The Fugs themselves were formed in New York City in 1964 by Ed Sanders and Tuli Kupferberg, with Ken Weaver on drums. Later that year they were joined by Peter Stampfel and Steve Weber of The Holy Modal Rounders. Sanders says the Fugs started out with an air of anything-goes possibility—what a show could be and how the band would progress were entirely up for grabs.
We started out in Greenwich Village, on the Lower East Side, and we were in the middle of a lot of music: the jazz clubs, the civil-rights songs, the folk movement, rock’n’roll. Everyone had guitars in their apartments, and we’d put beat poetry to music. It was a time when you could rent a store front, rent a smoke machine, have someone dancing in a bathtub full of grapes, play some songs, and you could charge admission.—SANDERS
1965
The Fugs.—The Village Fugs Sing Ballads of Contemporary Protest, Point of Views, and General Dissatisfaction.—Broadside Records/Folkways, US, 1965.—BR304/FW 05304 (LP, Album, 33⅓ RPM, Mono)
Tracklist: (side A) Slum Goddess—William Blake, Ah! Sunflower, Weary of Time—Supergirl—A. C. Swinburne, Swinburne Stomp—I Couldn’t Get High (side B) William Blake, How Sweet I Roamed From Field To Field—Seize The Day—My Baby Done Left Me—Boobs A Lot—Nothing.
Performers : John Anderson, Tuli Kupferberg, Vinny Leary, Ed Sanders, Pete Stampfel, Ken Weaver, Steve Weber.
“The Village Fugs” was released in 1965 on Broadside Records, a subdivision of Folkways, and reissued in 1966 as “The Fugs First Album” on ESP Disk.
This first album included two William Blake tracks: “Ah! Sunflower”, from Songs of Innocence and of Experience, and “How Sweet I Roamed from Field to Field”, from Blake’s juvenile Poetical Sketches. These were, almost certainly, the first pop or rock settings of Blake’s verse.
1966
The Fugs.—The Fugs First Album.—ESP Disk, US, 1966.—ESP 1018 (LP, Album, 33⅓ RPM, Mono)Tracklist: (side A) Slum Goddess—William Blake, Ah! Sunflower, Weary of Time—Supergirl—A. C. Swinburne, Swinburne Stomp—I Couldn’t Get High (side B) William Blake, How Sweet I Roamed From Field To Field—Seize The Day—I Feel Like Homemade Shit—Boobs A Lot—Nothing.
Performers : John Anderson, Tuli Kupferberg, Vinny Leary, Ed Sanders, Pete Stampfel, Ken Weaver, Steve Weber.
An uncensored reissue of “The Village Fugs...” (Broadside BR304). Distributed Fontana, UK, 1969.—STL5513888814TY
Reissued on CD with additional tracks, 1993.
The Fugs.—The Fugs.—ESP Disk, US, 1966.—ESP 1028 (LP, Album, 33⅓ RPM, Mono)
Tracklist : (side A) Frenzy—I Want To Know—Skin Flowers—Group Grope—Coming Down—Dirty Old Man (side B) Kill For Peace—Morning, Morning—Doin’ All Right—Virgin Forest.
Performers : John Anderson, Lee Crabtree, Pete Kearney, Betsy Klein, Tuli Kupferberg, Vinny Leary, Ed Sanders, Ken Weaver
Issued, as usual, with numerous variations in packaging.
Issued in Europe with variant titles “The Fugs II” or “The Fugs Second Album” and reissued on CD with five bonus tracks, 1993.
The Fugs.—Frenzy.—ESP Disk, US, 1966.—ESP 4507 (Single, 45 RPM)
Tracklist : (side A) Frenzy (side B) I Want to Know.
The Fugs.—Kill for Peace.—ESP Disk, US, 1966.—ESP 4508 (Single, 45 RPM)
Tracklist : (side A) Kill for Peace (side B) Morning Morning.
1967
The East Village Other : Electric Newspaper (Hiroshima Day).—ESP Disk, US, 1967.—ESP 1034 (LP, Album, 33⅓ RPM, Mono)
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Tracklist : (side A) Plastic clock radio, Luci’s Wedding—Steve Weber, If I Had Half a Mind—Gerard Malanga & Ingrid Superstar, Gossip—Velvet Underground, Noise—Marion Brown, Scott Holt, & Ron Jackson, Jazz Improvisation—Allen Ginsberg & Peter Orlovsky, Mantras (side B) Plastic clock radio, Luci’s Wedding—Tuli Kupferberg, Love and Ashes, sung by Kupferberg & Vicki Pollon, with Peter Rawson on guitar—Ishmael Reed reading from his novel The Free Lance Pall Bearers—Andy Warhol, Silence—Ken Weaver & Ed Sanders, Interview with Hairy.
This collage/montage documents the electric underground newspaper party the East Village Other recorded to commemorate Hiroshima Day in August 1966 during Luci Baines Johnson's wedding.
The short instrumental “Noise” by the Velvet Underground is their very first recording to be released.
Reissued on CD by Get Back, US, 2000.
