The Fugs were the quintessential satirical/political group of the sixties, the foremost parodists of the Establishment and defenders of the counterculture. Their obscene, agit-prop vignettes updated a tradition that dated from Chuck Berry's early hits and predated Frank Zappa's operettas. Their use and abuse of cacophony and collage was way ahead of their time.
After cutting a few pretty rough (but brilliant) albums for the ESP label they somehow got a contract with Frank Sinatra's Reprise label and put out 4 more works of brilliance: TENDERNESS JUNCTION; IT CRAWLED INTO MY HAND, HONEST!; THE BELLE OF AVENUE 'A' and GOLDEN FILTH. All these records are here COMPLETE on the first two cds. The third disc has some stuff they cut for Atlantic Records that was never released by that label although some of these tunes made it to "Tenderness Junction" in a remixed or slightly different version. Especially entertaining here is Ed Sanders' 15 minute 'Prom Night' monologue right before they sing their doowop classic, the immortal "Wet Dream."

The Fugs - Electromagnetic Steamboat
Disc: 1
1. Turn On/Tune In/Drop Out
2. Knock Knock
3. Garden Is Open
4. Wet Dream
5. Hare Krishna
6. Exorcising the Evil Spirits from the Pentagon October 21, 1967
7. War Song
8. Dover Beach
9. Fingers of the Sun
10. Aphrodite Mass (In 5 Sections) 1 Litany of the Street Grope 2 ...
11. Crystal Liaison
12. Ramses 2 Is Dead, My Love
13. Burial Waltz
14. Wide Wide River
15. Life Is Strange
16. Johnny Pissoff Meets the Red Angel
17. Marijuana
18. Leprechaun
19. When the Mode of Music Changes
20. Whimpers from the Jello
21. Divine Toe, Pt. 1
22. We're Both Dead Now, Alice
23. Life Is Funny
24. Grope Need, Pt. 1
25. Tuli, Visited by the Ghost of Plontinus/More Grope Need (Grope ...)
26. Robinson Crusoe
27. Claude Pelieu and J.J. Lebel Discuss the Early Verlaine Bread ...
28. National Haiku Contest
29. Divine Toe, Pt. 2
30. Irene
Disc: 2
1. Divine Toe, Pt. 1/Grope Need, Pt. 1/Tuli, Visited by the Ghost of ...
2. Bum's Song
3. Dust Devil
4. Chicago
5. Four Minutes to Twelve
6. Mr. Mack
7. Belle of Avenue a
8. Queen of the Nile
9. Flower Children
10. Yodeling Yippie
11. Children of the Dream
12. Slum Goddess
13. CCD
14. How Sweet I Roamed
15. I Couldn't Get High
16. Saran Wrap
17. I Want to Know
18. Homeade
19. Nothing
20. Supergirl
Disc: 3
1. Knock Knock
2. Wet Dream
3. Carpe Diem
4. Nameless Voices Crying for Kindness
5. Aphrodite Mass (In 5 Sections) 1 Litany of the Street Grope 2 ...
6. Turn On/Tune In/Drop Out
7. Knock Knock
8. Garden Is Open
9. Wet Dream
10. Hare Krishna
11. Exorcising the Evil Spirits from the Pentagon October 21, 1967
12. War Song
13. Dover Beach
14. Fingers of the Sun
15. Crystal Liaison [Promo Album Version]

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For some unknown reason, probably because of the evil spirits, I had to upload Disc: 3 11. Exorcising the Evil Spirits from the Pentagon October 21, 1967 as a different file named Exorcising The Evil Spirits From The Pentagon2 October 21, 1967. Please don't hate me for this.