Can we maybe discuss Fugazi fans for a sec? See, between my high school and the three different colleges I attended, I noticed an acroos-the-board high percentage of Fugazi fans who definitely thought they were "so fucking real" so to speak, often simply for the fact that they liked Fugazi, and these people would spend a great deal of time attempting to project this, often acting out with annoying declarations like how they picked up their new jacket at a thrift store or a Sears (Sears = Fuagzi? WTF), as if this was something particularly admirable, and it's kind of actually soured me on the band altogether, to the point where now I even see Ian as being a major wanker (US Trans. = jerkoff), which, given recent interviews, doesn't seem so far off the mark....
Not necessarily trying to slam the band here, just wondering if anyone else out there has experienced similar feelings w/r/t Fugazi...
― jsoulja (jsoulja), Monday, 7 June 2004 17:42 (nineteen years ago) link
Also, are you a time traveler form 1994?
Also, pictures of Fugazi fans from Fugazi movie to thread!
― HAMBURGER NEURON GROUP (ex machina), Monday, 7 June 2004 17:46 (nineteen years ago) link
― mike a, Monday, 7 June 2004 17:46 (nineteen years ago) link
― Broheems (diamond), Monday, 7 June 2004 17:47 (nineteen years ago) link
― noodle vague (noodle vague), Monday, 7 June 2004 17:47 (nineteen years ago) link
Just tell them YOU ARE NOT WHAT YOU OWN.
Or something similar.
― mike a, Monday, 7 June 2004 17:50 (nineteen years ago) link
― zappi (joni), Monday, 7 June 2004 17:51 (nineteen years ago) link
Pavement fans, on the other hand...
― Johnny Fever (johnny fever), Monday, 7 June 2004 17:51 (nineteen years ago) link
― Nick Mirov (nick), Monday, 7 June 2004 17:58 (nineteen years ago) link
― sexyDancer, Monday, 7 June 2004 17:59 (nineteen years ago) link
"Us Trans." offered not because I think nobody knows what "wanker" means, but because while recent interviews with Ian suggest to me he is a bit of a jerk-off, I think the word "wanker" fits him better, so it's just there for contrast....
And I do agree, the fans are of course diverse, and I am dropping obvious stereotypes, but lordy there were a slew of 'em....
― jsoulja (jsoulja), Monday, 7 June 2004 18:01 (nineteen years ago) link
― Sick Mouthy (Nick Southall), Monday, 7 June 2004 18:08 (nineteen years ago) link
oh, I see, so we're all just "selectively" judgmental on this site
― jsoulja (jsoulja), Monday, 7 June 2004 18:19 (nineteen years ago) link
― nothingleft (nothingleft), Monday, 7 June 2004 18:20 (nineteen years ago) link
― Anthony Miccio (Anthony Miccio), Monday, 7 June 2004 20:11 (nineteen years ago) link
― robin (robin), Monday, 7 June 2004 20:17 (nineteen years ago) link
― sexyDancer, Monday, 7 June 2004 20:19 (nineteen years ago) link
And I saw them do it, outside, before the show!
― mei (mei), Monday, 7 June 2004 20:52 (nineteen years ago) link
Fugazi fans, on the other hand...
this has been my experience, at least.
― Serya (Z_Ayres), Monday, 7 June 2004 23:08 (nineteen years ago) link
People who own at least one gaming system (but usually more than one), always have a stack of rented games eight titles deep, and only leave the house on weekends to buy beer and cheese puffs (and/or a dimebag).
― Johnny Fever (johnny fever), Monday, 7 June 2004 23:13 (nineteen years ago) link
Your Pavement loving friends and my Fugazi loving friends should meet!
― Johnny Fever (johnny fever), Monday, 7 June 2004 23:14 (nineteen years ago) link
― Morley Timmons (Donna Brown), Tuesday, 8 June 2004 03:05 (nineteen years ago) link
Hello.
― David R. (popshots75`), Tuesday, 8 June 2004 03:22 (nineteen years ago) link
― Morley Timmons (Donna Brown), Tuesday, 8 June 2004 03:24 (nineteen years ago) link
― Johnny Fever (johnny fever), Tuesday, 8 June 2004 03:25 (nineteen years ago) link
― Morley Timmons (Donna Brown), Tuesday, 8 June 2004 03:27 (nineteen years ago) link
― Johnny Fever (johnny fever), Tuesday, 8 June 2004 03:32 (nineteen years ago) link
Date #2 = Salvation Army shopping trip, followed by ska matinee. Oi.
