Greatest Hits- The Olufsen Years

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Lenny Kaye

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As musician, writer, and producer, Lenny Kaye is intimately involved with the creative impulse. He has been a guitarist for poet-rocker Patti Smith since her ba...more »

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The Beats' favorite folkies, live at the Bottom Line in the mid-'80s, as unrepentant as ever.
2003 | Label: Olufsen - Qualiton / The Orchard

The Fugs were among the first to realize that literature and rock were more than kissin 'cousins — in fact, they were Fuggin'. An incestuous relationship between beatnik factions, with Ed Sanders and Tuli Kupferberg representing the poets and a host of characters (like Peter Stampfel — see Holy Modal Rounders) adding askew folk and jug band sensibilities, at once old-timey and beyond their time. The Fugs made music scatological and divine, cosmic jesters. They not only put Blake and William Burroughs to melody, but mixed politics with morality ("Kill for Peace") and local beauty contests ("Slum Goddess of the Lower East Side").

They would ultimately split apart over their poles, a run that took them from the mid '60s through a decade later, but not before their "smutabilly" made them a must-see at Pentagon-levitating demonstrations and theatrical presentations (their run at the Player's Theater in New York City circa 66 is the harbinger of many cultural streams), weathering outraged record companies and the kamikaze run of the counterculture. Sanders felt their revolutionary message could be broadened by working within traditional forms; Tuli felt "we should've stayed buffoons." In between is a great band, whose music is often overlooked because of… read more »

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missy

I used to have a fugs album, many years ago, that had the song "The Belle Of Avenue A". does any one know what album that was on. I cant remember the title and I haven't seen it on any album that is avalable (sorry, I'm a bad speller} here or on amazon.

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This version of "CIA Man" is used in the closing titles of The Coens "Burn After Reading." First recorded in 1965, and captured here in the mid-1980's, this song kicks ass. This version is much better than the 1965 version in my opinion.

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Are you Kidding?

ToddusofKnox

Are you kidding? Do you have to ask? Do you need some farp like me to tell you to get this music? Now more than ever folks, we need and deserve the Fugs.

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