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. Also on the album is the track "War Song", which referred to the chemical weapon Napalm B and the burn wounds that they caused - the US used this weapons extensively in Indochina, dropping 388,000 tons between 1963 and 1973. (2) The weapons, largely supplied by Dow Chemical, became a target of the anti-war movement. (3) See the song "The Fires of Napalm" below for further details.
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.
Annotation by Justin A. Brummer
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]