RARE M- 1966 Orig THE FUGS VIRGIN FUGS FREAKBEAT Garage PSYCH Underground

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 RARE ORIGINAL! 1966 ESP RECORDS UNDERGROUND Psych Rock

                            THE FUGS

                VIRGIN FUGS

                      USA - ESP RECORDS - 1038 (MONO)

HARD to find CLEAN like this, the original ESP Records 1966 first issue on superior sound FONTANA label you NEVER see this pressing - highly collectible 49 years old.

Final collection copy!

Of course, VIRGIN FUGS is brilliant, enjoyable, and listenable again and again. Simply don't expect Hendrix - these guys aim to offend. And listen with a smile...

The Fugs were the band that out-freaked the Mothers of Invention, a crude, reckless exhibition of 1960s counterculture abandon that unexpectedly found a spot on the pop charts. Founded in New York City’s East Village in 1964 by bookstore owner Ed Sanders and poet Tuli Kupferberg, the Fugs were beatniks and satirists, an irreverent reaction to the decade’s social turbulence and often credited as the first underground band. Their satire would anticipate Frank Zappa’s Mothers, whose classic 1966 LP Freak Out! is a more accessible and successful demonstration of some of the Fugs’ intentions as advocates of social reform.

The Fugs’ 1966 album, Virgin Fugs is, like the group itself, very much a specimen of its era. Its uncensored lyrics don’t exactly shock like they did at the time and include members of the Holy Modal Rounders.

Virgin Fugs’ is actually filled with unreleased songs, extra material from the Fugs’ first album sessions. ESP Records released it without the band’s approval. Fugs mainmen Ed Sanders and Tuli Kupferberg attempted to sue ESP Records, failed, and soon after signed to Reprise.

Even for the radical ‘60s, Virgin Fugs is an especially audacious artifact: it incorporates a William Blake painting into its cover art, sets the Ten Commandments to the stuff of a howling dog’s dreams, and turns some of Allen Ginsberg’s poem “Howl” into a chaotic, “Subterranean Homesick Blues”-esque ramble. It’s hard to describe the racket made by the Fugs -- The Fugs are what happens when the freaks get their hands on some nursery rhymes, pervert them with sex, drugs, and irreverence, and run them through some folk and underground rock nightmares. The deluded voices that gather in motley congregation may have melodies and harmonies in mind, but the results are often well-intentioned and flipped-out. Virgin Fugs is passionate and primitive insanity.

Using toilet humor cribbed from lingering adolescent slumber parties, the songs straddle the fine line between stoned-out and satire. In fact, they do a swell job of smearing it into illegible smudges, singing the praises of drugs (“New Amphetamine Shriek”), lamenting the ridiculous abundance of female companions (“My Bed Is Getting Crowded”), praising more drugs (“Hallucination Horrors”), and issuing a definitive mission statement comprised of—what else?—sex and drugs (“We’re the Fugs”). The group’s deprived lunacy does result in a seminal piece of social commentary: “C.I.A. Man”, a protest song that maintains its relevance today. Although its music sounds like a drunken search for clarity during a Rolling Stones acoustic recording session, “C.I.A. Man” cuts through with lyrics full of meaning and outrage, a vital ingredient that most of Virgin Fugs lacks: “Who can squash republics like bananas / If they do not like their social manners? / Who can train guerillas by the dozen / Send them out to kill their untrained cousins? / Fuckin’ A, man / C.I.A. man.”

Virgin Fugs can be funny, disturbing, and offensive (the bizarre “Coca Cola Douche” is a kind of combination of all three), but mostly it’s the uncomfortable sound of new expressions being entered into the lexicon of pop music. The Fugs “cover” Ginsberg (who wrote liner notes to their debut) in “I Saw the Best Minds of My Generation Rot” because they could, not because they should. Virgin Fugs is all about attitude and defiance, about grabbing the microphone when no one’s looking, about scaring mothers and testing politicians’ patience — That’s probably an image they would have found piercingly symbolic and utterly hilarious.

• Ed Sanders – vocals
• Tuli Kupferberg – percussion, vocals
• Ken Weaver – conga, drums, vocals
• Steve Weber – guitar, vocals
• Peter Stampfel – fiddle, harmonica, vocals
• Vinny Leary – bass, guitar, vocals
• John Anderson – bass guitar, vocals
Side A
"We're the Fugs"
"New Amphetamine Shriek
"Saran Wrap"
"The Ten Commandments"
"Hallucination Horrors"
"I Command the House of the Devil
Side B
"CIA Man"
"Coca Cola Douche"
"My Bed Is Getting Crowded"
"Caca Rocka"
"I Saw the Best Minds of My Generation Rot

 


CONDITION: The Cover: Fragile and delicate = yet remarkably solid all around, TOP CLEAN  "EX (excellent) / M- front and  M- back group photos/band information cover...hard to find this clean after 49 years...has NO delete marks, no split seams, no bends, no writing


The Vinyl: all clean and shiny over both sides, beautiful M-  all plays de-lightfully CLEAN ...and clean (MONO) ESP Records labels too make this a MUST own rarity !



                  




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