I heard the Fugs' "Group Grope" in the supermarket today!

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OK, so not the whole song -- just the part that goes, "group grope, baby!!!" (x2)

I heard it over the store radio as I was absorbed in comparing the different kinds of Excedrin. Too bad I wasn't paying attention before that, but from what came after I gather it was a TV show commercial --"Tonight at 7:05" or something...

― Curtis Blooey, Tuesday, 14 June 2005 00:57 (twenty years ago)

This song is so good.

― Tim Ellison (Tim Ellison), Tuesday, 14 June 2005 01:32 (twenty years ago)

Are you sure it wasn't the more tame cover that goes "Love-in baby"?

― walter kranz (walterkranz), Tuesday, 14 June 2005 01:33 (twenty years ago)

That's a pretty obscure record. Always thought it was hilarious that a band covered "Group Grope" and changed the words so that it was about a love-in and saving the world.

― Tim Ellison (Tim Ellison), Tuesday, 14 June 2005 01:37 (twenty years ago)

I'm embarassed to say that I knew that version before I knew Group Grope!

― walter kranz (walterkranz), Tuesday, 14 June 2005 01:58 (twenty years ago)

I didn't know there was a cover -- anyone know who did it?

― Curtis Blooey, Wednesday, 15 June 2005 00:45 (twenty years ago)

Yeah, the band was Noah's Ark. It's called "Love In." Actually, Walter, the bizarre thing about that record is that it's part "Group Grope" and part "Frenzy" from that same Fugs album!

― Tim Ellison (Tim Ellison), Wednesday, 15 June 2005 00:48 (twenty years ago)

Hmm, really? I never thought about it. I'll have to dig it out again.

― walter kranz (walterkranz), Wednesday, 15 June 2005 00:52 (twenty years ago)

Oh yeah. "It's alright / come on up" and then you expect "baskets...baskets of love" but instead it's "love in.....and save the world" It's a Fugs medley!

― walter kranz (walterkranz), Wednesday, 15 June 2005 01:02 (twenty years ago)

Tim, there was also a song on one of the psychedelic comps I have somewhere that sampled the electronic sound at the beginning of Virgin Forest. Do you know what that is? I listened to a bunch of stuff but I can't find it.

― walter kranz (walterkranz), Wednesday, 15 June 2005 01:11 (twenty years ago)

Are you thinking of Rasputin and the Mad Monks' version of "I Had Too Much to Dream (Last Night)?" That has that middle part (the "dream sequence," according to the Beyond the Calico Wall liner notes) with the synthesizer sounds that sound like that synthesizer at the beginning of "Virgin Forest." Was it sampled, though?

― Tim Ellison (Tim Ellison), Wednesday, 15 June 2005 01:17 (twenty years ago)

By coincidence, I was just listening to "Group Grope" today, after not hearing it for over a decade. It ain't no "Slum Goddess," but it's tight.

― Dave Segal (Da ve Segal), Wednesday, 15 June 2005 01:32 (twenty years ago)

Yes, that's it! I thought it was on Beyond the Calico Wall (amusingly enough, Love In is on 30 Seconds Before the Calico Wall). Listening to it again, it can't be sampled because the sound on Virgin forest has all sorts of other percussion along with it. I heard this same sound one other time on a college radio show once and I've always wondered what the origin was. Does it come from a sound effects record?

― walter kranz (walterkranz), Wednesday, 15 June 2005 01:33 (twenty years ago)

I'm delighted that there's a Fugs thread in here. Love the first couple records. . .

Question that's been bugging me for awhile: I first heard The Fugs First Album when a coworker of my dad's lent it to me. One of the tracks I really dug as a 14-year-old was "Swinburne Stomp." On the copy I was borrowing, Ed Sanders starts off the track by declaiming "In the key of metaphysical distress. . ." which I always found funny for some reason. All subsequent versions of the album I have heard/owned (vinyl and CD) cut this out. What gives?

― JAS, Wednesday, 15 June 2005 01:38 (twenty years ago)

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