Fugazi : Classic or Dud ?

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
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"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

Will Chave: wtf? You use be thinking of Tortoise, the most crossed armed chin stroking live act ever.

**must** not use, damn sausage fingers.

http://i.imgur.com/uxLhe.jpg

lmao

nice

http://oi55.tinypic.com/24171mw.jpg

would watch that on the food network

it's time to beat some eggs

The guys in Minor Threat would have demanded a parenthetical I in front of "Don't add sugar it ruins it"

In his early days in Fugazi Guy didn't play guitar for them.

well, fuck.

its funny to see the oatmeal thing because i've seen in two or three places people complain that fugazi were so po faced they contributed 'oatmeal' to a recipe column, or something

QUAKER OATS ARE SHIT!

oatmeal is unfunky white people food

so many great lines in that recipe - "if you have an electric stove, you're pretty fucked"

let it simmer for about 15 phone calls

If Albini can do it, MacKaye can do it. So do it, MacKaye! Where's your cooking blog?

I'm kind of excited - certainly intrigued - by the idea of Guy Picciotto playing live in a couple of weeks.

I know he's done some stuff with the Silver Mount Zion guys, and he played guitar with Vic Chestnutt and all that - but could this be an actual, like, solo set? I hope so...

The event will be held on November 15 at New York's Le Poisson Rouge. It will feature performances from Jeff Mangum, TV on the Radio's Tunde Adebimpe, Sonic Youth's Lee Ranaldo and Fugazi's Guy Picciotto, plus non-musical talent like comic Janeane Garofalo, director John Cameron Mitchell, culture jammers the Yes Men, and more.

somehow the phrase "non-musical talent" made me laugh

jcm's pretty musical

i want to know where the style guide for that publication stands oxford comma wise

That reads to me as if Ranaldo and Picciotto are playing a set together.

I actually read it that way as well! Not just oxford comma trolling -- I really thought that's what they meant.

btw, what is "the event"?

Differently Comma'd version, from Brooklyn Vegan

On November 15, Le Poisson Rouge will host "The People's Bailout: A Variety Show and Telethon to Benefit the 99%," a benefit show for Occupy-affiliated organization Strike Debt. The show features a huge (and very impressive) lineup of Jeff Mangum (of Neutral Milk Hotel) (who has played for Occupy Wall Street in the past), Lee Ranaldo (of Sonic Youth) (who has also played for Occupy Wall Street before), Guy Picciotto (of Fugazi), Tunde Adebimpe (of TV on the Radio), Janeane Garofalo, Lizz Winstead, Max Silvestri, Frances Fox Piven, Hari Kondabolu, David Rees, corproate pranksters The Yes Men, John Cameron Mitchell, Climbing Poetree, The invisible Army of Defaulters, members of Healthcare for the 99%, Occupy Faith, and many more. Tickets for the show go on sale Friday, November 2 at 10 AM.

when do we get our cut from the telethon

There's absolutely no way I would ever read a Fugazi cooking special.

LOL @ 'telethon'
It would be so good if Jerry Lewis hosted this

http://disquiet.com/2012/11/01/chris-lawhorn-fugazi-edits/

http://www.lepoissonrouge.com/lpr_events/peoples-bailout/

live stream of the telethon: http://pitchfork.com/news/48614-watch-jeff-mangum-members-of-sonic-youth-fugazi-tv-on-the-radio-perform-at-occupy-telethon/

glad to see other people are finding it as hard to get genuinely excited about the fugazi edits record as i did

so Guy is performing with Jeff Mangum, it turns out.

http://clatl.com/cribnotes/archives/2012/11/14/guy-piccotto-talks-rites-of-spring-fugazi-and-the-indelible-power-of-youth -- good interview, ends with Guy demurring at the idea of ever doing a solo record or a Rites show, although "I do hope to put out another record, and my hope is always to one day be in a band again"

guy interviewed for the low times podcast this week - http://www.lowtimespodcast.com/