In honor of the Fugazi Live Archive going online this month, I figured a full Fugazi song list would be a good place to start this. Listening through it, I realized that to fully appreciate it you have to go back a bit farther. So it’s been expanded. Now, in honor of my recent surprise email exchange with Ian MacKaye about a roll of pictures I took at a Fugazi show in 1991, here is every song I was able to locate on which he is a credited performer. I left off several full albums on which he is noted in general as providing background vocals (G.I. and Scream come to mind) as well as his involvement solely as producer.
If you can take the 10 and a half hours to listen to this in one sitting (pretty good length for a good road trip) there’s what feels like a very natural progression to it all. I’ve never particularly liked The Teen Idles material, but then again, I was working backwards. I’d discovered Minor Threat first, and going from Minor Threat to The Teen Idles can be a bit painful, but hearing Minor Threat born out of the Teen Idles is a very different experience. Minor Threat has the distinction of being one of a handful of early '80's hardcore groups that doesn’t sound dated, even today. No diatribes on Reaganomics here. 30 years on the music still holds up, I think, due to the subject matter. They wrote about stuff that affected kids their own age, and not just the kids from their neighborhood or their social circle. There has always been something very universal to me about Minor Threat’s music, and even at 37 it still speaks to me. You don’t have to like it, but you can’t really deny that this is shit we all faced. If you think you can, chances are you've read this far by accident. The Skewbald session fits in nicely. The Embrace album is one that I truly liked from first listen, and still listen to regularly, but am always left wanting more, not more material, more out of the album itself. They just never seemed, to me, to mesh as a group; there was a lot of potential with those guys that I don’t think was ever fully realized. I mean come on, this is essentially Minor Threat's frontman singing for The Faith. Who wouldn't have astronomical expectations for that? It's far from bad, I love the record, I just think it could have been somthing more that it was. That said, we come to the Egg Hunt 7”. It’s by far my favorite release of his career. It’s just damn good music. “We All Fall Down” was a song written for Embrace which they passed on as a band, but hearing it performed by Ian and Jeff Nelson, who, when they're on, mesh inexplicably well, is simply fantastic; it's what I feel like the Embrace album should have been. The Pailhead material I absolutely love, and upon hearing it I immediately wanted more, but looking back I’m glad it was as short lived as it was. Had they gone on and released anything else it would have cheapened the experience. Jorgensen should have followed suit with Ministry and Revco as far as I’m concerned, if he had I may still love them too. As for Fugazi, you either love them or you could do without them. I don’t think I’ve ever come across someone who just “kinda likes” Fugazi. I discovered them in ’89 when the Margin Walker Ep came out. I'd never heard anything like it. I’ve not really heard anything like it since. It was like grown up punk music. Now, grown up is a relative term; I was 16 years old when I took the photo above while they were touring for the Repeater album. I remember listening intently as Ian stopped the show mid-"Suggestion" and had a very polite conversation with a guy in the audience who accused him of having grown up himself, all because Ian didn't want this fella's boot impaled in a teenage girl's face. I was initially a little disappointed in Steady Diet Of Nothing, though in hindsight that’s only because Repeater is just so damn good. Steady Diet is a solid album. Red Medicine is the only one I’m not a huge fan of and have never really been able to pinpoint why, and Instrument is not an easy continuous listen, but it’s really a different animal altogether. I like The Evens records a lot. If you haven’t heard them, they’re quite different from all of his other efforts, but hearing them in context like this you can so see where they've come from. I’m not sold on Amy Farina’s vocals yet, but they’re growing on me and I dug her work with The Warmers. Lally’s discs are good too, but again very different. I look forward to adding to this list in the future. I hope there’s another Fugazi record in there somewhere, but what I really want Ian, if you were wondering, is the other two tracks from the Egg Hunt session to come out.
If I’ve missed something, leave a comment and I’ll add it to the list.
Enjoy.
Enjoy.
