Exorcising The Evil Spirits From The Pentagon October 21, 1967
1968 · Reprise RS 6280 · Burbank, California
- Artist
- The Fugs
- Title
- Exorcising The Evil Spirits From The Pentagon October 21, 1967
- Release
- Tenderness Junction
- Year
- 1968
- Label
- Reprise # RS 6280
- Format
- LP · Album
- Language
- English
- Country
- Burbank, California, USA
- Genre
- Garage Rock · Garage Rock
- Primary theme
- Peace, Protest & Anti-War
Annotation
Another two anti-war songs from the Fugs appeared on this 1968 album. As mentioned above, the Fugs often played at anti-Vietnam demonstrations. This led them to being mentioned in Norman Mailer's famous portrayal of the 1967 March on the Pentagon in the book Armies of the Night: History as a Novel/The Novel as History.1 In the track "Excorcising the Evil Spirits From the Pentagon October 23, 1967" (Reprise Records # RS 6280) the band embarked on a chant, attempting to remove the evil spirits from the Pentagon, as stated in the title of the song.Sources1Wikipedia: The Armies of the Night↩
Annotation by Justin A. Brummer
Annotation — Garage Rock Songs
Another two anti-war songs from the Fugs appeared on the 1968 album Tenderness Junction. As mentioned above, the Fugs often played at anti-Vietnam demonstrations. This led them to being mentioned in Norman Mailer's famous portrayal of the 1967 March on the Pentagon in the book Armies of the Night: History as a Novel/The Novel as History.1 In the track "Exorcising the Evil Spirits From the Pentagon October 23, 1967" (Reprise Records # RS 6280) the band embarked on a chant, attempting to remove the evil spirits from the Pentagon, as stated in the title of the song.Sources1Wikipedia: The Armies of the Night↩
Annotation by Justin A. Brummer
Lyrics
English: We call among the power of the cosmos... / In the name of the lives of the dead soldiers in Vietnam... / We call upon the spirits, to raise the Pentagon from it's destiny... / Out demon out, out demon out, out demon out Is true what they say about Ho Chi Minh?... / Burn my belly with napalm jelly / Rape my brain with a torch full of fire / Burn mother burn, burn mother burn
About the artist
Satirical rock band formed in 1964 on the Lower East Side, New York City, by poets Ed Sanders and Tuli Kupferberg; their antiwar songs include Kill for Peace (1966). [Source: Wikipedia]
Themes
From the release Tenderness Junction
In collections
Garage Rock Songs · Peace, Protest, & Anti-War Songs [War Years]