"What is this burning in my eyes?" between seasons Sean brings in the self-titled EP, aka 7 SONGS (1988) from post-hardcore act FUGAZI! WE'RE FUGAZING OVER HERE!

Fugazi, also known as the EP 7 Songs,[7] is the debut release by the American post-hardcore band Fugazi. As with subsequent release Margin Walker, Guy Picciotto did not contribute guitar to this record; all guitar was performed by Ian MacKaye. It was originally recorded in June 1988 and released in November 1988 on vinyl and again in 1989 on the compilation release 13 Songs along with the following EP Margin Walker. The photo used for the album cover was taken on June 30, 1988 at Maxwell's in Hoboken, New Jersey.

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So, you know how, like, uh When you hear a word for the first time And then all of a sudden you hear it all over the place? Yeah. Yeah. It's kinda I've been That's been happening to me with crap work. Never heard of them before we did that episode. And now that I've heard of them I've been hearing them all over the fucking place. It's un-fucking-real. Oh yeah, it's German, yeah. I did not realize how influential those guys were. Oh yeah, they're incredibly influential. They're probably the most famous band to come out of that whole era of german music and they don't sound much like it well and i guess it's because like modern day like electronic music yeah samples a lot of their shit oh yeah um a lot of early hip-hop loved to sample kraftwerk too so you can hear it in a lot of like early sample heavy more meant to be danced to than wrapped over like hip-hop from like the eighties wow it's just like okay it's i did not realize that okay yeah so it's just it's weird man it is weird i'm a little surprised you hadn't heard of them honestly yeah because usually when um like oftentimes like in the in the gong farmer days uh people would ask us what we're doing and i would just be like i don't know combined craft work and the ramones all right all right let's let's do the shit do do do do do do to Side One, Side B. I'm Dave. I'm Steve. And I'm Sean. I'm Side C. C for cock. Head. Yes. And we're doing an EP episode today and Sean brought it. Sean, what do you got for us? I got Fugazi. Fugazi. Fugazi. Hey, I'm Fugazi here. Hey. Hey. Their name makes me want a big bowl of pasta. Well, okay. I think one of their members was Italian. Not the one who named the band. Probably the second singer. Yeah. Guy. Guy Poop. I don't know what his name is. I'm actually pretty terrible. I can do some of the research type stuff then. Main source for this is Wikipedia. No, I will look it up to make sure I get some details right as I go. But main source for this is my main source for a lot of eighties punk bands, although they are more of a nineties band, but they started in the eighties. Well, yeah, this, this, so this was actually their first release. It came out in the like 88, 89. Yep. 88. It was 7 songs on. It's not called 7 songs. That's what fans call it. Everyone called it 7 songs later on. So what do you know about Fugazi, Steven? I just know that a lot of metal bands like Fugazi. I haven't actually dug into them myself. Okay, so Fugazi was kind of I'm going to say it like that all the time. Fugazi. Fugazi. Fugazi was kind of the after effect of this hardcore punk band called Minor Threat. So minor threat was Ian McKay and he, it was the DC hardcore scene. Yeah. And Ian McKay and like 4 guys were in minor threat. And then actually if you kind of listen to minor threats, like later stuff, it kind of starts to sound kind of like early Fugazi. And then, so then they broke up and Ian McKay and Ian McKay was done with hardcore. Like, Yeah, he was completely done with that scene. He stopped calling himself Straight Edge, even though he never started drinking and smoking. He just didn't like the label anymore. Yeah. So, and he kind of invented the whole Straight Edge scene, which was they didn't drink, smoke, or Fuck. Fuck. But at least they could fucking think. Yeah. Yeah. And Ian McKay got sick of the preachiness of it, even though he contributed to it. Yeah. They were the guys that would have X's on their hands. Yeah. Which did start off as they were a bunch of teenagers playing at bars and they needed to be let in. So Fugazi was the one who told the bouncers, hey, we're playing tonight. Just draw X's on our hands so they know not to serve us at the bar. And that's how that started. My main source for this, I think I trailed off earlier, is a book called Our Band Could Be Your Life, which is about the eighties underground scene. So like it has a nice long chapter on Fugazi, which is good. Yeah, so then after Minor Threat