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Don't Stop! Genre | Psychedelic Rock Format | Album Box Set Source | CDDA Time | 237:01 Label | Big Beat Records Store | 2008 Catalog | FUGSBOX9 Rip | 2016 Bitrate | 182 kbps Size | 325.68 MB Freq | 44.1 kHz Encoder | Lame 3.98.4 ┌────────┐ ────┤ Tracks ├───────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────── └────────┘ CD 1/4 The Fugs First Album (1965) 01. Slum Goddess 1:58 02. Ah Sunflower Weary Of Time 2:15 03. Supergirl 2:18 04. Swinburne Stomp 2:50 05. I Couldn't Get High 2:07 06. How Sweet I Roamed From Field To Field 2:11 07. Carpe Diem 5:08 08. My Baby Done Left Me 2:17 09. Boobs A Lot 2:12 10. Nothing 4:16 Additional Tracks From 1965 11. We're The Fugs 1:26 12. Defeated 3:24 13. The Ten Commandments 3:01 14. CIA Man 2:54 15. In The Middle Of Their First Recording Session... 2:51 16. I Saw The Best Minds Of My Generation Rock 4:51 17. Spontaneous Salute To Andy Warhol 1:24 18. War Kills Babies 1:40 19. The Fugs National Anthem 1:16 20. The Fugs Spaghetti Death 3:56 21. The Rhapsody Of Tuli 8:35 CD 2/4 The Fugs Second Album (1966) 01. Frenzy 2:07 02. I Want To Know 2:03 03. Skin Flowers 2:24 04. Group Grope 3:45 05. Coming Down 3:50 06. Dirty Old Man 2:53 07. Kill For Peace 2:10 08. Morning Morning 2:10 09. Doin' All Right 2:40 10. Virgin Forest 11:20 Additional Tracks From 1966-1969 11. I Want To Know 2:38 12. Mutant Stomp 2:59 13. Carpe Diem 3:41 14. Wide, Wide River 2:52 15. Nameless Voices Crying For Kindness 2:54 CD 3/4 The Fugs Live Performances And Recordings 1966-1969 01. We Don't Allow No Robots In Sunday School 3:51 02. Crystal Liason (Live at the Fillmore East 1969) 5:42 03. The Peace Eye Sequence 3:19 04. Six Pack Of Sunshine 4:49 05. Four Minutes To Twelve 6:44 06. Carpe Diem (The Fugs sing at Lenny Bruce's memorial, 1966) 3:42 07. J Edgar Hoover Is Paranoid 3:38 08. The Final Moments Of J Humpington Billsworth (Live at 5:46 Players Theater, New York 1967) 09. Jimmy Joe, The Hippybilly Boy (Broadcast live over WBAI, 3:37 1969) 10. The Garden Is Open (Live at the Digger Free Store, New 3:24 York 1967) 11. Johnny Pissoff #2 3:58 12. I Couldn't Get High (Live in Sweden 1968) 2:10 13. Breadtray Mountain 2:35 14. Hello Fleshlovers: A Sample Of Tuning In The 1960s 1:52 15. War Song '68 (Live at the Psychedelic Supermarket, Boston 3:32 1968) 16. When The Mode Of The Music Changes 2:42 17. Elegy For Robert Kennedy 4:26 CD 4/4 The Beauty Of Nada: A Suite Of Five Nothings From The 60s 01. Nothing (The Full Fugs Version recorded for Folkways 1965) 5:30 02. Community Breast Nada 5:18 03. Players Theater Nada-Dada 3:21 04. Garnicht (Live at the Fillmore East 1968) 4:45 05. Nothing (Live at the Psychedelic Supermarket, Boston 1968) 3:23 Alternate Takes From The Fugs' First Folkways Session 1965 06. Supergirl (The White Underwater Version) 2:08 07. Ah, Sunflower, Weary Of Time 2:11 08. I'm Going To Kill Myself Over 2:36 Demos For Eternity 09. Johnny Pissoff & The Red Angel (1968) 5:12 10. Two Drunkards On The Spaceship (with Dan Hamburg, 1969) 2:34 11. As My Moog Weeps (with Ken Pine & Timetraveller Scott 3:03 Petito, 1969) 12. Street Punk (with Ken Pine, 1969) 2:48 13. Fragmentation Bomb (1968) 2:25 Demo Tapes With Ed Sanders Voiceover 2007 14. The Enormous Truth Of Tuli (1960s Songwriting Tapes) 12:44 ┌────────┐ ────┤ Notes ├───────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────── └────────┘ Arguably the first underground rock group of all time, The Fugs formed at the Peace Eye bookstore in New York's East Village in late 1964. The nucleus of the band throughout its many personnel changes was Peace Eye owner Ed Sanders and fellow poet Tuli Kupferberg. Sanders and Kupferberg had strong ties to the beat literary scene, but charged, in the manner of their friend Allen Ginsberg, full steam ahead into the maelstrom of 60s political involvement and psychedelia. Surrounded by an assortment of motley refugees from the New York folk and jug band scene (including Steve Weber and Peter Stampfel of the Holy Modal Rounders), some of whom could barely play their instruments, the group nonetheless was determined to play rock & roll their way - which meant rife with political and social satire, as well as explicit profanity and sexual references, that were downright unheard of in 1965. You might guess that a four-CD box set of 1960s Fugs recordings would almost by definition have to sample from most or all of their recording career during that decade. Fugs fans and collectors, however, should be aware that while this