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No More Slavery (Import) (CD)

By: The Fugs (Artist)

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Track Listing

DISC 1 for No More Slavery (Import) (CD) Album By The Fugs (Artist)
1   No More Slavery  
2   Cold War  
3   Dreams Of Sexual Perfection Medley: Gratified Desire / Emily Dickinson / Party Party Party / The Golden Bard Retirement Home / Lithe Lydia / Healing River / Chaos, Earth And Eros  
4   South Africa  
5   Dover Beach  
6   Smoking Gun, The  
7   Working For The Yankee Dollar  
8   Just Like Jail  
9   Here Come The Levellers  
10   What Would Tom Paine Do?  
11   Technology Is Going To Set Us Free  
12   Hymn To America  
13   Days Of Auld Lang Hippie  
14   Ballade Of The League Of Militant Agnostics, The  
15   You Can't Go Into The Same River Twice  
 

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Title Note

Personnel: Steve Taylor (vocals, guitar, synthesizer); Coby Batty (vocals, flute, synthesizer, drums, percussion); Ed Sanders, Tuli Kupferberg (vocals, percussion); Scott Petito (synthesizer).

Recording information: Bottom Line, New York, NY (11/1985-08/1988); Byrdcliffe Barn, Woodstock, NY (11/1985-08/1988); Night Stage, Cambridge, MA (11/1985-08/1988); NRS Studios, Hurley, NY (11/1985-08/1988); Robbie Dupuis'House, Woodstock, NY (11/1985-08/1988).

Arranger: Tuli Kupferberg.

The 1985 release No More Slavery is the first studio recording by the Fugs in almost two decades. Founders Tuli Kupferberg and Ed Saunders are backed by an individually selected aggregate consisting of Steve Taylor on guitar and backing vocals, Scott Petito on bass and Coby Batty on percussion and backing vocals. The premise behind the Fugs -- to promote the union of verbal and musical images with an extreme sensitivity to nothing but pleasure -- remains eternal. As does their pursuit of truth -- through a steady diet of `high art', Dadaism and satire set to folk and rock music. There are a few notable differences in the methods that the Fugs utilized in making records in the `80s vs. the `60s. For example, instead of sounding like they are recorded in someone's basement -- although that is an admittedly endearing quality of those early Fugs recordings -- No More Slavery has a richer sonic depth and timbre. While this is certainly a bi-product of technological advancements, the net results are that Kupferberg and Saunders verbiage is given an infinitely more generous sonic pallet from which to conceive. Although the use of drum machines somewhat date tracks such as "Cold War" and "Technology Is Going To Set Us Free" -- a demo from the musical drama Star Peace -- no amount of ornate machinery can obscure Fugs motifs of blending rock music with poetry, philosophy and satire. One such notable thematic pattern exists in the seven-part "Dreams Of Sexual Perfection". Saunders effortlessly incorporates the poetic ideology of Emily Dickinson, Archilochus, as well as William Blake -- whose "How Sweet I Roamed From Field To Field" was adapted by Saunders on the Fugs First Album in 1965. As the title track suggests, No More Slavery is a collection of musings which amply display the Fugs verve for life and the liberties that make it worth living. ~ Lindsay Planer

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