Prepsychedelic

Lehrer's songs--cynical and sarcastic, Tin Pan Alley style black humor, as if Lenny Bruce teamed up with Lerner and Loewe--were welcome assaults on the bland conformism of their day, the prepsychedelic early 1960s; we could use some of that biting comedy in the yuppified 80s, and David Whitehouse and Andy Miller, whose songs form the spine of this brief show, seem willing to oblige.

By the time of their second album, The Fugs (which actually made the top forty), the group had evolved into a kind of primitive clatter marked by lustful evocations and mantralike prepsychedelic trance-Rock.