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The Fugs were formed in Greenwich Village in 1964 by a couple of beat poets. Embraced by the avant-garde they specialised in crude outrage protest songs. This self titled LP was their second offering.
“Very, very mediocre folk/protest rock. Probably worth a listen for novelties sake but that's about it.”
“This one is far more palatable than either of the previous recordings. I hear a mix of punk, psych, and reasonable non-commercial rock, with only a 'smidgen' of their typically self-indulgence thrown into the mix. Maybe not their best, but certainly up to this point anyway.”
“The second album by The Fugs is a marked improvement over their first. The playing is tighter and the executions are a bit more polished. The lyrical content contains the same sexual innuendos and profanity as the first album.”
“The music is minimal. The singers, well, can't. There's poetry. Mayhem. It's punk before anyone ever thought of the term.”
“The Fugs combined political satire, garage rock trash, and enough sexual innuendo to keep the right wing up at night. But they blazed a path and left satire and some anger in their wake.”
“This album sounds like The Fugs actually tried to pretend they were a real band, instead of a spontaneous gathering of hilarious nut jobs, like they sounded on the first album. This album sounds a lot more studio than the first, but as a result, the songs sound more like real songs instead of the unscripted mayhem of the first. And as 'real bands' go, The Fugs aren't really the greatest.”
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