― Nate Patrin, Wednesday, 22 May 2002 00:00 (twenty-two years ago) link
― Bella R., Sunday, 8 December 2002 19:16 (twenty-one years ago) link
― Callum (Callum), Sunday, 8 December 2002 20:23 (twenty-one years ago) link
They're amazing live as well--the segues from song to song are incredible. When I saw them in April of this year they went right into "Blueprint" from "Sweet And Low." It was great.
― Ian Johnson (orion), Sunday, 8 December 2002 21:02 (twenty-one years ago) link
― Anthony Miccio (Anthony Miccio), Monday, 9 December 2002 01:31 (twenty-one years ago) link
― Alex in SF (Alex in SF), Monday, 9 December 2002 02:14 (twenty-one years ago) link
Also, if you haven't paid attention since '95, definitely check out the Argument. Sonically unlike all previous albums (sitars! female background vocals!), though the lyrics are still an issue.
― Anthony Miccio (Anthony Miccio), Monday, 9 December 2002 02:23 (twenty-one years ago) link
That first line should be "Fugazi should have been a better band than they were."
― Alex in SF (Alex in SF), Monday, 9 December 2002 02:37 (twenty-one years ago) link
― Anthony Miccio (Anthony Miccio), Monday, 9 December 2002 02:51 (twenty-one years ago) link
its not as hard as i was expectingis this hardcore?
its also a lot slower in a lot of places than i expected,for some reason i thought it would all be really fast
there is some funky (meant as an adjective,not sure whether its good or bad as yet)drumming on one of the tracks,which i wasn't expecting at all
i like it more than i was expecting,i think last time i tried to listen to it i just turned it off after a few songs
― robin (robin), Thursday, 8 May 2003 19:25 (twenty-one years ago) link
no, it's "post-rock".
― gygax! (gygax!), Thursday, 8 May 2003 19:40 (twenty-one years ago) link
― robin (robin), Thursday, 8 May 2003 19:51 (twenty-one years ago) link
― robin (robin), Thursday, 8 May 2003 21:43 (twenty-one years ago) link
― gygax! (gygax!), Thursday, 8 May 2003 22:06 (twenty-one years ago) link
― mookieproof (mookieproof), Thursday, 8 May 2003 22:11 (twenty-one years ago) link
― jess (dubplatestyle), Thursday, 8 May 2003 22:29 (twenty-one years ago) link
― robin (robin), Thursday, 8 May 2003 23:06 (twenty-one years ago) link
― jess (dubplatestyle), Thursday, 8 May 2003 23:08 (twenty-one years ago) link
Fugazi EP (first half of 13 Songs)The ArgumentRepeaterRed MedicineIn On the Kill Taker
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Margin Walker EP (second half of 13 songs)Steady Diet of NothingInstrument soundtrackEnd Hits3 Songs EPFurniture + 2 EP
― Pete Scholtes, Friday, 9 May 2003 12:38 (twenty-one years ago) link
― John Bullabaugh (John Bullabaugh), Friday, 9 May 2003 12:46 (twenty-one years ago) link
(hops to xgau.com to check that that is indeed his line)
― g--ff c-nn-n (gcannon), Friday, 9 May 2003 14:06 (twenty-one years ago) link
― David R. (popshots75`), Friday, 9 May 2003 14:10 (twenty-one years ago) link
― arch Ibog (arch Ibog), Friday, 9 May 2003 14:21 (twenty-one years ago) link
Sickest Cover Ever, though. (for Margin Walker)
End Hits is too good to be true. In On the Killtaker comes on a close 2nd. All the others: 3rd place. No losers here.
― JP Almeida (JP Almeida), Friday, 9 May 2003 15:07 (twenty-one years ago) link
And they are so post-rock.
― mei (mei), Friday, 9 May 2003 15:35 (twenty-one years ago) link
― ss, Friday, 9 May 2003 15:49 (twenty-one years ago) link
― request to go to LA, Saturday, 20 May 2006 18:13 (eighteen years ago) link
― jonathon, Saturday, 20 May 2006 18:18 (eighteen years ago) link
― i am not a nugget (stevie), Saturday, 20 May 2006 18:25 (eighteen years ago) link
I heard they were on "indefinite hiatus". Ian MacKaye is playing in the Evens these days with Amy Farina and doesn't Joe Lally run Tolotta records or did I make that up?