- The Pailhead material is available from www.waxtraxchicago.com
- Sonic Youth’s “Youth Against Facism” & The Evens’ “On The Face Of It (Protest Records version)” are available as free downloads from www.protest-records.com
- The Evens' "Vowel Movement" video is readily viewable on YouTube
- Everything else is available directly from www.dischord.com
| ARTIST - SONG - ORIGINAL RELEASE |
| The Teen Idles - Get Up & Go (2nd demo tape version) - 20 Years Of Dischord |
| The Teen Idles - Deadhead (2nd demo tape version) |
| The Teen Idles - Teen Idles - Minor Disturbance EP |
| The Teen Idles - Sneakers |
| The Teen Idles - Get Up And Go |
| The Teen Idles - Deadhead |
| The Teen Idles - Fleething fury |
| The Teen Idles - Fiorucci Nightmare |
| The Teen Idles - Getting In My Way |
| The Teen Idles - Too Young To Rock |
| The Teen Idles - I Drink Milk - Flex Your Head |
| The Teen Idles - Commie Song |
| The Teen Idles - No Fun (Stooges cover) |
| Minor Threat - Minor Threat (demo) - First Demo Tape |
| Minor Threat - Stand Up (demo) |
| Minor Threat - Seeing Red (demo) |
| Minor Threat - Bottled Violence (demo) |
| Minor Threat - Small Man, Big Mouth (demo) |
| Minor Threat - Straight Edge (demo) |
| Minor Threat - Guilty Of Being White (demo) |
| Minor Threat - I Don't Want to Hear It (demo) |
| Minor Threat - Understand (early unfinished track) - 20 Years Of Dischord |
| Minor Threat - Filler - Minor Threat 7" |
| Minor Threat - I Don't Wanna Hear It |
| Minor Threat - Seeing Red |
| Minor Threat - Straight Edge |
| Minor Threat - Small Man, Big Mouth |
| Minor Threat - Screaming At A Wall |
| Minor Threat - Bottled Violence |
| Minor Threat - Minor Threat |
| Dischord Artists - Interview (9:30 Club dressing room, 06/81) - 20 Years Of Dischord |
| Minor Threat - In My Eyes - In My Eyes 7" |
| Minor Threat - Out Of Step (With The World) (In My Eyes 7" version) |
| Minor Threat - Guilty Of Being White |
| Minor Threat - Stepping Stone (Monkees cover) |
| Minor Threat - Stand Up - Flex Your Head |
| Minor Threat - 12XU (Wire cover) |
| Skewbald / Grand Union - Sorry / Change For The Same - Skewbald / Grand Union 7" |
| Skewbald / Grand Union - You're Not Fooling Me |
| Rozzlyn Rangers - Rozzlyn Rangers (from the Skewbald session) - 20 Years Of Dischord |
| Government Issue - Asshole (demo w/ Ian Mackaye vocals) |
| Minor Threat - Asshole Dub (Government Issue cover) |
| Minor Threat - Betray - Out Of Step 12" |
| Minor Threat - It Follows (12" version w/o whistle) |
| Minor Threat - Think Again |
| Minor Threat - Look Back And Laugh |
| Minor Threat - Sob Story |
| Minor Threat - No Reason |
| Minor Threat - Little Friend |
| Minor Threat -Out Of Step (12" version) |
| Minor Threat - Cashing In (unlisted w/ string outro) |
| Minor Threat - It Follows (w/ whistle) - Complete Discography |
| Minor Threat - Out Of Step (w/o intro & guitar in bridge) |
| Minor Threat - Cashing In (w/o string outro) |
| Minor Threat - Salad Days - Salad Days 7" |
| Minor Threat - Stumped |
| Minor Threat - Good Guys (Standells cover) |
| Embrace - Give Me Back - Embrace |
| Embrace - Dance Of Days |
| Embrace - Building |
| Embrace - Past |
| Embrace - Spoke |
| Embrace - Do Not Consider Yourself Free |
| Embrace - No More Pain |
| Embrace - I Wish I |
| Embrace - Said Gun |
| Embrace - Can't Forgive |
| Embrace - Money |
| Embrace - If I Never Thought About It |
| Embrace - End Of A Year |
| Embrace - Last Song |
| Egghunt - Me & You - Egg Hunt 7" |
| Egghunt - We All Fall Down |
| Pailhead - I Will Refuse - I Will Refuse / No Bunny 12" |
| Pailhead - No Bunny |
| Pailhead - Man Should Surrender - Trait Ep |
| Pailhead - Anthem |
| Pailhead - Don't Stand In Line |
| Pailhead - Ballad |
| Fugazi - Waiting Room - Fugazi Ep |
| Fugazi - Bulldog Front |
| Fugazi - Bad Mouth |
| Fugazi - Burning |
| Fugazi - Give Me The Cure |
| Fugazi - Suggestion |
| Fugazi - Glue Man |
| Fugazi - In Defense Of Humans - State Of The Union |
| Fugazi - The Word (Margin Walker EP outtake) - 20 Years Of Dischord |
| Fugazi - Margin Walker - Margin Walker Ep |
| Fugazi - And The Same |
| Fugazi - Burning Too |
| Fugazi - Provisional |
| Fugazi - Lockdown |
| Fugazi - Promises |
