Ed Sanders & The Fugs - Original Recordings 1968-2024 (CD)

New(not in shrink). 4-CD set.

The Danish label Olufsen Records dedicates a second four-CD box set to the musical work of Ed Sanders, poet, singer, activist, writer and publisher known above all for his militancy (in the literal sense) in the Fugs. In deluxe book format, this box set also covers a vast period from 1968 to 2024: produced by Sanders himself, compiled by Peter Olufsen (who also curated the liner notes with the artist) and remastered by Erik Skovgaard Pedersen and Viggo Mangor, it includes classic Fugs recordings but also an official bootleg with the band's first ever concert from 1968, other rare live recordings and studio demos, a historic blues session with Allen Ginsberg, the first CD release of the electronic cantata "Socialist Of The Lower East Side" and two brand new recordings made last year with John Sebastian of the Lovin' Spoonful. An unmissable document for enthusiasts and scholars of the American counterculture and underground movement from the 60s to today.
 
Disc 1
1 I Want to Know
2 Ah, Sunflower
3 Charles Olson : Maximus from Dogtown - 1
4 Crystal Liaison
5 Supergirl
6 I Couldn't Get High
7 The Garden Is Open
8 War Song
9 Wide, Wide River
10 Garnicht
11 Johnny Pissoff Meets the Red Angel
12 Wet Dream Intro
13 Wet Dream
14 Four Minutes to Twelve
15 Crystal Liaison
16 I Want to Know Intro
17 I Want to Know
18 Ah, Sunflower Intro
19 Ah, Sunflower

Disc 2
1 Tropei Tropei Tropei (Turn, Turn, Turn) from Ecclesiastes 3 in the Septuagint Greek Bible - 2nd Century B.C
2 Sappho
3 High Tech Heraclitus
4 The Song of the Sirens (Book 12, the Odyssey)
5 Danae in a Box Upon the Sea (Simonides)
6 The Wrath of Achilles (The Opening Lines of the Iliad Plus Some Thoughts About Space Warfare and the Fate of Iphigeneia)
7 A Chorus from the Birds (Aristophanes)
8 Plato's Cave (A Version of the Opening Lines of Book 7, the Republic)
9 Archilochus Rock & Roll Wail-Out
10 High Tech Heraclitus (Dancemix)
11 Morning Morning
12 Thirsting for Peace in a Raging Century
13 When It's Time to Say Goodbye
14 Cabin Fever
15 Song for Allen

Disc 3
1 Lost, Lost, Lost, Lost, Lost
2 Matisse
3 Cabin Fever
4 Brecht
5 Coffee Spoons
6 Shakespeare's 57th Sonnet
7 Everybody Has a Right to a Home
8 John Keat's Negative Capability Letter
9 Hymn to the Rebel Cafe
10 Shakespeare's 18th Sonnet
11 Evening Star
12 Chanting Chipmunks
13 Morning Morning
14 When It's Time to Say Goodbye
15 Hail to the Rebel Cafe
16 The New Amazing Grace (Allen Ginsberg)

Disc 4
1 The Question of Fame
2 Wild Women of East Tenth Street
3 Satie
4 The Final Section of Gregory Corso's Bomb
5 Song for Allan
6 America at Peace March
7 Scroll Me Some Answers O Universe
8 No Greater Belief in Words Has There Been
9 Soap Clay Cliff
10 The Feather of Justice
11 Spiritual Topography
12 Why Is Why Whying
13 It Chars My Lips, But Still I Drink
14 I Think of Sappho Often
15 Rock & Roll& Roll Away the Rock
16 Water Is the Greatest Thing
17 Cracks of Grace
18 See My Shadow on the Other Side