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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

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First Demo (from 1988) coming out this winter

i h8 end hits, def their worst

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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