The ultimate nihilist anthem comes to you courtesy of poets extraordinaire Ed Sanders, Tuli Kupferberg and their merry Village pranksters. De nada, folks.
The Fugs - Nothing
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Radio Free Catalunya
Musings on tunes I care about. The ones with that thin wild mercury sound, you know? Under heavy manners since 2007.
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Twenty years of schooling and they put you on the day shift:
- 27 Leggies
- 40 Year Itch
- Adios Lounge
- Albums That Never Were
- Aquarium Drunkard
- Boogie Woogie Flu
- Burning Wood
- Charity Chic
- Cover Lay Down
- Dangerous Minds
- Den O' Sin
- Doklands
- Doom & Gloom
- Expecting Rain
- Flagging Down The Double E's
- Frog2000
- Jonderblog
- Keep The Coffee Coming
- Killed By Death
- My Top Ten
- New York Taper
- Nothin' Sez Somethin'
- Old, Weak...
- Rising Storm
- Save Your Face
- Siblingshot
- Spreadin' Some Rhythm Around
- Star Maker Machine
- Swan Fungus
- Thousand Highways
- Twlilightzone
- Unthought Of Though Somehow
- WFMU's Beware Of The Blog
2 comments:
While I will admit that "Nothing" is a great song about nothing,
I would direct anyone to to their 1968 album "Tenderness Junction"
and the live track titled "Exorcising the Evil Spirits from the Pentagon Oct. 21, 1967" which features the band shouting "Out Demons Out" during an anti Vietnam war march outside said building.
It has to be one of the greatest live gigs EVER!
Oh, and their version of Matthew Arnold's poem "Dover Beach" on the same album is truly beautiful.
And their 2nd 1968 release - an album wonderfully titled "It Crawled into My Hand, Honest" is worth buying, if only to hear the marvellous "Wide, Wide River" (aka "River Of Shit").
I'll leave you in peace now...honest.
Got their second outing as well, will look for Tenderness Junction. Cheers!
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