13 Songs (Fugazi album)

June 2025 13 Songs compilation Fugazi Fugazi - 13 Songs cover.PNG Black text on a red background reads "FUGAZI" on top and "13 SONGS" at the bottom. 1989 9 1 June December 1988 Inner Ear Studios (Arlington, Virginia) Southern Studios (London, England) Post-hardcore art punk 40:10 Dischord Ted Niceley, John Loder Margin Walker 1989 3 Songs 1989 13 Songs is a compilation album by the American post-hardcore band Fugazi, released on September 1, 1989, by Dischord Records. The album consists of all the songs from the band's first two EPs, Fugazi and Margin Walker. In regards to worldwide sales, it is the band's most commercially successful album, with a reported figure between 750,000 and 3 million sales. 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 13 Songs is Fugazi's most successful release. While certain sources report the album's total worldwide sales as being over 3 million,Perlah, Jeff. "The Independent". Guitar World. March 2002. 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).O'Connor Alan https://books.google.com/books?id=cf14AAAAQBAJ&dq=fugazi+album+sales+figures&pg=PA68 Punk Record Labels and the Struggle for Autonomy: The Emergence of DIY 2008 Lexington Books Lanham, Maryland 978-1-4616-3408-9 en Reception AllMusic 5 5http://www.allmusic.com/album/13-songs-mw0000206716 13 Songs – Fugazi AllMusic March 17, 2010 Kellman Andy Encyclopedia of Popular Music 4 5The Encyclopedia of Popular Music Encyclopedia of Popular Music Larkin Colin Colin Larkin (writer) Omnibus Press 5th concise 2011 978-0-85712-595-8 The Great Rock Discography 8/10The Great Rock Discography Strong Martin C. Martin C. Strong Canongate Books 7th 2004 1-84195-615-5 MusicHound Rock 4.5 5MusicHound Rock: The Essential Album Guide (1998-99) Robert Christgau cutChristgau Robert Robert Christgau Fugazi https://www.robertchristgau.com/get_artist.php?name=Fugazi April 21, 2020 The Rolling Stone Album Guide 4 5Fugazi Wolk Douglas Douglas Wolk The New Rolling Stone Album Guide The Rolling Stone Album Guide Brackett Nathan Hoard Christian Simon & Schuster 4th 2004 0-7432-0169-8 315–16 Spin Alternative Record Guide 8/10Spin Alternative Record Guide Weisbard Eric Marks Craig Vintage Books 1995 0-679-75574-8 OndaRock 7.5/10https://www.ondarock.it/rockedintorni/fugazi.htm Fugazi Claudio Lancia OndaRock September 9, 2020 Uncut 9/10https://archive.org/details/uncut-april-2021/page/78/mode/2up Uncut - April 2021 The album has gone on to receive critical acclaim, despite being a compilation, with many calling it one of the best albums of the post-hardcore genre. Stereogum called it "as auspicious as punk debuts come", further noting that on the album, "most of the Fugazi elements were in place from the jump, albeit in a somewhat less-developed form. If the concept of a punk band writing a song from the perspective of a woman being hooted at by sexist loudmouths seems revolutionary now, imagine what it sounded like in 1988, when the canon of classic punk still consisted largely of songs dealing with beating on brats, lynching landlords, and the ritual impaling of cats."Toth James Jackson Fugazi Albums From Worst To Best https://www.stereogum.com/1133821/fugazi-albums-from-worst-to-best/franchises/counting-down/attachment/fugazi-13-songs-album-cover/ Stereogum August 23, 2012 April 21, 2020 In a 5-star review for Allmusic, Andy Kellman called the album "timeless" and wrote that "the importance of this record can perhaps be more suitably measured by the number of people who remember the first time they heard it. 13 Songs is usually among the first records that spring to mind when defining alternative rock. Furious, intelligent, artful, and entirely musical, it's a baker's dozen of cannon shots to the gut -- not just a batch of emotionally visceral and defiant songs recorded by angry young men, but something greater." Consequence of Sound called it "a solid classic, instantly grabbing the ear with a timeless quality that you just don’t find every day. [...] I know this music is over 20 years old, but it sounds like it’s pouring out of someone’s garage down the street. You can’t fake this kind of timeless authenticity, though God knows many have tried."https://consequence.net/2011/02/wait-youve-never-heard-fugazi-13-songs/ Wait, You've Never Heard: Fugazi – 13 Songs Megan Ritt Consequence of Sound February 23, 2011 April 18, 2020 According to Popmatters, the album (along with Repeater) "remain the band's most widely successful and consistently praised work. 13 Songs, for instance, has sold over three million copies -- all without radio singles, music videos, or any of the tools of corporate publicity that help musicians reach that stratospheric level of success."Beasley Corey 1, 2, 3, Go: The 10 