Album Rating: 5.0

cos ithe last in their discog



johnny is being very funny

The Argument >
Repeater >
End Hits >
Fake Train >
13 Songs >
Leaves Turn Inside You >
Red Medicine >
Repetition >
In on the Kill Taker >
New Plastic Ideas >
Challenge for a Civilized Society >
Future of What >
Steady Diet of Nothing >
Unwound (1995)

Consensus: Fugazi > Unwound

lol no
fugazi can generally sneak a head to head by virtue of consistency, but unwound are one of the few acts where that doesn't hold water. much higher highs, much stronger noisy shit, ultimately more adventurous at the expense of being quite as iconic

Album Rating: 5.0

fully agree with johnny

>much higher highs
Debatable. For example: Fugazi has three highs higher than the highest Unwound high.
>much stronger noisy shit
This assumes 'stronger' is an inherently complimentary descriptor. Some might consider it pejorative in which case your argument implodes.
>ultimately more adventurous
This again assumes the merely being adventurous somehow precludes the need to also actually be good.

For what it is worth, maybe nothing, I love both of these bands. No Unwound album below a 6/10 (and only one at that, the previously recorded '95 self-titled release). I just happen to love Fugazi a little more.

Album Rating: 5.0



'This assumes 'stronger' is an inherently complimentary descriptor. Some might consider it pejorative in which case your argument implodes'





i really hope youre joking because if not this is the dumbest fucking thing ive read in a while

Every Fugazi song sounds like some manner of righteous snark stretched over a wire, which is often an excellent thing but also means that then they go ham (am esp thinking By You for some reason, good tune but) they don't come anywhere close to the level of pure seethe Unwound let loose on shit like Friction Fiction and Swan
...is one area where I feel they're particularly outgunned. Otherwise two great bands yada yada
Cutely, the above is why I feel that the still very fucking great but also most Fugazi-esque Repetition is the closest Unwound have to an overrated album

Album Rating: 4.5

I love this band so much

Let me be clear, I am assuming he meant "stronger" in the sense of 'louder/heavier' and not in the sense of 'better'. Perhaps that's my mistake. If he meant it in the latter sense, then yes it would obviously be complimentary. But the first definition, not so.
In any case, no need for the hostility, my man. We're just having a conversation here.

Album Rating: 5.0

it just seemed very obvious to me that he meant stronger as in better, and so your comment struck of every pretentious philosophy 101 cretin i had to endure who thought they were smart because they could talk like a robot who doesnt understand language



but no worries my apologies

Album Rating: 5.0

also ive been meaning to watch porco rosso for years, thanks for reminding me it exists

I think a lot of it can also come down to whom you discovered first. At least in my case it did. Loved Fugazi long before I ventured through Unwound's catalog. THE ARGUMENT was one of the releases that sort of guided me through high school, was certainly among my most listened to albums along with KID A, AMERICAN FOOTBALL, THE LONESOME CROWDED WEST and, strangely enough, THROUGH BEING COOL. Would I feel differently now had I clung to LEAVES TURN INSIDE YOU instead of THE ARGUMENT? Maybe. I dunno. It's honestly difficult to come up with any two other bands with such parity in sound / consistency / quality, though, so that alone says something.

'also ive been meaning to watch porco rosso for years, thanks for reminding me it exists'
Please peep immediately. It is unequivocally my favorite Miyazaki (by quite some distance).

Tbqh I meant every nuance of that word stated thus far, but 'better' was defs high in the pile
and I wish I'd done Fugazi in high school (gave a few tracks a pass, but it bounced right off me). Got into the Argument a yr into uni and let it warm up on me over a long while, then jumped Unwound a year or so latter at absolutely the perfect phase to click with them. Had a long distance relationship that gradually deteriorated while I was living in another country, and the amount of chronic insecurity that I vented into NPI/Fake Train/Future makes me skin crawl (irony within this convo being that my then-to-be ex thought Fugazi were the coolest of the cool). blessed duo of bands if ever there was one, throw For Your Special Sweetheart and a few Drive Like Jehu songs into the mix and you have the perfect 90s meltbox readymade

Album Rating: 5.0

cant believe i only heard that jawbox album last year, very good stuff

those last four tracks are probably the best streak any artist itt has pulled off, i cannae lie
shame Jawbox as a whole don't match up to that

Album Rating: 4.5

unwound > fugazi for sure

Album Rating: 5.0

Unwound have like 3 albums that are better than the best Fugazi

Album Rating: 4.5

can't decide between this or NPI as my fav, but Kantina is my fav Unwound song these days

safe but uncharacteristically good take