― David R. (popshots75`), Tuesday, 8 June 2004 03:48 (nineteen years ago) link
― Morley Timmons (Donna Brown), Tuesday, 8 June 2004 04:00 (nineteen years ago) link
― Johnny Fever (johnny fever), Tuesday, 8 June 2004 04:00 (nineteen years ago) link
― Morley Timmons (Donna Brown), Tuesday, 8 June 2004 04:02 (nineteen years ago) link
Wait - I have to SHAVE MY HEAD?
― David R. (popshots75`), Tuesday, 8 June 2004 12:52 (nineteen years ago) link
― Johnny Fever (johnny fever), Tuesday, 8 June 2004 12:53 (nineteen years ago) link
― HAMBURGER NEURON GROUP (ex machina), Tuesday, 8 June 2004 14:31 (nineteen years ago) link
― Whiskeytown Littlecock (ex machina), Monday, 26 July 2004 17:30 (nineteen years ago) link
― Ned Raggett (Ned), Monday, 26 July 2004 17:32 (nineteen years ago) link
― latebloomer (latebloomer), Monday, 26 July 2004 18:39 (nineteen years ago) link
― latebloomer (latebloomer), Monday, 26 July 2004 18:40 (nineteen years ago) link
― Whiskeytown Littlecock (ex machina), Monday, 26 July 2004 18:42 (nineteen years ago) link
― msp, Monday, 26 July 2004 19:02 (nineteen years ago) link
― Pete Scholtes, Monday, 26 July 2004 20:46 (nineteen years ago) link
― CeCe Peniston (Anthony Miccio), Monday, 26 July 2004 20:49 (nineteen years ago) link
― latebloomer (latebloomer), Monday, 26 July 2004 20:52 (nineteen years ago) link
i think coming from the first wave of hardcore where beating people up at shows was totally part of the scene and realizing that it drove away many of the really interesting people, fugazi is trying to say that they don't want to be part of that and have that as an element in what they do.
it may seem like the move of a control freak, but i appreciate it. (speaking as someone who's bored of fighting at shows and yet still enjoys their music... )
m.
― msp, Monday, 26 July 2004 21:48 (nineteen years ago) link
― Whiskeytown Littlecock (ex machina), Monday, 26 July 2004 22:21 (nineteen years ago) link
― Pete Scholtes, Tuesday, 27 July 2004 14:09 (nineteen years ago) link
― Marco Damiani (Marco D.), Tuesday, 27 July 2004 14:23 (nineteen years ago) link
I was there. You are wrong.
― Colin Meeder (Mert), Tuesday, 27 July 2004 17:33 (nineteen years ago) link
― Whiskeytown Littlecock (ex machina), Tuesday, 27 July 2004 17:36 (nineteen years ago) link
― Colin Meeder (Mert), Tuesday, 27 July 2004 18:01 (nineteen years ago) link
― Whiskeytown Littlecock (ex machina), Tuesday, 27 July 2004 18:02 (nineteen years ago) link
?m.
― msp, Tuesday, 27 July 2004 22:31 (nineteen years ago) link
― Colin Meeder (Mert), Wednesday, 28 July 2004 08:44 (nineteen years ago) link
― Pete Scholtes, Wednesday, 28 July 2004 22:13 (nineteen years ago) link
I know a guy who considered naming his band Fugazi Osborne Against Me First and the Gimmie Gimmies.
― iiiijjjj, Tuesday, 22 September 2009 22:02 (fourteen years ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8M1A43lP9Vw
Why u don't respond 2 your fans?Memphis7414 5 days ago
― nulty dread (nakhchivan), Thursday, 17 February 2011 18:58 (thirteen years ago) link
Jaysus
― Elmer Fuiud (Noodle Vague), Thursday, 17 February 2011 19:00 (thirteen years ago) link
thank u to this thread for reminding me to listen to fugazi
I DON'T WANNA BE DEFEATED I DON'T WANNA BE DEFEATED I DON'T WANNA BE DEFEATED I DON'T WANNA BE DEFEATED
― on some outer space shit (bernard snowy), Thursday, 17 February 2011 19:05 (thirteen years ago) link
Fugazi sucks. It is for middle class kids with no real upbringing in rock and roll, a product of a tuneless middle class white culture.
They have no resonance with the real originators of rock and soul music. Too bad they're too arrogant to admit it.
― โตเกียวเหมียวเหมียว aka Truck Bombing Begins at Home (Mount Cleaners), Thursday, 26 July 2012 16:49 (eleven years ago) link
interesting
as a counterpoint can I suggest the video three posts above
― price lo matalan (DJ Mencap), Thursday, 26 July 2012 16:57 (eleven years ago) link
Mount Cleaners never fugazi
― Will Chave (Hurting 2), Thursday, 26 July 2012 17:01 (eleven years ago) link
'i had a traditional rock and roll upbringing, you know, my parents taught me that that kind of tunelessness was just wrong.'
