Fugazi - Margin Walker EP: Classic Or Dud?

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So I was looking through my tapes this one day and I notice this one. I'm all "Hmmm, I haven't listened to this in a while. I wonder what it's like." And it's playing and my head spins right around 'cause it's like a good Fugazi release. Like, as good as nu-metal good. And I'm all "Whoah, there was a reason why I followed them all these years and bought all those other records and really tried to like the sub-Sugar-Ray reggae quote on Red Medicine and nodded when people said Steady Diet was a masterpiece and tried to think the arpeggiation crap and the trumpet playing were good and sat through that 'drum solo' on End Hits and went to see them twice." Anyway, yeah, every song is just so perfect and vital like you wouldn't believe.

― sundar subramanian, Saturday, 29 June 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

I haven't heard this in ages either so I felt compelled to check it out again. It's classic Fugazi. It was the first release of theirs I heard and it's still sounds brilliant esp. the guitar sound on the opening track. I like the lyrics on it too...they got a bit more cryptic after this ..."Thats the price you pay for hoping every slips not a slide".

― Michael Bourke, Saturday, 29 June 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

This is really the only Fugazi I like, "Margin Walker" the song especially.

― Kris, Saturday, 29 June 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

Totally great stuff, but I like "Red Medicine" pretty well too, so there you are. I think that Fugazi, for whatever reason, are attacked whenever their work falls short of an impossibly high standard: either it's as good as the song "Margin Walker," or people slag it. "Bed for the Scraping" off "Red Medicine" is completely classic! So sez I, anyhow.

― John Darnielle, Saturday, 29 June 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

"YOU MAKE YOURSELF OH SO BEAUTIFUL!"

Classic, no doubt.

― OCP, Sunday, 30 June 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

Fugaziu are a band that i appreciate, respect and admire but can't manage to actually like no matter how much I try. However, Margin Walker nearly gets there. my favourite moment, though, is the silence in the intro to waiting room.

― Andrew, Monday, 1 July 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

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― uih, Wednesday, 3 July 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

No mention of the cover photo yet? Amazing! (Of course, a great release, oh yes.)

― Ned Raggett, Wednesday, 3 July 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

i liked the first record, but margin walker almost turned me right off on them (no, that came later) - SHITE production which shows their over earnest songsmithery in a poor light. sounds like bleedin gil norton did it - yuk! why fugazi felt they couldn't cut loose & boogie to some lyrics about getting off on videos of watching girls pissing in buckets i don't know (that's a joke (i think?)). stand-up guys though.

― bob snoom, Friday, 5 July 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

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