It's pronounced Foo-Gah-Zee. Say it Real Slow. You'll sound Retarded.
So mission accomplished (for today at least.) I listened to Kyuss' (Welcome to) Sky Valley (which is an amazing record; not as good as Blues for the Red Sun but not many are) and Fugazi's 13 Songs (their first two vinyl EPs on one plastic cd.) And man oh man is Fugazi one red hot band. Makes me want to shave my head, wear cut-off Dickies as shorts, go all SXE, and listen to NPR.
But on a serious note Fugazi's music always takes a backseat to it political views, which is really stupid. Any one can not give interviews to Rolling Stone and oppose Bush (in fact I'm doing it right now. Ta-da!) but not everyone can write a song like "Waiting Room" (which is about going to the doctor I'm pretty sure.) The vocals are passionate and heartfelt, the lyrics are slightly vague but meaningful all the same, Joe Lally and Brendan's rhythmic work is inspiring and should be ripped off ad nauseam, and Ian's guitar work (Guy didn't start on guitar until after this stuff) is so dynamic and moving. But it seems like people on want to talk about the $5 shows and the anti-moshing policies.
Basically if you can't get off on songs like "Give Me the Cure" or "Suggestion" (which is about women's mistreatment) or "Glue Man" (which is about homeless people) or "Bad Mouth," then you have no soul and should be forced to listen to a mix tape with My Chemical Romance, Panic! at# the $ Disco@, Secret Lives of the VFW, and whatever that kid in the really tight shirt that shows off his man tits has in his walkman until your ears bleed.
But on a serious note Fugazi's music always takes a backseat to it political views, which is really stupid. Any one can not give interviews to Rolling Stone and oppose Bush (in fact I'm doing it right now. Ta-da!) but not everyone can write a song like "Waiting Room" (which is about going to the doctor I'm pretty sure.) The vocals are passionate and heartfelt, the lyrics are slightly vague but meaningful all the same, Joe Lally and Brendan's rhythmic work is inspiring and should be ripped off ad nauseam, and Ian's guitar work (Guy didn't start on guitar until after this stuff) is so dynamic and moving. But it seems like people on want to talk about the $5 shows and the anti-moshing policies.
Basically if you can't get off on songs like "Give Me the Cure" or "Suggestion" (which is about women's mistreatment) or "Glue Man" (which is about homeless people) or "Bad Mouth," then you have no soul and should be forced to listen to a mix tape with My Chemical Romance, Panic! at# the $ Disco@, Secret Lives of the VFW, and whatever that kid in the really tight shirt that shows off his man tits has in his walkman until your ears bleed.
posted by Daniel Moore at 4:50 PM
9 Comments:
Why the hell would you go straightedge only to listen to NPR--the liberal flagpost for radio broadcasting? That makes less sense than my last blog (rant).
Because FUGAZI is all SXE, vegan, ect ect and they're liberal and NPR loves their asses. So yeah. Made sense to me.
Their straightedge AND liberal? Crazy . . .
I like the whole vegan thing, though. And NPR is great, too.
Yeah dude. I don't see how drugs are necessarily for the leftist out there. I bet ever Frat house you go to there are more Republicans than Dems. and they smoke tons of pot and drink loads of beer. So I think SXE was a reaction against that among other things.
Those Republicans are hypocrites anyway. They could be liberal except only they would be allowed to do that shit without getting mobbed.
And I need to get some Sky Valley. Kyuss is pretty fucking great, from what I remember.
I'm not sure I want frat boys being liberal it gives us good ones a bad name... I'll type up a rant on it later.
If you're gonna get into Kyuss get Blues for the Red Sun, it's 14 tracks and about 9 of them are stoner rock classics.
Sky Valley is three tracks with like 3 songs in each track. It kinda kills the mood for me sometimes. But it does have the best "hidden track" of all time in "Lick Doo"
Yeah . . . everyone wants to be a liberal, but nobody wants to be a liberal . . .
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