Fugazi : Classic or Dud ?

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Musta been too busy ravin' but only heard them in '92 - great gig ( lights on,hot summer night,David Baddiel looking uncomfortable). Listened to the albums- loved a few songs on the red one - but my interest waned and by the time I saw them on the last tour I was disappointed. My persective may have been messed up by all the angry black-clad Leeds 'We are Hardcore - no we're not metal' groops I've seen over the years. Are Fugazi classic or should the grim fuckers get jiggy ?

― Geordie Racer, Monday, 9 April 2001 00:00 (12 years ago) Permalink

Absolute classic. "Repeater" is one of the rock albums of the 90's. Their last album "End Hits" showed an experimental side and there's lots of dub influences on it. The whole "straight edge" scene is self- righteous but Fugazi have got a lot of integrity. They're one of the best live bands I've seen ever too.

― Michael Bourke, Monday, 9 April 2001 00:00 (12 years ago) Permalink

I only own End Hits and Michael is right: it's quite experimental but I sort of liked it at the time. Haven't listened to it for a while now but "Repeater" is somewhere on my shopping list!

― Simone, Monday, 9 April 2001 00:00 (12 years ago) Permalink

fugazi was never sXe. i mean, joe lally smokes.

_margin walker_ and _steady diet of nothing_ are damn fine records. distinctive sound with those crisp trebly guitars going from slashing chords to efficient but original noise, raging vocals, and icily precise rhythm section. diverse and emotional too. _steady diet_ manages to be remote, alienated, raw, and anthemic. i'm pretty sure i commented on _margin walker_ in the ep's thread. probably still my favourite fugazi. punk's energy with an undercurrent of doubt.

the other two i have are _red medicine_ and _end hits_. i'm not quite so unequivocal about these. "do you like me?," the 2nd song on _rm_, "by you," and "long distance runner" are all top-notch tracks. in fact, the noise that opens the record is almost worth the price of the record. "do you like me?" is one fugazi song with great lyrics: "your eyes like crashing jets/fixed in stained glass but not religious/you should pay rent in my mind" screamed over those blazing guitars is a great rock moment. too much of the rest of the album tends to get bogged down and noodly, which problem afflicts _end hits_ as a whole. they still have something to say but there's too much dressing to cut through. "foreman's dog" is a great track on _eh_ though.

overall, i don't listen enough to rate them as a total classic overall (as i'd do with joy division, say) but they have a unique sound that no one else does, a substantial body of diverse work, and a solid live show.

― sundar subramanian, Monday, 9 April 2001 00:00 (12 years ago) Permalink

I love 'em, and I have to say one of the funniest things that ever happened to me was when I saw them but didn't realize it, back in 1991. True! I was at the show and all, but there were three groups listed and only two played. As I had none of the albums at that point, I didn't know who was who, and so when the second band came on and did this amazing show, I thought, "Christ, if this is the other opening band, Fugazi *really* better turn it on for their show." Then they did an encore and I thought, "Er, wait a minute..."

Perhaps all the more amusing in context was the identity of the first band on the bill. The Offspring.

― Ned Raggett, Monday, 9 April 2001 00:00 (12 years ago) Permalink

classic man! their best song is bed for the scraping.

― ernest, Monday, 9 April 2001 00:00 (12 years ago) Permalink

Red Medicine is one of my favorite albums, ever. I like it so much that I don't understand why people can prefer Repeater (which is good, but...).

― Josh, Tuesday, 10 April 2001 00:00 (12 years ago) Permalink

Red Medicine is definitely a more diverse album, Josh but I prefer Repeater because the band sound super tight. They just sound on fire on that album. The riffs are ace and the drumming is magnificent. Its excellently constructed with athe songs building and falling into one another seamlessly. Its a great album to shout along to too. Its got great Fugazi tunes-Shut the door, Blueprint, Sieve fisted find and Reapeater.

― Michael Bourke, Wednesday, 11 April 2001 00:00 (12 years ago) Permalink

What I've always loved about Fugazi is the play between Guy and Ian. Mr. Emo vs. Mr Straight-edge. I haven't heard too many songs better than Rend It from In On The Kill Taker or the classic Waiting Room from 13 songs.

My favorite Fugazi story is when Ian stopped a show to address some guy who kept screaming for them to play Minor Threat songs.

― bnw, Saturday, 14 April 2001 00:00 (12 years ago) Permalink

Totally classic. Lots of bands scream and play loud, but Fugazi is/was one of the few bands that took the hardcore form and actually took it somewhere. My only reservation is that occasionally Ian sounds like he's doing a Homer Simpson impersonation (see "Long Division" for the most obvious impersonation).

