LPCDreissues: Looking forward to the past

Let us now praise three men who not only survived the Sex, the Drugs and the Rock And Roll of the sixties, they helped invent it. Please join us in saluting Mr Ed Sanders, Mr Tuli Kupferberg, and Mr Ken Weaver, who are known collectively as The Fugs. And also please join us in celebrating the body of work they recorded between 1967 and 1970 with our 3-CD set Electromagnetic Steamboat: The Reprise Recordings.Mr Sanders, Mr Kupferberg and Mr Weaver originally came together for the purpose of performing for the grand opening of Mr Sanders' Peace Eye Bookstore And Scrounge Lounge, "a vegetarian literary zone," which was to be held on 24 February 1965.It should probably go without saying, but after their first performance at the Peace Eye, The Fugs were an immediate success. They became, arguably, the very first underground band to make the Top 100 album charts. They were a forerunner of future "folk-rock" bands. They were one of the first "proto-punk" bands too, anticipating the musical movement that came a good ten years later. Musically, The Fugs drew heavily from many different interests, influences and various musical genres, combining jug band music, smutty rock n' roll, scuttled-through country ballads, percussion-backed Gregorian chants, canticles, Hebraic-tinged sing-songs, and bawdy bohemian poetry. Lyrically, they were humorous, often somewhat shocking and outrageously celebrated the expression of "free love" and the freedom to use marijuana.The four albums The Fugs made for Reprise Records have been unavailable in the United States, and on most of Planet Earth, for more than a quarter of a century. And though most of the master tapes for the recordings The Fugs made for Atlantic Records were either reworked for use on the first Reprise album or, sadly, lost in a vault fire, a few of these unreleased Atlantic masters did, in fact, survive.Rhino Handmade has taken the four albums The Fugs made for Reprise Records -- 1967's Tenderness Junction, 1968's It Crawled Into My Hand, Honest, 1969's The Belle Of Avenue A and 1970's Golden Filth -- and combined them with a bonus disc of the surviving previously unreleased Atlantic Records recordings to create the 3-CD collection entitled Electromagnetic Steamboat: The Reprise Recordings.Electromagnetic Steamboat: The Reprise Recordings is available as an individually-numbered limited edition of 5,000 copies.
TRACK LISTING 1. Turn On/Tune In/Drop Out (4:39 ) 2. Knock Knock (4:15 ) 3. The Garden Is Open (6:02 ) 4. Wet Dream (3:16 ) 5. Hare Krishna (3:19 ) 6. Exorcising The Evil Spirits From The Pentagon October 21, 1967 (3:13 ) 7. War Song (5:18 ) 8. Dover Beach (3:56 ) 9. Fingers Of The Sun (2:18 ) 10. 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 (8:20 ) 11. Crystal Liaison (3:07 ) 12. Ramses II Is Dead, My Love (2:45 ) 13. Burial Waltz (2:24 ) 14. Wide Wide River (2:47 ) 15. Life Is Strange (2:32 ) 16. Johnny Pissoff Meets The Red Angel (4:32 ) 17. Marijuana (1:38 ) 18. Leprechaun (0:10 ) 19. When The Mode Of Music Changes (3:51 ) 20. Whimpers From The Jello (0:20 ) 21. The Divine Toe (Part I) (0:38 ) 22. We're Both Dead Now, Alice (0:16 ) 23. Life Is Funny (0:14 ) 24. Grope Need (Part I) (0:18 ) 25. Tuli, Visited By The Ghost Of Plontinus/ More Grope Need (Grope Need-Part II) (0:18 ) 26. Robinson Crusoe (0:17 ) 27. Claude Pelieu And J.J. Lebel Discuss The Early Verlaine Bread Crust Fragments (4:30 ) 28. The National Haiku Contest (0:25) 29. The Divine Toe (Part II) (0:46 ) 30. Irene (1:10 ) 1. The Divine Toe (Part I)/Grope Need (Part I)/ Tuli, Visited By The Ghost Of Plontinus/More Grope Need (Grope Need-Part II)/Robinson Crusoe/ The National Haiku Contest/The Divine Toe (Part II) (3:02) 2. Bum's Song (3:02) 3. Dust Devil (3:15 ) 4. Chicago (2:11) 5. Four Minutes To Twelve (5:37 ) 6. Mr. Mack (3:49) 7. The Belle Of Avenue A (5:40) 8. Queen Of The Nile (2:44 ) 9. Flower Children (4:22 ) 10. Yodeling Yippie (2:16 ) 11. Children Of The Dream (5:55) 12. Slum Goddess (3:11 ) 13. CCD (2:53 ) 14. How Sweet I Roamed (3:24 ) 15. I Couldn't Get High (4:09 ) 16. Saran Wrap (3:46 ) 17. I Want To Know (2:37) 18. Homemade (5:18 ) 19. Nothing (4:55 ) 20. Supergirl (2:43 ) 1. Knock Knock (4:41) 2. Wet Dream (15:06 ) 3. Carpe Diem (4:00 ) 4. Nameless Voices Crying For Kindness (2:58 ) 5. 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 (9:52 ) 6. Turn On/Tune In/Drop Out (MONO ALBUM VERSION) (4:39) 7. Knock Knock (MONO ALBUM VERSION) (4:15 ) 8. The Garden Is Open (MONO ALBUM VERSION) (6:02 ) 9. Wet Dream (MONO ALBUM VERSION) (3:16 ) 10. Hare Krishna (MONO ALBUM VERSION) (3:19 ) 11. Exorcising The Evil Spirits From The Pentagon October 21, 1967 (MONO ALBUM VERSION) (3:13) 12. War Song (MONO ALBUM VERSION) (5:18 ) 13. Dover Beach (MONO ALBUM VERSION) (3:56 ) 14. Fingers Of The Sun (MONO ALBUM VERSION) (2:18 ) 15. Crystal Liaison (PROMO ALBUM VERSION) (3:34 )