- War Kills Babies (live)
- The Fugs National Anthem (live)
- The Fugs Spaghetti Death - (No Redemption No Redemption) - A Glop of Spaghetti for Andy Warhol (live)
- The Rhapsody of Tuli
No More Slavery
Released 1986- No More Slavery
- Cold War
- Dreams of Sexual Perfection: Gratified Desire / Emily Dickenson / Party Party Party / The Golden Bard Retirement Home / Lithe Lydia / Healing River / Chaos, Earth and Eros
- South Africa
- Dover Beach
- The Smoking Gun
- Working for the Yankee Dollar
- Just Like a Jail
- Here Comes the Levellers
- What Would Tom Paine Do?
It Crawled Into My Hand, Honest
Released 1968- Crystal Liason
- Ramses II Is Dead, My Love
- Burial Waltz
- Wide Wide River
- Life Is Strange
- Johnny Pissoff Meets the Red Angel
- Marijuana
- Leprechaun
- When the Mode of Music Changes
- Whimpers From the Jello
- The Divine Toe, Part 1
- We're Both Dead Now, Alice
- Life Is Funny
- Grope Need, Part 1
- Tuli, Visited by the Ghost of Plontinus
- More Grope Need (Grope Need, Part 2)
- Robinson Crusoe
- Claude Pelieu and J.J. Lebel Discuss the Early Verlaine Bread Crust Fragments
- The National Haiku Contest
- The Divine Toe, Part 2
- Irene
Tenderness Junction
Released 1967- Turn On, Tune In, Drop Out
- Knock Knock
- The Garden Is Open
- Wet Dream
- Hare Krishna
- Exorcising the Evil Spirits From the Pentagon October 23, 1967
- War Song
- Dover Beach
- Fingers Of The Sun
- Aphrodite Mass (In 5 Sections): Litany Of The Street Grope / Genuflection At The Temple Of Squack / Petals In The Sea / Sappho's Hymn To Aphrodite / Homage To Throb Thrills
Live from the 60s
- Doin' All Right
- The Swedish Nada
- Homage to Catherine and William Blake
- I Couldn't Get High
- Johnny Pissoff and the Red Angel
- J.O.B.
- My Baby Done Left Me
- The Garden is Open
- The Exorcism of the Grave of Senator Joseph McCarthy
- Yodeling Yippie
- A Medley From The Fugs' First Concert: The Ten Commandments, The Swinburne Stomp
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by Maclean & Maclean
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by Niki & The Dove
The Fox
by: Elton JohnBeing wiry and thinking loudly
About the things sent to make you move
You can't help it, there's no one in the world
Knows you just, just the way you do
So we keep darting through the holes
As the hunter and the fox
Run the gauntlet's savage road
Winter's heavy and partly cloudy
And the snowfall leaves the tracks that catch a few
Bit if you're wiley, you will leave them lying
Snared up in the traps that they set for you
And it's an evergreen affair
As temptation taunts the fox
Into the hunter's waiting lair
And for mile after mile you'll never see me tire
You'll never see me slow down, for a while
'Cause I am the fox, like it or not
I'm always gonna be there running over the rock
Yes I am the fox, a fascinating cross
Of sharp as a whip and tough as an ox
Yes I am the fox
It may sound crazy but it's often lonely
And the restless heart should be captured once in a while
Then you can use them, and you often fool them
Into believing whatever you desire
So I'll keep moving through the night
The hunter and the hunted
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