First Album

Fugs | Format: Audio CD

Product Details

• Audio CD (May 30, 1994)
• Number of Discs: 1
• Label: Fantasy
• ASIN: B000000XEF
• In-Print Editions: Audio CD
• Average Customer Review: 3.8 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (20 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #40,222 in Music (See Top 100 in Music)
  • #70 in Music > Miscellaneous > Comedy > Comedic Music > Comedy Rock

Track Listings

1. Slum Goddess

2. Ah, Sunflower Weary of Time

3. Supergirl

4. Swinburne Stomp

5. I Couldn't Get High

6. How Sweet I Roamed

7. Carpe Diem

8. My Baby Done Left Me

9. Boobs a Lot

10. Nothing

11. We're the Fugs

12. Defeated

13. The Ten Commandments

14. CIA Man

15. In the Middle of Their First Recording Session the Fugs Sign the Worst

16. I Saw the Best Minds of My Generation Rock

17. Spontaneous Salute to Andy Warhol [From Rehearsal at the Peace Eye Boo]

18. The Fugs National Anthem [Live]

19. The Fugs Spaghetti Death (No Redemption No Redemption) - A Glop of ... [Liv

20. The Rhapsody of Tuli

Editorial Reviews

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Media Type: CD
Artist: FUGS
Title: FIRST ALBUM
Street Release Date: 05/18/1994
Domestic
Genre: ROCK/POP

Customer Reviews

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41 of 42 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Truly Original, November 17, 2002

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Rick Bruner "Internet marketing guy" (New York, NY USA) - See all my reviews

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This review is from: Fugs (Audio CD)

I had this album and The Fugs Second Album in the LP collection I inherited from my older brother who bought them when they were first issued. Sadly, the disappeared years ago from the collection (I suspect a step-brother, tho he denies it). So for years I've been wanting to buy them again and finally did so recently on CD.

Was not disappointed. What can you say about songs like "Ah, Sunflower Weary of Time," "Supergirl" (perhaps my favorite), "Swinburne Stomp," "I Couldnt' Get High," "Boobs A Lot" or "Nothing"? They're too hilarious for words. This album and The Fugs Second Album are really historical snapshots of the Beat Generation coming into the hippie age, brilliant, totally irreverant, intellectual (two poems of William Blake put to music) and juvinile (e.g., "Boobs A Lot") at the same time.

Don't expect musical genius. The quality of musicianship is crude, and studio conditions are garage, but the energy, wit and spontineity of these tracks couldn't be improved upon.

Listening to them again now, I totally hear the Fugs in the music of the Ramones, Ween, the Residents, the Jazz Butcher, Robyn Hitchcock and others. I'm surprised I haven't heard more (or for that matter any) contemporary covers of these songs. "Supergirl" or "Nothing," for example, would be very stylish for some neo-punk band to cover.

Better than the original LPs I had, these two CDs have great liner notes and lots of extra tracks.

This is definitely not to everyone's taste. My wife, for example, was appalled when I put this on. But if you appreciate humor in music and are interested in the sound of the irreverant '60s anti-establishment, by all means go for it.

17 of 17 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars Still waiting for the re-release of "Virgin Fugs", October 7, 2002

By A Customer

This review is from: First Album (Audio CD)

I believe Lester Bangs once compared this album to a bunch of Neanderthals sitting around a fire beating on logs and baying at the moon. That's pretty accurate. Anyone looking for musical or production sophistication should look elsewhere. But if your looking for that primeval yalp that created music, and probably initiated procreation itself, you'll find it here.

As a teenager I owned all the Fugs' LPs on ESP. "The Fugs Second Album" is more polished. It should be since actual musicians were playing on it. Ed, Tuli, and Ken are writers, not musicians (unless you want to call Tuli's erectorine a musical instrument). "Virgin Fugs" was my all-time favorite ESP album by the Fugs. It's musically as crude as the "First Album", but the lyrics were more blantantly obscene and simply hilarious! I hope some bold recording company will re-release it someday.

I remember being amazed when Warner Brothers/Reprise signed the Fugs in the late sixties. I couldn't believe a major label had signed the band. Imagine something like this happening now- impossible! The Reprise Fugs albums were enjoyable, but they lacked the creative intensity and sheer chutzpah of the ESP albums. The Fugs tried like hell to sound as polished as your ordinary rock band back in those days. But it was like spraying gold paint on a pile of manure. The gold paint may look pretty, but it's what's underneath that's closer to the true essence. The Fugs were renegade satirists who did their best work on a small, independent label, ESP. They were never destined for "The Ed Sullivan Show".

13 of 13 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars Fuggin' hell, February 14, 2002

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Bèr Wilbers (Eindhoven Netherlands) - See all my reviews

This review is from: First Album (Audio CD)

Great to see this re-release. I still remember the first time I saw something by The Fugs. I was in the record shop and and I found myself with an album in my hand that somehow managed to get in there. Quite curious how it got there I looked at the title: "It Crawled Into My Hand, Honest" by The Fugs. So that explained why I was holding it and it turned out to be the best excuse when somebody asked you how the H... you could have bought that album. Since I love guys with a good sense of humor, I bought the album and I never ever regretted doing so. Anarchy and nihilism, laughter and anger, bombastic rockopera in a circus package, that's The Fugs. Listening to the cd's now you hear that they were a document of their time. One can hear they are 35 years old, but they still are great fun to the not too easily insulted or fainthearted. And now I want It Crawled.... on cd too!