disbanded, he formed Fugazi. And he started playing guitar, too, because he didn't play an instrument. He was just the singer in Minor Threat. Yeah, and I actually In my own, like, little, like, thing, I actually heard Fugazi before I heard Minor Threat. I actually first heard it in Iraq, funny enough. That's funny. Someone sent me 13 Songs, which was this EP and the next EP smashed together and was their quote-unquote first album. Yeah. But yeah, like, Ian recorded recruited a friend of his uh brendan canty to play drums and then they were looking for a bass player and they went to a show and they saw a guy join another band i forget which band but like join another band on stage to cover pay to come by bad brains and this guy wasn't playing bass but he was singing pay to come which is one of the fastest songs ever written and when he like hit all the vocals perfectly. Ian was like, I don't know if you play bass, but if you have that kind of rhythm, you can learn it for Fugazi. And I don't remember if he already played it or not, but yeah, he basically got an audition without knowing it by singing, not playing bass. But then like their third member, Like on this album, he just does, or their 4th member on this album, he just does vocals, but he would also play guitar on like every release after this. Like this other guy's original idea was to have him be kind of like, like a hype man, like kind of like a Flavor Flav type of figure in a punk band. Yeah. And just kind of like, like be there as, you know, kind of like sing back up, hype up the crowd, that type of thing. We should get a hype man for our band. We should. That's a dying act. But his name was Guy Picchiato. Yeah, so he is Italian. And before he was in Fugazi, he was in a band called Rites of Spring, which was a hardcore band that started focusing more on, you know, like emotional breakup songs so he was the one who started emo so the start like the guy who started straight edge and the guy who started emo formed this band and it is neither hardcore punk nor uh like hardcore straight edge punk or emo it's a lot it's a lot like groovier it's kind of it's like a alternative hard rock almost it sounds more nineties like rock this is where like like hardcore punk starts to make that transition to nineties sounding music yeah this is this is generally what people mean when they say post hardcore um yeah But yeah, this is like really what was bringing in to like bridging the gap between hardcore punk and nineties alternative. Yeah. So it's, and it's, it's really interesting that, cause when I first heard it, I didn't know when it came out and I thought it was like a mid nineties album. Yeah. But, oh, yeah, Steve, you know that famous picture I sometimes show you of Fugazi playing live and they're like in a high school gymnasium and there's the guy hanging upside down from the basketball hoop. Yeah, that's guy. OK, yeah. And he's I think he's the guy on the cover that's like doing a backflip. yeah well let's uh let's talk about the ep here we'll start with the cover the cover is like a kind of a almost crimson red and then there's a photo of is that ian mckay no that's that's guy oh that is guy doing a like backflip i don't know if it looks like they're on stage you can see a marshall stack in the background i do like there's a shoe in the front there yeah I do like the interplay between Guy and Ian's guitar. I do feel like their live show missed something when they stopped having a guy doing cartwheels on stage and hanging from basketball hoops. If you turn it over, there's a picture of them sitting at a diner. Yeah. And Ian McKay is the guy that's in the Or is that Guy? I can't see it from here. Oh, that is Guy. Guy is the first guy right there. Guy is the guy. Guy is the guy. Yeah. A lot of Henry Rollins stories about being a teenager working at Haagen-Dazs or at that pet store in D.C. is when he was hanging out with with Ian McKay because they were best friends. I think they're still like really close, but they were best friends. And then Henry moved to L.A. to join Black Flag. I remember him telling the story about working at the pet store, and they'd fling fish between the drywall or whatever. Yeah, the dead fish. Yeah, they came back and asked about it years later, and the owner gave them the stink eye, basically. Well, it had turned into a nice Italian restaurant, and they went there and got some pasta, and they were like, hey, when we were kids, this place was a pet store. Did you Did you find anything in the walls when you were renovating? Yeah. Ian McKay was the one that convinced Rollins to join Black Flag. Henry Rollins was kind of like, I remember him telling a