Tuli Kupferberg.—No Deposit No Return.—ESP Disk, US, 1967.—ESP 1035 (LP, Album, 33⅓ RPM, Mono)
Tracklist : (side A) Pubol—Social Studies—The Hidden Dissuaders—Lifetime Guarantee—The Art Scene—Wants Ads 1—Rangoon Rambler—Purina—Lanoflo (side B) The Hyperemiator—The Sap Glove—The Bunny Mother—Auto-Da-Fe—Fields Matrimonial Service—Want Ads 2—Howard Johnson’s Army—No Deposit No Return
Effects: Gary Elton
Spoken Word
“An album of popular poetry. Pop poetry. Real advertisements. As they appeared in newspapers, magazines, direct mail. No word has been added. There [sic] are genuine ads. Parts of some ads have been repeated. Parts of some ads have been omitted. But these are the very texts. These are for real!”
Some copies on yellow vinyl.
The Fugs.—The Fugs Eat It.—Atlantic Records, US, 1967. Unreleased.
Rejected by Jerry Wexler after completion (tracks later released on CD in 1993 in a partial compilation with “The Fugs” as “The Fugs Second Album”).
The Fugs.—Tenderness Junction.—Reprise Records, US, 1967.—RS 6280 (LP, Album, 33⅓ RPM, Mono)
Tracklist : (side A) Turn On/Tune In/Drop Out—Knock Knock—The Garden Is Open—Wet Dream—Hare Krishna (side B) Exorcising the Evil Spirits from the Pentagon October 21, 1967—War Song—Matthew Arnold, 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.
Performers: John Anderson, Lee Crabtree, Stefan Grossman, Danny Kootch, Tuli Kupferberg, Vinny Leary, Charles Larkey, Bob Mason, Ken Pine, Ed Sanders, Ken Weaver, Steve Weber.
“Hare Krishna”, the closing track on side A, features Gregory Corso, Allen Ginsberg, Maretta Greer, and The Fug Chorale.
Richard Avedon photo on cover.
Reissued Wounded Bird Records, US, 2011.—WOU 6280.
The Fugs.—Virgin Fugs.—ESP Disk, US, 1967.—ESP 1038 (LP, Album, 33⅓ RPM, Mono)
Tracklist : (side A) We’re The Fugs—New Amphetamine Shriek—Saran Wrap—The Ten Commandments—Hallucination Horrors—I Command The House Of The Devil (side B) C.I.A. Man—Coca Cola Douche—My Bed Is Getting Crowded—Caca Rocka—I Saw The Best Minds Of My Generation Rot.
Performers : John Anderson, Tuli Kupferberg, Vinny Leary, Ed Sanders, Peter Stampfel, Ken Weaver, Steve Weber.
A tremendously raw collection of outtakes from the first album that was issued by ESP against the band’s wishes ; the label bootlegged their own band! Disowned by The Fugs and air-brushed out of the official early-years box set “Don’t Stop, Don’t Stop” (2008).
Reissued (digitally restored) ESP Disk, US, 2005.—ESP 1038 (CD, Album).
Poems for Peace.—Broadside Records, US, 1967.—BR 465 (LP, Album, 33⅓ RPM, Mono)
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Tracklist : (side A) Allen Ginsberg, Auto Poesy to Nebraska—Peter Orlovsky, June 20, 1961, Tangiers—Allen Katzman, Elegy, Poems from Oklahoma—Harold Dicker, The Mouth is a Zoo, The Prize of War is Always—Jackson Mac Low, Speech—David Antin, from “The Black Plague” (side B) Ed Sanders, Peace Freak Poem—Paul Blackburn, Is any Coherence Worth the Celebration? December Sixth and Seventh—Armand Schwerner, from “The Tablets,” The Emptying—Art Berger, Life has no Dimension—Walter Lowenfels, All Our Valises are Packed—Allen Plantz, Heat Wave (A Discontinuous Poem).
Spoken word.
Booklet containing poems inserted.
“A benefit reading for the New York Workshop in Nonviolence at St Mark’s Church in the Bouwerie.”
1968
The Fugs.—It Crawled Into My Hand, Honest.—Reprise Records, US, 1968.—Reprise Records 6305, RS 6305 (LP, Album, 33⅓ RPM, Stereo)
Tracklist : (side A) Crystal Liaison—Ramses II Is Dead My Love—Burial Waltz—Wide River—Life Is Strange (side B) Johnny Pissoff Meets The Red Angel—Marijuana—Leprechaun—When The Mode Of The Music Changes—Whimpers Of The Jello—The Divine Toe (Part I)—We’re Both Dead Now, Alice—Life Is Funny—Grope Need (Part 1)—Tuli, Visited By The Ghost Of Plotinus—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 II)—Irene.
Performers : The Fugs Chorus (Barbara Calabria, Bob Dorough, Bob Hanson, Earl Baker, James Jarvis, Jennifer Brown, Kenneth Bates, Leslie Dorsey, Marlys Trunkhill), Danny Kootch, Tuli Kupferberg, Charles Larkey, Bob Mason, Ken Pine, Ed Sanders, Ken Weaver.
A Transatlantic Records reissue (TRA 181) also helped to make them more widely known on the European side of the Atlantic. Reissued on CD, Wounded Bird Records, US, 2011.—WOU 6305.
Meanwhile we were recording what would be our triumphal album of the 1960s, It Crawled into My Hand, Honest. ... I created a lengthy “Magic Rite,” which we recorded. Ken Weaver wrote “Aztec Hymn,” which we also recorded. And I worked with jazz composer Burton Greene on another long work, “Beautyway,” based on a Navajo ceremony. We also recorded a song about poet William Blake walking naked with his wife Catherine, while reading Milton’s Paradise Lost in their garden in 1793. None of these tunes would wind up on the album.—SANDERS.This album can also be found as tracks 11 to 30 on “Electromagnetic Steamboat” (2001).
