The Fugs

Tuli Kupferberg ♦ Ed Sanders

	The Village Fugs-Ballads And Songs Of Contemporary Protest, Points Of View And General Dissatisfaction
	Broadside/Folkways 304
	11/65 [UK: N/R]
	ESP Reissue Cover   ESP Reissue Cover   4-page Booklet Cover   Italian Cover

Side One
Slum Goddess	Weaver	1:58
Ah, Sunflower Weary Of Time	Blake-Sanders	2:15
Supergirl	Kupferberg	2:18
Swinburne Stomp	Sanders-Swinburne	2:50
I Couldn't Get High	Weaver	2:06
Side Two
How Sweet I Roamed From Field To Field	Blake-Sanders	2:11
Seize The Day	Kupferberg	5:07
My Baby Done Left Me	Sanders	2:18
Boobs A Lot	Weber	2:12
Nothing	Kupferberg	4:15

Note: Album came with a 4-page insert with info and lyrics—see them at Discogs (click see more images).
Reissued in early 1966 as ESP Disk 1018 (see notes) with some changes to tracks.
 

Frenzy / I Want To Know Sanders (1:59) / Sanders-Olson (2:00) ESP 4507, ?/66

Stampfel & Weber back to Holy Modal Rounders

	The Fugs
	ESP Disk 1028
	3/66 BB [UK: 9/69]
	Back Cover   Alternate Color Cover   Alternate Back Cover

Side One
Frenzy	Sanders	2:00
I Want To Know	Olson-Sanders	2:00
Skin Flowers	Kearney-Sanders	2:20
Group Grope	Sanders	3:40
Coming Down	Sanders	3:46
Dirty Old Man	Goldbart-Sanders	2:49
Side Two
Kill For Peace	Kupferberg	2:07
Morning Morning	Kupferberg	2:07
Doin' All Right	Berrigan-Crabtree-Leary	2:37
Virgin Forest    Out Of Chaos    Birth Of Aphrodite    Structured Investigation Of Rousseau    Gobble Chorus    Dance Of The Freak-Gropers    Burroughsian Time Grid    The Theme Of The Virgin Forest    Death, Stay Thy Phantoms	Alderson-Crabtree-Sanders	11:09

Note: Liner notes by Allen Ginsburg
 

Kill For Peace / Morning Morning Kupferberg (2:07) / Kupferberg (2:07) ESP 4508, ?/66

	No Deposit No Return
	ESP Disk ESP-1035
	5/66 [UK: N/R]
	Back Cover

Side One
Pubol	-	2:16
Social Studies	-	2:22
The Hidden Dissuadors	-	2:31
Lifetime Guarantee	-	0:39
The Art Scene	-	2:45
Want Ads 1	-	4:08
Purina	-	0:38
Lanoflo	-	3:28
Side Two
The Hyperemiator	-	6:32
The Sap Glove	-	2:02
The Bunny Mother	-	1:46
Auto-Da-Fe	-	2:03
Fields Matrimonial Service	-	2:33
Want Ads 2	-	4:25
Howard Johnson's Army	-	4:22
No Deposit, No Return	-	1:09

Note: As printed on the album jacket:
An album of Popular Poetry. Pop Poetry. Real Advertisments. As they appeared in Newspapers, magazines, direct mail.
No word has been added. There (sic) are genuine ads. Parts of some ads have been repeated. Parts of some ads have been omitted.
But these are the very texts. These are for real! Many of these were first reprinted in Yeah.
 

	Virgin Fugs
	ESP-1038
	6/66 BB [UK: 7/69]
	Back Cover   Insert One fold where indicated  Insert Two for pinbacks  Flip Book Tuli strips

Side One
We're The Fugs	Sanders	1:09
New Amphetamine Shriek	Stampfel	2:18
Saran Wrap	Sanders	1:12
The Ten Commandments	Kupferberg	2:50
Hallucination Horrors	Kupferberg	2:03
I Command The House Of The Devil	Sanders	3:22
Side Two
C I A Man	Kupferberg	2:49
Coca Cola Douche	Kupferberg	1:25
My Bed Is Getting Crowded	Kupferberg	2:30
Caca Rocka	Kupferberg	2:30
I Saw The Best Minds Of My Generation Rot	Ginsberg-Sanders	4:43

Note: This was a collection of outtakes and other junk laying around the cutting room floor from the 1965 sessions.
First issues included some wacky stuff (see last 3 notes).
The Fugs were none too happy about this album.
First they signed a contract with Atlantic Records, but Ahmet Ertugen was aghast at the resulting recording and sent them on their way.
So, they signed with Frank Sinatra's Reprise Records. Cool dude, Frankie.
 