story on some documentary I was watching where he was kind of like, I don't know, man, you know, because it was a big move at the time for him, you know, because he's going he was basically changing coast in there. And Ian McKay is like, you'd be stupid not to do it, dude. yeah so then he did it and it was yeah ian was right yeah and uh they also had a really diy ethos too just to even at the end they never signed to a major label even though they had like tons of offers to sign to a major label yeah they always stayed on their own uh discord label right yeah and they never charged more than 5 dollars for a concert and they i think they like broke up in what like ninety eight two thousand that yeah it was like 2002 1001 or something like that and they released like one more album like that and they never said they broke up they said they've been on hiatus They're still on hiatus. Yeah, for 20some years. I think one thing Ian did during the hiatus was he went over all of the crowd recording of the Kent State shooting and actually was able to isolate some vocals showing that an order was given to fire on the protesters. Too late for anything to have been done about that, but yeah, that's the kind of thing he does. Yeah. Like really like principled activist type. And there is no way you can get like officially licensed Fugazi merch because they never sold it. You can get officially For the longest time, you couldn't get any official minor threat merch, but at 1 point, Ian got sick of being the one who would have to check in on that, so he allowed some company to do it so they would look after the copyright for the merch, and he said, don't buy this. Yeah, because, I mean, there's a lot People bootlegged him all the time, so, yeah. So, yeah, because, like I said, their ethos is very DIY and not trying to get rich off of it. If you wanted to argue one band never sold out, you could say Fugazi. Fugazi and Minor Threat. Yeah. Ian McKay. Yeah. All right. Well, back to the EP. So I'm looking here. It was recorded at Inner Ear Studios in June of 88. Produced by Ted Nicely and Fugazi. Engineered by Don Zientara. Cover photo by Adam Cohen. Inner photo by Glenn Friedman. Graphics by Kurt Sainz. Kurt S. Kurt Satan. first side, we got Waiting Room, Bulldog Front, Bad Mouth, and Burning. And you'll notice as we listen to it, they switch lead vocals every other time. So it's Ian Guy, Ian Guy. okay um the band is uh joe lally and it doesn't say what positions they are so yeah joe is bass yeah and then we've mentioned guy and ian mckay already and then uh brendan canty drums drums and uh yeah so i think that's uh he said this was released on their own label discord records and uh All right. I think that's all the background that we need. So are we ready to put this on? Yeah, let's do it. And we're back. I'm going to open up a beer to Fugazi. I was going to say, pass me a beer, man. Sean and I know this album, or this EP pretty well, but Steve, what did you think? I really enjoyed it. It had a whole bunch of different elements of alternative bands that came after them. So it's kind of like hearing almost a genesis of it, because you know all the grunge guys are listening to this. Oh, yeah. Oh, yeah. And so, yeah, I heard a bit of all the grunge bands that I like. There was a moment that reminded me of Soundgarden, a moment that reminded me of Alice in Chains, and a moment that reminded me of Nirvana and Melvins and all those guys. Yeah. I know we're not listening to them right now, but there's another band that if you really want to hear some grunge Genesis, like really crazy listening to them, check out Fang. Go find Landshark. And it came out in like 19 82. And you're like, I would swear this came out in Seattle in the eighties and early nineties. Yeah, and I think the 2 different vocalists, their voices sound different enough, and they both bring a lot of emotion in. I think bringing the guy who started emo in really helped also then push the other guy into really using his sense of melody and really putting a lot of passion into the vocals. I think Yeah, I think having the guy from Rites of Spring really elevated the vocals as a whole, even though I tend to like the Ian songs more. Yeah, because I like Ian's songs better. Because I was hesitant to buy Minor Threat because I liked Ian's songs better. And I'm like, I don't know if I'd like a whole album of the other guy guys yeah so i did because at the time i didn't have internet really so i'm like i don't know which one's which i knew one of them was a minor threat and i knew one of them was the lead singer minor threat i didn't know which one was which so i was like i wanted to get one