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
Source	Rating
AllMusic	[1]
Rolling Stone	[2]
Robert Christgau	[3]

13 Songs is Fugazi's most successful release, with total worldwide sales over 3 million.^[4]

In 2005, 13 Songs was ranked 29 in Spin's "100 Greatest Albums, 1985-2005".^[5]

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'.^[6] Both MC Lars and Girl Talk have sampled the song on their tracks "No Logo" and "Let It Out" respectively. Lyrics from the song are used in Soul Coughing's "Casiotone Nation". 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)

8. "Margin Walker" – 2:30 (Picciotto)
9. "And the Same" – 3:27 (MacKaye)
10. "Burning Too" – 2:50 (MacKaye)
11. "Provisional" – 2:17 (Picciotto)
12. "Lockdown" – 2:10 (Picciotto)
13. "Promises" – 4:02 (MacKaye)

Personnel

• Guy Picciotto – guitar, Vocals
• Ian MacKaye – guitar, vocals
• Brendan Canty – drums
• Joe Lally – bass
• Edward Janney – Popsloppy guitar on "Provisional"
• Ted Niceley – producer on tracks 1-7
• Fugazi – producer on tracks 1-7
• Don Zientara – engineer on tracks 1-7
• John Loder – producer, engineer on tracks 8-13
• Paul Gadd – engineer on tracks 8-13
• Glen E. Friedman – Inner front cover photo
• Adam Cohen – Traycard photo
• Bert Queiroz – Back photo
• Kurt Sayenga – graphics

References