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End Hits

 
Album Review: End Hits

  • Artist: Fugazi
  • Rating: StarStarStar
  • Release Date: April 28, 1998
  • Type: Lyrics are included with the album
  • Genre: Rock

Review

End Hits is a minor blebby for Fugazi -- there are some great moments, however, so it's nothing to disown the band for. The epileptic "Lust for Life"-style "Five Corporations" has the riffs and rage, with Ian MacKaye taking the music industry to task for being the slow, incestuously festering beast that it is. Though the band seems to lack the stamina for instrumental wowing it once had, the songwriting is still there. On point as always, MacKaye remains lyrically immolated: "Check the math here/Check in ten years/Clusterf*ck theory/Buy them up and shut them down/Then repeat in every town/Every town will be the same." Nigh on two decades of punk army service, MacKaye is still far away from running out of relevant things to say. Other highlights include "Break" and "Place Position." MacKaye and Picciotto's mantra-like barking of "yawn yawn yawn" during the latter could stop you to think, "Wait, that was kind of funny," amidst all the fist-pumping. ~ Andy Kellman, All Music Guide

Tracks

Track TitleComposersPerformersTime
Break Fugazi Fugazi (2:12)
Place Position Fugazi Fugazi (2:45)
Recap Modotti Fugazi Fugazi (3:50)
No Surprise Fugazi Fugazi (4:12)
Five Corporations Fugazi Fugazi (2:28)
Caustic Acrostic Fugazi Fugazi (2:01)
Closed Captioned Fugazi Fugazi (4:52)
Floating Boy Fugazi Fugazi (5:45)
Foreman's Dog Fugazi Fugazi (4:21)
Arpeggiator Fugazi Fugazi (4:28)
Guilford Fall Fugazi Fugazi (2:57)
Pink Frosty Fugazi Fugazi (4:09)
F/D Fugazi Fugazi (3:42)

Credits

Guy Picciotto (Guitar), Leanne Shapton (Cover Design), Ian MacKaye (Vocals), Ian MacKaye (Guitar), Jerry Busher (Photography), Jason Farrell (Cover Art), Don Zientara (Engineer), Jem Cohen (Cover Design), Joe Lally (Bass), Joe Lally (Vocals), Fugazi (Mixing), Jason Farrell (?), Fugazi (Cover Design), Glen E. Friedman (Photography), Guy Picciotto (Vocals), Brendan Canty (Drums)
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End Hits
Studio album by Fugazi
Released April 1998
Recorded March and September 1997
Genre Post-hardcore, punk
Length 47:48
Label Dischord Records
Producer Fugazi
Professional reviews
Fugazi chronology
Red Medicine
(1995)
End Hits
(1998)
Instrument Soundtrack
(1999)

End Hits is an album by the American punk band Fugazi. It was released on April 28, 1998. It is the band's fifth studio album excluding 1989's 13 Songs, which is a compilation of the band's first two EPs. The song title Recap Modotti refers to Tina Modotti, an Italian photographer and actress. The picture on the album cover is of Hong Kong with Hopewell Centre prominent in the foreground.[original research?]

Track listing

  1. "Break" – 2:12
  2. "Place Position" – 2:45
  3. "Recap Modotti" – 3:50
  4. "No Surprise" – 4:12
  5. "Five Corporations" – 2:29
  6. "Caustic Acrostic" – 2:01
  7. "Closed Captioned" – 4:52
  8. "Floating Boy" – 5:45
  9. "Foreman's Dog" – 4:21
  10. "Arpeggiator" – 4:28
  11. "Guilford Fall" – 2:57
  12. "Pink Frosty" – 4:09
  13. "F/D" – 3:42

Chart positions

Album

Billboard (North America)

Year Chart Position
1998 The Billboard 200 138

 
 

 

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