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First Demo (Fugazi album)

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Released
  
November 18, 2014

Length
  
35:41

Release date
  
18 November 2014

Label
  
Dischord Records

Recorded
  
January 1988

Artist
  
Fugazi

Producer
  
Don Zientara

Genre
  
Post-hardcore

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Studio
  
Inner Ear Studios, Dischord House, Arlington, Virginia

Similar
  
Fugazi albums, Post-hardcore albums

Fugazi first demo 2014 full album


First Demo is a demo album from the post-hardcore band Fugazi released on November 18, 2014 through Dischord Records. It was recorded at Don Zientara's Inner Ear Studios in Arlington, VA and the Dischord House in 1988. It is the band's first studio release in over thirteen years, since the release of The Argument in October 2001. First Demo was released on LP, CD and Digital Download.

Contents

Fugazi the word first demo version


Writing and recording

First Demo was recorded in January 1988 with the band having only performed 10 shows together. The album features the 10 tracks from the original demo tape including "In Defense of Humans", which was released on 1989's State of the Union compilation as well as an additional track from the session, "Turn Off Your Guns", a song previously never released in its studio form and only available through the Fugazi Live Series.

Track listing

All songs written by Fugazi. (Lead vocals in parentheses).

  1. "Waiting Room" – 3:10 (MacKaye)
  2. "Merchandise" – 3:07 (MacKaye)
  3. "Furniture" – 4:07 (MacKaye)
  4. "Song #1" – 3:00 (MacKaye)
  5. "The Word" – 4:38 (MacKaye)
  6. "Bad Mouth" – 2:54 (MacKaye)
  7. "Break-In" – 1:36 (Picciotto)
  8. "Turn Off Your Guns" – 3:43 (MacKaye)
  9. "And the Same" – 5:08 (MacKaye)
  10. "In Defense of Humans" – 2:47 (MacKaye)
  11. "Joe #1" – 1:41 (instrumental)

Personnel

  • Ian MacKaye – vocals, guitar
  • Guy Picciotto –backing vocals, lead vocals (track 7)
  • Joe Lally – bass
  • Brendan Canty – drums
  • Production

  • Fugazi - producer, recording, engineer, mixing
  • Don Zientara - producer, recording, engineer, mixing
  • Songs

    1Waiting Room3:10
    2Merchandise3:07
    3Furniture4:07

    References

    First Demo (Fugazi album) Wikipedia