Summary from 23 ratings
On Wavelength, fans have rated Fugazi's catalog across 9 albums from 23 opinions, with an overall average of 8.4/10. The top-rated Fugazi album is The Argument (2001) with a 8.7/10 average from 4 ratings, followed by Repeater & 3 Songs and Fugazi (Live at Wilson Center, Washington DC, USA, 09/03/1987) FLS0001. The discography on Wavelength spans 1987 to 2014. Waiting Room ranks as the highest-rated Fugazi song on Wavelength with a 10.0/10 average.
In On the Kill Taker
“Fugazi’s third album arrived in 1993 when the underground began seeping into the mainstream. The D.C. band stayed raw and visceral, growing their fanbase while keeping their famous DIY ethics intact.”
The Argument
“This past January, I was one of a few hundred lucky individuals jammed into the sweaty confines of the Middle East Downstairs in Cambridge, Massachusetts, checking out a triple bill of excellent bands: local roof-raisers Cracktorch, jazz-rockers Karate, and the indomitable Dismemberment Plan. About halfway through their set, the Plan stopped for a brief break between songs and Travis Morrison, eve”
The Argument
“Those who refuse to learn from rock history are doomed to watch its repetition in kicky fad form, its intentions misunderstood and its inheritors mutated beyond recognition. So little wonder that D.C.’s hardcore muse and former minuteman Ian MacKaye bears the punk-rock torch with sometimes missionary zeal. The Argument, Fugazi’s eighth album, is a bracing […]”
Instrument
“Long the lodestar of credibility in punk, Fugazi has steadily chiseled a dogma and oeuvre over the last 12 years that arguably makes them the most important band of the '90s. But what they really want the public to know more than anything is that they have a sense of humor. In their massive documentary, *Instrument*, Fugazi shows up on an eighth- grade video- project talk show wearing leather jack”
In On the Kill Taker
“In 1979, the Clash advertised themselves as "the only band that matters"; in 1993, that claim belongs to Fugazi. In an age of corporate-sponsored "alternative" music, Fugazi are the real deal. Remaining staunchly independent, Fugazi manage to sell in the hundreds of thousands while maintaining their incendiary politics and a raw, difficult sound born out […]”
First Demo
“On this new reissue of Fugazi's first demo tape, it's apparent that the band’s greatest virtue in their early years was their patience. Though many songs on First Demo would be tightened and re-recorded, the release amplifies a quality often overshadowed by the band’s ideological concerns: Fugazi are fun.”
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