Biography

Tuli Kupferberg and Ed Sanders were iconoclastic, beat-influenced poets who were in on the start of the '60s counterculture in New York City's East Village. Influenced by folk, rock, and avant-garde art, they decided to start their own group, inadvertently planting one of the first seeds of punk rock. Their willfully gritty, amateurish sound was girded by the contributions of freak folk group the Holy Modal Rounders, and they frankly addressed sex, war, drugs, and more, all with a winning sense of humor. The broke up at the beginning of the '70s, but began sporadic reunion activity in the '80s, performing and recording into the 21st century until Kupferberg's activities were curtailed by a pair of strokes in 2009; Kupferberg died in July of the following year.

Top Tracks

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• A Poem By Charles Bukowski (having The Flu With Nothing Else To Do)

• Advice From The Fugs

• As My Moog Weeps

• Belle Of Avenue A

• Boobs A Lot

• Coca Cola Douche

• Dirty Old Man

• Elegy For Robert Kennedy

• Flower Children

• Frenzy

• Government Surveillance Yodel

• Group Grope

• I Couldn't Get High

• I Saw The Best Minds Of My Generation Rock

• I'm Going To Kill Myself Over

• Jimmy Joe, The Hippybilly Boy

• Johnny Pissoff Meets The Red Angel

• Kill For Peace

• Life Is Strange

• Morning Morning

• Nothing

• Slum Goddess

• Supergirl

• Swinburne Stomp

• The Exorcism Of The Grave Of Sentor Joseph Mccarthy

• The Garden Is Open

• The Swedish Nada

• The Ten Commandments By God

• Turn On, Tune In, Drop Out

• War Song

• We're The Fugs

• Wide, Wide River

• Yodeling Yippie

• You Can't Go Into The Same River Twice

Discography

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• Tenderness Junction/It Crawled into My Hand Honest

  Floating World

  2010

• Be Free! Final CD, Pt. 2

  Kindred Rhythm

  2010

• Final CD, Pt. 1

  Artemis Records / Sheridan Square Records

  2003

• The Real Woodstock Festival

  Big Beat Records

  1995

• Live from the '60s

  Big Beat Records

  1994

• Star Peace

  New Rose

  1987

• No More Slavery

  Big Beat Records

  1986

• The Fugs 4, Rounders Score

  ESP-Disk

  1975

• Golden Filth

  Wounded Bird Records

  1970

• The Belle of Avenue A

  Reprise

  1969

• It Crawled into My Hand, Honest

  4 Men with Beards

  1968

• Tenderness Junction

  4 Men with Beards

  1967

• The Fugs Second Album

  Fantasy

  1966

• The Fugs (Kill for Peace)

  ESP-Disk

  1966

• The Fugs First Album

  Fantasy

  1965