| Fugazi - Turnover - Repeater |
| Fugazi - Repeater |
| Fugazi - Brendan #1 |
| Fugazi - Merchandise |
| Fugazi - Blueprint |
| Fugazi - Sieve-Fisted Find |
| Fugazi - Greed |
| Fugazi - Two Beats Off |
| Fugazi - Styrofoam |
| Fugazi - Reprovisional |
| Fugazi - Shut the Door |
| Fugazi - Song #1 - 3 Songs 7" |
| Fugazi - Joe #1 |
| Fugazi - Break-In |
| Fugazi - Exit Only - Steady Diet Of Nothing |
| Fugazi - Reclamation |
| Fugazi - Nice New Outfit |
| Fugazi - Stacks |
| Fugazi - Latin Roots |
| Fugazi - Steady Diet |
| Fugazi - Long Division |
| Fugazi - Runaway Return |
| Fugazi - Polish |
| Fugazi - Dear Justice Letter |
| Fugazi - KYEO |
| Sonic Youth - Youth Against Fascism (Ian MacKaye on extra guitar) - Dirty |
| Fugazi - Facet Squared - In On The Kill Taker |
| Fugazi - Public Witness Program |
| Fugazi - Returning The Screw |
| Fugazi - Smallpox Champion |
| Fugazi - Rend It |
| Fugazi - 23 Beats Off |
| Fugazi - Sweet And Low |
| Fugazi - Cassavetes |
| Fugazi - Great Cop |
| Fugazi - Walken's Syndrome |
| Fugazi - Instrument |
| Fugazi - Last Chance For A Slow Dance |
| Slant 6 - Inzombia (guest monsters Ian & Alec MacKaye) - Inzombia |
| Fugazi - Do You Like Me - Red Medicine |
| Fugazi - Bed For The Scraping |
| Fugazi - Latest Disgrace |
| Fugazi - Birthday Pony |
| Fugazi - Forensic Scene |
| Fugazi - Combination Lock |
| Fugazi - Fell, Destroyed |
| Fugazi - By You |
| Fugazi - Version |
| Fugazi - Target |
| Fugazi - Back To Base |
| Fugazi - Downed City |
| Fugazi - Long Distance Runner |
| Fugazi - Break - End Hits |
| Fugazi - Place Position |
| Fugazi - Recap Modotti |
| Fugazi - No Suprise |
| Fugazi - Five Corporations |
| Fugazi - Caustic Acrostic |
| Fugazi - Closed Captioned |
| Fugazi - Floating Boy |
| Fugazi - Foreman's Dog |
| Fugazi - Arpeggiator |
| Fugazi - Guilford Fall |
| Fugazi - Pink Frosty |
| Fugazi - F/D |
| Fugazi - Pink Frosty (demo) - Instrument Soundtrack |
| Fugazi - Lusty Scripps |
| Fugazi - Arpeggiator (demo) |
| Fugazi - Afterthought |
| Fugazi - Trio's |
| Fugazi - Turkish Disco |
| Fugazi - Me And Thumbelina |
| Fugazi - Floating Boy (demo) |
| Fugazi - Link Track |
| Fugazi - Little Debbie |
| Fugazi - H.B. |
| Fugazi - I'm So Tired |
| Fugazi - Rend It (demo) |
| Fugazi - Closed Captioned (demo) |
| Fugazi - Guilford Fall (demo) |
| Fugazi - Swingset |
| Fugazi - Shaken All Over |
| Fugazi - Slo Crostic |
| Lungfish - God's Will (Ian MacKaye on 2nd guitar) - The Unanimous Hour |
| Fugazi - Untitled - The Argument |
| Fugazi - Cashout |
| Fugazi - Full Discosure |
| Fugazi - Epic Problem |
| Fugazi - Life And Limb |
| Fugazi - The Kill |
| Fugazi - Strangelight |
| Fugazi - Oh |
| Fugazi - Ex-Spectator |
| Fugazi - Nightshop |
| Fugazi - Argument |
| Fugazi - Furniture - Furniture + 2 7" |
| Fugazi - Number 5 |
| Fugazi - Hello Morning |
| The Evens - Vowel Movement - video aired on Pancake Mountain, no audio release |
| The Evens - On The Face Of It (Protest Records version) - Protest Records Vol. 2 |
| The Evens - Shelter Two - The Evens |
| The Evens - Around The Corner |
| The Evens - All These Governors |
| The Evens - Crude Bomb |
| The Evens - Sara Lee |
| The Evens - Mt. Pleasant Isn't |
| The Evens - Blessed Not Lucky |
| The Evens - If It's Water |
| The Evens - Until They're Clear |
| The Evens - On The Face Of It |
| The Evens - Minding Ones Business |
| The Evens - You Won't Feel A Thing |
| Joe Lally - The Resigned (Ian Mackaye on backing vocals) - There To Here |
| Joe Lally - Billiards (Ian Mackaye on backing vocals) |
| Joe Lally - Perforated Line (Ian Mackaye on guitar) |
| The Evens - Cut From The Cloth - Get Evens |
| The Evens - Everybody Knows |
| The Evens - Cache Is Empty |
| The Evens - You Fell Down |
| The Evens - Pushed Against the Wall |
| The Evens - No Money |
| The Evens - All You Find You Keep |
| The Evens - Eventually |
| The Evens - Get Even |
| The Evens - Dinner With the President |
| Joe Lally - Map Of The World (Ian Mackaye on guitar) - Nothing Is Underrated |
| Joe Lally - Door Closing (Ian Mackaye on guitar) |
| Joe Lally - Mistaken Identity (Ian Mackaye on backing vocals) |
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