Best Fugazi Songs https://www.popmatters.com/10-best-fugazi-songs-2495916384.html?rebelltitem=3#rebelltitem3 PopMatters November 23, 2011 April 21, 2020 Accolades In 2005, 13 Songs was ranked 29 in Spin's "100 Greatest Albums, 1985–2005".https://www.spin.com/2005/06/100-greatest-albums-1985-2005/ 100 Greatest Albums, 1985–2005 Spin dead https://web.archive.org/web/20090804123605/https://www.spin.com/2005/06/100-greatest-albums-1985-2005/ 2009-08-04 NME ranked it #284 in their list of "The 500 Greatest Albums of All Time" in 2014.http://www.rocklistmusic.co.uk/nme_500_greatest_albums_2013.htm https://web.archive.org/web/20131112131553/http://www.rocklistmusic.co.uk/nme_500_greatest_albums_2013.htm usurped November 12, 2013 NME: The 500 Greatest Albums Of All Time : October 2013 2016-01-05 rocklistmusic.co.uk Paste ranked it at #57 on their list of "The 80 Best Albums of the 1980s".http://www.pastemagazine.com/blogs/lists/2012/02/the-80-best-albums-of-the-1980s.html Paste pastemagazine.com 2012-02-01 2016-01-05 Josh Jackson The 80 Best Albums of the 1980s In 2016, Rolling Stone ranked it 35th on their list of the "40 Greatest Punk Albums of All Time".40 Greatest Punk Albums of All Time https://www.rollingstone.com/music/music-lists/40-greatest-punk-albums-of-all-time-75659/ Rolling Stone April 6, 2016 April 21, 2020 February 4, 2019 https://web.archive.org/web/20190204174545/https://www.rollingstone.com/music/music-lists/40-greatest-punk-albums-of-all-time-75659/ dead Influence According to Kathleen Hanna of Bikini Kill: "13 Songs is to underground music what Led Zeppelin IV is to suburban potheads."http://archive.org/details/sim_spin_2005-07_21_7 100 Greatest Albums" 1985–2005 Spin July 2005 21 7 80 Internet Archive en According to Conrad Keely of ...And You Will Know Us by the Trail of Dead, the album along with Unwound's Fake Train "epitomized America's disaffected, self-hating white middle-class guilt victims screaming about the fact that they have nothing to do with their time other than be bored, nothing to speak out against other than their own ennui and unwarranted discontent. And although that might sound like a criticism or an indictment, the fact is that this sentiment existed, it was shared by a lot of us, and it found its voice in albums like [13 Songs]."Conrad Keely Conrad Keely: 10 albums that changed my f**king life forever https://www.musicradar.com/news/guitars/conrad-keely-10-albums-that-changed-my-fking-life-forever-633166 2021-06-30 MusicRadar 18 January 2016 en "Looking back upon the arc of alternative rock, punk and indie throughout the decade," writes Treble, "from Nirvana to Jawbox, Shudder to Think, Sunny Day Real Estate, Quicksand and The Afghan Whigs, there’s a line that traces back to the jittery funk and searingly melodic hardcore of Fugazi’s first two EPs, which comprise 13 Songs."Terich Jeff November 13, 2011 Celebrate the Catalog: Fugazi https://www.treblezine.com/celebrate-the-catalog-fugazi-albums-ranked/ April 21, 2020 Treble Both Jack JohnsonJack Johnson lists his 12 must-have CDs https://ew.com/article/2005/04/04/jack-johnson-lists-his-12-must-have-cds/ Entertainment Weekly April 4, 2005 April 21, 2020 and Eddie Vedder have named 13 Songs as one of their favorite albums of all time.My Life in Music: Eddie Vedder https://www.spin.com/2003/07/my-life-music-eddie-vedder/ Spin July 15, 2003 April 21, 2020 Rise Against cited the album as one of their 12 key influences, alongside works by Bad Religion, Dead Kennedys and Jawbreaker.https://www.ign.com/articles/2008/10/07/rise-againsts-the-12-albums-that-changed-the-world https://web.archive.org/web/20220619141408/https://www.ign.com/articles/2008/10/07/rise-againsts-the-12-albums-that-changed-the-world Rise Against's The 12 Albums That Changed The World IGN Rise Against October 7, 2008 June 19, 2022 June 19, 2022 Track listing Lead vocals 40:10 Fugazi Waiting Room 2:53 MacKaye Bulldog Front 2:53 Picciotto Bad Mouth 2:35 MacKaye Burning 2:39 Picciotto Give Me the Cure 2:58 Picciotto Suggestion 4:44 MacKaye Glue Man 4:23 Picciotto Margin Walker 2:30 Picciotto And the Same 3:27 MacKaye Burning Too 2:50 MacKaye Provisional 2:17 Picciotto Lockdown 2:10 Picciotto Promises 4:02 MacKaye Tracks 1–7 taken from Fugazi Tracks 8–13 taken from Margin Walker Personnel Fugazi Ian MacKaye – lead and backing vocals, guitar Guy Picciotto – lead and backing vocals Brendan Canty – drums Joe Lally – bass Additional personnel 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 External links Dischord page Fugazi bandcamp page Category:Fugazi compilation albums Category:Dischord Records compilation albums Category:1989 compilation albums Category:Albums produced by Ted Niceley Category:Albums produced by John Loder (sound engineer)