Fugazi - Long Distance Runner

[postpunk27]

The OP is a trollin mofo

[Jakey1312]

Fugazi wrote this song about my english teacher :D

[maccusportugal]

op is a fag

[FlatLand43]

I LOVE FUGAZI!!!!!!!!!

[beatles61]

great band, even above the smiths, and that says a lot in my world.

[Peitzsucks]

i love this lp

[musikinLA]

out of the Fugazi songs this was the one to pull me in. AWESOME...i love it.

[Sluggo1971]

Rehabbed a busted knee with this in my earphones. Psychic fuel for those opposed to mediocre music.

[TheBoomstickhero]

I don't understand why people are hating on using the term 'genre' to classify music. It's useful. It is clear what "type" of music whatever music you're listening to is, and that's its genre. It's not some marketing scheme to sell products, that is really just thoughtless nonsense.

[xTheOxx]

@TheBoomstickhero

Genres are OK. Calling Fugazi "grunge" is not.

[geoffwoade]

and if i stop to catch my breath/

i might just catch a piece of death.

chilling, man

[bakedpootetoo]

im high as fuck this song is nice

[Imptheshrimp]

@bakedpootetoo How.....ironic?

[serpas86]

what a song! i love this band

[kmishka1]

i love you ian

[FlatLand43]

These guys are just about making good music

[deSadetheImpaler]

fans and their labels..Just call everything Campbells soup & be done with it

[sahbian]

it's not grunge, indie, or punk, it's Fugazi!

[Germanjorge]

how the fuck is this grunge?

[xFGIIIx]

@Germanjorge you are correct sir! this is indie at best

[mfdo1]

your comments are futile.truth will always prevail over your life of fear and love.

[tranquilslogan]

just like and shut up

[beabercj]

They're an exact mix of the pixies and the flaming lips' clouds taste metallic album.

Nailed it.

[andykins118118]

genres are for BITCHES

[SwordXEvil]

original emo

[ABMayweather]

@SwordXEvil stop wit this emo shit fugazis punk the singer of minor threat fronts this band and they are straight up punk. It's just punk all these sub genres are unessecary back in the 90's no one called this emo it was just alternative rock or punk

[SwordXEvil]

@ABMayweather i know no one called it that then, but now IF you want to say what the ORIGINAL was before it all went to shit. Minor Threat IS punk and is very good (i just don't get the straight edge bullshit) but then again emo was called punk that is more emotional and about problems and depression never the less IT STILL was punk.

Ofcurse you couldn't call shitty 2000s emo, because it wasn't even punk but that another discussion

[Craptron2000]

@SwordXEvil I think all good music is the sound of emotions. You could go back a long way, but the most obvious connection is the "Blues" (as in feeling blue or depressed) which has been around for more than a hundred years and now known as R&B. If you want to go looking for a source in the 80s for the emo look though, I reckon you'll find the new romantics movement would have had a massive influence, "scene hair" and eye liner.

[yougube]

And if I stop to catch my breath...I might catch a piece of death...long distance runner!!!

[suvarbal]

Too Cool .Really.

[recklessdummy]

Fugazi better than You

[joeyboulregard]

quit pissing and moaning about what genre fugazi is. they are. leave it at that.

[sunsetsburningbright]

i love the people who fervently defy this as being labeled grunge. what'd you got against grunge man? it's just another genre that others are equally obsessed about. even better, the ones that state this music is sublime and deserves a category of its own. where does that fall on itunes? would i have to look up intangible to find this? how about impervious, since no genre can attain the glorified status that is fugazi?

i'm not hating, i just found that to be funny :p

awesome song too.

[jek21]

Grunge? lol

[ome32]

hahaha, grunge, you fucking twat

[vivalamusica52]

my penis existed before the grunge scene started

[AlbertFisher119]

@vivalamusica52 mine didn't

[beatles61]

@vivalamusica52 mine didn't

[wpk5009]

The term "alternative" might suck but it's used for a reason.

[Practice4Purgatory]

Grunge lol...

[tra93]

Korzlin Go Fucking Shoot Yourself!

