Tenderness Junction

by The Fugs

Tenderness Junction cover art
  • Type: Album
  • Released: January 1968
  • Label: Reprise
  • Country: United States
  • Length: 56:58
  • Community rating: 3.55/5 from 3 ratings

Artists on this release: Charles Larkey, Ed Sanders, Gregory Corso, Allen Ginsberg, Maretta Greer, Tuli Kupferberg, Ken Weaver, The Fug Chorale

Album Notes & Community Reviews

Bolstered by a larger budget and a full backing band of skilled East Village musicians, the satirical folk-rock group produced their most musically competent album to date. Despite the cleaner production, Ed Sanders and Tuli Kupferberg maintained their notoriously profane, hyper-political humor, taking aim at the Vietnam War and mainstream American culture.

Genres

Descriptors: Avant Garde, political, satirical, folk, guitar-driven, male-vocals, experimental

Tracklist

  1. Turn on, Tune in, Drop Out (4:44)
  2. Knock Knock (4:20)
  3. The Garden Is Open (6:09)
  4. Wet Dream (3:21)
  5. Hare Krishna (3:24)
  6. Exorcising the Evil Spirits from the Pentagon OCT. 21, 1967 (3:18)
  7. War Song (5:24)
  8. Dover Beach (4:01)
  9. Fingers of the Sun (2:23)
  10. Aphrodite Mass: I. Litany of the Street Grope (8:28)
  11. Aphrodite Mass: II. Genuflection at the Temple of Squack (3:10)
  12. Aphrodite Mass: III. Petals in the Sea (2:50)
  13. Aphrodite Mass: IV. Sappho鈥檚 Hymn to Aphrodite (2:28)
  14. Aphrodite Mass: V. Homage to Throb Thrills (2:52)

Credits

  • The Fugs - primary artist, arranged by
  • Danny Kortchmar - arranged by [guitars], guitar, violin [electric], percussion, vocals
  • Ken Pine - arranged by [guitars], guitar, harp [mouth], organ, synth [occilator], vocals, written-by
  • Warren Smith - arranged by [strings]
  • Charles Larkey - bass
  • Ken Weaver - vocals, drums, written-by
  • Tuli Kupferberg - vocals, other [erectorine], written-by
  • Dr. Timothy Leary - written-by

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