The Fugs.—Crystal Liaison.—Big T, UK, 1968.—BIG 115 (Single, 45 RPM)
Tracklist : (side A) Crystal Liaison (side B) When the Mode of the Music Changes
The Fugs.—It Crawled Into My Hand, Honest.—Reprise Records, US, 1968.—R 6305, Playtape No. 0944 (Audio Tape, EP)
Tracklist : (side A) Crystal Liaison—Marijuana (side B) Johnny Pissoff Meets the Red Angel—Life Is Funny
1969
The Fugs.—The Belle of Avenue A.—Reprise Records, US, 1969.—RS 6359 (LP, Album, 33⅓ RPM, Stereo)
Tracklist : (side A) Bum’s Song—Dust Devil—Chicago—Four Minutes To Twelve—Mr. Mack (side B) Belle of Avenue A—Queen of the Nile—Flower Children—Yodeling Yippie—Children of the Dream.
Performers : Tuli Kupferberg, Bob Mason, Ed Sanders, Ken Weaver, Bill Wolf.
Reissued on CD by Wounded Bird Records, US, 2011.—WOU 6359
The Fugs.—Radio Spots For “The Belle of Avenue A”.—Reprise Records, US, 1969.—PRO 348 (7”, 45 RPM, Promo)
Tracklist : (side A) Band One—Band Two (side B) Band One—Band Two
Radio promo spots to advertise “The Belle of Avenue A.” Program repeats on side B. Voiced by various Groupies and then David Ossman of The Fireside Theatre.
Ed Sanders.—Sanders’ Truckstop.—Reprise Records, US, 1969.—RS 6374 (LP, Album, 33⅓ RPM, Stereo)
Tracklist: (side A) Jimmy Joe, The Hippybilly Boy—Maple Court Trajedy—Heartbreak Crash Pad—Banshee—The Plaster Song (side B) The Iliad—Breadtray Mountain—The ABM Machine—They’re Cutting My Coffin at The Sawmill—Homesick Blues—Pindar’s Revenge
Performers : David Bromberg, Dan Hamburg, Bill Keith, John London, Ed Sanders, Patrick Sky, Jay Ungar, John Wade, John Ware.
Reissued on CD by Collectors’ Choice Music, US, 2007.—CCM-866.
1970
The Fugs.—Golden Filth : Alive at the Fillmore East.—Reprise Records, US, 1970.—RS 6396 (LP, Album, 33⅓ RPM, Stereo)
Tracklist : (side A) Slum Goddess—CCD—William Blake, How Sweet I Roamed—I Couldn’t Get High—Saran Wrap (side B) I Want To Know—Homeade—Nothing—Supergirl.
Performers : Howard Johnson, Tuli Kupferberg, Charles Larkey, Carl Lynch, Bob Mason, Ken Pine, Ed Sanders, Richard Tee, Julius Watkins, Ken Weaver.
Recorded live at the Fillmore East on June 1, 1968.
Also Edsel Records, 1987.—ED217. Reissued on CD by Wounded Bird Records, US, 2011.—WOU 6396.
1972
Ed Sanders.—Beer Cans On the Moon.—Reprise Records, US, 1972.—MS 2105 (LP, Album, 33⅓ RPM, Stereo)
Tracklist : (side A) Rock And Roll People—Nonviolent Direct Action—Henry Kissinger—The Shredding Machine—Pity the Bird—Kaw River Valley Progressive Hempune (side B) Beer Cans On the Moon—Albion Crags—Yodeling Robot—Priestess—Universal Rent Strike Rag—Six Pack Of Sunshine
Performers : Mike Epstein, Dan Hamburg, Jake Jacobs, Rob Rothstein, Ed Sanders, Frank Vicari.
Label says “Ed Sanders and The Hemptones : Beercans on the Moon”.
“Albion Crags” incorporates Sanders’ setting of William Blake’s “The Sick Rose”, with the composer as soloist.
Reissued on CD by Bridge, Japan, 2006.—BRIDGE-069, and by Collectors’ Choice Music, US, 2007.—CCM-865.
Ed Sanders.—Beer Cans On the Moon : Radio Spots from Warner/Reprise No. MS-2105.—Reprise Records, US, 1972.—R-558 (Reel-To-Reel, 7½ ips, ¼”, Stereo
Tracklist : Radio Spot #1—Radio Spot #2.
Printed label on front of clamshell box reads : “Radio Spots from Warner/Reprise No. MS-2105; artist : Ed Sanders & The Hemptones; album : Beer Cans on the Moon; no. of spots : Two; time : 60sec 7½ st”.
Ed Sanders.—Two Prime Cuts of Ahimsa-Rock from Beercans on the Moon.—Win Magazine, US, 1972 (Flexi-disc, 33 ⅓ RPM, Single Sided, Stereo)
Tracklist : Nonviolent Direct Action—Kaw River Valley Progressive Hemptune
Included in Win Magazine (New York), vol. VIII, no 14 (1 September 1972).
