Emerging at a time when the Beat movement had faded and the Hippie era had yet to dawn, the Fugs were a group of poets and semi-pro musicians who embraced rock & roll as a medium to celebrate art, enjoy life, and offend the people who deserved it. Their second album, released in 1966, is less technically slapdash than their debut, while retaining the grubby eloquence and purposeful smut that proclaimed their joy. - Mark Deming