Skronk wrote: maybe Pissed Jeans

Pissed Jeans live is an experience for the fucking ages.

I couldn't agree more about them being possibly the ONLY band worthy of carrying the keep-me-interested-in-rock torch.

I can honestly say that I haven't listened to Fugazi since I left college.

I still have a few of their records. Maybe guilt has kept them through the purges.

I saw them a number of times, and thought they were an astoundingly powerful live band, but their records always left me kinda cold.

Perhaps I will take some of thier CD's with me to my shoot tomorrow and see if they inspire me.

When I was in high school, I used to go through phases where I would be completely obsessed with a band for a long period of time, meaning I would often listen to nothing but this band for maybe weeks. Fugazi was one of these bands, and they are the only one that kept my interest after the obsession. At any given moment, I could listen to a Fugazi album and totally dig it. It still burns me up inside that I never got to see them live.

Steve V. wrote:Fugazi is one of those truly excellent, top-of-their-game, incredibly concious and often provocative yet subtle bands. Their records are a real trip, In On the Killtaker and the Argument being beautifully shining examples. I can't think of a band with music that could give me more repeated enjoyment.

I personally think their music is aging just fine. The production is right there in that middle zone of not being slick enough to be great while being too slick to be shitty. Kind of adds to the timelessness of it all. A band that sticks to their guns and continues to grow without ever really changing too much. Echoes of everything they did on the Argument could be heard as early as Margin Walker and vice versa.

One of my favorite bands.

Ian McKaye is also a class act, having been not only very charitable and kind (signed records and took a ton of pictures with me and my girlfriend at the time) when I saw the Evens, but he was also willing to actively engage in meaningful conversation with me for a long time before and after a show. Great fellow.

I must vehemently agree with this entire post. While i rarely list Fugazi among my favorite bands, i probably should, because there are few that i respect more for their musicianship, overall quality of work, stage presence, the fact that yes, they are fantastic people to converse with in person, and--here is the most important thing to me--every band could stand to study how Fugazi have managed to evolve their sound over the years without taking any of those radical departures that usually send a band careening into sucksville or, if not that, manage to alienate their original fan base.

El Protoolio wrote:Every album better then the one before it. They never peaked for me, they always got better.

Yes.

kerble wrote:

that djamnesd fly wrote:that's almost 2decades where you just weren't hip.

James, don't be rude.

I'd be pretty excited to just get into a band that has such a large and rewarding discography.

2nd Ed., I recommend Red Medicine. It's really front loaded as far as quality, but holy hell, what an exhilarating run of songs.

i'm only playing mr. faizle.

and second edition, i second kerbibble's recommendation of "Red medicine." it is a lot of the awesome.

SecondEdition wrote:Which would make sense considering I'm 21 and not that cool.

I'm 33 and still have severe gaps in my music knowledge. One of the great things about that, though, is that i'm always discovering new stuff, even if it's, like, the Alice Cooper discography for the first time last year.

Don't let that goofball fly get ya down.

DrAwkward wrote:

SecondEdition wrote:Which would make sense considering I'm 21 and not that cool.

I'm 33 and still have severe gaps in my music knowledge.

What the fuck?

One of the very best things about loving music is that you will never, ever, hear it all. Or know about it all. The joy of loving music is discovery.

DrAwkward wrote:

SecondEdition wrote:Which would make sense considering I'm 21 and not that cool.

I'm 33 and still have severe gaps in my music knowledge. One of the great things about that, though, is that i'm always discovering new stuff, even if it's, like, the Alice Cooper discography for the first time last year.

Don't let that goofball fly get ya down.

i only play, i make no efforts to hurt people.

if you get hurt by some punk on the interweb, you got issues.

DrAwkward wrote:

SecondEdition wrote:Which would make sense considering I'm 21 and not that cool.

I'm 33 and still have severe gaps in my music knowledge. One of the great things about that, though, is that i'm always discovering new stuff, even if it's, like, the Alice Cooper discography for the first time last year.

Don't let that goofball fly get ya down.

I didn't hear Tar or Mule til a long time after they stopped being. There's a fuckload of defunct bands that people talk about on here that are on my list of future revelation-or-disappointment experiences. This is a good thing.

That said - and this is irrelevant to that point actually - but I went out pretty early on the day Killtaker was released, and the happiness that the first listen brought is a strong memory. Much as I'd grown to like Steady Diet Of Nothing, this was a different ball game altogether.

Cool's eternal but it's always dated.

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Mark Lansing wrote:

Miko wrote:I shy away from their politics. Ever see that documentary? They're so caught up in the things they stand for they have forgotten how to laugh and have fun. They seem like a pathetic bunch.

Did we see the same movie? I thought they came off as pretty funny guys in Instrument, especially when Ian rags on the kid for being an "Ice Cream eatin' motherfucker" or sacrifices the cocoanut monkey head. My reaction after seeing it was, "Who knew Fugazi had such a sense of humor?"

Oh, and as musicians they're astounding. Antithesis of crap.

That was Guy. I dunno, I saw them live and they weren't super serious assholes. I dunno how they got the rep for being like that.

I'll tell you one reason- because they stop shows all the time, whenever the crowd starts dancing too wild. And by wild I mean aby crowd-surfing. I've seen it twice and caused it once. Yeah I agree with their standpoint against violent moshing but jeez Ian relax a little. Otherwise they seem chill but still a wee to serious. Plus I think their major fans overreact to their smatterings of humor, like "omigod Ian made a funny wow we're so lucky."

Anyway they still slay and melt face. Go Fugazi!

god you are an idiot.

So ok, look at how the band operated. They did everything themselves, they were responsible for every aspect of the shows.
Say some dickhead gets dropped on their head and paralysed and decides to sue, or someone is injured by some asshole slamming into people and decides to sue...like has happened to bands and venues several times....hmmm....yeah, I can kinda see where they'd wanna minimize the children crowd surfing and jumping off shit since something like that could completely destroy everything they'd been working on for years and years
why the fuck you'd go to a Fugazi show and start crowd surfing and slamming into people is beyond me, they are pretty clear on the fact they don't want that shit going on yet every time you'd see all these people jumping around like idiots....then complain when they stop the show to ask people to calm the fuck down....I get pissed that people are jumping around at this band's show when they know damn well the band does not want people jumping around and they have to stop 5 times to ask people to chill the fuck out