― j., Thursday, 26 July 2012 17:09 (eleven years ago) link
um, hi (runs)― Morley Timmons (Donna Brown), Monday, June 7, 2004 11:24 PM
― am0n, Thursday, 26 July 2012 17:18 (eleven years ago) link
ask Mount Cleaners
They have no resonance with the real originators of rock and soul music.
Well, of course not, they are long dead.
But you're right, I am middle class and had no real upbringing in real rock 'n' roll. Instead I listened to Northern Soul. Ah well.
― Nathalie (stevienixed), Thursday, 26 July 2012 18:50 (eleven years ago) link
I can't wait for the Animal Collective vs Animal Collective fans thread in a few years time.
― Oblique Strategies, Friday, 27 July 2012 19:08 (eleven years ago) link
mount cleaners do you still have a talking horse and will you sell him
― thomp, Friday, 27 July 2012 20:48 (eleven years ago) link
i heard a ska cover of waiting room the other day. it was ok but if the record store had it on sale, i wouldn't pick it up pick it up pick it up.
― Philip Nunez, Friday, 27 July 2012 20:54 (eleven years ago) link
mount cleaners why do u hate fugazi
― am0n, Friday, 27 July 2012 22:12 (eleven years ago) link
They have no resonance with the real originators of rock and soul music, originators like Mount Cleaners.
― da croupier, Friday, 27 July 2012 22:15 (eleven years ago) link
i wonder what a real upbringing in rock and roll looks like
― da croupier, Friday, 27 July 2012 22:16 (eleven years ago) link
http://freespace.virgin.net/hotrockin.fuller/images/band4.jpg
― am0n, Friday, 27 July 2012 22:19 (eleven years ago) link
that is the ugliest picture of Jawbox I've ever seen
― da croupier, Friday, 27 July 2012 22:20 (eleven years ago) link
lol
― mythical mickey rourke jacket (latebloomer), Sunday, 29 July 2012 04:31 (eleven years ago) link
god so red medicine is such a fantastic record
― thomp, Sunday, 29 July 2012 20:09 (eleven years ago) link
http://www.washingtoncitypaper.com/blogs/artsdesk/film/2013/04/26/director-jeff-nichols-on-fugazi-southern-literature-and-mud/
new Matthew M. movie
― curmudgeon, Friday, 26 April 2013 16:29 (ten years ago) link
WCP: There’s a question I’ve been dying to ask you: As a huge Fugazi fan, I couldn’t help but notice the Fugazi T-shirt that Neckbone wears in the beginning. What’s the story behind that?
JN: [laughs] That was actually written in the script! I was a huge fan of Fugazi growing up and I was thinking a lot about certain things in my life from the time period that I was Ellis’ age. My brother was in a punk rock band in Little Rock, and there was a pretty good punk rock scene in Little Rock, so I was listening to a lot of Jawbreaker and Fugazi and everything else. Working on this script reminded me of that time and when I was building my characters, the character of Galen, Neck’s uncle (Michael Shannon) was written as this sort of washed-up punk rocker. If you look through his house, you’ll see a bunch of flyers and things from Little Rock punk shows.
There's more in the link re the filmmakers getting in touch with Dischord and how they never made or authorized Fugazi t-shirts, etc
― curmudgeon, Friday, 26 April 2013 16:40 (ten years ago) link
Heh. I made my own Fugazi t-shirt when I was in high school. Just sharpie on a while t, reading "this is not a fugazi t-shirt". Some jocks made fun of me for it and I was kinda just like "yeah, you guys are probably right."
― how's life, Friday, 26 April 2013 17:07 (ten years ago) link
They sold the "This is Not a Fugazi T-Shirt" t-shirts at Smash Records on M Street in Georgetown. I wouldn't have thought the Dischord people were that happy about it, but who knows. Smash was way more, like, Oi-focused and Crass patches and stuff, which was pretty far removed from the world I was into then. They always seemed like they might mock, like, Positive Force and stuff.
― Walter Galt, Saturday, 27 April 2013 00:57 (ten years ago) link
LOL Smash. I never went there, but my best friend from 9th grade algebra had a Smash shopping list written on his binder. The list was like: bomber jacket, exploited patch, anarchy earring, 20-hole doc martens. So yeah, it was probably pretty oi.
― how's life, Saturday, 27 April 2013 01:02 (ten years ago) link
literally the first i ever heard of fugazi in the early 90s was when i started buying rock mags and there'd be those big 2-page ads for some company that sells band shirts with dozens of little rectangular pictures of shirts for different popular/semi-popular bands and "this is not a fugazi t-shirt" always stuck out because i was like huh what's with the cryptic t-shirt for a band i've never heard of.