― Sean Carruthers, Tuesday, 17 April 2001 00:00 (12 years ago) Permalink

10 months pass...

classic. and enduring. listen to 'the argument' for evidence.

― geeta, Sunday, 17 February 2002 01:00 (11 years ago) Permalink

3 months pass...

They have been a favorite for a long time. Every time I have seen them live has been great most of the records are solid.

Fugazi's band sound and the way all the pieces interlock is what makes it work, more so than "songwriting" per say. How the voices, two guitars, and bass interact with the metronomic drums is to me the best thing. This being said, there is somewhat a similarity to much of their music.

My favorite album is "Steady Diet of Nothing", mostly because the pace is slowed up a bit more and the songs get more abstract. The first two and "In On the Kill Taker" are all filled with groovy punk. "End Hits", "Red Medicine" and "Instrument" are more spotty, but there are some cool parts on each.

The latest album "The Arguement" is probably the most varied thing they have done and is becoming a favorite of mine.

As for the politics of the lyrics and D.I.Y. attitude, it may add to the mythology, but the music is good enough on it's own for me.

― earlnash, Wednesday, 22 May 2002 00:00 (11 years ago) Permalink

I don't really get them. I started a thread about this before and I think it degenerated into weirdness ("if you do not get Fugazi you do not understand music!" or some crap), so I'll just leave it at "my own personal opinion states that they don't do much for me" rather than "ICK DUD THEY SUX0R".

― Nate Patrin, Wednesday, 22 May 2002 00:00 (11 years ago) Permalink

6 months pass...

Fugazi is my all-time favorite band. For awhile I was listening to this alt-crap on the radio that felt so stale and formulaic. My sisters told me about Fugazi after seeing them live and ever since I have been hooked. At first, Repeater + 3 songs was my favorite, but now I am more into Red Medicine. Still, each album has its strong points. Repeater, Merchandise, Bed for the Scraping, Promises, Do You Like Me, Long Distance Runner....the list of my favorites goes on and on. Their music and their message are so refreshing. Fugazi has made my high school existence a hell of a lot easier.

― Bella R., Sunday, 8 December 2002 19:16 (10 years ago) Permalink

I prefer Unwound, but Fugazi are good too. Didn't like 'The Argument' though.

― Callum (Callum), Sunday, 8 December 2002 20:23 (10 years ago) Permalink

Abso-fuckin-lutely a classic band. Their albums are all solid, with In On The Kill Taker, Repeater and Red Medicine being the best of the bunch.

They're amazing live as well--the segues from song to song are incredible. When I saw them in April of this year they went right into "Blueprint" from "Sweet And Low." It was great.

― Ian Johnson (orion), Sunday, 8 December 2002 21:02 (10 years ago) Permalink

Classic, unless you can't tolerate cryptic lyrics or indiefied aggro. I swear by their most tuneful albums: 13 Songs, Repeater, and the Argument (touring maniacs grounded by parental responsibilities make their Sgt. Pepper without losing their punk spark, hence, better than Sgt. Pepper). The other albums all have great tracks interspersed with gestative noodlings. Why did Fugazi shirk from grandeur from 1992-2000? Easy: Nirvana and the commercialization of "alternative." Thankfully when the trend faded they brought the hooks back full on. The Argument may be my favorite album (not to mention my favorite album of 2001), and I eagerly await their next endeavour.

― Anthony Miccio (Anthony Miccio), Monday, 9 December 2002 01:31 (10 years ago) Permalink

Fugazi should be a better band than they are. Unfortunately, excepting a couple of really good songs, the two principle songwriters seem to be stuck on writing some of the most impossibly boring, irritating or just plain ridiculous lyrics around. Which wouldn't be so bad IF their voices weren't mixed so high or so perplexing if both had written pretty darn great songs with previous bands. I finally tired of buying Fugazi albums new (for $8 it always seemed worth it to give a listen) about '95 (and selling them pretty soon after). They've gotten to be pretty decent musicians over the years, although there is nothing mind-blowing novel about what they do (and plenty of other bands do/did it better). So dud for not being classic (or more fairly: slightly better than mediocre which I guess equals clud.)

― Alex in SF (Alex in SF), Monday, 9 December 2002 02:14 (10 years ago) Permalink

not to pick a fight, but I'm curious which bands you consider doing what Fugazi do better. Jawbox arguably did "In On The Kill Taker"-era stuff a little more tightly.

Also, if you haven't paid attention since '95, definitely check out the Argument. Sonically unlike all previous albums (sitars! female background vocals!), though the lyrics are still an issue.

