MAGNET picks the most overrated & underrated Fugazi songs

[magnetmag]

MAGNET magazine picks the five most overrated and five most underrated Fugazi songs:
http://www.magnetmagazine.com/2009/09/1 ... er-fugazi/

[Martin]

Wow! Heck of a first post right there.

Nice one.

[Todd]

who knew that that's what give me the cure was about.

although I don't think i've read the lyrics in about 15 years.

I agree with bed for the scraping being underrated (as are many tunes off of r.m) like downed city for example

not too sure about repeater though. always loved that one.

But it is nice to see a little criticism for a change about a band that is rarely criticized in any way.

[chinchillas]

How could you not take a stab at answering this question yourself?
The problem is that I don't know what the actual "ratings" of Fugazi songs to be, so I'll derive the songs' ratings to be from the frequency with which they are (were) played live and fan response to them.
No particular order:
Underrated - Polish, Burning Too, Greed, Downed City, Facet Squared
Overrated - Waiting Room, Turnover, Latin Roots, Floating Boy

[cbrownathan]

I think Joe's songs on Red Medicine and End Hits are fairly unappreciated.
hmmm. I think a lot of Red Medicine is under appreciate actually. The whippersnappers at the local college station never play anything from that album, or Steady Diet, Killtaker, or End Hits. But holy shit to they play the fuck out of full disclosure, which is a great song butttttt idk I never really liked The Argument that much. Like the writer of his article I've slowly realized I was a teenage Fugazi Fan, not a 20-something fugazi fan.

My appreciation for the band has waned as I've gotten further and further into my 20s. At 26 I barely even pay attention to a fugazi song if there is an off chance I have one of the albums on, or if a friend is playing them..... it really bums the hell outta me.

[epicprobl]

Overrated: Waiting Room, Repeater, Merchandise, Song #1, Burning
Underrated: Foreman's Dog, Nightshop, Oh (pee on those modems, man!!), Number 5, Exit Only