1975
The Fugs.—Fugs 4, Rounders Score.—ESP Disk, US, 1975.—ESP 2018 (LP, Compilation, 33⅓ RPM, Mono)
Tracklist : (side A) Boobs A Lot—Romping Through the Swamp—Defeated—Crowley Waltz—Fiddler a Dram—Fishing Blues—New Amphetamine Shriek—Jackoff Blues (side B) I Couldn’t Get High—Slum Goddess—Caca Rocka—C.I.A. Man—Kill For Peace—Morning, Morning—Virgin Forest Excerpt
Performers : John Anderson, Lee Crabtree, Pete Kearney, Betsy Klein (?), Tuli Kupferberg, Vinny Leary, Ed Sanders, Peter Stampfel, Ken Weaver, Steve Weber.
Consists of recordings from the first two ESP albums plus unreleased cuts from the first album sessions. Side A is The Fugs plus Peter Stampfel & Steve Weber of The Holy Modal Rounders, previously unreleased material recorded in 1965. Side B is The Fugs. (Four tracks by The Holy Modal Rounders are included, and date from first album sessions as well.)
1982
The Fugs.—Greatest Hits. Volume 1: Proto Punk.—PVC Records/Adelphi Records, US, 1982.—PVC 8914, AD 4116 (LP, Compilation, 33⅓ RPM, Mono)
Tracklist : (side A) Frenzy—Doin’ All Right—I Feel Like Homemade Shit—Dirty Old Man—Coming Down (side B) Slum Goddess—Supergirl—Boobs A Lot—Skin Flowers—We’re The Fugs—New Amphetamine.
Performers : Tuli Kupferberg, Ed Sanders, and others.
Also available as audio cassette.
1984
Tracklist : (side A) Days Of Auld Lang Hippie—The Fugs Rehearsal: I Fucked a Chicken in the 60’s (But Now I’m the Dean of the Medical School), Haben Sie Herpes, I Don’t Want to Sing Any Songs Against America, Why Don’t We Do It In The Bed?—You Can’t Go Into The Same River Twice (side B) Frenzy—Crystal Liaison—Slum Landlord from the Lower East Side—Wet Dream—Nothing—Morning Morning.
Performers : Coby Batty, Kramer, Tuli Kupferberg, Vinny Leary, Ed Sanders, Steve Taylor.
Recorded live at The Bottom Line in New York City, June 9, 1984.
1985
Tracklist : (side A) The Five Feet—If You Want To Be President—Nova Slum Goddess—Nicaragua—Fingers Of The Sun—Wide, Wide River—William Blake, How Sweet I Roamed From Field To Field (side B) Refuse To Be Burnt-Out—Country Punk—CIA Man—Ban The Bomb—Keeping The Issues Alive
Performers : Coby Batty, Kramer, Tuli Kupferberg, Vinny Leary, Ed Sanders, Steve Taylor. Ed Sanders performs on Pulse Lyre, Light Lyre, and Talking Tie.
A new version of William Blake’s “How Sweet I Roamed” sung by Steve Taylor is included in this live reunion album.
Also on New Rose Records, France.—ROSE 56. Reissued on CD by Big Beat Records, UK, 1995.—CDWIKD 139.
1986
Tracklist : No More Slavery—Cold War—Dreams Of Sexual Perfection: I. Gratified Desire, II. Emily Dickenson, III. Party Party Party, IV. The Golden Bard Retirement Home, V. Lithe Lydia, VI. Healing River, VII. Chaos, Earth And Eros—South Africa—Matthew Arnold, Dover Beach—The Smoking Gun—Working For The Yankee Dollar—Just Like A Jail—Here Come The Levellers—What Would Tom Paine Do?
Performers : Coby Batty, Tuli Kupferberg, Scott Petito, Ed Sanders, Steve Taylor.
Studio album.
Also issued in LP format. Also on New Rose Records, France. Reissued Big Beat Records, UK, 1995 with five additional tracks.
1987
Tracklist : (side A : Act I, Scene I) Mr. President, This Is The Greatest Hour—Dazzle The Sky—The Wagon Trains—This Evil Empire—Go For It!—La Trahison Des Journalistes—The Prayer—Hymn To America (Act I, Scene II) Rose Petals Veiled In Smoke—The President’s In My Pocket (Act I, Scene III) Technology Is Going To Set Us Free—There’s A Dim Bulb Burning—The Pax Coeli Americana—Slapping Leather In Strange, Strange Skies (side B : Act I, Scene III, continued) The Greed Spasm—The Battle In The Sky—I See Isis (Act II, Scene I) Da Vinci Once Thought Of A Secret Weapon—A Nuke-Free World—I Believe In Destiny (Act II, Scene II) The Threat The Threat—How Much Do You Really Know About Those Whom You Hate?—The Metastasis—The Peer Jeer (side C : Act II, Scene II, Continued) He Was Such A Scientist (Act II, Scene III) Protest And Survive—World Wide Green—Till The Wormwood Fall From The Sky No More (Act III, Scene I) The Rapture Song—The Sharing Mind—Talking In Nuke-Tongues—The Light From Plymouth Rock (side D : Act III, Scene II) Liberty Not War—The Secret Agenda (Act III, Scene III) She Must Die—The Terrible Things (Act III, Scene IV) A Death In The Mountains—Oh, The Pain—Do Not Mourn For Me.
Performers : Coby Batty, Larry Brody, Marilyn Crispell, Amy Fradon, Anne Jacobsen, Tuli Kupferberg, Ken Lovelett, Joe Martino, Scott Petito, Leslie Ritter, Ed Sanders, Steve Taylor.
Super De Luxe Box Set Edition; libretto and liner notes enclosed.
Also New Rose Records, France, 19887.—ROSE 115 (2LP, Album) and CD.
