Tenderness Junction [Vinyl]

Fugs | Format: Vinyl

Product Details

• Vinyl (August 3, 2007)
• Number of Discs: 1
• Label: 4 Men With Beards
• ASIN: B000O77L56
• Also Available in: Audio CD  |  Vinyl
• Average Customer Review: 5.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (1 customer review)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #515,749 in Music (See Top 100 in Music)

Editorial Reviews

The Fugs were the original outsider artists. They released their first recordings on the legendary avant-garde label ESP-Disk in the mid 1960s before signing to Reprise. They combined jug band music, smutty rock 'n' roll, country ballads, Gregorian chants, canticles, Hebraic-tinged sing-songs, and bohemian poetry into a stoned stew of anti-establishment freakouts! This is their first Reprise release from 1967 reissued on 180 gram virgin vinyl with a deluxe gatefold reproduction of the original artwork. Features the classics Turn On/Tune In/Drop Out and Exorcising the Evil Spirits From the Pentagon October 21, 1967.

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9 of 9 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars The Fugs rock, October 29, 2008

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Willobie "Willobie" (Hamilton, Illinois) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Tenderness Junction [Vinyl] (Vinyl)

It was a night in 1967 and I was driving from Melbourne to Coral Gables, when the DJ introduced a song (The Garden Is Open), saying it was virtually the only cut on the album that he could play over the airwaves. I loved the song, which was not really clean, but the sexual references were not too overt. Spotting a mall, I pulled over and bought the album (I still have the vinyl) and played it for my wife as soon as I got home.

The most memorable songs, besides "The Garden", are "Knock, Knock" and "Wet Dream". "Wet Dream" is a spoof on the Platters style and is a fantasy about the "Queen of the Prom" sitting on the throne (and "sitting on my face"). There is a little gem of a Hare Krishna sung by Alan Ginsberg, with a nude picture of the poet by Richard Avedon, who did all the cover art.

To be fair, the B side is a bit tedious with a hymn to Aphrodite and the exorcising of demons from the Pentagon, but remember, it was 1967. Side A is worth the cost of the album.