Tenderness Junction/It Crawled into My Hand Honest
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Tracklist
CD 1
Turn on, tune in, drop out (04:44) Fugs
Knock knock (04:20) Fugs
The garden is open (06:09) Fugs
Wet dream (03:21) Fugs
Hare Krishna (03:24) Fugs
Exorcising the evil spirits from the Pentagon Oct. 21, 1967 (03:18) Fugs
War song (05:24) Fugs
Dover beach (04:01) Fugs
Fingers of the sun (02:23) Fugs
V. Homage to throb thrills (08:28) Fugs
Crystal liaison (03:10) Fugs
Ramses II is dead, my love (02:50) Fugs
Burial waltz (02:28) Fugs
Wide, wide river (02:52) Fugs
Life is strange (02:37) Fugs
Johnny Pissoff meets the red angel (04:32) Fugs
Marijuana (01:36) Fugs
Leprechaun (00:11) Fugs
When the mode of music changes (03:55) Fugs
Whimpers from the Jello (00:21) Fugs
The divine toe (Pt. 1) (00:37) Fugs
We're both dead now, Alice (00:15) Fugs
Life is funny (00:14) Fugs
Grope need (Pt. 2) (00:18) Fugs
Tuli, visited by the ghost of Plotinus / More grope need (Pt. 2) (00:19) Fugs
Robinson Crusoe (00:17) Fugs
Claude Pelieu and J.J. Lebel discuss the early Verlaine Bread Crust Fragments (04:26) Fugs
The National Haiku Contest (00:24) Fugs
The divine toe (Pt. 2) (00:47) Fugs
Irene (01:09) Fugs
Recensie
It's tempting to speculate if Frank Sinatra would have formed Reprise Records in 1960 if he knew that the label would be sponsoring gleefully foul-mouthed and drug-addled rabble like the Fugs by the end of the decade, but in 1967, America's first great underground rock band found themselves signed to a bona fide major label, and this CD features the group's first two albums for Reprise, 1967's Tenderness Junction and 1968's It Crawled into My Hand, Honest. Tenderness Junction was the Fugs' first album with a new lineup that found Ed Sanders, Tuli Kupferberg, and Ken Weaver joined by a fresh trio of backing musicians, guitarist Danny Kortchmar (here billed as Danny Kooch), bassist Charles Larkey, and multi-instrumentalist Ken Pine. While the album was musically more ambitious than anything the Fugs had attempted in the past, the new guys were clearly determined not to let their chops get in the way of the vocalists' purposefully ragged approach, and the album sounds at once rich and spare, well-crafted yet casual. It was on It Crawled into My Hand, Honest that the Fugs truly dove head-first into pop record making; Sanders produced with Alderson, and the album is awash with horns, strings, massed vocal choruses, and polished arrangements that sometimes make the Fugs sound as if they wandered into someone else's recording session by mistake. But as grand as It Crawled into My Hand, Honest appears on the surface, the album has a sense of mischief that marks it as the work of the Fugs, especially when Sanders gets in touch with his inner hillbilly on "Ramses II Is Dead, My Love" and "Johnny Pissoff Meets the Red Angel," and the barrage of short tracks on side two gives them the chance to engage in some truly inspired silliness, while the wobble of the Fugs' massed vocals compensates nicely for the moments when the arrangements seem a bit too pristine. The Fugs' Reprise recordings were collected on the limited-edition box set Electromagnetic Steamboat, but this disc marks the first time Tenderness Junction and It Crawled into My Hand, Honest have been available on CD in brick-and-mortar stores; hopefully, Floating World will soon do the same for the group's other two Reprise efforts, the studio set The Belle of Avenue A and the live album Golden Filth. ~ Mark Deming
Medewerkers
Kunstenaar The Fugs
Platenlabel Floating World
Productdetails
DUIN Q5SKRQ010TN
GTIN 0805772608320
Verschijningsdatum 26.11.2010
Aantal discs 1
Taal Duits
Product type CD
Aantal tracks 30