― Anthony Miccio (Anthony Miccio), Monday, 9 December 2002 02:23 (10 years ago) Permalink

Gang of Four and Pop Group are the two agit-prop bands that did "it" better that come to mind immediately (and PIL, of course.) Also Nation of Ulysses (on their own label no less) was recording concurrently with Fugazi and they were much better (in every way, really).

That first line should be "Fugazi should have been a better band than they were."

― Alex in SF (Alex in SF), Monday, 9 December 2002 02:37 (10 years ago) Permalink

Lyrically, I'll give you all four (though honestly the only Pop Group I've heard is "We Are All Prostitutes"). Musically, I'd still take Fugazi over all except Go4's Entertainment (not that PIL and Nation don't have their moments). Watching Instrument recently reaffirmed how much I enjoy the sounds they create.

― Anthony Miccio (Anthony Miccio), Monday, 9 December 2002 02:51 (10 years ago) Permalink

4 months pass...

i've had a copy of in on the killtaker for years,although i've never really listened to it before
or any of this type of music,really,although i've obviously heard the name loads of times,know the reputation,etc
anyway,a few random thoughts-

its not as hard as i was expecting
is this hardcore?

its also a lot slower in a lot of places than i expected,for some reason i thought it would all be really fast

there is some funky (meant as an adjective,not sure whether its good or bad as yet)drumming on one of the tracks,which i wasn't expecting at all

i like it more than i was expecting,i think last time i tried to listen to it i just turned it off after a few songs

― robin (robin), Thursday, 8 May 2003 19:25 (10 years ago) Permalink

is this hardcore?

no, it's "post-rock".

― gygax! (gygax!), Thursday, 8 May 2003 19:40 (10 years ago) Permalink

haha ned my sister just walked in and said "what the fuck is that it sounds like the offspring"

― robin (robin), Thursday, 8 May 2003 19:51 (10 years ago) Permalink

gygax-how so?
surely not?
etc

― robin (robin), Thursday, 8 May 2003 21:43 (10 years ago) Permalink

i read it on allmusic.com

― gygax! (gygax!), Thursday, 8 May 2003 22:06 (10 years ago) Permalink

fugazi roxx. there's too much shit and baggage surrounding their ideological stance and straight-edgeness and whathaveyou. and they are a fucking tremendous band live. (that said, i'd skip 'end hits')

― mookieproof (mookieproof), Thursday, 8 May 2003 22:11 (10 years ago) Permalink

jeez, you could have at least revived my fugazi thread (which i believe might have been my first ilm thread evah)

― jess (dubplatestyle), Thursday, 8 May 2003 22:29 (10 years ago) Permalink

just had a look,its a brief arguement about whether they're emo and then a link to this thread...

― robin (robin), Thursday, 8 May 2003 23:06 (10 years ago) Permalink

heh, i know robin

― jess (dubplatestyle), Thursday, 8 May 2003 23:08 (10 years ago) Permalink

Scholtes Fugazi consumer guide: Ranked in order, with everything below the divide a bad bet for non-completists...

Fugazi EP (first half of 13 Songs)
The Argument
Repeater
Red Medicine
In On the Kill Taker

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Margin Walker EP (second half of 13 songs)
Steady Diet of Nothing
Instrument soundtrack
End Hits
3 Songs EP
Furniture + 2 EP

― Pete Scholtes, Friday, 9 May 2003 12:38 (10 years ago) Permalink

Classic. That rare combination of chops & intensity. Repeater = brilliance.

― John Bullabaugh (John Bullabaugh), Friday, 9 May 2003 12:46 (10 years ago) Permalink

what does everyone think of the xgau line: that Piccioto's got it and McKaye doesn't?

(hops to xgau.com to check that that is indeed his line)

― g--ff c-nn-n (gcannon), Friday, 9 May 2003 14:06 (10 years ago) Permalink

"It" = the ability to contort and bend like a Wacky Wall Walker (that wants a clear view).

― David R. (popshots75`), Friday, 9 May 2003 14:10 (10 years ago) Permalink

people really seem to hold up Repeater as somethin special, maybe cause it was where the songs and structures started to gel more. But for me that tightness was a bad thing; on that album I think we see the start of a few basic patterns of what a "fugazi song" is, and I interpret the next few years of the band as them struggling (eventually mostly successfuly) to overcome that. There is a looseness to the first 2 eps, and a very un-concerted diversity of approach (as opposed to later, over-concerted efforts towards the same) that made every recording after a little disappointing. I think it's well-documented that they don't feel comfortable in the studio though, so that factors in, too.