of them but Yeah, so you did like it then, Steve? Yeah, and to build on to the vocalist thing, one of the vocalists reminded me of a lot of the later punk bands, like the skate punk bands, I thought. And I'm guessing that was Guy. The first guy or the second guy? Was it the guy who sang lead on the first or the second song, basically? I want to say the second song. Okay, yeah, that would be Guy. The guy that was singing the last song. Yeah. And I think part of the reason why I tend to like the Ian stuff more is I think I liked the hardcore side more than the emotive side when I was first getting into this band. But I think the melding of the 2 is what makes it great. Yeah. Yeah. I noticed that I think it's probably because he's primarily a singer. I've noticed through many listens of both this album and Repeater I also think I have Steady Diet of Nothing as well. Good one too. Which is a really good album. And I find that Guy is more lyric heavy. Yeah. And Ian is more riff heavy. Yeah. And it's his song. Yeah, I think that's right. Yeah. Yeah, even listening to this. Yeah. But yeah, beyond just the vocals, I thought the drumming was really good. It had a good propulsive stomp to it. The bass was nice and agile and had a great groove to it throughout all 4 songs. And the guitar work was It was combining the ideas from hardcore with, I don't know, kind of like psychedelic rock in some places. Yeah, especially Especially burning. Yeah. Do you want to do song by song, Steve? Yeah, so Waiting Room, I thought, reminded me of more of a typical hardcore song, I thought. Yeah, I like it. It was a career-defining song, like like this being the first track of the first EP, really kind of like kicked them off as a group. This one, like I love like the kind of like very agile, you know, kind of like groovy, you can almost dance to it bass, but with kind of like a heavy guitar. I liked the pause at the beginning where it just like pauses for a really long time and then just comes back more intense, like a waiting room. But yeah, like lyrically it is, yeah, it's about It's about waiting for what you're doing to take off, waiting for something to happen, feeling stuck in a sense of stasis. And it does a good job at building the tension of waiting and then a kind of release, too. It's my favorite song on this side, but also my favorite song on the whole EP. And it's my second favorite song from the band. Yeah. It's actually not my favorite song by them. Like the psychedelics, I do like that psychedelic breakdown that it does where it goes That part. Yeah. And then it kicks back into the I noticed that the guitars, I think, were double-tracked in a way to make them sound a little more I want to say, like, discordant a little bit. Yeah, definitely. And he does like a little, he's like palm muting it like heavily to like give it that like tripling. Yeah. So yeah. Grooving. Yeah. A lot of like nineties skate punk nineties and two thousand skate punk guitar drives a lot from this approach to like all the palm muting and the, yeah. So like hardcore, they did do palm muting and stuff, but they take those elements of hardcore and slowed them down like way down. So it's like that defining song or sound from hardcore slowed down way down. So yeah. Yeah. So Bulldog Front. Bulldog Front. I thought this one had more like an alternative type sound, like a little lighter than the previous song. Yeah. Started quiet. Yeah. If I remember right, this is probably my least favorite song on the EP. It's still a great song, but it's probably my least favorite. Yeah. I liked how it, you know, like would start quiet and then like crashed into something louder, but Other songs also did that too. I thought the end of it sounded a lot like Drain You by Nirvana. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. And I think this had some great guitar work from Ian on it too. This was an indication that this just wasn't going to be Minor Threat II.0. Yeah. That it was going to be something different. And I think that is cool and an important way to establish that by doing that with the second song. Yeah. Yeah. Like a thesis statement kind of thing. Yeah. But yeah, you're right, Steve. It does sound very alternative-y and that dynamic of loud, quiet, loud, you know. Yeah. And then Bad Mouth. Bad Mouth. I liked the vocal melody on it a lot. You can't be what you were. This is actually my favorite song on this side and actually probably my favorite song on the EP. The guitar work on this one, it was kind of droney and like a Kind of reminded me of Soundgarden a little bit. Yeah. I like the This one was very much riff forward over lyric forward, so yeah. I think the reason