They take part in a recording for The East Village Other ESP album, 9/66

TV Guide Listing =KQED, San Francisco

David Suskind Show: "Broad range of discussions" 4/11/67, Syndicated (by Metromedia) Not sure of the original date of b'cast, as this episode appears often. KQED picked this up sans commercials as filler.

Ken Pine joins to fill out the sound

	Tenderness Junction
	Reprise RS-6280
	1/68 [UK: 9/68]
	Full Cover   Inside Cover

Side One
Turn On, Tune In, Drop Out	Leary-Sanders-Weaver	4:32
Knock Knock	Sanders	4:12
The Garden Is Open	Kupferberg	6:02
Wet Dream	Sanders	3:16
Hare Krishna	Ginsberg-Zeus	3:21
Side Two
Exorcising The Evil Spirits From The Pentagon Oct 21, 1967	-	3:16
War Song	Pine-Sanders-Weaver	5:19
Dover Beach	Arnold-Kupferberg	3:53
Fingers Of The Sun	Pound-Sanders-Pyramid Text 1078	2:22
Aphrodite Mass (In 5 Sections)      I Litany of the Street Grope     II Genuflection at the Temple of Squack    III Petals in the Sea     IV Sappho's Hymn To Aphrodite      V Homage To Throb Thrills	Sanders-Sappho-Elton	8:28

	It Crawled Into My Hand, Honest
	Reprise RS-6305
	9/68 BB [UK: 11/68]
	Back Cover   Inside Cover

Side One
Crystal Liaison	Pine-Sanders-Weaver	3:07
Ramses II Is Dead, My Love	Sanders	2:45
Burial Waltz	Sanders-Smith	2:24
Wide Wide River	Goldbart-Weaver	2:47
Life Is Strange	Kupferberg	2:32
Side Two
Johnny Pissoff Meets The Red Angel	Sanders	4:32
Marijuana	Sanders-Kupferberg-Dorough	1:38
Leprechaun	Weaver	:10
When The Mode Of The Music Changes	Kupferberg	3:51
Whimpers From The Jello	Sanders	:20
The Divine Toe (Part I)	Sanders	:38
We're Both Dead Now, Alice	Weaver-Sanders	:16
Life Is Funny	Kupferberg	:14
Grope Need (Part I)    Tuli, Visited By the Ghost of Plotinus    More Grope Need (Grope Need- Part II)	Sanders Kupferberg Sanders	:18 :03 :15
Robinson Crusoe	Weaver	:17
Claude Pelieu And J.J. Lebel Discuss The Early Verlaine Bread Crust Fragments	Sanders	4:30
The National Haiku Contest	Weaver-Sanders	:25
The Divine Toe (Part II)	Sanders	:46
Irene	Sanders	1:10

10/4/68: Roundhouse, London with Spooky Tooth

End of Feb '69: Five years of inspired, passionate music is their legacy. Ken Weaver eventually joined the CIA as a Russian translator (true!)

	The Belle Of Avenue A
	Reprise RS-6359
	9/69 [UK: 3/70]
	Back Cover

Side One
Bum's Song	Kupferberg	3:02
Dust Devil	Weaver	3:15
Chicago	Sanders-MacDonald-Pine	2:11
Four Minutes To Twelve	Weaver	5:37
Mr. Mack	Sanders	3:49
Side Two
The Belle Of Avenue A	Sanders	5:40
Queen Of The Nile	Sanders	2:44
Flower Children	Kupferberg	4:22
Yodeling Yippie	Sanders	2:16
Children Of The Dream	Kupferberg	5:55

	Sanders’ Truckstop
	Reprise RS-6374
	3/70 [UK: N/R]
	Back Cover

Side One
Jimmy Joe, The Hippybilly Boy	Sanders	5:16
Maple Court Trajedy	Sanders	2:39
Heartbreak Crash Pad	Sanders	4:09
Banshee	Sanders	3:04
The Plaster Song	Sanders	3:04
Side Two
The Iliad	Sanders	4:08
Breadtray Mountain	Sanders	2:24
The ABM Machine	Sanders	2:32
They're Cutting My Coffin At The Sawmill	Sanders	3:18
Homesick Blues	Sanders	2:38
Pindar's Revenge	Sanders	3:30

	Golden Filth (Alive At The Fillmore East)
	Reprise RS-6396
	6/70 [UK: N/R]
	Back Cover   Ad in Rolling Stone

Side One
Slum Goddess	Weaver	3:10
CCD	Kupferberg	2:50
How Sweet I Roamed	Blake-Sanders	3:21
I Couldn't Get High	Weaver	4:08
Saran Wrap	Sanders	3:45
Side Two
I Want to Know	Olson-Sanders	2:39
Home Made	Sanders	5:18
Nothing	Kupferberg	4:54
Supergirl	Kupferberg	2:42

Note: Recorded live at The Fillmore East, 6/1/68
 

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