Electromagnetic Steamboat: The Reprise Recordings

by The Fugs

Electromagnetic Steamboat: The Reprise Recordings cover art
  • Type: Compilation
  • Released: 2001-01-01
  • Label: Rhino
  • Country: United States
  • Length: 3:52:01
  • Community rating: 3.9/5 from 1 rating

Artists on this release: Matthew Arnold, Patrick Pending, Bryan Lasley, The Bread Crust Choral Society, Roland Worthington Hand, Leslie Dorsey, Richie Unterberger

Album Notes & Community Reviews

A box set collecting the band's Reprise Records recordings of the late 1960s. The Fugs, formed by poets Ed Sanders and Tuli Kupferberg, applied folk and rock forms to satirical, anti-war and scatological material.

Genres

Descriptors: acoustic, melodic, storytelling, ballad, rhythmic

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 October 21, 1967 (3:18)
  7. War Song (5:24)
  8. Dover Beach (4:01)
  9. Fingers of the Sun (2:23)
  10. Aphrodite Mass (In 5 Sections): Litany of the Street Grope / Genuflection at the Temple of Squack / Petals in the Sea / Sappho's Hymn to Aphrodite / Homage to Throb Thrills (8:28)
  11. Crystal Liaison (3:10)
  12. Ramses II Is Dead, My Love (2:50)
  13. Burial Waltz (2:28)
  14. Wide Wide River (2:52)
  15. Life Is Strange (2:37)
  16. Johnny Pissoff Meets the Red Angel (4:32)
  17. Marijuana (1:36)
  18. Leprechaun (0:11)
  19. When the Mode of the Music Changes (3:55)
  20. Whimpers From the Jello (0:21)
  21. The Divine Toe (Part I) (0:37)
  22. We're Both Dead Now, Alice (0:15)
  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) (0:19)
  26. Robinson Crusoe (0:17)
  27. Claude Pelieu and J.J. Lebel Discuss the Early Verlaine Bread Crust Fragments (4:26)
  28. The National Haiku Contest (0:24)
  29. The Divine Toe (Part II) (0:47)
  30. Irene (1:09)
  31. 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 (3:10)
  32. Bum's Song (3:06)
  33. Dust Devil (3:18)
  34. Chicago (2:14)
  35. Four Minutes to Twelve (5:40)
  36. Mr. Mack (3:51)
  37. The Belle of Avenue A (5:42)
  38. Queen of the Nile (2:46)
  39. Flower Children (4:25)
  40. Yodeling Yippie (2:19)
  41. Children of the Dream (5:54)
  42. Slum Goddess (3:18)
  43. CCD (3:01)
  44. How Sweet I Roamed (3:31)
  45. I Couldn't Get High (4:15)
  46. Saran Wrap (3:50)
  47. I Want to Know (2:41)
  48. Homeade (5:24)
  49. Nothing (5:01)
  50. Supergirl (2:43)
  51. Knock Knock (4:34)
  52. Wet Dream (15:02)
  53. Carpe Diem (3:54)
  54. Nameless Voices Crying for Kindness (2:54)
  55. Aphrodite Mass (9:48)
  56. Turn On/Tune In/Drop Out (4:42)
  57. Knock Knock (4:19)
  58. The Garden Is Open (6:08)
  59. Wet Dream (3:20)
  60. Hare Krishna (3:23)
  61. Exorcising the Evil Spirits From the Pentagon October 21, 1967 (3:16)
  62. War Song (5:23)
  63. Dover Beach (3:58)
  64. Fingers of the Sun (2:22)
  65. Crystal Liaison (3:34)

Credits

  • Rectangle Van Elk - curated by [assistant to the curator]
  • D K Baker - research [deputy chief archivist]
  • Danny Kortchmar - arranged by
  • Ken Pine - arranged by
  • Richard Alderson - arranged by
  • Warren Smith - arranged by
  • Al Schackman - arranged by
  • Bob Dorough - arranged by
  • Ed Sanders - producer [original recordings produced by], arranged by
  • Randy Kay - arranged by
  • Bryan Lasley - art direction, design
  • Patrick Pending - art direction, design
  • Roland Worthington Hand - compilation producer
  • Richie Unterberger - liner notes
  • Michael Ochs Archives - photography by [some photographs courtesy]
  • Matthew Arnold - lyrics by
  • Arthur Jenkins - arranged by

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