― Edward White (E White), Saturday, 20 May 2006 18:43 (eighteen years ago) link
Fugazi is one of my favorite bands and one of the best live bands I've seen.
― Abbadavid Berman (Hurting), Sunday, 21 May 2006 00:32 (eighteen years ago) link
― Earl Nash (earlnash), Sunday, 21 May 2006 01:03 (eighteen years ago) link
― mts (theoreticalgirl), Sunday, 21 May 2006 01:35 (eighteen years ago) link
― drone/a/sore (drone/a/sore), Sunday, 21 May 2006 04:11 (eighteen years ago) link
― Heath Raymond, Sunday, 21 May 2006 04:50 (eighteen years ago) link
So I noticed a copy of Repeater in HMV the other day that had a sticker marked "2004 remaster" on it - have the destroyed it or made it better? I've no problem with the levels they'd reached by The Argument, but what's the point? it does sound VERY slight and spacious compared to their others (bar 13 Songs) unless you crank it, but when you crank it, it sounds awesome. Anyone heard it?
― Scik Mouthy, Monday, 18 February 2008 20:03 (sixteen years ago) link
Definitely classic, though my favorites from them remain in their early canon. One of the coolest things I've ever done is I attend one of their shows--I think it was 1992--on acid. My friends (who hadn't partaken) were like, Ian would NOT approve.
I still remember and probably always will remember "Merchandise" from that show, that and the music they played over the PA before the show, musta been some Dischord band or the other, made me shiver it was so heavy, never found out who they were.
A friend of mine speaks highly of their later work, but for the most part I'm just not familiar.
Oh, and I tend not to like the songs where Guy sings. I bet that's not just me.
― SecondBassman, Monday, 18 February 2008 20:13 (sixteen years ago) link
Repeater was always the worst-sounding album to my ears so I'd be curious to hear a remaster.
― Hurting 2, Monday, 18 February 2008 20:26 (sixteen years ago) link
All the original albums sound just fine to me.
― stephen, Monday, 18 February 2008 20:30 (sixteen years ago) link
And Nick, if you're interested, I think the first three albums got the remastered treatment - 13 Songs, Repeater and Steady Diet. I can't recall the others having been rereleased.
― stephen, Monday, 18 February 2008 20:32 (sixteen years ago) link
I've actually heard more complaints about the Ian songs.
I think I like much of the songs on Steady Diet the most. I've never quite understood the lack of love for that record.
Also, why is everyone so obsessed with "Waiting Room"?
― dell, Monday, 18 February 2008 20:40 (sixteen years ago) link
The main problem I have with the sonics is the snare drum being tuned too tightly.
― dell, Monday, 18 February 2008 20:42 (sixteen years ago) link
Huh?
― curmudgeon, Tuesday, 19 February 2008 16:41 (sixteen years ago) link
hahahaha
― M@tt He1ges0n, Tuesday, 19 February 2008 16:47 (sixteen years ago) link
Listened to Red Medicine the other day, another cheery reminder why Fugazi is amazing.
― mehlt, Tuesday, 19 February 2008 17:58 (sixteen years ago) link
every record was great. repeater and steady diet sound hell of quiet on my ipod, probably pre-remaster versions.
― stevie, Tuesday, 19 February 2008 18:19 (sixteen years ago) link
I've said the exact same thing on another thread I can't recall. It flows almost perfectly from song to song, sounds super tight and funky, rocks like a mofo -- best Fugazi album in my opinion.
― MacDara, Tuesday, 19 February 2008 20:04 (sixteen years ago) link
I think it's their first definitive/defining song. Before I got into Fugazi, whenever I asked someone what they sounded like, they always put on "Waiting Room." As much as I love their other stuff, "Waiting Room" hasn't aged too well (although it sounded good at what was apparently their penultimate US concert in 2002).
― Sara Sara Sara, Tuesday, 19 February 2008 20:47 (sixteen years ago) link
Agree, and would add that it's possibly my least favorite song of theirs from the first couple ep's.
― dell, Tuesday, 19 February 2008 22:08 (sixteen years ago) link
especially most of the Margin Walker record...most of those tracks put Waiting Room to shame.
― dell, Tuesday, 19 February 2008 22:12 (sixteen years ago) link
Never saw them live but yeah that was my impression of them too.
