Fugazi : Classic or Dud ?

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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

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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."

"...but you eat ice cream, everybody knows it, the WHOLE FUCKING PLACE knows it.."

That's my favourite bit there

Jess that's awesome.

Fugazi is/was one of the few bands that took the hardcore form and actually took it somewhere

ha yeah my instinct is to rmde at this but I don't think it's a greatly objectionable statement in itself

the implication that "taking it somewhere" is of paramount importance is more or less bs however

― if you are a false nine don't entry (DJ Mencap)

Haha, can't believe I'm going back to try to defend an 11-year old post but: Partly the statement was made because I wasn't as familiar with hardcore as I thought, and partly because I was being a bit too glib to get at my actual point. aero and Tarfumes kind of got at what I was talking about though this exchange:

that their craft continued to improve as they went is I think an undermade point - people go nuts for Kill Taker which is the "important" one I guess but every album is legitimately great listening imo

^ this. For me, they only faltered once (Steady Diet), but that aside, every record was a step forward...and sometimes a "holy shit!" step forward.

At the point I wrote that I think I was so burnt out on other bands that started at point A and 10 years later ended at point A that Fugazi's constant move to somewhere else was extremely welcome. Maybe I overstated, but where they went over the course of a small handful of albums still impressed the fuck out of me.

Also I get that part of the point of the complaint was essentially "why should they have to go anywhere"? And yeah, bands can feel free to stay wherever the hell they want, and sometimes that works fine. I just loved seeing Fugazi's move from one place to another, especially when it must have pissed off a lot of people who thought they were fans.

One of my few complaints about fugazi is that I feel like they deserve a big share of the responsibility for the fact that everyone started just standing around at shows instead of moving. I mean I understand where they were coming from - hardcore shows could get really nasty with throwing elbows, steel-toed boot kicks, etc. But the other extreme kind of blows.

yeah but i think it was just from the perspective of wanting to protect ppl from getting injured

plus i bet ppl were standing around at REM shows in the mid 80s, or bands like that?

I dunno, the two times I saw Fugazi (and even at other hardcore/emo shows I went to in the 90s), people were moving, just not moshing/crowd surfing.

yeah blame indie bands that don't inspire movement, not the band that stopped people from punching each other

I suppose unfunky white people not punching each other anymore is a great and righteous earth changing activity.

I personally don't see what music has to do with punching people, if I need to be told that or inspired by it, maybe there is something wrong with me.

one thing that's great about "get in the ring" is axl makes explicit that it's all about punching for him. every other song on that record just kinds of hints at it from the corners.

mount cleaners do check ilx on a weekly basis?

do you, i mean

Three Dutch radio sessions online: http://3voor12.vpro.nl/nieuws/2012/juli/Fugazi-sessie.html