I'm really into Fugazi at the moment...

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Frankly, I've been obsessed with Fugazi for the last few months. I can't get enough of them.

What other bands should I check out? I know there was a thread exactly like this done at some time, but it ended up heading in the wrong direction (pointing out "emo bands" and then discussing the evolution of Ian Mackaye). The only thing I saw in the right direction was Drive Like Jehu, who I find to be very similar.

So what other bands have that Fugazi/Drive Like Jehu sound?

― Chris Markins, Monday, 27 December 2004 06:38 (twenty years ago)

Hoover, Policy of 3, Lincoln, Spirit Assembly, Black Masks For Secrecy, early Unwound

― Ian John50n (orion), Monday, 27 December 2004 06:42 (twenty years ago)

check out the bands on fugazi's label, Dischord, for yr fix

― jake b. (cerybut), Monday, 27 December 2004 07:10 (twenty years ago)

Quicksand's album Slip is calling your name. While you're at it, pick up Helmet's Meantime which, while somewhat different, should be appreciated in your current state.

― Johnny Fever (johnny fever), Monday, 27 December 2004 10:35 (twenty years ago)

i'll second Ian's recommendation of Hoover - their 'the lurid traversal of route 7' album sounds like a screamo perry farrell fronting a more jagged, feral Fugazi....

― stevie (stevie), Monday, 27 December 2004 11:01 (twenty years ago)

also: jawbox

― mookieproof (mookieproof), Monday, 27 December 2004 12:28 (twenty years ago)

The first Burning Airlines album, maybe?

― Jordan (Jordan), Monday, 27 December 2004 13:40 (twenty years ago)

Gang of Four -- a heavy, and oft-cited by them, influence

Also, maybe Ex Models

― Hurting (Hurting), Monday, 27 December 2004 14:26 (twenty years ago)

Theory Of Ruin.

― pdf (Phil Freeman), Monday, 27 December 2004 14:45 (twenty years ago)

haha patrin to thread!

― g--ff (gcannon), Monday, 27 December 2004 15:35 (twenty years ago)

I'd recommend getting the 3CD "20 Years of Dischord" comp that came out a year or two ago; every single Dischord band ever has a song or two on there, and overall it's an incredible overview of DC hardcore/post-punk through the 80's and 90's.

Dischord, in addition, keeps almost everything they've ever released in print and sells it for a very low price, so you can go back at least as far as the start of the Fugazi era in 1988-1989 and assemble a pretty complete collection (and get Scream's "Banging the Drum" on cassette for four bucks!).

― Daniel Cohen (dayan), Monday, 27 December 2004 15:37 (twenty years ago)

The Minutemen. Who are better in every way.

― What's this place, Biblevania? (natepatrin), Monday, 27 December 2004 15:48 (twenty years ago)

I heard a Fugazi song I liked a couple days ago. It didn't sound anything like what I thought they typically sounded like. Of course, considering how long they've been around, and how many albums they've probably put out, I don't know why I should be surprised. I almost saw them once a long time ago, but I had the time or date of the show wrong, or something like that.

― LaRue (rockist_scientist), Monday, 27 December 2004 16:17 (twenty years ago)

They have a lot in common,musically, with mid-period Sonic Youth. I also see the connection with Gang of Four and Minutement (at least in theory) and the Ruts (sonically). But I've never really heard a band quite like Fugazi.

― Josh in Chicago (Josh in Chicago), Monday, 27 December 2004 16:56 (twenty years ago)

Circus Lupus and Lungfish were great in the early-to-mid-90s. I don't know about now, though. But Solid Brass and Rainbows From Atoms are fantastic records.

― Huk-L, Monday, 27 December 2004 16:59 (twenty years ago)

Huk OTM re: Rainbows From Atoms... that's probably the best Lungfish. Also worthwhile, if you like that one, are Artificial Horizon and Pass & Stow.

― Ian John50n (orion), Monday, 27 December 2004 18:02 (twenty years ago)

Fugazi are like dub metal which is nothing like The Minutemen who are spaz funk. At The Drive In with their call and response vocals and dissonant guitars remind me of Fugazi sometime.

― chaki in charge (chaki), Monday, 27 December 2004 18:46 (twenty years ago)

SHUDDER TO THINK

― Ganbare Goemon (ex machina), Monday, 27 December 2004 18:51 (twenty years ago)

Shudder To Think are not so good, j dubs.

Search: Harriet The Spy "Unfuckwithable" LP.

― Ian John50n (orion), Monday, 27 December 2004 19:13 (twenty years ago)

Pitchfork. I think the record finally came out on CD last year, on Swami I believe. A brilliant, exciting little record to this day.

― andy, Monday, 27 December 2004 19:43 (twenty years ago)

Listen to Shellac first. They don't sound like Fugazi, but there's alot of common ground with those two bands.

Then check out the new Hot Snakes album. Hot Snakes has some of the guys from Drive like Jehu and sounds alot like Fugazi at times.

― Shaun (shaun), Monday, 27 December 2004 22:12 (twenty years ago)

Listen to Q and not U ... if you want to hear what a second rate imitation of Fugazi sounds like.

― Hurting (Hurting), Tuesday, 28 December 2004 02:31 (twenty years ago)

Jawbox already was recommended. But specifically 'for your special sweetheart' and their last eponymously titled release are both very good.

― j.m. lockery (j.m. lockery), Tuesday, 28 December 2004 05:16 (twenty years ago)

Six Finger Satillite- Moogy Fugazi
Rye Coalition - Cockrocky Fugazi
The Jesus Lizard- Rhythms a bit like Fugazi, except add seven fingered guitarist and a mean vicious troll.

― Earl Nash (earlnash), Tuesday, 28 December 2004 05:42 (twenty years ago)

new band w/ EP on Dischord, I think they are called Medications?
good, and poppy/fugazi-ish.

Pailhead?

― autovac (autovac), Wednesday, 29 December 2004 01:41 (twenty years ago)

Um, what a nightmare thread.

The Dischord band that makes the most sense for you to check out is Soul Side. Fugazi's best early ideas came from this band (Ian used to say as much all the time). Their second and third records plus a 7" are available as a CD called "Soon Come Happy," and it is greater than great.

I'd stay away from the bearded dork bands that came in Fugazi's wake and are atrocious. And if anyone says Fuel, I will cry.

But yeah. Definitely Shellac. And Quicksand's "Slip." And the Ex. And since I don't know you and what you've heard, I hope it's not insulting to recommend Bad Brains, Gang of Four and Wire--three bands that Fugazi also borrows heavily from.

Oh hey one more. Mission of Burma.

And yeah--you've got to hear Hot Snakes! They sound more like Crime than Fugazi, but they're great.

― usual channels, Thursday, 30 December 2004 22:58 (twenty years ago)

"Pailhead? "

Naw, Pailhead sounds more like Big Black with Mackaye as the singer than anything else.

― latebloomer (latebloomer), Thursday, 30 December 2004 23:07 (twenty years ago)

two months pass...

The Honor Role
Wire
Tenor Saw
Slint
Unrest
Giants Chair
Minutemen
The Clash
Gang of Four

― Pete Scholtes, Saturday, 12 March 2005 01:42 (twenty years ago)

Ted Nugent
Link Wray

― Pete Scholtes, Saturday, 12 March 2005 01:43 (twenty years ago)

Slint is so much better than Fugazi.

― gygax! (gygax!), Saturday, 12 March 2005 01:55 (twenty years ago)

LIES!

― Mr. Harvey Weinstein (mr harvey weinstein), Saturday, 12 March 2005 01:55 (twenty years ago)

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