THE FUGS *It Crawled into My Hand, Honest* 1968 Promo Stereo Reprise Vinyl LP
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Description
Artist: THE FUGS
Title: It Crawled into My Hand, Honest
Label: REPRISE RS-6305
Year: 1968
Matrix Number: 30789-RS6305A-1A / 30790-RS6305B-1A
Format: 12” VINYL 33-1/3 RPM ALBUM
Sound: STEREO
Cuts include:
Side 1: Crystal Liaison / Ramses II Is Dead, My Love / Burial Waltz / Wide Wide River / Life Is Strange
Side 2: Johnny Pissoff Meets The Red Angel / Marijuana / Leprechaun / When The Mode Of The Music Changes / Wimpers From The Jello / The Divine Toe (Part I) / We're Both Dead Now, Alice / Life Is Funny / Grope Need (Part I) / Tuli, Visited By The Ghost Of Plontinus / More Grope Need (Grope Need-Part II) / Robinson Crusoe / Claude Pelieu And J.J. Lebel Discuss The Early Verlaine Bread Crust Fragments / The National Haiku Contest / The Divine Toe (Part II) / Irene
* Condition *
Jacket: EXCELLENT
Jacket Comments: Gatefold with sticker upper right and promo sticker bottom right
Vinyl: EXCELLENT
Record Comments: White label promo
Album Notes:
Personnel: Ken Pine (vocals, guitar); Ken Weaver (vocals, drums); Ed Sanders, Tuli Kupferberg (vocals); Bob Mason (drums) Recording information: Impact Sound, NYC. Having attained a professional rock-band sound on Tenderness Junction, the Fugs seemed determined to further expand their arrangements (aided, perhaps, by a major-label budget) on It Crawled into My Hand, Honest. Indeed, the album is ridiculously eclectic. There's stoned psychedelic folk-rock ("Crystal Liaison"); cry-in-your-beer country music with vehemently satirical or surrealistic lyrics ("Ramses II Is Dead My Love," "Johnny Pissoff Meets the Red Angel"); grand, sweeping classical orchestration ("Burial Waltz"); a Gregorian chant about "Marijuana"; down-home gospel with lyrics that no preacher would dare enunciate ("Wide Wide River," with the line: "I've been swimming in this river of sh*t/More than 20 years and I'm getting tired of it"); and, almost buried along the way, the kind of tuneful, countercultural folk-rock Tuli Kupferberg contributed to earlier albums ("Life Is Strange"). Choral backup vocals abound, and the mere presence of a half-dozen outside arrangers testifies to how much the group's attitude toward exploiting the studio had developed since the bare-bones ESP albums. Generally, the songs (most written by the core trio of Sanders, Kupferberg, and Weaver) are more concerned with deft poetry and humor than political statements, although the customary social satire and calls for sexual freedom and drug use are present in diminishing degrees. Although side one is five discrete tracks, side two is a side-long cut-and-paste of tracks varying in length from three seconds to four minutes, the stylistic jump-cuts similar to those employed by the Mothers of Invention in the same era. It's an impressive and, usually, fun record, but it's also less lyrically cogent and powerful than their early albums. One senses that the Fugs' personality and individuality were ultimately somewhat muted by the more ambitious production values and frequent use of external musicians and arrangers. ~ Richie Unterberger
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