― some dude, Saturday, 27 April 2013 01:36 (ten years ago) link
iirc this would even be in bullshit like Hit Parader and Circus when i briefly bought those for a while in addition to more respectable rags
― some dude, Saturday, 27 April 2013 01:37 (ten years ago) link
Rockabilia!
― how's life, Saturday, 27 April 2013 01:41 (ten years ago) link
fuckin' "in addition to". as if that wasn't before you were buying "more respectable rgs"
― how's life, Saturday, 27 April 2013 01:44 (ten years ago) link
smash carried a wide range of weird goth shit and re/search books in addition to the manic panic.
that this is not a fugazi shirt was the ugliest fucking thing. white shirt with like, oceany blue lettering?
― adam, Saturday, 27 April 2013 01:53 (ten years ago) link
lol jeez how's life sorry if that seemed like conspicuous fronting. i just mean i'm pretty sure i started picking up rolling stone etc. around the same time or before that.
― some dude, Saturday, 27 April 2013 01:55 (ten years ago) link
i understand why some people don't like Fugazi, i assume they understand why i think they suck
― we're up all night to get picky (Noodle Vague), Saturday, 27 April 2013 01:56 (ten years ago) link
Hit Parader type mags had a really entertaining identify crisis in that era, where they'd be keeping up with Pearl Jam and Green Day while continuing to regularly interview Enuff Z'nuff.
― some dude, Saturday, 27 April 2013 01:56 (ten years ago) link
i remember Commander Salamander being the more goth-friendly spot, but Smash definitely had, like, leather bustiers for a minute.
I think the oceany blue lettering was an attempt to approximate the Repeater cover art. I had that shirt, but I don't know what happened to it! I stopped wearing it after a cooler punk than I was like "Ian thinks that shirt is dumb. I know a guy who knows him."
― Walter Galt, Saturday, 27 April 2013 08:21 (ten years ago) link
lol jeez how's life sorry if that seemed like conspicuous fronting. i just mean i'm pretty sure i started picking up rolling stone etc. around the same time or before that.― some dude, Friday, April 26, 2013 9:55 PM (Yesterday) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
― some dude, Friday, April 26, 2013 9:55 PM (Yesterday) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
sorry, i was drunk last night and basically being a jerk all over town. however, when you said "more respectable rags", i had this image of little some dude stepping out of Wawa with a Hit Parader in one hand and Art Forum in the other or something.
― how's life, Saturday, 27 April 2013 10:38 (ten years ago) link
I stopped wearing it after a cooler punk than I was like "Ian thinks that shirt is dumb. I know a guy who knows him."
In their 1993(?) Spin interview, Guy says something like, "I thought it was cool that someone just went and made that shirt."
― Pope Frank is the messenger of your doom (Tarfumes The Escape Goat), Saturday, 27 April 2013 12:23 (ten years ago) link
1991
http://books.google.com/books?id=b4qmcLhXEsYC&lpg=PA48&dq=guy%20picciotto&pg=PA48#v=onepage&q=guy%20picciotto&f=false
― how's life, Saturday, 27 April 2013 12:28 (ten years ago) link
I wonder how many scenes in the movie Mud you see the kid wearing the shirt?
― curmudgeon, Saturday, 27 April 2013 14:42 (ten years ago) link
was gonna post a picture of the not-fugazi shirt but found this instead:
http://d3na4zxidw1hr4.cloudfront.net/site_media/uploads/images/post/f/fugazi/this-is-not-a-wugazi-tshirt_design_png_250x280_q85.jpg
― adam, Saturday, 27 April 2013 14:52 (ten years ago) link
http://ben-costello.com/images/tinafts.jpg
seriously tho whoever did the graphic design for this shirt should go to jail
― adam, Saturday, 27 April 2013 14:53 (ten years ago) link
i remember Commander Salamander being the more goth-friendly spot, but Smash definitely had, like, leather bustiers for a minute.― Walter Galt, Saturday, April 27, 2013 4:21 AM
http://www.wtop.com/emedia/wtop/24/2435/243553.jpg
― Loud guitars shit all over "Bette Davis Eyes" (NYCNative), Saturday, 27 April 2013 16:41 (ten years ago) link
fugazi sucks
― guwop (crüt), Thursday, 17 July 2014 19:39 (nine years ago) link
Do I have to come over there?
― Johnny Fever, Thursday, 17 July 2014 19:46 (nine years ago) link
I was just listening to them! They do not suck.
― chr1sb3singer, Thursday, 17 July 2014 20:03 (nine years ago) link
if every Fugazi song was an instrumental and there was no political baggage at all they would still be awesome.
― sleeve, Thursday, 17 July 2014 20:37 (nine years ago) link