1989
Tracklist : (side A) Whore Of Babylon—Archetypical Poem Of The Chinese Aristocracy—John Lennon, Evolution—I’m Gonna Kill Myself Over Your Dead Body (If You Fuck Anybody But Me) —Ralph Chaplin, Mourn Not The Dead—Swami—Eugene Pottier, The New Internationale—Aye That Beckett—Vanity Fair—Festival Singers—Morning, Morning—The CIA Was Eating Beans—My Name Is Bob Dylan (side B) William Blake, London—Fruitstand—Go Fuck Yourself With Your Atom Bomb—Van Gogh’s Poem—Belushi’s Blues—Bull Poem—Bobby Edwards, Way Down South In Greenwich—The And Song—Long Poem.
All songs written by Tuli Kupferberg, except those which are co-written, as indicated.
Also available as an audio cassette.
1990
Tracklist : Pete Seeger, Tropei Tropei Tropei (Turn, Turn, Turn) from Ecclesiastes 3 in the Septuagint Greek Bible, 2nd Century B.C.—Sappho—High Tech Heraclitus—The Song of the Sirens (Book 12, The Odyssey) —Danae in a Box upon the Sea (Simonides) —The Wrath of Achilles (The opening lines of the Iliad, plus some thoughts about space warfare and the fate of Iphigeneia) —A Chorus from The Birds (Aristophanes) —Plato’s Cave (A version of the opening lines of Book 7, The Republic) —Archilochus Rock & Roll Wail-Out—Bonus Track: High Tech Heraclitus (Dancemix).
Performers : Amy Fradon, Scott Petito, Leslie Ritter, Ed Sanders, Steve Taylor.
Tracklist : ½ Japanese, Should I Tell Her?—Fred Frith, True Love—Shockabilly, Nobody's Place—Sharky's Machine, Collide, Collide—The Shaved Pigs, Two Car Garage—The Moon, Birth—The Workdogs, Jane Gone (Excerpt) —Missing Foundation, Backbreaker—Artless, Vegetable Rights—Krackhouse, My Revolution—Bongwater, His New Look—Tuli Kupferberg, M-O-T-H-E-R—Carney, Hild, Kramer, Telephone—Fish and Roses, The Letter—No Safety, I Sleep—Men and Volts, Healing Hands—Samm and Dave, Chunk LBJ—The Spongehead Experience, Love or Confusion—Allen Ginsberg And Steve Taylor, Dear M—George Cartwright, I Remember It All—Scott Williams, I Pledge Allegiance To You—Otto Kentrol, She's Working Days, I'm Working Nights—Laraaji, Bring Forth (Excerpt)
Also issued on audio cassette (S-01 CS), by Shadowline Records, Netherlands.—SR6787 (LP), and by Shimmy Disc Europe, Netherlands.—SDE 9024 (CD).
Tracklist : No More Slavery—Cold War—Dreams Of Sexual Perfection—Matthew Arnold, Dover Beach—Liberty Not War (Hands Reach Out)—Technology (Is Going To Set Us Free)—What Would Tom Paine Do?—World Wide Green—If You Want To Be President—Nova Slum Goddess—Refuse To Be Burnt Out—Keeping The Issues Alive.
Performers : Coby Batty, Robbie Dupree, Amy Fradon, Mark Kramer, Tuli Kupferberg, Vinny Leary, Scott Petito, Leslie Ritter, Ed Sanders, Steven Taylor.
The best tracks from the 1980s reunion albums. Reissued 2003.
What Else Would You Do? A Compilation of Quiet Music.—Shimmy Disc, US, 1990 (LP, Album, 33⅓ RPM, Stereo)
Artists : Pale Face, Dean Wareham, Bongwater, Dogbowl, Suzie Unger, Daniel Johnston, David Keener, Tuli Kupferberg, Christian Marclay & Catherine Jauniaux, Mr. Elk & Mr. Seal, Men & Volts, The Tinklers, Fred Lane, The Hat Brothers, Rebby Sharp, False Prophets, Tamela Glenn, Daved Hild.
Artist list from sleeve. No further information.
1991
Tracklist : (side A) Yiddish-Speaking Socialists Of The Lower East Side—(side B) Yiddish-Speaking Socialists of the Lower East Side
Ed Sanders discusses socialism interspersed with snippets of music. One 17:26 track repeated on each side of the tape.
Unofficial reissue Latter-Day Quixote, US, 2014.—LDQ-1007 (Audio Cassette). Reissued in collaboration with Sanders himself, in a slightly remastered version on ten inch vinyl : Okraïna, Belgium, 2015.—okraïna #5 (10” LP, 33⅓ RPM, Mono).
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Tracklist : (No Deposit, No Return) Pubol—Social Studies—The Hidden Dissuadors—Lifetime Guarantee—The Art Scene—Want Ads 1—Purina—Lanoflo—The Hyperemiator—The Sap Glove—The Bunny Mother—Auto-Da-Fe—Fields Matrimonial Service—Want Ads 2—Howard Johnson’s Army—No Deposit, No Return (Tuli & Friends) Whore Of Babylon—Archetypical Poem Of The Chinese Aristocracy—John Lennon, Evolution—I’m Gonna Kill Myself Over Your Dead Body (If You Fuck Anybody But Me)—Ralph Chaplin, Mourn Not The Dead—Swami—Eugene Pottier, The New Internationale—Vanity Fair—Morning, Morning—The CIA Was Eating Beans
Compilation of two recordings by Tuli Kupferberg : the entirety of the LP, “No Deposit, No Return” with side A of “Tuli & Friends”.