― arch Ibog (arch Ibog), Friday, 9 May 2003 14:21 (10 years ago) Permalink

C-L-A-S-S-I-C

Sickest Cover Ever, though. (for Margin Walker)

End Hits is too good to be true. In On the Killtaker comes on a close 2nd. All the others: 3rd place. No losers here.

― JP Almeida (JP Almeida), Friday, 9 May 2003 15:07 (10 years ago) Permalink

CLASSIC.

And they are so post-rock.

― mei (mei), Friday, 9 May 2003 15:35 (10 years ago) Permalink

Dud.

― ss, Friday, 9 May 2003 15:49 (10 years ago) Permalink

3 years pass...

ok, so the last Fugazi record was in 2001 (The masterpiece "Argument" that marked the end of good post rock records)
ive waited for a while, than stopped waiting, than assumed they disband.
but does anyone know what Brendan Canty joe Lally Ian MacKaye and Guy Picciotto are doing these days? other projects? solo stuff ? anything worth checking out?

― request to go to LA, Saturday, 20 May 2006 18:13 (7 years ago) Permalink

fugazi = classic
most fugazi fans = dud (no one on this board, obv)

― jonathon, Saturday, 20 May 2006 18:18 (7 years ago) Permalink

guy picciotto produced the last gossip album, and the next blood brothers one.

― i am not a nugget (stevie), Saturday, 20 May 2006 18:25 (7 years ago) Permalink

I think they were certainly classic in the early days, and their later sound is still pretty interesting (it helps that they didn't churn out a million albums and kept ppl wanting more). They were incredibly influential and their sound is all over the local indie scenes in the UK these days, for better or worse.

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 (7 years ago) Permalink

Yes, "indefinite hiatus" is what I've heard as well. I know Brendan has a family now and I think Joe might as well, and yes they all seem to be involved in various other projects. The Evens = not bad.

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 (7 years ago) Permalink

Tolotta Records has stopped. Brendan toured with Bob Mould last year. Joe did some recording and may have played some shows with John Frusciante.

― Earl Nash (earlnash), Sunday, 21 May 2006 01:03 (7 years ago) Permalink

that evens record is pretty fantastic. i hope they put out another record soon.

― mts (theoreticalgirl), Sunday, 21 May 2006 01:35 (7 years ago) Permalink

has anyone picked up any of The Fugazi Live Series? and if so,which ones are 'must hears'? as they now are up to 30 in total,there has to be some quality shows.

― drone/a/sore (drone/a/sore), Sunday, 21 May 2006 04:11 (7 years ago) Permalink

Fugazi is a classic. The Evens are great. Ian is a great label head, that makes great selections for it. I probably listened to the song Waiting Room more than 500 times in my life time.

― Heath Raymond, Sunday, 21 May 2006 04:50 (7 years ago) Permalink

1 year passes...

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 (5 years ago) Permalink

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 (5 years ago) Permalink

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 (5 years ago) Permalink

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― big-mammed punisher (strongo hulkington's ghost dad), Thursday, 19 July 2012 02:05 (10 months ago) Permalink

"...but you eat ice cream, everybody knows it, the WHOLE FUCKING PLACE knows it.."

That's my favourite bit there

― Master of Treacle, Thursday, 19 July 2012 02:25 (10 months ago) Permalink

Jess that's awesome.

― (✿◠‿◠) (ENBB), Thursday, 19 July 2012 10:35 (10 months ago) Permalink

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.

― Sean Carruthers, Thursday, 19 July 2012 11:35 (10 months ago) Permalink

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.

― Sean Carruthers, Thursday, 19 July 2012 11:46 (10 months ago) Permalink

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.

― Will Chave (Hurting 2), Thursday, 19 July 2012 15:34 (10 months ago) Permalink

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?

― wack nerd zinging in the dead of night (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Thursday, 19 July 2012 17:33 (10 months ago) Permalink

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.

― EveningStar (Sund4r), Thursday, 19 July 2012 18:12 (10 months ago) Permalink

yeah blame indie bands that don't inspire movement, not the band that stopped people from punching each other

― da croupier, Thursday, 19 July 2012 18:15 (10 months ago) Permalink

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.

― โตเกียวเหมียวเหมียว aka Truck Bombing Begins at Home (Mount Cleaners), Friday, 27 July 2012 20:57 (9 months ago) Permalink

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.

― Philip Nunez, Friday, 27 July 2012 21:03 (9 months ago) Permalink

mount cleaners do check ilx on a weekly basis?