compilation has a lot of noteworthy music, its focus is somewhat selective. Basically, the first two discs are expanded versions of what remain their most famous recordings, The Fugs First Album" and "The Fugs Second Album"; in fact, they're identical to the CD reissues of these albums that came out through Ace Records in 1993, containing the exact same wealth of bonus tracks. Discs three and four are the ones that will excite collectors the most, as they're entirely devoted to previously unreleased recordings from 1965-1969. While the two discs (and approximately two hours) of unissued live/studio/miscellaneous material on the final two CDs are a boon to Fugs collectors/completists, these are, like much of the other live material and outtakes by the group that saw belated release, pretty uneven listening as regards the quality of both the sound and material. Some of the fidelity alone is funky enough to relegate some performances to the of 'historical interest only' category, as are the less disciplined, more spoken word-oriented, determinedly humorously wacky items. It's also true that while the five consecutive versions of "Nothing" (all taken from different times and places) illustrate the different approaches the band took to one of its more noteworthy early songs, they will test the patience of all but the most committed Fugs lover, as will a 12-minute compilation of snippets from a cappella Tuli Kupferberg performances. Nonetheless, if little of this is anywhere near on par with their better studio recordings, there are occasional cuts that hold their own as decent auxiliary additions to the Fugs library, like most of the alternate takes from their first Folkways session in April 1965; the 1969 effort "As My Moog Weeps", which does indeed include some early spooky "Moog"; and an exhilarating, if not quite wonderfully recorded, version of one of their best psychedelic songs, "Crystal Liaison," cut live at the Fillmore East. Quite a few of the tunes illustrate Ed Sanders' exploration of what he terms, in his liner notes, 'country & western beatnik', and while these didn't represent his most satisfying excursions, they did point the way toward much of the music he would make on his solo debut album, Sanders' "Truckstop"; in fact, one of them, "Jimmy Joe, The Hippybilly Boy", would become that LP's leadoff song. "Elegy For Robert Kennedy", on which Sanders' singing is accompanied only by Dan Hamburg's acoustic guitar, also proves he could write moving, fairly straight melodic folk music on occasion. But the first two discs have the music upon which the Fugs' foundation was built, even if many of the fans likely to investigate a box such as this will already have those tracks. "The Fugs First Album" is featured on disc one, and while ramshackle in its amateurish jug-band-cum-rock-band way, it looks forward to punk and folk-rock while busting numerous lyrical taboos. The 11 additional studio outtakes and live cuts on that CD are largely on a lower and less original level, but do include a few worthy compositions, such as "We're The Fugs", "The Ten Commandments", "CIA Man", and "I Saw The Best Minds Of My Generation Rock". "The Fugs Second Album", featured on disc two, remains their best record, the band tightening immensely into a full-fledged rock group and offering some of its signature sex/protest/satirical tunes in "Frenzy", "Dirty Old Man", "Kill For Peace", and "Doin' All Right", along with some surprisingly tender folk-rock. The five bonus cuts on that disc include two live songs from 1967 and three pretty appealing tracks from an unreleased 1967 Atlantic LP that make one lament the failure of the entire album to appear. Unfortunately, while the dates and locations of some of the previously unreleased tracks are included, in many cases they're not noted; perhaps the precise information is no longer available, the unissued stuff having been compiled by Sanders himself after listening to about 100 hours of material. As some compensation for that missing info, Sanders supplies a lengthy and entertaining history of The Fugs in the 60s in the sizable liner note booklet, which also includes a wealth of period photos and memorabilia. In all, "Don't Stop! Don't Stop!" isn't a definitive box set retrospective, but if you know you want their first two albums in their most definitive versions plus a wealth of marginalia impossible to find anywhere else, it's a very well-done package. ┌────────┐ ────┤ Group ├───────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────── └────────┘