I like this is because of where I heard it first. So it might have something to do with that. So yeah, that might be why I like it so much, but yeah. It was a good building intensity, too. The guitar work was fantastic. And I always liked the, you're always talking, talking, talking, talking shit now. Yeah. Then the next one, Burning, I liked how sludgy this song was. Yeah. And it had a really thick bass, and I think they were using kind of the same double-track technique they were doing with the guitar to make it sound a little thicker and a little Well, I said discordant earlier, so I guess we'll keep with that. I think making the bass thick was a very good choice for this because the guitar is all over the place in a good way, but it's doing a lot of psychedelic type, burning type, the kind of guitar work that you think of when you think of lighting things on fire. And so the bass really needed to pick up pick up that punch there so i think that that was a good good choice i do want to say on this uh on this listen to i actually like this song a little bit more than i normally do yeah i don't know maybe it was just uh listening to it like it starts off a little quieter and just keeps building into intensity and building and building and building and i like that so i don't know i haven't listened to this ep in a long time or uh Actually, this listen to, I enjoyed this song a lot more this time. This was my favorite drum work on this thing. It had a good primal stomp to it. Yeah. I don't know if you guys thought the same thing, but yeah. Yeah, this one stood out to me more than it usually does, yeah. Yeah, it might be my favorite on this side. Either that one or Bad Mouth. I don't know. Maybe it's because I'm listening to it on a different format than I usually listen to it as well. I could be part of it. Yeah. Cause I, I normally listen to it on CD. So, so yeah. All right. Yeah. All right. Next side. Next side. Give me a cure. Suggestion. Oh man. And glue man. And that is guy Ian guy for the bleed vocals. All right, here we And we're back. And we're back. From the second side of 7 Songs, which is not the real name. Fugazi. Fugazi. Self-titled EP. Self-titled debut. Fugazi. Fugazi. It's a spicy Fugazi. So what did you think of Fugazi, Steven? It's interesting how this entire record reminds me of all sorts of different alternative groups that were coming around to the same era like um there's a point where the bass got really funky that i wanted to compare it at first i was like red hot chili peppers like flea and then um then i thought oh i could hear like i don't know rage against the machine covering this song which we'll we'll talk about it more when we get to it yeah This is definitely one of those favorite bands, favorite bands, bands. Well, I looked at the Wikipedia page for them and like they have like this entire like giant paragraph full of people that they influenced. Yeah. It was a bunch of people that you would expect to. Yeah. Was Rage Against the Machine on there? I don't think they were on there, but they were. A lot of noisy or alternative bands from the mid-nineties were on the list. Tool was on there. Yeah, that doesn't surprise me. There's a song on their next album called Repeater. the album and the song, the song Repeater sounds very Rage Against the Machine. That might be, I think that one is my all-time favorite song by the band, too. Yeah, that's actually, I was going to say that is probably my favorite song. 1, 2, 3, Repeater. Do, do, do, do, do. Anyways, sorry. We're not talking about Repeater. We're not talking about Repeater. We're talking about 7 songs. A.K.A. Fugazi. Fugazi. I noticed this side wasn't quite as heavy as the other side. No, yeah, this one was a little more Experimental. Experimental. I was going to say, at 1 point, the noisy guitar work kind of reminded me of that Dinosaur Jr. record that you brought in that one time. Oh, yeah, yeah, I can see that. Oh, yeah. Yeah, they were They were all part of, like, the same scene, too. Yeah. Dinosaur Jr., another band fronted by a straight-edge guy that sounds like he smokes a lot of pot by the music he makes. Yeah. Alright, well the first song Alright, the first track, Give Me a Cure. This one had like a cleaner guitar than any of the songs on the first side. Yeah. Until it didn't. Yeah, until it didn't. Dave and I joked that like The song should be covered in like a cure style with like Robert Smith style vocals. Like it would totally work. Yeah. Yeah. I do think the guitar at the beginning reminded me a lot of a Creedence Clearwater revival. Yeah. Then it kicks off at the end where they're both screaming, give me a shot. Yeah, I really