In on the kill taker

by Gross, Joe

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Title Statements

Full title :In on the kill taker / Joe Gross.

Summary

"By June 1993, when Washington, D.C.'s Fugazi released their third full-length album In on the Kill Taker, the quartet was reaching a thunderous peak in popularity and influence. With two EPs (combined into the classic CD 13 songs) and two albums (1990's genre-defining Repeater and 1991's impressionistic follow-up Steady Diet of Nothing) inside of five years, Fugazi was on creative roll, astounding increasingly large audiences as they toured, blasting fist-pumping anthems and jammy noise-workouts that roared into every open underground heart. The album debuted on the now-SoundScan-driven charts; Fugazi had never been more in the public eye. Few knew how difficult it had been to make this popular breakthrough. Disappointed with the sound of the self-produced Steady Diet, the band recorded with legendary engineer Steve Albini, only to scrap the sessions and record at home in D.C. with Ted Niceley, their brilliant, under-known producer. Inadvertently, Fugazi chose an unsure moment to make In on the Kill Taker: as Nirvana and Sonic Youth were yanking the American rock underground into the media glare, and "breaking" punk in every possible meaning of the word. Despite all of this, Kill Taker is an alt-rock classic in spite of itself, even as its defiant, muscular sound stood in stark contrast to everything represented by the mainstreaming of a culture and worldview they held dear."--Bloomsbury Publishing

Edition Statements

Publication Date:2018.

Publication Statements

Publisher(s):Bloomsbury Academic
Place of Publication:New York
Language:eng
Publication Date:2018.

The Physical Object

Description:1 online resource

Edition Identifiers

ISBN:9781501321405, 1501321404, 9781501321412, 1501321412, 9781501321429, 1501321420, 1501321390, 9781501321399
oclc:on1005776289
LC Classification:ML421.F82
Dewey Decimal:782.42166092/2

Introduction -- Chapter 1. A Brief History of Four Musicians : A Fugazi Primer, 1986-90 -- Chapter 2. Interlude : A comment on ritual, or how Fugazi wrote songs -- Chapter 3. "Steady Diet of No Reverb" -- Chapter 4. The Albini demo -- Chapter 5. "Facet Squared" : 2:42 -- Chapter 6. "Public Witness Program" : 2:04 -- Chapter 7. "Returning the Screw" : 3:13 -- Chapter 8. Interlude : The Sleeve -- Chapter 9. "Smallpox Champion" : 4:01 -- Chapter 10. "Rend It" : 3:48 -- Chapter 11. "23 Beats Off" : 6:41 -- Chapter 12. "Sweet and Low" : 3:36 -- Chapter 13. "Cassavetes" : 2:30 -- Chapter 14. Interlude : Punk versus the Pop Charts -- Chapter 15. "Great Cop" : 1:52 -- Chapter 16. "Walken's Syndrome" : 3:18 -- Chapter 17. Two Finales -- Chapter 18. Interlude : Live -- Back matter -- Afterword -- Acknowledgements -- Bibliography -- Also available in the series.

Subjects

Criticism, interpretation, etc Fugazi (Musical group) Individual composers & musicians, speci… MUSIC -- Instruction & Study MUSIC -- Lyrics MUSIC -- Printed Music Music reviews & criticism Music: Styles & Genres Post-punk (Musique) -- Histoire et crit… Post-punk music Post-punk music -- History and criticis… Rock (Musique) -- Histoire et critique.… Rock music Rock music -- History and criticism. --… United States