The Fugs Second Album

The Fugs Second Album Artist: The Fugs
Label: Big Beat UK
Category: Music


Average customer rating: 4 out of 5 stars
Media: Audio CD
Number Of Discs: 1


UPC: 029667412124
EAN: 0029667412124
ASIN: B0000023XE


Release Date: 1993-11-22

The Fugs Second Album


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Tracks:

  1. Frenzy
  2. I Want to Know
  3. Skin Flowers
  4. Group Grope
  5. Coming Down
  6. Dirty Old Man
  7. Kill for Peace
  8. Morning Morning
  9. Doin' All Right
  10. Virgin Forest
  11. I Want to Know
  12. Mutant Stomp
  13. Carpe Diem
  14. Wide, Wide River
  15. Nameless Voices Crying for Kindness

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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. --D. Strauss

Customer Reviews:

3 out of 5 stars Good, but the Fugs First Album is better.......2002-11-18

This album sounds like the Fugs actually tried to pretend they were a real band, instead of a spontaneous gathering of hilarious nutjobs, like they sound on the first album. This album sounds a lot more studio than the first, but as a result, the songs sound like real songs instead of like unscripted mehem, like the first. And as "real bands" go, the Fugs aren't really the greatest.

That said, the album is still fun and there are some good songs, particularly "Kill for Peace," which sounds as topical today as when it was recorded. "Virgin Forest" and "Mutant Stop" are also quite good.

4 out of 5 stars Still profane, but rocking out better.......1999-10-09

The second album by the Fugs is a marked improvement over their first album. The playing is tighter and the executions are a bit more polished (God forbid!!) "Dirty Old Man", "Kill For Peace" and "Doin' All Right" are hilarious songs. Here is an example: "I'm not ever gonna go to Vietnam. I prefer to stay right here and screw your mom." The Fugs also prove that they can rock out with abandon such as "Frenzy" and "Group Grope". This CD gets no points for sound quality though. Be prepared for relatively low fidelity. The lyrical content contains the same sexual innuendos and profanity as the first album.

5 out of 5 stars

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