[timothymstern]

grunge???that term was started by mark arm and steve turner of mudhoney fame while doing an interview with some northwest magazine, i think, and the person performing the interview asked steve turner to describe the sound he and mark make on their guitars, and they said it was kind of a grungy sound...the media took that one to the bank, and another catagory was formed. fugazi does not fit any catagory except one of the best bands in the universe.

[xthreadx]

Fugazi. Grunge. Real deal. PAHAHAHAHAHAHA

[reville00]

woah i just now noticed the heads at the bottom of the cover

[YunaBonbeurre]

HEP !!!!

you like rock ? heavy stuff ? good...

then.... don't forget the word "fuck" in your comment, please....

real (wo)men use "FUCK" to make statements....



[slurm1]

@YunaBonbeurre FUCK YEAH

[aghoranathi]

red medicine

[Vallcon]

Fugazi is one of the most thought provoking bands out there. They are most definitely not emo. Theres no pitty me softy, fuck me lyrics in any of there songs. If anything they are philosophers. They sing to a greater truth not to a genera. Much like R.T.A. you just cant classify and at this deep of a level theres no need to. One damn good band.

[12yearoldshredder]

the day you move from out of your parents house is the day you can judge for yourself, Fugazi has moved boundries and been the most influencial band in our latest decade.

[Itsrealhands]

I love this song cause my dad used to be a distance runner. I didn't really understand at the time and I don't want to now. For me this song will always be about my dad.

[matanuskatundra2]

fugazi is a category of their own.

[matanuskatundra2]

its music.. why do people need to fit things into a box.

[darrenwouldgo]

Thats a f'in great song. 

[Xivek]

i think they are alternate rock, post-hardcore, punk rock, and expermental. but its my guess

[HomingMissiles]

For a moment I thought it was D.Boon singing. Awesome stuff.

[conflict68]

Fugazi;viele Jahre schon dabei,Genial, Einzigartig und nur gut!

[slavatorious]

How bout calling Fugazi what they are. Alternative Rock?

[thetallestpaul]

@slavatorious if by alternative rock you mean post hardcore then yeah. great idea.

[JerrisFord]

the best shit right here

[darthsasuke554]

raptor jesus likes this music

[jackhorkheimer]

Fucking love this song. Beautiful and pure, about what we aspire to. And it's more reggae than anything else. :P Obviously

[kristiankragt1983]

Can somebody  explane this band to me?

[Duraan84]

This song reminds me of Jesus Lizard.

[janpogo]

there are no genres, just categories

[dasgemuse]

@janpogo "dirty little labels to keep us all apart, keep us all divided when the troubles start!!!"- Crass

[sydbarrett5]

@dasgemuse Yes Yes Yes! Totally agree!

[elvisml2]

@janpogo genre is French for 'type'.

[janpogo]

@elvisml2 still it hasn't got the same meaning

[sydbarrett5]

I see your point, but descriptive narrative words instead of genre names are less limiting. For example: saying the guitars sound grungy on this album is not the same as saying "Grunge guitars abound throughout the album."

[sydbarrett5]

Genres are irrelevant. They are terms developed by marketing teams in order to sell products.

[Jake00Is00Funky]

True but it helps to describe music though ;/ Btw liking your name ;)

[steshystesh]

Soooooo true and sad aswell.

[thetallestpaul]

@sydbarrett5 yeah you know, unless you want to communicate with others

[JurricaChiannaNycole]

@sydbarrett5 No,they were created by consumers. Humans have and will always need to categorize things into neat little boxes. It's not neccesarily a bad thing, hell im grateful for it sometimes. If someone tried to sell me a an albulm they described as "R&B" i'd run like hell.

[sydbarrett5]

@JurricaChiannaNycole That's unfortunate because you'd be missing out on some great records by people like Marvin Gaye, Martha Reeves and the Vandellas, Diana Ross and the Supremes, Aretha Franklin, Otis Redding, Sam Cooke, James Brown. In my record collection though, I file them under their last name when I could be arsed to organize them. Why should they be separated from the other artists I love. I'll give anything a chance and if I dig it, I take it home.