― da croupier, Friday, 27 July 2012 21:25 (9 months ago) Permalink

do you, i mean

― da croupier, Friday, 27 July 2012 21:25 (9 months ago) Permalink

Three Dutch radio sessions online: http://3voor12.vpro.nl/nieuws/2012/juli/Fugazi-sessie.html

― EvR, Thursday, 2 August 2012 23:14 (9 months ago) Permalink

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

― kwhitehead, Friday, 3 August 2012 01:27 (9 months ago) Permalink

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

― kwhitehead, Friday, 3 August 2012 01:28 (9 months ago) Permalink

― am0n, Friday, 3 August 2012 15:26 (9 months ago) Permalink

lmao

― electric point-electric counterpoint (m bison), Friday, 3 August 2012 15:29 (9 months ago) Permalink

nice

― da croupier, Friday, 3 August 2012 15:31 (9 months ago) Permalink

― am0n, Friday, 3 August 2012 15:45 (9 months ago) Permalink

would watch that on the food network

― electric point-electric counterpoint (m bison), Friday, 3 August 2012 15:49 (9 months ago) Permalink

it's time to beat some eggs

― some random MC rappin' mcdude (some dude), Friday, 3 August 2012 15:53 (9 months ago) Permalink

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

― da croupier, Friday, 3 August 2012 15:53 (9 months ago) Permalink

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

― Will Chave (Hurting 2), Friday, 3 August 2012 16:22 (9 months ago) Permalink

well, fuck.

― thomp, Friday, 3 August 2012 16:24 (9 months ago) Permalink

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

― thomp, Friday, 3 August 2012 16:25 (9 months ago) Permalink

QUAKER OATS ARE SHIT!

― Will Chave (Hurting 2), Friday, 3 August 2012 16:29 (9 months ago) Permalink

oatmeal is unfunky white people food

― am0n, Friday, 3 August 2012 16:31 (9 months ago) Permalink

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

― sleeve, Friday, 3 August 2012 16:34 (9 months ago) Permalink

let it simmer for about 15 phone calls

― am0n, Friday, 3 August 2012 16:35 (9 months ago) Permalink

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

― Josh in Chicago, Friday, 3 August 2012 16:54 (9 months ago) Permalink

2 months pass...

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.

― Walter Galt, Friday, 2 November 2012 15:55 (6 months ago) Permalink

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

― Knut Horowitz, Able-Bodied Investment Banker and Ladies Man (Hurting 2), Friday, 2 November 2012 16:05 (6 months ago) Permalink

jcm's pretty musical

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

― set the controls for the heart of the congos (thomp), Friday, 2 November 2012 16:07 (6 months ago) Permalink

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

― comedy is unnatural and abhorrent (Scik Mouthy), Friday, 2 November 2012 16:49 (6 months ago) Permalink

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

― Knut Horowitz, Able-Bodied Investment Banker and Ladies Man (Hurting 2), Friday, 2 November 2012 17:06 (6 months ago) Permalink

btw, what is "the event"?

― Knut Horowitz, Able-Bodied Investment Banker and Ladies Man (Hurting 2), Friday, 2 November 2012 17:06 (6 months ago) Permalink

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.

― She Got the Shakes, Friday, 2 November 2012 18:59 (6 months ago) Permalink

when do we get our cut from the telethon

― j., Friday, 2 November 2012 19:18 (6 months ago) Permalink

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

― Master of Treacle, Friday, 2 November 2012 23:39 (6 months ago) Permalink

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

― She Got the Shakes, Saturday, 3 November 2012 00:12 (6 months ago) Permalink

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

― xanthanguar (cwkiii), Saturday, 3 November 2012 00:14 (6 months ago) Permalink

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

― reggie (qualmsley), Saturday, 10 November 2012 01:26 (6 months ago) Permalink

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/

― some dude, Friday, 16 November 2012 01:08 (6 months ago) Permalink

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

― Yorkshire lass born and bred, that's me, said Katriona's hologram. (thomp), Friday, 16 November 2012 02:02 (6 months ago) Permalink

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"

― this is not a benghazi butthurt (some dude), Friday, 16 November 2012 04:52 (6 months ago) Permalink

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

― congratulations (n/a), Thursday, 29 November 2012 16:46 (5 months ago) Permalink

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B6nqIbnDGmI

― am0n, Monday, 10 December 2012 20:24 (5 months ago) Permalink

― am0n, Monday, 10 December 2012 20:25 (5 months ago) Permalink

featuring ian mackaye clone on 2nd drumkit lol

― am0n, Monday, 10 December 2012 20:26 (5 months ago) Permalink

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