Album Rating: 4.4

"The comparison was that Fugazi and Unwound are both bands that started and ended their musical careers with their two best albums."



See but Fake Train isn't one of Unwound's two best albums, ergo they aren't comparable

Album Rating: 4.0

Also, Repeater and The Argument aren’t the best Fugazi albums 😳

Album Rating: 4.0

Well that is your opinion. Your opinion just happens to be wrong.

Fake Train & Repeater supremacy.

Album Rating: 4.0

I’ll give Repeater the number 4 spot on a good day.

Album Rating: 4.0

Same for Fake Train actually. Damn. RIP.

Album Rating: 3.5

Hello? 2.6M monthly listeners on spotify? Are they THAT big and I just never noticed?

Album Rating: 4.5

it’s all just bots, real fans don’t stream

Repetition > Repeater

Album Rating: 4.2

Neither Fake Train nor Repeater was the album that started the career of either band, in case this bit needed another reason to be silly



And yes lol Repetition is much better

Album Rating: 4.5

^This opinion went to art school and buys thrift store sweaters with dad's trust fund money

Album Rating: 4.0

'Started their careers' was unnecessarily hyperbolic and nondescript, I should have (factually) said 'chronologically first full-length release' but that didn't sound nearly as sexy and I didn't think this off-the-cuff comment would be tossed under a microscope and challenged for validity so I SUPPOSE that's my fault for overlooking Sput's penchant for pedantry. 😉



In any case Repeater is still the best thing Fugazi has ever done. And they've done A LOT OF GOOD THINGS. Great things, even.

Album Rating: 4.0

'full length' + 'release' sounds pretty sexy to me

Album Rating: 4.0

🥵🥵

Album Rating: 4.5

that’s s horny take tec, ‘toss’ and ‘microscope’ can get me going

Album Rating: 4.2

every sweater i currently own (and cards on the table, this is a collection to envy) was siphoned off-shelf by someone i either dated or share the same blood as

absolutely no reason nepotism shouldn't be DIY or econ-savvy, and the widespread failure of millennials to adjust to this is almost certainly the reason they can't make punk for shit and fugazi were the last band of their kind

"chronologically first full-length release"

the tec-c-chnical truth of this still erases the significance of 13 Songs in their discog and is foolish and does little but foster an opinion haver-centric sense of personal canon that any of the rest of us would be silly to buy into and it is a bigger pedantic cope than any of the backlash lfg

Album Rating: 4.5

Peak way to collect sweaters ngl but there's posturing, empty posturing, and then there's nepo-thrifting DIY and thank god punk is dead if that's the best we could hope for from it

Album Rating: 4.0

"Two EPs does not a full-length make."

—Robert Christgau

Album Rating: 4.2

as far as last lines of defence go, i expected better than christgau

also

5.0 classic

David Bowie Low

"thank god punk is dead if that's the best we could hope for from it"

hey at least one of the three has a palpable economic imprint

Album Rating: 4.0

Don't act like you didn't see Station to Station just beneath it. I do know it pains you to have a 5.0 classic crossover, even just one album*, with the latest inductee to Sput's Resident Boomer club but fear not, Johnny, your time will come.



*excepting Spiderland, of course, because this is an implied 5.0 for everyone.

Album Rating: 4.2

i'm really gonna have to spell out the irony of pulling that specific xgau take as someone more than happy to double-thumbs-up one of the most obvious records to treats its A and B sides as mutually independent units?

not blaming bowie for making low - this is your skill issue for not parroting a better champion than xgau. heads will roll

Album Rating: 4.0

Only if I also have to spell out the misdirected aggression of dunking on someone for posting a completely fabricated quote that (nevertheless) maintains factual correctness. (This is a reminder to always check your source(s) (!!!).)



Bifurcated as LOW may sound to the untrained ear, it was (1) recorded over the course of what would constitute one elongated "session" and (2) never released as two separate entities nor made available as such.



It might shock you to know that record labels often crammed all the songs they thought to be commercially unfavorable and/or unsuccessful on the B side of an album, which explains exactly why all the bleepy-bloopy Enoisms were separated from the songs with choruses and words and what.



Check FUGAZI (November 1988) and MARGIN WALKER (June 1989).