[Imptheshrimp]

@sydbarrett5 Amen. I do make use of genres to organize music, but I don't strictly abide by them. However there seems to be some massive sort of bastardization of R&B. There are similarities between the likes of modern pop artist and the likes of those you mentioned, but it's not the same music at all. People need to get past that and listen to Marvin Gaye and Sam Cooke and James Brown and Aretha Franklin. It's beautiful, definitive music of a very soulful time.

[sydbarrett5]

@Imptheshrimp I agree. I haven't really kept up with modern R+B but I think John Legend, Alicia Keys, Erykah Badu, and the late Amy Winehouse sound great.

[moptop1316]

@sydbarrett5 well stated

[Bulldog22031]

@sydbarrett5 Genres are just fucking adjectives to describe music. If something has a "classic rock" sound, it has a certain aesthetic to it.

Not everything in this world is a creation by "the man" to sell something. Somethings are just things.

[bigghettobooty]

i cant keep your pace.... if I want to finish this race... Long Distance Runner

[Uchihasharingan43]

Not that genre matters at all but this is post-hardcore meaning that after that era they kinda just sound how they want,..but LOL yeah it the sound of this song does fit in with the grunge era

[AJvolocity34]

I've remembered this line since 1995(?): .....and if I stop to catch my breath.........I might catch a piece of death...... Awesome as fuck!

[hellknight192008]

who cares this band is awesome!!!!!

[sethingebrigtson]

i believe this is the last track on Red Medicine. One of my favorite Fugazi songs.

[LaDyTrOn85]

indeed. one of my fav's also.

[jacob7207]

This has a lot of southern blues influence I think at least.

[samuelmichaud]

Wtf, i never heard this song b4. I've listened to Red medecine plenty o times. hmmm... i guess i wasn't listening hard enough. Good track...

[ProfessorAtom]

i kinda figured fugazi was punk without any rules. sure thats really scratching the surface, but who wants long conversations/arguments about how individuals view shit, while totally missing the point of fugazi. well, one of their points.

[SimplyShadow]

fugazi is a lot of genre's. they do have like 8 albums.

[wowimacracker2]

i would classify them as disco...think the bee gees. hah fuck that who cares what style they are just chill and listen to their amazing music. really caring about genres is something posers do, as if they can only like one type of music. ill listen to whatever sounds good, and fugazi is SICK

[sonetlumiere12345678]

You are thinking of grunge as a scene and not a genre. I agree with the previous comment that grunge is indie punk with distortion. Post hardcore (eg.black flag, bad brains, minor threat) Think Nirvana, Sonic Youth, The Pixies..... what is grungy about pearl jam and please don't say lumberjack shirts!

I think genre is important to tell the story of music development.

[go30tigers7]

Fugazi is grunge? Right, then Queen is punk.

[hdje39m8]

one of the most innovative bands we will ever hear , u cant and shouldnt categorise this .

[childproof0]

"grunge" didn't come about until the early nineties in Seattle. yeah, this may sound like grunge, which isn't surprising it would have some resemblance since grunge has some major old-school punk and metal influences, but just based off the fact that this isn't a Seattle based band that formed in the nineties, it isn't /technically/ grunge.

[myguitardidyermom12]

melvins planted the seed of grunge, they started in the mid eighties. soundgarden had albums out in the last 4 years of the 80s. not tryng to start an arguement just some intelligent musical conversation

[myguitardidyermom12]

grunge-hardcore having sex with black sabbath

fugazi-hardcore having sex with scratch perry

[CHRISTOPHERSHIFT]

Ha does sound grungy though

[SimplyShadow]

i used to be a long distance runner...till my foot gave up.Fuck you!

[LaYziELoC7]

grunge is indie punk with distortion

[Cicero1988]

I still can't quite grasp how so much musical genius emanates from this one band.

Simply amazing.

And I think the band members would all chuckle at the thought of being labeled "grunge".

[codeaires]

I love the words to this song. It describes my life right now.

[SimplyShadow]

lllllol

[hdje39m8]

Its grunge if you want it to be , i want it to be Disco with a hint of Matovani , so fuck you it is .....

