Electromagnetic Steamboat: The Reprise Recordings
by The Fugs
- 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
- Turn On/Tune In/Drop Out (4:44)
- Knock Knock (4:20)
- The Garden Is Open (6:09)
- Wet Dream (3:21)
- Hare Krishna (3:24)
- Exorcising the Evil Spirits From the Pentagon October 21, 1967 (3:18)
- War Song (5:24)
- Dover Beach (4:01)
- Fingers of the Sun (2:23)
- 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)
- Crystal Liaison (3:10)
- Ramses II Is Dead, My Love (2:50)
- Burial Waltz (2:28)
- Wide Wide River (2:52)
- Life Is Strange (2:37)
- Johnny Pissoff Meets the Red Angel (4:32)
- Marijuana (1:36)
- Leprechaun (0:11)
- When the Mode of the Music Changes (3:55)
- Whimpers From the Jello (0:21)
- The Divine Toe (Part I) (0:37)
- We're Both Dead Now, Alice (0:15)
- Life Is Funny (0:14)
- Grope Need (Part I) (0:18)
- Tuli, Visited by the Ghost of Plontinus / More Grope Need (Grope Need, Part II) (0:19)
- Robinson Crusoe (0:17)
- Claude Pelieu and J.J. Lebel Discuss the Early Verlaine Bread Crust Fragments (4:26)
- The National Haiku Contest (0:24)
- The Divine Toe (Part II) (0:47)
- Irene (1:09)
- 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)
- Bum's Song (3:06)
- Dust Devil (3:18)
- Chicago (2:14)
- Four Minutes to Twelve (5:40)
- Mr. Mack (3:51)
- The Belle of Avenue A (5:42)
- Queen of the Nile (2:46)
- Flower Children (4:25)
- Yodeling Yippie (2:19)
- Children of the Dream (5:54)
- Slum Goddess (3:18)
- CCD (3:01)
- How Sweet I Roamed (3:31)
- I Couldn't Get High (4:15)
- Saran Wrap (3:50)
- I Want to Know (2:41)
- Homeade (5:24)
- Nothing (5:01)
- Supergirl (2:43)
- Knock Knock (4:34)
- Wet Dream (15:02)
- Carpe Diem (3:54)
- Nameless Voices Crying for Kindness (2:54)
- Aphrodite Mass (9:48)
- Turn On/Tune In/Drop Out (4:42)
- Knock Knock (4:19)
- The Garden Is Open (6:08)
- Wet Dream (3:20)
- Hare Krishna (3:23)
- Exorcising the Evil Spirits From the Pentagon October 21, 1967 (3:16)
- War Song (5:23)
- Dover Beach (3:58)
- Fingers of the Sun (2:22)
- 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