Fugazi – Margin Walker 12" record

Fugazi – Margin Walker 12" record - the last six songs on 13 songs are on this 12". 

"In June of 1989, following the release of their self-titled EP the previous November, Fugazi set out to record and release their full length album. Unfortunately, since they were disappointed with a lot of the songs on the full-length, it got chopped down into a six song EP called Margin Walker. Margin Walker is primarily available today as part of 13 Songs, a compilation album that packages together Margin Walker and the self-titled EP as one album. While 13 Songs is Fugazi’s highest selling record of their career, whenever people talk about the album, they tend to focus on the Fugazi EP half over the Margin Walker half, mainly because of the presence of “Waiting Room” and “Suggestion” on that part of the album. The only thing drawing any attention to the Margin Walker side over Fugazi was that Margin Walker was technically the first Fugazi release to feature any guitar from Guy Picciotto, who had only contributed vocals on Fugazi. So let’s take a moment to look at the oft overlooked Margin Walker.

What I love about this early era of Fugazi is that you start to see Ian MacKaye’s songwriting absolutely transform. Five years passed between the break-up of Minor Threat and the release of the first Fugazi recording, and in that time MacKaye took part in Embrace, more or less the second band to ever be referred to as “emocore,” and a very short-lived side act called Egg Hunt that only released two songs. In Minor Threat, MacKaye’s songwriting had been very straightforward and lacked much in the way of poetry. As great as his songs in Minor Threat were, they involved MacKaye mostly just shouting political opinions exactly as they came to him. Embrace gave him the chance to begin to grow his style a little bit more, but it wasn’t until he reached Fugazi that we saw songwriting so transformative, it felt like it came from a different man. Part of it was probably that Fugazi paired MacKaye with co-frontman Guy Picciotto, former lead singer of Rites of Spring, the first band to be referred to as “emocore,” who started to rub off on MacKaye." - Julie River / Punk News