liked the way this one built up. This side might not have been as heavy as the first side, but by the end of the song, it was as heavy as the first side. It does have the cleanest guitar probably on the whole album at the beginning part with Steve. I think this is my favorite Guy song on this record. Yeah, probably. Like I said though, Burning actually hit different this time I listened to it. So I don't know. If you would have asked me yesterday, I would have said, oh yeah, give me giving a cure is probably my favorite guy song on this album but anyways yeah actually my favorite guy song on 13 songs is one that's not even on this it's a provisional Oh, yeah, that's a good one. Anyways. Yeah, anyways. We'll do a repeater at some point. Well, no, Provisional is on the other Oh, yeah. Is on 13 songs. Yeah, on the The full length. On the full length, on the next EP, yeah. But, yeah, this is a great song. The next song is Suggestion, which is arguably the most important song on the record, and I'll get into that some after we talk about it as a song itself. Like, Waiting Room might be the most important one, but there's a case to be made for Suggestion, which I'll get to later. But as the song itself, I think it's a great song. The lyrics are about a woman being catcalled, told from the perspective of the woman until the end, which we'll get into more later when I talk about why this is an important song. Bass had a nice funky groove, kind of like a Faith No More song, I thought. Yeah. This is the one I thought sounded like it could be covered by Rage or Chili Peppers or something. The snare hit sound was huge. The guitar solo gave it, like, a nice spike of energy right when it needed it. Yeah. I said it grooves like a motherfucker. Yeah. I like the part where it kind of quieted down for a little bit and, like, the drums got jazzier. Yeah. It's almost like a Doors-esque type moment, like, because the Doors would do that, like, really, like Bring it down now. Ride the snake. Yeah, like we're going to do a long improvised Jim Morrison on acid moment. Yeah. I do think it's interesting how much a lot of punk bands were influenced in both CCR and The Doors. Those were the dad bands of choice of this generation of Songwriters. Yeah. Not to spoil, but we're going to do a mixture of dad-mans. No, I'm just kidding. Yeah. But yeah, I thought why I say this is can be argued as the most important song on the record, was the reason why Ian got One of the reasons why Ian got disgusted with hardcore and left to do his own thing is he didn't like the whole macho factor of it. He didn't like, you know, like, big, beefy guys groping women who tried to come to shows, and then women stopped coming to shows. He didn't like how, like, the pit would just be, like, large, sweaty dudes slamming against each other and, like, crowding out, like smaller people, especially women and like making like the environment much more hostile and like taking the community out of punk rock and just turned it into like aggro dudes. slamming into each other and like what he was trying to do like with this and like by doing a song about catcalling was to is he was trying to make punk rock like a more like inclusive space for all kinds of people and to change like the like pit culture into being like hey we look out for each other we have fun we dance around we get aggressive and slam into each other but when you see someone fall you pick them up and I think this song was a good one to mark that kind of turning point And it was, like, a thoughtful look at how to make punk rock into more of a space where people Yeah, people swing their fists around, run at each other, bump into each other, but when you see someone fall, you pick them up. If you see someone groping someone, you kick the groper's ass and throw them out of the show. Like, that type of thing. And I think this song And they would, like, stop songs if they saw, like, people groping some Like, they'd stop, like, the whole set and, like, would, like, kick people out of the show when they saw them groping each other. And, like, you can find, like, live recordings of them, you know, like, talking to some of, like, the tougher hardcore guys and kind of, like, dressing them down, making fun of them and, like, saying Hey, I saw you before the show. You were eating an ice cream cone. How tough can you be, just like a normal guy eating an ice cream cone? Don't try to ruin things for everyone. You know, like that type of thing. And so, like, I think this song is what really brings forward that and was, like, what really changed punk rock into what people started to think of it as, like, starting in the nineties as more