The 11 Best Songs By Fugazi

$5 concert tickets. $10 CDs. No t-shirts. Fugazi was/is/will be an anti-band.  They sold tickets because they needed to.  They charged for CDs because they needed to.  And since they didn't need t-shirts...they didn't sell them.  They didn't sell hats, keychains, posters or even action figures!  I know, right?  To be honest, I never thought I'd do a Fugazi or a Pink Floyd list because of a new release.  Over the past month, I get to do both.  No, this is not a new album, but a reissue of the band's first demo.  Close enough. Here are the 11 Best Songs By Fugazi:

1. Merchandise (Repeater)
2. Waiting Room (Fugazi)
3. Public Witness Program (In On the Kill Taker)
4. Epic Problem (The Arguement)
5. Repeater (Repeater)
6. Five Corporations (End Hits)
7. Song #1 (3 Songs)
8. KYEO (Steady Diet of Nothing)
9. Bad Mouth (Fugazi)
10. Bed For The Scraping (Red Medicine)
11. Suggestion (Fugazi)

Buy Fugazi's new album, First Demo...now!!

The 11 Best Reunions That Have Never Played Coachella

They crammed all my favorite bands into Saturdays line-up, so I was left with no choice but to watch the Chili Peppers.

One of the best things about Coachella is guessing with iconic band will reunite for that year's show.  This list taps into the wet dreams of all the indie kids heading out to the desert every year.  For a list of the best bands who are still together that have never played together...check yesterday's list.  I excluded a couple of groups (N.W.A., The Replacements) because they were missing dead members.  I only did this to narrow down the list.

Who am I missing?

Here are the 11 Best Bands Who Have Never REUNITED To Play Coachella:

1. The Smiths
2. The Police
3. The Talking Heads
4. R.E.M.
5. Neutral Milk Hotel
6. Outkast
7. Soundgarden
8. lush
9. Oingo Boingo
10. Fugazi
11. A Tribe Called Quest
12. Sneaker Pimps (original line-up)
13. Porno For Pyros

um...yeah...that's 13.  It's a hard list to make!

Watch Coachella now!!

Free Music Friday (Thursday Edition): Wugazi - 13 Chambers

This week while I was at home visiting my parents, they were playing this cutting edge Tango music to try and impress me.  My mom was trying to sell me on the album by explaining that these songs were so good they could be played on the radio.  I'll always give any music an honest listen, but my mom was so enthusiastic about the tango music, I knew something had to be wrong.  I started listening and instantly recognized the song.  I looked at my wife and then to my mom and said..."Mom, this is Depeche Mode." My mom didn't believe me...but one look at the credits and it confirmed that it was a cover.  The next song was a New Order song...and so on...  The music wasn't bad, decent actually.  But it was kind of amusing that I had to inform my mom that ground-breaking song that she was listening to...wasn't an original like she thought.  I guess I know how they felt when I thought Tiffany's "I Think I'm Alone Now" and Bananarama's "Venus" were originals, too.

I really think the future of music may lay in the past.  The most talked about new release this week isn't any of the mainstream dreck on itunes or Amazon's main page.  It's a bootleg album...that's being given away for free.  It's a mash-up of uber-indie punk, Fugazi, and seminal rap entourage, Wu-Tang.  It's all over Twitter, Facebook, and the blogosphere.  Like the tango music, maybe being original today isn't about creating something new out of nothing...maybe it's about taking some great and looking at it with different eyes...or ears in this case.

Download Wugazi - 13 Chambers (free for now)