[somberamarath]

very nicely said

[kikeisonfire]

grunge? WTF? lol

[HelterSkelter085]

fugazi is NOT grunge.

[meshukorina]

This is great!

[aidanday]

Grunge? NO!

WTF!?!? I mean, thanks for posting this, but it's not 'Grunge'.

Noisy Indie with the spirit of real Punk.

[magikjelibean]

this song is amazing. i fooking love it. writing my case study to their album XD

[steve4steve4ever]

For some reason, the change at 0:51 followed by Ian's spoken word bit always gives me the chills. I love love love Fugazi.

[TheCoolyBoy]

same here o.o

[xxcreate1xx]

yeah man, their transitions are friggin sweet, fast to slow, key to key it gives me chills too.

[tjtech12]

What do you mean? How isn't this a real song? You mean less guitar weirdness? I could see how you could say that, but where would the musicianship be?

[kangiwiyaka]

Because you touch yourself.

[kevin2849]

fugazi is not grunge since they existed before the grunge scene even started

[timcarroll294]

I agree they aren't grunge but they did not start before the whole "grunge scene". But who the F cares what they are, they are fugazi and they're F'n awesome

[Cpost01]

@kevin2849 and because gunge is the shittiest thing next to shit.

[keeperofthe7keys2]

@kevin2849 music generes don't really have any "scenes" as you put it. For instance the Baroque period is concidered to be "classical", but it came before that time, so it can be that genre even before that genre ever came out. And no one better dis Gregorin chant, Baroque, or classical music because if it wern't for Hildegard, Bach, Hayden, Mozart, or Beethoven music wouldn't be what it is today.

[myguitardidyermom12]

@keeperofthe7keys2 classical isn't technically a "genre" it means that the styles included in the catch all category are widely copied and revered.

[amwofford]

@kevin2849 Fugazi formed in 1987, while grunge started in its early roots in 1985-86 in Seattle due to the influence from Hardcore scene on the east coast. But observation is true Fugazi is not a grunge band, their awesomeness goes way beyond a designation as an any genre band.

[kevin2849]

@amwofford yeah your right but you could easily say that fugazi was arround before the grunge scene was given the name grunge scene, and of course fugazi was from d.c. not Seattle, and if u ask me i think grunge isn't exactly a genre either because the four most famous bands from that scene nirvana, soundgarden, pearl jam, and alice in chains really sound nothing alike in their styles

[TheEnviroFriend]

@kevin2849 true, fugazi is not grunge, but grunge started before fugazi.

grunge actually started in the early 80's, and nirvana started the same year as fugazi(1987)

and soundgarden was around before fugazi.

but fugazi is still not grunge, because they dont sound grunge, and they arent from seattle.

[ENIGMA44]

love this song

[thekeyser22]

2:24 and beyond really makes this song from being good, to being godly

[snakeeyedhawk]

great song, great album. might be my favorite song by them, that bass note in the end is awesome. thanks for posting.

[miciobel1]

...grunge.....

[JoeandOlly]

Josh Bales

[GlueyPorch]

Fugazi aren't 'grunge'. Grunge is bands like the Melvins and the Wipers.

[FascistFashion]

Fugazi defies all catergory...

except for the catergory of "fucking amazing"

[cauthoncrazy]

hell yes

[neilpeartrocks2112]

@FascistFashion thier post hardcore.

[PatrickGH]

@neilpeartrocks2112 learn how to spell stupid

[neilpeartrocks2112]

@PatrickGH i will spell however the fuck i want and u will lern too deil with it

[jeandepaul]

@neilpeartrocks2112 I think you'll find they would describe themselves as baroque jazz with overtones of synth pop

[selfobsexxed]

One could say that Melvins are grunge, because they influenced many bands, but they are way too more experimental than just grunge. Flipper also was a big influence for many grunge bands but I wouldn't label them as grunge.

[Omathousand]

kick-ass band, awesome song.

my fave along with "Cassavetes".

[mauriceloz]

this song got me into them, yeah, this song. i love fugazi, i have that sticker on my f-d up car and I met Ian, this band is a staple of what i am. im just a blueprint.

[OhWhatACutie]

Dude.