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Originally Posted by knox
why do you think fugazi is that bad?
well i guess i am bias, because i sort of teenaged around that and skateboards.
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I don't really have a problem with their music,
per se. I just think it's shit. Really shit. Like, tuneless, lumpen bullshit shit.
The main problem I have though is with this ideology - I know they work hard at various things, keeping control over the dissemination of their music, encouraging straight edge and all that, and it just strikes me as massively sexless, sanctimonious and patronising. I don't really see what it achieves. I realise that most 'political' music is like that, but I think something like Nation of Ulysses, for all their sarcasm, were much more
damning in their critique of America. NOU were never 'we are opposed to x', they were always 'we're all in the shit, but we look cool as fuck'.
The other thing is, I've never known anyone that wasn't white and a bit middle class who was into Fugazi. Shouting about social injustices to the most priveleged teenagers in existence, in one of the richest countries in the world strikes me as whole heap of pointless.
One last point is that Fugazi also seem to get into the heads of a lot of British people; obviously, this isn't really Fugazi's fault (in fact, very little of my criticism is), but it
really pisses me off that so many Brits look to America for their anger and just do a facsimile version thereof. I've seen punk bands singing in fake American accents (Fugazi covers quite often) who don't understand why I call them poseurs or shills.