of a space for everyone. And, yeah, that's My case, why it might be more important than a waiting room. I do want to go through the kind of like the quieter part where he goes back to his own POV at the end, which because I think those lyrics are really good. The she does nothing to deserve it. He only wants to observe it. We sit back like they taught us. We keep quiet like they taught us. He just wants to prove it. She does nothing to remove it. We don't want anyone to mind us, so we play the roles that they assigned us. She does nothing to conceal it. He touches her because he wants to feel it. We blame her for being there, but we are all guilty. That was like a cultural turning point for punk rock as a whole. And yeah, why I love this song and why this song is so important. Probably second favorite on the on the ep yeah that's a good song it really is like uh i remember uh listening to i remember listening to it the uh first time and being like whoa man yeah my mind yeah no yeah but yeah it was a good it's a great song which goes into my least favorite song yeah glue man is there it's fine it's fine yeah it's alright it had interesting guitar work for the intro I thought yeah I it was much more effects driven than all their other songs on here and I feel like they got better at doing that kind of effects and feedback stuff as they kept going I feel like if they had revisited this song a little later maybe there's like some live tracks of them doing it as a two guitar band um It would have been a better song, but I also think maybe they needed to do it like this to figure out how to move in these directions more and do this kind of song better as they kept going. Yeah, I did like the, like Steve was saying, I like the guitar work and the sludgy bass work. It stands out as like my least favorite song on 7 fantastic songs. Yeah. That's the problem. It's like, I think it's a good, it's a great EP. There's a reason I brought this EP because I think they're all fantastic songs. So it stands out as my least favorite song of 7 great songs. So one thing that I think is noteworthy is these last 2 songs were each over 4 minutes. The average minor threat song was about 50 seconds. I know. Yeah, I know. Like, I think what straight edge is like 41 seconds long. Yeah. And so like, this was like him maturing and learning how to write songs much different too. And so like, yeah, this is still, this is like a good song on a great EP basically. Yeah. It was like a really good listen. I can see why a lot of bands that I respect cite them as an influence. yeah yeah any uh any final clothing clothing thoughts closing thoughts i take off my clothing every night yeah i i hate sleeping under these clothes dave i hate sleeping in my jeans so i have to get naked every night yeah me too i watch you get naked too dave every night i thought i unplugged the cat camera Not well enough, Dave. My final thoughts, listen to Morfugazi. I think they have like 9 albums. Yeah, they worked hard. They were uber productive, and I don't think I've really heard a bad album before. buy them i know i haven't heard all their albums but i every album i've listened to has been a fucking killer album so yeah oh one more ian mckay straight edge story apparently uh they're like long after he stopped identifying as straight edge people would see him like drinking a coffee or a coke and tell and would tell him that caffeine isn't straight edge and he would tell them to fuck off That's such a dick move. It really is. Just let him enjoy his fucking coke and shut the fuck up. Yeah. Alright, well that was Fugazi's self-titled EP. A.K.A. 7 Songs. Hey, hey. Hey, hey. We'll catch you on the flip side. Peace out, motherfuckers. Side One, Side B is a Floof Goof Studios production. Please check out the description for more information about the guests and the album reviewed. You can find us on Blue Sky under the names Kill Rock Music, that's K-I-L-R-A-V-O-C-K, and Dave under Beastmaster General. You can find us on Instagram under Kill Rock Music S-W-S and Dave underscore Diction. And you can also find our regular contributor, Sean, under the name Boozer Slug. You can find Steve and Sean on threads with the same usernames as Instagram. Check out our post-punk band, The Illiterates, our experimental group, Lucid Fugue, and Steve's solo project, Kill Rock, on most major streaming platforms. You can visit Steve's website, killrockmusic.com, for easy access. That's K-I-L-R-A-V-O-C-K music.com. And if you want to check out Dave's past band, Gong Farmer, and their album, Pop Dada, you can do so on Bandcamp. Thanks. Ejaculate and leave. Fugazi! Fugazi! Fugazi! Hey, I'm Fugazi-ing here. Hey!