The Fugs - The Fugs (ESP, 1966)By the mid sixties, the spirit of the Beat movement had made its way into rock & roll. Bob Dylan's Subterranean Homesick Blues - whose promotional film clip featured Beat godhead Allen Ginsberg- borrowed from the rambling, rough hewn beatnik spirit of Ginsberg and Kerouac. the Fugs were a cruder version of this. Led by Ed Sanders and Tuli Kupferberg, the Fugs churned out raw, unexpurgated, relentlessly satirical meditation on sex, politics,and the Lower East Side. The musicianship is raw presaging punk by over a decade, but the performance is what really matters here.
Despite their uncompromising politics and copious use of four letter words, the Fugs eventually signed to a mainstream label, Reprise.
This is one album that you must have in your collection!
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