new fugazi

...still...i think the argument is probably their best album, and would be a great conclusion....

I fucking love this record.

http://sickmouthy.com/2013/01/25/fugazi-the-argument-2001/

i used to think it was the pick of their catalog, but now i think the sound of it didn't age well. something about it is too serious and "mature".
i prefer Red Medicine or Kill Taker, which are rawer,dirtier and less calculated.

more real?

don't get me wrong, i like The Argument, but it's maybe just a little too "arty" for me.epic problem.

not real enough

epic problem owns

yeah it does

All the tracks with prominent double drum kits are amazing. Just played this through my serious headphone rig for probably the first time and it was amazing. Proper spellbinding.

I was just thinking about how hard End Hits rocks. Must listen to The Argument again.

Although I'd probably chop the last couple songs off it and Arpeggiator goes on just a tiny bit too long

the argument rules as do all fugazi albums

Eh, I think End Hits and Argument are patchy enough.

The aggressive stuff is good, but some of the other stuff...take or leave it.

In On The Kill Taker, for example, is vastly superior.

And its more subdued tracks like Sweet and Low is much better than any of the last two's examples.

IOTKT might be my fave

I was just appreciating Canty on "Recap Modotti" this morning.

smh @ "vastly superior," one of the most even discographies ever quality-wise

end hits kicks ass up and down the block just like kill taker

I feel like End Hits works so well because it gets the ratio between payoffs and proper 'moments' and left turns so right. I think Fugazi work best when they're not left to meander.

There's some real 'Rock music' cliches in there, like the 'Hey man do the riff but this time without the bass for a couple measures'. Then throwing in a red herring at exactly the right times to make those moments more worthwhile.

it's also full of other 'Rock music' cliches such as guitars and singing

new fugazi leaked

restart steam

yeah the stature The Argument has over End Hits is so unjust imo

Yeah, just because it's better is no reason to ... oh, wait.

What I love about "End Hits" is, as the least accessible/immediate Fugazi, it still holds all these neat surprises, which is such a nice thing to have from a band that likely will never record again. So, sure, I listen to it less than all of the other ones, but it's the only one I listen to that, because I'm not as familiar with it front to back, still surprises me with each listen.

yeah it's got nooks and crannies

new fugazi leaked

― am0n, Friday, January 25, 2013 7:03 PM Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

ILM should pre-cover it, even though it's not real

i never really gelled to end hits and the argument. you could argue that steady diet is fugazi's most subpar record and i'd probably agree but the high points (reclamation, dear justice letter, long division, latin roots) are soooooo much better than anything from their last 2 albums. accusing a band of sounding a little too derivative of themselves is kinda foolish but i feel that way about their latest stuff. maybe it has to do with the fact i listened to fugazi basically in chronological order, i don't know.

I find that middle section of End Hits drags really badly....Floating Boy, Closed Captioned et al..I appreciate the effort but to me each song isn't compelling enough.

I think concise/focused Fugazi is their strongest suit...working 'experiment' elements to that is good (IOTKT, Red Medicine), but to me the focus drops too often on the last two.

I don't think their late-period meandering is their strongest point.

How anyone can say End Hits kicks an equal amount of ass as Kill Taker...I dunno, we'll probably always disagree there.

This could be a 1990-1995 vs. 1996-2000 argument too...in terms of how many Fugazi-type bands and peers turned the guitars down/experimented a bit

xp I love End Hits as much as Kill Taker, maybe more. Rocks as hard (or harder), takes more chances.

End Hits and Kill Taker are my two favourites but Brad is right, there aren't any bad Fugazi albums.

Nothing on "End Hits" rocks as hard as the first two songs on "Kill Taker" alone.

yeah there's not a single fugazi album i don't at least (at least!) like a lot, but in terms of "rocking hard" kill taker is pretty much the peak.

they're all kinda doing different things, and there are certainly hard-rocking moments on all of them, but just in terms of songwriting/approach, there's probably a reason they went to albini for the first version of kill taker.

is Steady Diet generally perceived to be "subpar"? my copy was stolen (along with the bulk of all my other CDs) in college and somehow I've never replaced it. but I remember it fondly.

actually, at the time i think Repeater got the least amount of play by me of any of the first four (counting 13 Songs as one of those "four" btw)

"Steady Diet" I think threw people off for being relatively chill and polished after "Repeater," which is such a raw disc (esp. compared to the EPs).

Albini I seem to recall at one point claimed the only two bands he would produce for free were Fugazi and I want to say Shadowy Men on a Shadowy Planet (!). Both of whom he eventually produced, the Fugazi getting scrapped and the Shadowy Men ("Sport Fishin'") not so hot.

Nothing on "End Hits" rocks as hard as the first two songs on "Kill Taker" alone.

"five corporations"

Steady Diet is unfairly maligned - it is only the "worst" Fugazi album because their bar is so high. There are so many classics on that record. I think its worst offense is its pacing - it's the only album that so rigidly switches between Ian songs and Guy songs, back and forth, back and forth. It seems to ignore a track listing that might lean more on the flow of the songs themselves rather than this weird democratic conch shell hand off.

I wrote about the Argument a few months ago - the one Fugazi album I'd never heard all the way through until just recently.

i h8 end hits, def their worst

http://www.washingtoncitypaper.com/blogs/artsdesk/music/2014/08/11/new-fugazi-music-well-very-old-fugazi-music/

First Demo (from 1988) coming out this winter

i h8 end hits, def their worst

― am0n, Sunday, January 27, 2013 8:42 PM (1 year ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

boo

Tracklist: 1) Waiting Room 2) Merchandise 3) Furniture 4) Song #1 5) The Word
6) Bad Mouth 7) Break-In 8) Turn Off Your Guns 9) And the Same 10) In Defense of Humans 11) Joe #1