1993
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Tracklist : (The Fugs First Album) Slum Goddess—William Blake, Ah, Sunflower Weary of Time—Supergirl—A. C. Swinburne, Swinburne Stomp—I Couldn’t Get High—William Blake, How Sweet I Roamed from Field to Field—Carpe Diem—My Baby Done Left Me—Boobs a Lot—Nothing (Additional Studio Material) We’re The Fugs—Defeated—The Ten Commandments—CIA 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 (Songs from the “Night of Napalm”: Live at the Bridge Theatre, St Mark’s Place, 1965) War Kills Babies—The Fugs National Anthem—The Fugs Spaghetti Death (No Redemption No Redemption) A Glop of Spaghetti for Andy Warhol.
Performers : John Anderson, Tuli Kupferberg, Vinny Leary, Ed Sanders, Pete Stampfel, Ken Weaver, Steve Weber.
“The Fugs First Album”, 1966, originally released as “The Village Fugs”, 1965. Also Fugs Records/Fantasy, US, 1994.—FCD-9668-2.
Tracklist : William Blake, Ah, Sunflower Weary Of Time—The Freak-Out Tent—Horses In The Stream—Nothing—Workers Of The World Relax—Crystal Liaison—William Blake, Auguries Of Innocence—New Age Safe Sex—The Golden Songs Of Tuli—Ballade Of The League Of Militant Agnostics—Cave 64—Nectar In The Wind—Matthew Arnold, Dover Beach—But I Was Much Mistaken—Morning Morning.
Recorded 1989.
Tracklist : 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—Mutant Stomp—Carpe Diem—Wide, Wide River—Nameless Voices Crying For Kindness
Performers : John Anderson, Lee Crabtree, Pete Kearney, Tuli Kupferberg, Vinny Leary, Ed Sanders, Ken Weaver.
Reissue of 1967 album with 5 bonus tracks.
Also issued Fantasy Records, US, 1994.—FCD-9669-2
1994
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Tracklist : Doin’ All Right—The Swedish Nada—Homage to Catherine and William Blake—I Couldn’t Get High—Johnny Pissoff Meets 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/Swinburne Stomp.
Performers : John Anderson, Lee Crabtree, Pete Kearney, Dan Kootch, Tuli Kupferberg, Charley Larkey, Bob Mason, Ken Pine, Ed Sanders, Peter Stampfel, Ken Weaver, Steve Weber, Bill Wolf.
This album is made up of recordings from assorted (unprofessionally recorded) tapes of various shows, and home demos.
1995
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Tracklist : The Five Feet—If You Want To Be President—Nova Slum Goddess—Nicaragua—Fingers Of The Sun—Wide, Wide River—William Blake, How Sweet I Roamed—Refuse To Be Burnt-Out—Country Punk—CIA Man—Ban The Bomb—Keeping The Issues Alive—Chaos, Earth And Eros—Summer Of Love
Performers : Coby Batty, Kramer, Tuli Kupferberg, Vinny Leary, Scott Petito, Jeff Ruzich, Ed Sanders, Steve Taylor.
Originally issued Olufsen, Denmark, 1985. Reissued now with two extra tracks.
Performers : Coby Batty, Tuli Kupferberg, Scott Petito, Ed Sanders, Steve Taylor.
This was a reunion album LP put together in 1986. The CD includes the original LP material, a couple of demos, and some live tracks from “Refuse to be Burnt-Out”. Also Fugs Records/Ace Records, UK, 1996.
Tracklist : (CD1) 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 ll Is Dead, My Love—When The Mode Of The Music Changes—The Ten Commandments (Together With The Ten Amendments)—Woodstock Nation (CD2) William Blake, Auguries of Innocence—They’re Closing Up The Loopholes Of Life—Einstein Never Wore Socks—Shadows Of Paradise—I Want To Know—A Song For Janis Joplin—Cave 64—Down By The Salley Gardens—Coming Down—Wide, Wide River—William Blake, How Sweet I Roamed From Field To Field—Morning Morning—William Blake, Nurse’s Song (And All The Hills Echoed).
A third version of “How Sweet I Roamed” appears on this album, which also contains two new William Blake pieces: 1. Auguries of Innocence, and 2. Nurse’s Song.
1996
Tracklist : Lost, Lost, Lost, Lost, Lost—Matisse—Cabin Fever—Brecht— T. S. Eliot, Coffee Spoons—Shakespeare’s 57th Sonnet—Everybody Has a Right to a Home—John Keats’s Negative Capability Letter—Hymn To the Rebel Café—Shakespeare’s 18th Sonnet—Evening Star—Chanting Chipmunks—Morning Morning—When It’s Time to Say Goodbye
Performers : Sergei Azizian, Amy Fradon, Scott Petito, Leslie Ritter, Ed Sanders.
Tracklist : (Requiem Songs, for The Victims Of Nationalism, 1993) Invocation—Bosnia's Mountains—The Wedding Party—Deep Is the Sea/The Bee—So Still—Ethnic Cleansing—Home Is A Ghost—The Cellist—Final Prayer (Screen Scenes, 1995) PlayList 1—PlayList 2—PlayList 3—PlayList 4
Composed by Neil B. Rolnick; lyrics by Ed Sanders (Requiem Songs).
