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
"In on the Kill Taker," "Red Medicine" and "End Hits" are their greatest recordings. Everything they've ever recorded is nothing short of spectacular, but an album like Repeater - I'm sad to say - honestly does sound dated. The three aforementioned albums still sound really fresh and modern, despite them all being well over a decade old. Especially the amazing and cathartic "In on the Kill Taker," which sounds like it could have been recorded yesterday. Fugazi = greatest band ever.
― Johnny Machine, Tuesday, 6 May 2008 06:38 (sixteen years ago) link
Wow so true. I listened to In On the Kill Taker today for the first time in years and it sounded fantastic. Some of Picciotto's songs are so stylish and Fugazi had so many rock band trappings--they loved big choruses and singalongs, and they also loved jamming and fucking around. For all they did to advance hardcore, they're such a throwback in a lot of ways.
― call all destroyer, Tuesday, 17 June 2008 18:35 (sixteen years ago) link
randomly grabbed End Hits from the rack today. "Recap Modotti" is so, so awesome.
― the evil genius of Zaiger Genetics (J0hn D.), Thursday, 6 August 2009 20:55 (fifteen years ago) link
I did this too! But yesterday. Such a solid album.
― #/.'#/'@ilikecats (g-kit), Thursday, 6 August 2009 20:59 (fifteen years ago) link
the last 30-45 seconds of Arpeggiator into the first, like 10-15 seconds of Guilford Fall=so fucking awesome
― Mr. Que, Thursday, 6 August 2009 21:02 (fifteen years ago) link
joe lally is a goddamn genius bass player.
― psychedelia smith (M@tt He1ges0n), Thursday, 6 August 2009 21:04 (fifteen years ago) link
End Hits always underwhelmed me, but it seems to be getting the love. Need to relisten now that I've ripped em all onto my iPod.
― Sean Carruthers, Thursday, 6 August 2009 21:05 (fifteen years ago) link
Fugazi was a big disappointment after Script For A Jester's Tear.
― S. Palmerston, Thursday, 6 August 2009 21:25 (fifteen years ago) link
oh know you d'int!
― psychedelia smith (M@tt He1ges0n), Thursday, 6 August 2009 21:27 (fifteen years ago) link
Randomly grabbed Red Medicine yesterday. Very solid album, despite years of ambivalence to it. And I'm really going to have to get repeater eventually.
― An impromptu concert by Boz Scaggs (EDB), Thursday, 6 August 2009 22:03 (fifteen years ago) link
Those live discs are of such hit or miss audio (and physical) quality that I rarely listen to any of them, but I did buy them all anyway. At the time I sort of felt, after all these years, that I owed the band something in return, and I could forgive the no frills aspect of the whole deal. As cash grabs go, it was as innocent as they come.
― Josh in Chicago, Thursday, 6 August 2009 22:21 (fifteen years ago) link
one of my coworkers was recently in sf and made a point of telling me that he saw a building with the name fugazi on it.
― clouds taste metallica (jdchurchill), Thursday, 6 August 2009 22:30 (fifteen years ago) link
i took a pic of that building last time I was there
― the evil genius of Zaiger Genetics (J0hn D.), Thursday, 6 August 2009 22:34 (fifteen years ago) link
"Recap Modotti" is so, so awesome.
otm
― da croupier, Thursday, 6 August 2009 22:36 (fifteen years ago) link
need to re-buy Killtaker ASAP
― ^prizes the praise of the media, and the Europeans (will), Thursday, 6 August 2009 22:41 (fifteen years ago) link
Can't stop thinking about what it would sound like if Calle 13 covered "Merchandise". It would be such an awesome English language debut -- suitable ideologically, linguistically, sonically. What's not to like? Does Fugazi hate covers? Do they even allow that?
― 2010 = the year of (exactly) 500 Rogers! (La Lechera), Friday, 13 May 2011 19:32 (thirteen years ago) link
bands don't really have that much control over who releases covers of their music afaik
Fugazi themselves never played covers but i don't even know if there's been any prominent cover of one of their songs for them to have an opinion on
― some dude, Friday, 13 May 2011 19:33 (thirteen years ago) link
If they're trying to crossover to an English-speaking audience but keep their political/social consciousness cred, it's a hell of a song imo. Also fun to shout WE OWE YOU NOTHING.
― 2010 = the year of (exactly) 500 Rogers! (La Lechera), Friday, 13 May 2011 19:41 (thirteen years ago) link
NO-THING!
so that wasn't a response to me at all, was it, just a reiteration of your first post?
― some dude, Friday, 13 May 2011 19:42 (thirteen years ago) link
i guess i was just repeating myself
― 2010 = the year of (exactly) 500 Rogers! (La Lechera), Friday, 13 May 2011 19:47 (thirteen years ago) link
12threeeeeeeeee
repeater
happy birthday ianwhich fugazi live set should i download
― billstevejim, Tuesday, 17 April 2012 19:36 (twelve years ago) link
Oh, god we had a house guest renting here, he used our food, didn't pay rent, and listened to "melodic" "soulful" music like Fugazi all of the time.
Politics and being from DC does not make for intelligent music. I can't stand Fugazi, sorry.
He can come back and visit when he learns what good music is.
― โตเกียวเหมียวเหมียว aka Please You Fag Punk Rockers (Mount Cleaners), Saturday, 14 July 2012 15:29 (twelve years ago) link
Huh? Melodic? Soulful? You sure he wasn't listening to jack Johnson?
― Josh in Chicago, Saturday, 14 July 2012 16:10 (twelve years ago) link
i somehow read that as "we had a horse guest renting here ..."
― thomp, Saturday, 14 July 2012 16:10 (twelve years ago) link
i mean okay he ate your food and wanted to listen to fugazi but hey on the other hand he was a sentient horse, shut the fuck up and know you are blessed
― thomp, Saturday, 14 July 2012 16:11 (twelve years ago) link
lol!
― Johnny Fever, Saturday, 14 July 2012 16:21 (twelve years 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