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#722 Fugazi's Repeater, Opinions on Psychedelic Country Artist Sturgill Simpson

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Sound Opinions

Music, Society & Culture, Arts

4.32K Ratings

🗓️ 27 September 2019

⏱️ 58 minutes

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Summary

Washington D.C. post-punk band Fugazi reshaped the definition of punk in America. Their 1990 debut album, Repeater, connected with a generation and eventually sold more than a million copies. Hosts Jim DeRogatis and Greg Kot talk with founding member Ian MacKaye about the writing and recording of the album and its impact. Plus we review Sturgill Simpson's new album, Sound and Fury, and learn what song got a member of the band Dehd "Hooked on Sonics."

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0:00.0

One, three, three, four. From W.BeeZ Chicago and PRX. This is sound opinions. I'm Jim De Regattis.

0:26.0

And I'm Greg Kach. After becoming a punk rock icon for fronting minor threat,

0:30.4

Ian Mackay took a left turn with Fugazi.

0:33.0

The original idea of Fugazi, I was just trying to make something that was going to be

0:36.0

peculiar.

0:37.2

This week, we dissect Fugazi's 1990 album, Repeter, a peculiar debut that sold more than a million copies.

0:45.0

And we'll review Sturgle Simpson's new album, Sound and Fury.

0:49.0

Plus, we'll hear what song got Emily Kemp of the band Dead, hooked on Sonics.

0:54.6

That's all coming up on Sound Opinions.

0:57.5

You're listening to Sound Opinions,

1:02.4

and later in the show we will review the fourth album from Sturgle Simpson, Sound and Fury.

1:09.0

It's an album that he collaborated with a Japanese anime director to put out a movie at the same time as this record.

1:16.0

But first, a classic album dissection of Fugazi's 1990 album, Repeter. One, two, three, Rapita.

1:24.0

Rapita.

1:26.0

One, two, three.

1:30.0

Now some people may be saying,

1:31.0

Classic album, Fugazi, who?

1:34.4

But for a generation or more of punk and post-punk

1:38.8

and young independent musicians,

1:40.9

this album is a Holy Grail.

1:45.0

You take Guy Pishoto and Brendan Canty, guitarist and drummer of the Proto-EMO band Rights of Spring, a Motown super fan

1:55.9

and bassist Joe Lally and Discord Records founder and minor threat leader Ian Mackay, put them together

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