13 Songs (Fugazi album)

13 Songs
Compilation album by Fugazi
Released September, 1989
Recorded Inner Ear Studios and Southern Studios, June and December, 1988
Genre Post-hardcore, art punk
Length 40:10
Label Dischord
Producer Ted Niceley, John Loder
Fugazi chronology
Margin Walker
(1989)		 13 Songs
(1989)		 Repeater
(1990)

13 Songs is a compilation of all the songs from the American post-hardcore band Fugazi's first two EPs. It was released in September 1989.

Background

The EPs compiled were Fugazi (1988), which was recorded at Inner Ear Studios in June 1988 with Ted Niceley & Don Zientara, and Margin Walker (1989), which was recorded in December 1988 at Southern Studios in London with John Loder handling production duties.

The EPs had been on Ian MacKaye's Dischord Records as numbers 30 and 35, respectively. 13 Songs was number 36. A remastered version was released in February 2003.

Release and reception

Professional ratings
Review scores
SourceRating
AllMusic[1]
Encyclopedia of Popular Music[2]
The Rolling Stone Album Guide[3]
The Village Voice[4]
MusicHound[5]
Martin C. Strong(8/10)[6]
Spin[7]

13 Songs is Fugazi's most successful release, with total worldwide sales over 3 million.[8]

In 2005, 13 Songs was ranked 29 in Spin's "100 Greatest Albums, 1985-2005".[9] NME ranked it #284 in their list of "The 500 Greatest Albums of All Time" in 2014.[10] Paste ranked it at #57 on their list of "The 80 Best Albums of the 1980s".[11]

Influence on Pop Culture

"Waiting Room" was featured on The Wildhearts covers album Stop Us If You've Heard This One Before Vol 1. Atom & His Package has recorded a cover of the song. It has also been played live by the Red Hot Chili Peppers during the mid-1990s, Billy Talent, and TV on the Radio. Chimera used "Waiting Room" in their composition 'My Guitar Hangs Itself'.[12] Both MC Lars and Girl Talk have sampled the song on their tracks "No Logo" and "Let It Out" respectively. The song is also frequently played at Washington Redskins football games at FedEx Field.

Pearl Jam covered "Suggestion" in various concerts in the early 1990s, usually as a tag to another song or an improvised jam, most notably on the song "Saying No".

Track listing

(Lead vocals in parentheses)

Tracks from Fugazi (1988)

  1. "Waiting Room" – 2:53 (MacKaye)
  2. "Bulldog Front" – 2:53 (Picciotto)
  3. "Bad Mouth" – 2:35 (MacKaye)
  4. "Burning" – 2:39 (Picciotto)
  5. "Give Me the Cure" – 2:58 (Picciotto)
  6. "Suggestion" – 4:44 (MacKaye)
  7. "Glue Man" – 4:23 (Picciotto)

Tracks from Margin Walker (1989)

  1. "Margin Walker" – 2:30 (Picciotto)
  2. "And the Same" – 3:27 (MacKaye)
  3. "Burning Too" – 2:50 (MacKaye)
  4. "Provisional" – 2:17 (Picciotto)
  5. "Lockdown" – 2:10 (Picciotto)
  6. "Promises" – 4:02 (MacKaye)

Personnel

References

  1. ↑ Kellman, Andy. "13 Songs – Fugazi". AllMusic. Retrieved March 17, 2010.
  2. ↑ Larkin, Colin (2007). The Encyclopedia of Popular Music (5th ed.). Omnibus Press. ISBN 978-1-84609-856-7.
  3. ↑ Brackett, Nathan; Hoard, Christian, eds. (2004). The New Rolling Stone Album Guide. Simon & Schuster. p. 315. ISBN 0-743-20169-8.
  4. ↑ Christgau, Robert (May 7, 1991). "Consumer Guide". The Village Voice. Retrieved November 14, 2015.
  5. ↑ "Acclaimed Music".
  6. ↑ The Great Rock Discography (7th Edition). 2004. ISBN 978-1841956152.
  7. ↑ "Acclaimed Music".
  8. ↑ Perlah, Jeff. "The Independent". Guitar World. March 2002.
  9. ↑ "100 Greatest Albums, 1985-2005". Spin.
  10. ↑ "NME: The 500 Greatest Albums Of All Time : October 2013". rocklistmusic.co.uk. Retrieved 2016-01-05.
  11. ↑ Jackson, Josh (2012-02-01). "The 80 Best Albums of the 1980s". pastemagazine.com. Paste. Retrieved 2016-01-05.
  12. ↑ Gennady Bachinsky's author's program, 1997
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