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Repeater is the full-length debut studio album by the American post-hardcore band Fugazi.It was released on April 19, 1990, as Repeater on LP, and in May 1990 on CD bundled with the 3 Songs EP as Repeater + 3 Songs.
Fugazi, also known as the EP 7 Songs, [7] is the debut release by the American post-hardcore band Fugazi. As with subsequent release Margin Walker , Guy Picciotto did not contribute guitar to this record; all guitar was performed by Ian MacKaye .
Fugazi's music was an intentional departure from that of the hardcore punk bands the members had played in previously. Fugazi combined punk with funk and reggae beats, irregular stop-start song structures, and heavy riffs inspired by popular rock bands such as Led Zeppelin and Queen, bands that the punk community of the time largely disdained. [56]
The band began work on The Argument in 1999, after touring in support of End Hits.This process saw the group taking more time than usual to write and demo material. Each member brought their own individual riffs and ideas to the band, jam on them, and then begin piecing the songs together into various configurations before deciding on what became the final versions.
It is a mainly instrumental soundtrack for Instrument, the documentary film about the band produced by the band and filmmaker Jem Cohen.. The soundtrack mostly consists of previously unreleased songs and studio outtakes culled from Fugazi's history to that point, as well as seven demo versions of songs from their proper albums (six from 1998's End Hits and one from 1993's In on the Kill Taker).
13 Songs is Fugazi's most successful release. While certain sources report the album's total worldwide sales as being over 3 million, [1] [2] Alan O'Connor in his 2008 book Punk Record Labels and the Struggle for Autonomy: The Emergence of DIY lists the figure as 750,000 (based on an interview with Dischord Records).
The discography of Fugazi, an American post-hardcore band, consists of six studio albums, four EPs, a compilation album, a soundtrack album, a demo and a series of hundreds of live recordings. All of the band's releases have been published by Dischord Records, the independent record label co-owned and operated by Fugazi singer and guitarist Ian ...
The song was first released as the opening track to their debut EP, and was later compiled on their commercially successful 1989 compilation 13 Songs. Featuring stylistic influences from funk , hip-hop and reggae , the song typifies Fugazi's signature style of post-hardcore and would go on to become one of their most popular and widely covered ...