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Wolter wrote: If "Waiting Room" doesn't hook you into the world of Fugazi (TM), you might as well give up on them.
The best introduction to the uninitiated might be the Instrument DVD. It's hard to beat the live Last Chance For A Slow Dance and Shut The Door on there, never mind Guy singing Glue Man suspended from a basketball hoop (they don't show him falling into the drums).

Thanks to whoever started this. Now I got some Kill Taker on the stereo. "Irony is the refuge of the educated, always complaining but they never quit"...Jesus Christ, I often forget how much Fugazi fucking rules. Thanks for the reminder.
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eumaas wrote:personally rate Argument as their best record
Argument is fantastic. It's hard to believe an album that visceral and innovative was released that late into their run.
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threecoffins wrote:
Wolter wrote:
BostonBeaneater wrote:It was a great show. Maybe 100-150 in the audience. It was in a church function hall in Cambridge, MA. $5 at the door with MacKaye and Lally working the door for a while. I saw them 5 times in all, each show go bigger than the last. They played a great show in 1990 or 1991 at Mass College of Art which was killer. Again, $5.
Another of a long list of bands I missed by virtue of living in a town that was slightly off the touring routes.

If they ever get back together I will literally kill to see them if I have to.
1991 would have made me 8-9 years old. I don't even want to think about what I might have been listening to at the time :rolleyes:
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YES PLEASE ONE HELPING OF FUGAZI THANKS. :mrgreen:
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Kory Pox wrote:
threecoffins wrote:
Wolter wrote:
BostonBeaneater wrote:It was a great show. Maybe 100-150 in the audience. It was in a church function hall in Cambridge, MA. $5 at the door with MacKaye and Lally working the door for a while. I saw them 5 times in all, each show go bigger than the last. They played a great show in 1990 or 1991 at Mass College of Art which was killer. Again, $5.
Another of a long list of bands I missed by virtue of living in a town that was slightly off the touring routes.

If they ever get back together I will literally kill to see them if I have to.
1991 would have made me 8-9 years old. I don't even want to think about what I might have been listening to at the time :rolleyes:
Weird Al.
No, he was a lit-tle too classy for me back then.

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Dr. Medulla wrote:
17 Feb 2022, 8:00am
Interview with IM on Steady Diet:
https://thebattleground.eu/2022/02/16/t ... interview/
This is great. Steady Diet was my first Fugazi record and I still have a soft spot for it. I remember loving it when I first got it, then feeling it was flat compared to some of their other material, and in the last couple years I've come around to its greatness again. This interview gets deeper into what was briefly touched on in that 33 1/3 about Killtaker, which is Steady Diet was supposed to be the record made with the band as "pure democracy." Ian laments the results a bit in that book, so I'm glad he's revised his tune somewhat here.

IM is consistently one of the best interviews in music. If I have a "hero" in music, he's close to it.
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I never experienced the contemporary backlash with Steady Diet. Yes, everyone listened to the early eps and Repeater more, but most people I knew just thought it wasn’t quite as good as the absolute masterpieces released before it. Like, an A-after some A+ stuff.
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Flex wrote:
17 Feb 2022, 4:43pm
IM is consistently one of the best interviews in music. If I have a "hero" in music, he's close to it.
I really really wish I liked Fugazi more on an aesthetic—as much as anything, the hyperactive dominant bass hinders my enjoyment too much—because IM really is the model for living a moral life on punk standards. In practice, it's out of reach for most, but the existence of a living, breathing practitioner is so important.
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Flex wrote:
17 Feb 2022, 4:43pm
Dr. Medulla wrote:
17 Feb 2022, 8:00am
Interview with IM on Steady Diet:
https://thebattleground.eu/2022/02/16/t ... interview/
This is great. Steady Diet was my first Fugazi record and I still have a soft spot for it. I remember loving it when I first got it, then feeling it was flat compared to some of their other material, and in the last couple years I've come around to its greatness again. This interview gets deeper into what was briefly touched on in that 33 1/3 about Killtaker, which is Steady Diet was supposed to be the record made with the band as "pure democracy." Ian laments the results a bit in that book, so I'm glad he's revised his tune somewhat here.

IM is consistently one of the best interviews in music. If I have a "hero" in music, he's close to it.
Yeah, agree with these sentiments

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Dr. Medulla wrote:
17 Feb 2022, 6:38pm
Flex wrote:
17 Feb 2022, 4:43pm
IM is consistently one of the best interviews in music. If I have a "hero" in music, he's close to it.
I really really wish I liked Fugazi more on an aesthetic—as much as anything, the hyperactive dominant bass hinders my enjoyment too much—because IM really is the model for living a moral life on punk standards. In practice, it's out of reach for most, but the existence of a living, breathing practitioner is so important.
MAN, Lally is the best part!
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Wolter wrote:
17 Feb 2022, 5:54pm
I never experienced the contemporary backlash with Steady Diet. Yes, everyone listened to the early eps and Repeater more, but most people I knew just thought it wasn’t quite as good as the absolute masterpieces released before it. Like, an A-after some A+ stuff.
Most of the criticism I've read is that it seems sluggish comparatively. I guess I get it, but slow doesn't equal bad...
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Kory wrote:
18 Feb 2022, 2:58pm
Wolter wrote:
17 Feb 2022, 5:54pm
I never experienced the contemporary backlash with Steady Diet. Yes, everyone listened to the early eps and Repeater more, but most people I knew just thought it wasn’t quite as good as the absolute masterpieces released before it. Like, an A-after some A+ stuff.
Most of the criticism I've read is that it seems sluggish comparatively. I guess I get it, but slow doesn't equal bad...
I always thought the slower numbers added a bit of a nice dub-style change of pace.

Weirdly, I felt like there was a short lived local backlash in my local scene against Killtaker for being retrograde and too much of an attempt to sound hard.
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Kory wrote:
18 Feb 2022, 2:57pm
Dr. Medulla wrote:
17 Feb 2022, 6:38pm
Flex wrote:
17 Feb 2022, 4:43pm
IM is consistently one of the best interviews in music. If I have a "hero" in music, he's close to it.
I really really wish I liked Fugazi more on an aesthetic—as much as anything, the hyperactive dominant bass hinders my enjoyment too much—because IM really is the model for living a moral life on punk standards. In practice, it's out of reach for most, but the existence of a living, breathing practitioner is so important.
MAN, Lally is the best part!
I get why you'd be drawn to that, but it's just not an approach that appeals to me.
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Wolter wrote:
18 Feb 2022, 3:10pm
Kory wrote:
18 Feb 2022, 2:58pm
Wolter wrote:
17 Feb 2022, 5:54pm
I never experienced the contemporary backlash with Steady Diet. Yes, everyone listened to the early eps and Repeater more, but most people I knew just thought it wasn’t quite as good as the absolute masterpieces released before it. Like, an A-after some A+ stuff.
Most of the criticism I've read is that it seems sluggish comparatively. I guess I get it, but slow doesn't equal bad...
I always thought the slower numbers added a bit of a nice dub-style change of pace.

Weirdly, I felt like there was a short lived local backlash in my local scene against Killtaker for being retrograde and too much of an attempt to sound hard.
Killtaker is a favorite of mine, but I wish the bass were a little more present. It's got a bit more of a harsh, top-endy sound.
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