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The Fugs
12+ albums
Psychedelic Rockproto-punkpsychedelicrock60s
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The Fugs was a band formed in New York City in late1964 by Ed Sanders and Tuli Kupferberg, with Ken Weaver on drums. Later in 1965 they were joined by Peter Stampfel and Steve Weber of the Holy Modal Rounders. Their early sound was seen as very Do-It-Yourself take on Folk/Rock and had been retrospectively compared to punk music by some, subsequently however over the next few years the bands sound would become more refined and psychedelic. The band was named by Kupferberg who borrowed it from the euphemistic substitute for the word "fuck" famously used in Norman Mailer's novel, The Naked and the Dead. Incidentally, the band is featured in a chapter of Mailer's book, Armies of the Night as they play at the 1967 march on the Pentagon in protest of the Vietnam War (with Scott Rashap on upright bass). The Fugs were a satirical and self-satirizing rock band that performed at protests against the Vietnam War nationwide. Their 1968 Transatlantic Records album "It crawled into my hand, honest" (TRA 181) also helped to make them more widely known on the European side of the Atlantic. (This album {minus LP artwork, of course,} is now also available as tracks 11 to 30 of "Electromagnetic Steamboat") The band's frank lyrics about sex, drugs, and politics aroused a hostile reaction in some quarters, and enthusiastic interest in others. One of their better known songs was an adaptation of Matthew Arnold's poem, Dover Beach. Another was a William Blake poem. The Fugs played their "fin
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Refuse To Be Burnt-Out
First Album
Greatest Hits
Electromagnetic Steamboat: The Reprise Recordings
Second Album
The Fugs First Album
Tenderness Junction
The Fugs Second Album
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The Best of Broadside 1962-1988: Anthems of the American Underground from the Pages of Broadside Magazine
Fugs First Album
Virgin Fugs
The Fugs