2000
Tracklist : Folks Together, What Is In A Name? —Ed Sanders & The Hemptones, Universal Rent Strike Rag—Mary King, Polysaturated Woman—Atwater & Donnelly, Pity Undue—The Young Adults, New Deal—Compass Rose, Breton Tunes—Tim McCarthy, Goddamn Ye Greedy Capitalists—Pedro Pietro, Telephone Booth #905-1/2—The Fugs, Working For The Yankee Dollar—John Lennon, John Lennon Interview—David Peel & The Lower East Side, All The Homeless People—Pendragon, Imagine Peace—Bellaire & Dunn, Cup Of Kindness—Vernon Frazer & Thomas Chapin, Extinction/The Sane—The 4th Street String Band, 'Twas In The Moon Of Wintertime—Ed Sanders & Steven Taylor, William Blake, Auguries of Innocence—New England Christmas-Tide Musicians : Jon Campbell, Everett Brown, Sandol Austauski, Dave Peloquin, Shetland Tunes—Tuli Kupferberg, Social Studies—David Peel & The Apple Band, Imagine—Jon Campbell & Mark Roberts, The Leading Star/Christmas Eve
From back cover: “Profits from the sale of this recording benefit the people and programs at Amos House, 41 Friendship Street, Providence, RI 02907.”
2001
Tracklist : (CD1) 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—Matthew Arnold, 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 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 Plotinus, 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 (CD2) Whimpers From The Jello, The Divine Toe (Part I), Grope Need (Part I), Tuli, Visited By The Ghost Of Plotinus, More Grope Need (Grope Need Part II), Robinson Crusoe, The National Haiku Contest, The Divine Toe (Part II)—Bum’s Song—Dust Devil—Chicago—Four Minutes To Twelve—Mr. Mack—The Belle Of Avenue A—Queen Of The Nile—Flower Children—Yodeling Yippie—Children Of The Dream—Slum Goddess—CCD—William Blake, How Sweet I Roamed—I Couldn’t Get High—Saran Wrap—I Want To Know—Homemade—Nothing—Supergirl (CD3) Knock Knock—Wet Dream—Carpe Diem—Nameless Voices Crying For Kindness—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—Turn On/Tune In/Drop Out (Mono Album Version)—Knock Knock (Mono Album Version)—The Garden Is Open (Mono Album Version)—Wet Dream (Mono Album Version)—Hare Krishna (Mono Album Version)—Exorcising The Evil Spirits From The Pentagon October 21, 1967—War Song (Mono Album Version)—Matthew Arnold, Dover Beach (Mono Album Version)—Fingers Of The Sun (Mono Album Version)—Crystal Liaison (Promo Album Version)
Limited to 5000 numbered copies.
Includes the four Reprise albums in their entirety plus special promo edits, mono mix of Tenderness Junction (except for Aphrodite Mass) and tracks from the unreleased Atlantic LP (in censored, mono form.)
2002
Tracklist : Matthew Arnold, Dover Beach—Frenzy—Fingers Of The Sun—CIA Man—No More Slavery—Nova Slum Goddess—Wet Dream—Crystal Liaison—The Terrible Things—Liberty Not War—Nothing—William Blake, How Sweet I Roamed—Wide Wide River—The Smoking Gun—Refuse To Be Burn-out—The Fugs Rehearsal—You Can’t Go Into The Same River Twice—Here Comes The Levellers—Dreams Of Sexual Perfection—Dreams Of Sexual Perfection—Dreams Of Sexual Perfection—Dreams Of Sexual Perfection—Dreams Of Sexual Perfection—Dreams Of Sexual Perfection—Morning Morning.
2003
Tracklist : 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.
Also issued Rykodisc International, UK.—RCD 17004.
Tracklist : (The Fugs) Burn, Bridges, Burn—Try To Be Joyful—Government Surveillance Yodel—Is—Perpitude—Where Is My Wandering Jew?—Go Down, Congress (Firesign Theatre) An Undermutter Moment—The Grass Roots Gourmet—Beat St. Jack’s Famous Accountants School—TIPS Hotline—The Arts Of Defense—Pinata! Pinata!—Everything You Know Is Wrong (About Shoes)—Hal Stark is Off the Road—No Jokes about America!—Nick Danger in Lucky Liability—It’s Saddam Shame!—Beat St. Jack’s Baghdad Bush Suit—S**t Happens!—Bob Heeblehauser’s Tacomasaur—Mutt ‘n’ Smutt’s Scary Sale!—Mask Your Movies!—Thanksgiving, or Pass the Indian Please!
Promotional disc from The Fugs and Firesign Theatre. Features 7 songs from “The Fugs Final CD (Part 1)”, and 16 cuts from Firesign’s “All Things Firesign” disc. Issued without a booklet. “For Promotional Use Only, Not For Sale.”
2004
Tracklist : The Question Of Fame—Wild Women Of East Tenth Street—Satie—The Final Section Of Gregory Corso’s Bomb—Song For Allan—America At Peace March—Thirsting For Peace In A Raging Century : A Microtonal Cantata, Scroll Me Some Answers O Universe, No Greater Belief In Words Has There Been, Soap Clay Cliff, The Feather Of Justice, Spiritual Topography, Why Is Why Whying, It Chars My Lips, But Still I Drink, I Think Of Sappho Often, Rock & Roll & Roll Away The Rock, Water Is The Greatest Thing, Crack Of Grace, See My Shadow On The Other Side
All songs written, recorded and produced by Ed Sanders performing on his microtonal instrument, the Microlyre (31 notes to the octave).
