 | | |
| | 13 Songs | | | Music Artist : | | Fugazi | | Music Style : | | General | | Record Label : | | Dischord | | Release Date : | | 1990-04-11 | | Store Price : | | $13.98 | | Artistopia's Price: $13.98 | | Usually ships in 24 hours | | |
|
|
|
|
|
CD Tracks/Songs
Disc 11. Waiting Room
2. Bulldog Front
3. Bad Mouth
4. Burning
5. Give Me the Cure
6. Suggestion
7. Glue Man
8. Margin Walker
9. And the Same
10. Burning Too
11. Provisional
12. Lockdown
13. Promises
| |
Other Artist Albums
|
|
|
|
Customer Reviews of This Album/CD |
|
 excellent
Submitted on: 2009-11-19 |
|
Even at its most stripped, Fuguzi's music offers far more layers and dynamics than most rock bands, never mind hardcore bands.
This group are masters at craft, and have the rare ability to work the most amazing hooks into what APPEARS, to the uninitiated, to be basic music. There is always a small percussive noise, a hand scraping over guitar strings, a bullit of well planned feedback that addse mountians of texture to what is labeled, unrevealingly, punk or hardcore.
Fuguzi are, if nothing else, masters of the studio and master presenters of their music. Listen to the bent guitar on "Suggestion," the little wood tapping on the first track, or the clarity of the cymbals, bass, or any other divice this amazing group throws into their music.
And it is the RECORDING. Most hardcore music is upfront and flat. Fugazi place the mics back, and sound as if they are recoding in a huge room. They must spend hours getting everything in the right place to get the depth that pays off so well. There is a lot, always, going on in this music, and you hear everything, bell clear.
This would be a classic album were it not for Kill Taker and End Hits and their subsaquent work, which brilliantly exploits the sonic bluebrints the band lays out on 13 Songs. |
|
|
|
 Fugazi: 13 Songs
Submitted on: 2009-10-17 |
|
| This is one of the most well-worn CD's in my collection. Have listened to it quite frequently while on the road, and actually have it playing on iTunes at the moment. Waiting Room, Promises, and Suggestion are my favorite tracks on the CD, although, all of them are good... CD deserves to be played LOUD. |
|
|
|
Great. Powerful. Immersive.
Submitted on: 2009-08-26 |
|
| When I first got this CD it was my first exposure to Fugazi. After a play or two I was hooked. I think I listened to this all the way through every day for at least a year. I kid you not. If I had had iTunes at the time logging my playlist this would have been at the top of the list by far. Each song expressed its own message of frustration at some aspect of modern culture: mysgony, addiction, inaction, obsession, etc. It was unlike anything I had heard before. I was a latecomer to the hardcore scene, so it really struck me how angry yet passionate these "kids" were at the time. I was lucky enough to catch Fugazi on their last national tour, which was quite good. |
|
|
|
 Fu-Get-Over-Yourselfs
Submitted on: 2008-04-03 |
|
| Lemme tell you something about the Fugazi's. This is supposed to be their best record, so back in about 1991 I went to see 'em at my local college music venue which shall remain nameless, and has since been turned into an Arby's. Why do these guys have to be so serious? I know, I know you're from washington d.c, where Bill Clinton was born, but that don't mean you's so much smarter than the audience in said club/Arby's. On stage they was prattling on about how they didn't like how the crowd was so unruly. We's unruly because we don't have good jobs or much money from touring the country like you Fugazi's do. So as punishment to their fans, they stopped playin' after about 4 songs. It really didn't improve my attitude about their band or their music or washington dc. |
|
|
|
13 Songs
Submitted on: 2008-01-09 |
|
Fugazi-13 Songs *****
When thinking of Fugazi a couple of things come to mind usually. If they are new to you, "Fu-WHAT?" But for those of know, Ian MacKaye of Minor Threat! But even more so people who know Fugazi usually think of one universal thing, this album. 13 Songs is phenomenal beyond words! A pile-driver of an album from one of the most honest groups of musicians ever assembled.
After MacKaye left Minor Threat and the hardcore genre behind for that matter due to the increasing violent stigma that had become attached with it, he formed Fugazi a hard rocking punk/post-hardcore/screamo (or whatever other genre you want to attach) band and began making what many consider to be the best music of his career. 13 Songs still remains the pinnacle of the bands cannon.
The songs are socially charged, and more importantly true! The feeling and emotion is pure. The musicianship is accomplished, and straight forward with no frills. Songs like the opener `Waiting Room' `Give Me The Cure' and `Bulldog Front' a reminiscent of early hardcore angst. Another former hardcore afficionado Henry Rollins was making music with Rollins Band at this time that sounded a lot like these tracks. Rollins has always been an idolizer of MacKaye and 13 Songs more then any other album show why....it is genius. Other songs like `Suggestions' so a new path and direction for the band musically.
The rest of the boys Brendan Canty, Guy Picciotto, and Joe Lally provide one of the strongest outfits in all of rock history. Fugazi is a band that believes in the fans, it is their policy that all their shows be at an admittance of seven dollars or less, and all their albums be sold at a price of $12.99. They are really a band for the people, and 13 Songs is a testament to that. This has easily been the hardest and more then likely the worst review I have ever written that is because you can't say anything about this album or the band for that matter because it sells itself and speaks for itself as well. Essential. |
|
|
|
