Daniel Miller's attempt at making Punk music with Synths and it works as well as it sounds, and i mean that in a good way, especially with Warm Leatherette, it doesn't have many notes or what not but it still feels large and confrontational.
this experimental oddity from 1966 was honestly mindblowingly interesting and somewhat ahead of its time, title track is about an acid trip gone wrong and it definitely feels like it.
imagine it's 1966 and you live in the USA, "Punk" isn't a thing and it wont be for another decade, other proto-punk bands with more out there political lyrics like Los Saicos, The Monks, Bluestars and such have little to no distribution outside their home countries whilst the MC5, Stooges and Velvet Underground won't have their releases for at least another year or so. You stumble across this "Filthy" record at some small record or book store, perhaps from the fugs second ... read more
odd bit of Proto-Punk history from the last of 60's Fugs in a more updated style of their older songs live at the shortly lived Filmore east, It's no kick out the jams but its a fair bit of Punkish Psych Rock live experimentation captured live in 1968, from the Frenzied Proto-Punk of Slum Goddess, I Couldn't Get High, Super Girl and Saran Wrap To the oddly reggae-ish proto-new wave of CCD to the Noisy Arty Psych Punk of Nothing and the more standard tracks of I Want To Know and How Sweet i ... read more