2006
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Tracklist : Nova Slum Goddess—CIA Man—Liberty Not War—Dreams of Sexual Perfection—Government Surveillance Yodel—Einstein Never Wore Socks—The Terrible Things—William Blake, Auguries of Innocence—Cave 64—I Want to Know—Here Come the Levelers—Refuse to Be Burnt-Out—Nothing—Kill for Peace—Crystal Liaison—Try to Be Joyful
Performers : Coby Batty, Tuli Kupferberg, Scott Petito, Ed Sanders, Steve Taylor.
Featuring studio and live performances.
2007
Ed Sanders.—Poems for New Orleans.—Paris Records, US, 2007.—7 33792 77102 4 (CD, Album).
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Tracklist : The Battle of New Orleans—Teeming Docks: New Orleans 1820-1860—What if William Blake Had Gone to New Orleans?—Did Mark Twain Meet Marie Laveau?—Marie Lebage and Huey Long—Unearned Suffering—Calling on Charles and Wallace—Some Fema Trailers in Hope—Quiet Joy—The Experience—My Ironing Board—Rape—Ash Wednesday and Lent—Grace Lebage—Then Came the Storm: a Prayer for the Victims of Katrina.
Lyrics by Ed Sanders; original music composed by Mark Bingham.
2008
The Fugs.—Don’t Stop! Don’t Stop!—Big Beat Records, UK, 2008.—Fugsbox 9 (4CD, Compilation)
Tracklist: (CD1 : The Fugs First Album) Slum Goddess—William Blake, Ah, Sunflower Weary Of Time—Supergirl—A. C. Swinburne, Swinburne Stomp—I Couldn’t Get High—William Blake, How Sweet I Roamed From Field To Field—Carpe Diem—My Baby Done Left Me—Boobs A Lot—Nothing (Additional Tracks From 1965) We’re The Fugs—Defeated—The Ten Commandments—CIA 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—The Fugs National Anthem—The Fugs Spaghetti Death ; No Redemption No Redemption (A Glop Of Spaghetti For Andy Warhol)—The Rhapsody Of Tuli (CD2 : The Fugs Second Album) Frenzy—I Want To Know—Skin Flowers—Group Grope—Coming Down—Dirty Old Man—Kill For Peace—Morning Morning—Doin’ All Right—Virgin Forest (Additional Tracks From 1966-1969) I Want To Know—Mutant Stomp—Carpe Diem—Wide, Wide River—Nameless Voices Crying For Kindness (CD3) Rapture Of The Deep, The Fugs Live Performances And Recordings 1966-69 Previously Unissued) We Don’t Allow No Robots In Sunday School—Crystal Liaison—The Peace Eye Sequence—Six Pack Of Sunshine—Four Minutes To Twelve—Carpe Diem—J Edgar Hoover Is Paranoid—The Final Moments Of J Humpington Billsworth—Jimmy Joe, The Hippybilly Boy—The Garden Is Open—Johnny Pissoff #2—I Couldn’t Get High—Breadtray Mountain—”Hello Fleshlovers!” A Sample Of Tuning In The 1960s—War Song ‘68—Tuli Sings ‘When The Mode Of The Music Changes’—Elegy For Robert Kennedy (CD4 : The Wonderful Torrent, Previously Unissued) The Beauty Of Nada: A Suite Of Five Nothings From The 60s Nothing, The Full Fugs Version Recorded For Folkways 1965—Community Breast Nada—Players Theater Nada-Dada—Garnicht, At The Fillmore East, 21 May 1968—Nothing, From The Psychedelic Supermarket, Boston, 1968 (Alternate Takes From The Fugs First Folkways Session, April 1965)—Supergirl, The Write Underwater Version—William Blake, Ah, Sunflower Weary Of Time—I’m Going To Kill Myself Over—Demos For Eternity Johnny Pissoff & The Red Angel—Two Drunkards On The Spaceship—As My Moog Weeps—Street Punk—Fragmentation Bomb (The Enormous Truth Of Tuli : Some Platinum Moments From Tuli Kupferberg’s 1960s Songwriting Tapes) The Enormous Truth Of Tuli
Repackaging of the first two albums with various outtakes, demos and live recordings. The 4-CD set contains over 34 previously unreleased Fugs songs and performances covering the years 1965-1969.
2010
The Fugs.—Be Free (The Fugs Final CD Part 2).—Fugs Records, US, 2010.—KRM 1160 (CD, Album)
Tracklist : Be Free—Backward Jewish Soldiers—My Darling Magnolia Tree—Goofitude—This Is A Hit Song—William Blake, Laughing Song—Hungry Blues—Loose Peach Gown—Bartleby the Scrivener—Imgrat—The CIA Made Me Sing Off-Key—The British Journalist—I Am an Artist for Art´s Sake—Greenwich Village of My Dreams.
Performers : Coby Batty, Tuli Kupferberg, Scott Petito, Ed Sanders, Steve Taylor.
Featuring 14 new songs, including five by Tuli Kupferberg.
Tracklist : 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—Matthew Arnold, 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 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 Plotinus, 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.
Combining the first two Reprise albums, but unlike the Rhino Handmade set (“Electromagnetic Steamboat”) which used tapes, this release is sourced from vinyl.
Acknowledgments
Most of the illustrations above and much of the description derive from the invaluable website www.discogs.com .
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