― longtime caller, first time listener (man alive), Thursday, 18 January 2024 14:33 (eight months ago) link
Haven't listened to the Mezzthetics albums yet, but Pirog doesn't progfuse that xxxpost James Brandon Lewis track, "Fear Not." It starts with his fluid accompaniment to Lewis's statement of the theme on tenor sax, then drone ov bass & drums drone quickly kicks in, and he steps back into it, sometimes providing punctuation and/or tiny ornaments, best detectable on headphones, as Lewis restates the theme, slightly twisting it, 'til Pirog chops a few chords and twangbar comments---then back into the hunkered-down caveman groove, while brave target Lewis sails overhead: so it's like Neil Young and Crazy Horse backing jazzman, and not a progfuse jazzman.Thread-relevant only if you've been wondering what Canty and Lally have been up to lately.
― dow, Friday, 19 January 2024 02:46 (eight months ago) link
Although any good track is relevant to any thread on ILM.
― dow, Friday, 19 January 2024 02:51 (eight months ago) link
Saw JBL & The Messthetics at Le Poisson Rouge the other night. Closest I'll ever get to seeing Fugazi. A great rhythm section, super tight with JBL and Pirog. I've not always been into Pirog's playing, but he was fantastic live - he reins it in little on the album, but was blazing here.
― Composition 40b (Stew), Friday, 19 January 2024 17:33 (eight months ago) link
That’s good. Although the short IG video clip of Jbl & messthetics there in an IG story I saw , his “blazing “ was too busy and math rock meets jazzy prog rock for me.
― curmudgeon, Friday, 19 January 2024 22:41 (eight months ago) link
Honestly, when I saw the show is was kind of like when I saw a Trey Anastasio solo band show. I liked the band, more than I expected (because I don't like Phish), but every time I started kinda enjoying myself he would come back in and my engagement would just fade. Messthetics wasn't quite like that, but Canty/Lally are such a great team, and while he wasn't bad, he still detracted/distracted from them. Or maybe I was just primed to hear Guy and Ian's playing. Probably, lol.
― Josh in Chicago, Friday, 19 January 2024 22:53 (eight months ago) link
Well we will see if Pirog can restrain his excesses on that upcoming JBL & Messthetics album on Impulse.
Ian isn’t in any active group now, and I don’t think Guy is either.
― curmudgeon, Wednesday, 24 January 2024 22:12 (eight months ago) link
When I saw the MC50 thing Wayne Kramer's MC5 tribute/reunion thing it had Canty on drums & Billy Gould of FNM on bass and while I didn't always love the show I did come away thinking I would watch any band with Canty playing drums.
― chr1sb3singer, Wednesday, 24 January 2024 22:22 (eight months ago) link
Is Coriky no longer a thing? Guy seems more into producing lately.
― Paul Ponzi, Wednesday, 24 January 2024 22:58 (eight months ago) link
fwiw Ian is 62 years old and Guy isn't that far behind. So I wouldn't really expect either to still be in active bands if they have absolutely anything else going on in their lives that does not require them to go on tour.
― sctttnnnt (pgwp), Thursday, 25 January 2024 01:29 (eight months ago) link
The impression I get from Mackaye's interviews and podcast appearances is that he's kept busy these days curating and preserving not only Dischord's legacy and archive but some of the wider punk/hardcore culture, collecting fanzines/letters/photos and ephemera.
― MaresNest, Thursday, 25 January 2024 01:49 (eight months ago) link
nice, good for him
― dead precedents (sleeve), Thursday, 25 January 2024 01:50 (eight months ago) link
the short IG video clip of Jbl & messthetics there in an IG story I saw , his “blazing “ was too busy and math rock meets jazzy prog rock for me.
― dow, Thursday, 25 January 2024 02:41 (eight months ago) link
Although, in the DC axis context, if he wanted to take these Fugazi guys in a Don Callero and/or early Battles direction, that would be okay too, I would hope (I like all three of those bands, however you tag them).
― dow, Thursday, 25 January 2024 02:45 (eight months ago) link
listen with juice, not prejudice.
― dow, Thursday, 25 January 2024 02:46 (eight months ago) link
https://www.instagram.com/reel/C2Lx9F_t_rk/?igsh=dzc1d3R6a3R2dWEx
Eww
― papal hotwife (milo z), Thursday, 25 January 2024 05:01 (eight months ago) link
guy played instruments on the new jim white solo album so he's still playing
― a (waterface), Thursday, 25 January 2024 15:57 (eight months ago) link
pirog with short hair still flummoxes me
― B. Amato (Boring, Maryland), Thursday, 25 January 2024 16:05 (eight months ago) link
Yes to this. I found some old Minor Threat photos my brother took (plus some negatives of other bands he took pics of back then - DC band Doulbe O, Cramps , others) at our late parents home cleaning up , and my brother and I visited the Dischord house and warehouse and Ian as he is going to digitize them and such. He says he still plays guitar everyday but has put Coriky on hold. He has so much stuff archived -- both physical items, diaries from tours, tapes in multiple formats of practices and gigs.
