The Fugs – It Crawled Into My Hand, Honest
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Transatlantic Records – TRA 181 |
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UK |
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Rock |
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Psychedelic Rock |
Tracklist
| A1 | Crystal Liaison | |
| A2 | Ramses II Is Dead, My Love | |
| A3 | Burial Waltz | |
| A4 | Wide Wide River | |
| A5 | Life Is Strange | |
| B1 | Johnny Pissoff Meets The Red Angel | |
| B2 | Marijuana | |
| B3 | Leprechaun | |
| B4 | When The Mode Of The Music Changes | |
| B5 | Whimpers From The Jello | |
| B6 | The Divine Toe (Part I) | |
| B7 | We're Both Dead Now, Alice | |
| B8 | Life Is Funny | |
| B9 | Grope Need (Part I) | |
| B10 | Tuli, Visited By The Ghost Of Plotinus | |
| B11 | More Grope Need (Grope Need - Part II) | |
| B12 | Robinson Crusoe | |
| B13 | Claude Pelieu And J. J. Lebel Discuss The Early Verlaine Bread Crust Fragments | |
| B14 | The National Haiku Contest | |
| B15 | The Divine Toe (Part II) | |
| B16 | Irene |
Companies, etc.
- Printed By – West Brothers Printers Limited
- Published By – Heavy Metal Music
Credits
- Arranged By [Instrumentals] – Bob Dorough (tracks: A4 to B1)
- Arranged By [Vocals] – Doug Franklin (tracks: A1 to A3, B2 to B16)
- Art Direction, Photography By – Ed Thrasher
- Bass – Charles Larkey
- Chorus [The Fugs Chorus] – Marlys Trunkhill
- Drums – Ken Weaver
- Engineer, Co-producer, Coordinator [Music Coordination] – Richard Alderson
- Guitar – Ken Pine
- Liner Notes [Notes], Design [Babble Design] – Ed Sanders
- Other [Futution] – Tuli Kupferberg
- Other [Routines] – Ken Weaver
- Producer – Ed Sanders
- Vocals – Tuli Kupferberg
Notes
Gatefold cover. The disc is inserted from the inside.
On the inside gatefold, the name of the philosopher Plotinus is misspelled in the title of track B10; it is spelled correctly on the label.
On the inside gatefold, the name of the philosopher Plotinus is misspelled in the title of track B10; it is spelled correctly on the label.
Barcode and Other Identifiers
- Matrix / Runout (Runout stamp side A): STRA 181 A1
- Matrix / Runout (Runout stamp side B): TRA 181 B1
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| It Crawled Into My Hand, Honest (LP, Album, Pitman) | Reprise Records | 6305, RS 6305 | US | 1968 | |||
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It Crawled Into My Hand, Honest (LP, Album) | Reprise Records | CRV 6095 | 1968 | |||
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It Crawled Into My Hand, Honest (LP, Promo) | Reprise Records | RS 6305 | US | 1968 | ||
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It Crawled Into My Hand, Honest (LP, Album, Stereo, Unipak) | Reprise Records | RS 6305, 6305 | Canada | 1968 | ||
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It Crawled Into My Hand, Honest (LP, Album, Stereo) | Reprise Records | 6305, RS 6305 | 1968 |
Recommendations
Reviews
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The first Fugs album I ever heard was Virgin Fugs which is a completely ramshackle affair but back then (around 1978) sounded to me like the most unruly and anarchic folk-punk rock. Virgin Fugs was outtakes from earlier studio sessions which their label (ESP-Disk at the time) decided to issue without consulting the band (and without paying them either). But - as The Fugs would always say - they HAD signed the worst recording contract since Leadbelly - and at least they could joke about it.
A bit later I saw a copy of It Crawled Into My Hand Honest second-hand so I pounced on it. The band, as represented on this record, are much better produced.... Crystal Liaison is almost commercial psychedelia in the mould of The Turtles say.... and if I didn't get some of the literary references then it didn't really matter as this is the type of album you can get into over a period of decades.
The important track is probably When The Mode Of the Music Changes. The title is a quote from Plato's Republic ("when the mode of the music changes, the walls of the city shake") and the song was covered in due course by that most political of all highly politicised bands, Czechoslovakia's Plastic People Of the Universe.
Apart from that - Ed Sanders does his country-protest stuff, in which style which he continued to record over the next few years.
Quite a lot of the album consists of small jokes, quips and brief novelty ditties. It's a unique album really and probably the Fugs last great work.
The best material The Fugs ever came up with is undoubtedly on the first 3 albums they recorded for ESP. So - even if that label ripped them off - at least they got to put it ou there. It's hard to think of another record label that would have let them get away with it.
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