Fugazi : Classic or Dud ?

you didn't hear reclamation 500 times? it was a live staple for a good while

I've definitely heard Long Division live

actually I think I've heard a bunch of songs from that record live: Nice New Outfit, Stacks, Latin Roots, Runaway Return

xp yeah, I saw them maybe 5 times and heard "Long Division" at least twice.

Reclamation was a highlight when I saw them in like 98? 99?

Think I saw them do KYEO, too. Steady Diet and Killtaker are the only Fugazi records I listen to with any regularity.

The book Dance of Days has a lengthy bit about the centrality of Reclamation to their live shows for a while.

Interesting to see the Steady Diet love.

the only time i saw Fugazi live they played Reclamation first and held those first guitar notes for what felt like 5 minutes before the bass & drums came in. People were going nuts.

randomly, steady diet ended up being my first fugazi record, cuz i was just buying one at random and i liked the title or something...sort of a weird intro to the band

yeah that was kind of a fun thing of the pre-internet era, having these random and sometimes "wrong" entry points based on what was in the store or what had a cool cover/title

I would rather hear "Latin Roots" than haha no just kidding that song is terrible.

I know a few people who even at the time preferred Steady Diet to Repeater and 13 Songs (which is wildly uneven IMO, way more so than Steady Diet frankly). I'm not sure when critical consensus resulted in X is or isn't the Fugazi to have, but I don't think it really existed in 1991/2.

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fugazi really are in the mondegreen hall of fame

"BLAME SISTER RAY! BLAME SISTER RAY! BLAME SISTER RAY!" - Fugazi, "Epic Problem"

on some other thread strongo notes the "wipeout" in "smallpox champion" can be mistaken for "white power" while i always heard "waffles."

mondegreen! i never knew what that was called

yeah nice vocab expander

"AUSSIE THUGS IN A PRISOOOOOOON! THEY SHOULD NEVER TOUCH THE GROUND!"

We just so happened to play Fugazi's first two EPs at Devon Record Club last week.

http://devonrecordclub.wordpress.com/2012/07/17/fugazi-7-songs-and-margin-walker-round-32-robs-choice/

Saw these guys at the Manchester Boardwalk in 1989, so fucking great. I know that Waiting Room is remembered as the big song of their early days, but Suggestion was definitely the highpoint of their set and the one that really blew the whole room up, so taut and yes, so funky.

I liked back in 88 in DC when Amy Pickering guested on some of the vocals for "Suggestion". Here's a Wilson Center version from that time:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-k1iK4nyS8o

Amy's vocals are good, Ian's are more predictable

WE SIT BACK
LIKE THE TORTOISE
WE KEEP QUIET
LIKE THE TORTOISE

I love that Wilson Center clip of Suggestion!

HERE COMES THE ONION MEN

ALADDIN ROOTS

This is all over FB now but figured some may not have seen (notice quote at top)

http://25.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_m7ciqpG23w1qjnw5fo1_500.jpg

And yes this photoshopping is explained elsewhere with lotsa fun comments and suggested flavors

:( I WANT IT TO BE REAL.

way to live up to your name bud

hmpf

classic mount cleaners cold open on this revive

x-post

ha. I shouldn't confuse ilxors with the commenters I saw on this elsewhere who did think it was real.

;)

Full disclosure I did think it was real for maybe 20 mins or so last night before realizing that probably wasn't the case.

lol I did that photoshop and it's kind of gotten out of hand

no way

really??

I wouldn't tell a lie on a Fugazi thread

haha i'm glad i didn't grouse GUY WASN'T IN MINOR THREAT THIS IS SO DUMB on the thread then :)

details, details

I was going to just make an "ICE CREAM EATING MOTHERFUCKER" truck but then the Minor Threat stuff worked really well and so I added that. Just put it on my facebook and a City Paper writer saw it and put it here and it went from there I guess:

http://www.washingtoncitypaper.com/blogs/artsdesk/music/2012/07/17/someone-make-this-happen-minor-treat-ice-cream-truck/

I wish I'd know it would get around so much, I definitely would have made the quote "ICE CREAM EATING MOTHERFUCKER, THAT'S WHAT YOU ARE - GUY PICCIOTTO OF MINOR THREAT" to get people really riled up

lol

guys did i ever post pictures of the "ice cream eating motherfucker" shirt my sister got/made me for xmas one year?

http://sphotos-a.xx.fbcdn.net/hphotos-prn1/19970_1279899166755_20426_n.jpg
http://sphotos-a.xx.fbcdn.net/hphotos-ash3/19970_1279899126754_5172796_n.jpg

"that's the shit you can't hide."