― curmudgeon, Thursday, 25 January 2024 18:45 (eight months ago) link
that insta clip sounded like something that SST would've put out in 1989 (i didn't hate it)
― blazin' squab (NickB), Thursday, 25 January 2024 20:32 (eight months ago) link
lololol I can't deny that
it's not really for me
― dead precedents (sleeve), Thursday, 25 January 2024 20:42 (eight months ago) link
I feel like Ian would have good tips for the digital music collection thread.But maybe it would be vice versa?
― Philip Nunez, Thursday, 25 January 2024 20:57 (eight months ago) link
"What if Alan Holdsworth joined Saccharine Trust?"
― Blues Guitar Solo Heatmap (Free Download) (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Thursday, 25 January 2024 20:59 (eight months ago) link
Folk-artist and performer Lonnie Holley will be backed by Lee Bains, Joe Lally, and Brendan Canty at the Kennedy Center Millennium Stage tonight from 6 to 7 pm Eastern US time. The show is free but ticketed. It will also be streamed on the Millennium Stage Youtube & Facebook page
https://www.kennedy-center.org/whats-on/millennium-stage/2024/february/lonnie-holley/
― curmudgeon, Friday, 16 February 2024 15:37 (seven months ago) link
Alabaman guitarist and backing vocalist Lee Bains is kinda prominent there behind Holley, but Lally and Canty are of course there and sound strong.
― curmudgeon, Sunday, 18 February 2024 23:39 (seven months ago) link
Canty has been filling in Hammered Hulls on bass , and has a gig coming up with Johnny Temple ( Girls against Boys, new wet kojak)
― curmudgeon, Wednesday, 21 February 2024 23:26 (seven months ago) link
what a fucking band
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=59Gy7TAkQW8
― I painted my teeth (sleeve), Wednesday, 21 February 2024 23:28 (seven months ago) link
Yep. Old guy me was at that Washington Monument show . Well, I was around Ian’s age then .
― curmudgeon, Thursday, 22 February 2024 05:24 (seven months ago) link
It's been eight years since they were mentioned and the link's dead so a re-up for the immense Torso Butter by Happy Go Licky.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GVaoEbFBTBc
― I would prefer not to. (Chinaski), Friday, 10 May 2024 18:51 (four months ago) link
Thanks. You can hear what Guy and Brendan later brought to Fugazi. I was a big fan of Eddie Janney in this group and Rites of Spring.
― curmudgeon, Friday, 10 May 2024 19:59 (four months ago) link
I’m sure it’s nothing, but the official Locrian band twitter account posted, then quickly deleted, a tweet that essentially said, “I was watching this old video of Ire opening for Fugazi and remembered there’s a new Fugazi album coming. Stoked.”
Disappeared when I went back to screencap it.
― Maxmillion D. Boosted (jon /via/ chi 2.0), Wednesday, 28 August 2024 04:01 (one month ago) link
https://i.ibb.co/j8fz6jy/IMG-5431.jpg
― Maxmillion D. Boosted (jon /via/ chi 2.0), Wednesday, 28 August 2024 04:11 (one month ago) link
what, no way
― intheblanks, Wednesday, 28 August 2024 04:16 (one month ago) link
Nope
Also, this other Fugazi thread has been used lately too.
Fugazi: C or D?
― curmudgeon, Wednesday, 28 August 2024 04:17 (one month ago) link
Now this Fugazi doc is getting more screenings
https://cinemadfilm.com/project/we-are-fugazi/
― curmudgeon, Wednesday, 28 August 2024 04:19 (one month ago) link
no fucking way
― a (waterface), Wednesday, 28 August 2024 18:14 (one month ago) link
reunion/new album i mean
like I said, I'm sure it's nothing and I wouldn't have bothered posting it if it had come from most other places.
― Maxmillion D. Boosted (jon /via/ chi 2.0), Wednesday, 28 August 2024 18:17 (one month ago) link