13 Songs (Fugazi album)

The EPs compiled were Fugazi (1988), which was recorded at Inner Ear Studios in June 1988 with Ted Niceley & Don Zientara, and Margin Walker (1989), which was recorded in December 1988 at Southern Studios in London with John Loder handling production duties.

The EPs had been on Ian MacKaye's Dischord Records as numbers 30 and 35, respectively. 13 Songs was number 36. A remastered version was released in February 2003.

13 Songs is Fugazi's most successful release. While certain sources report the album's total worldwide sales as being over 3 million,Perlah, Jeff. "The Independent". Guitar World. March 2002. Alan O'Connor in his 2008 book Punk Record Labels and the Struggle for Autonomy: The Emergence of DIY lists the figure as 750,000 (based on an interview with Dischord Records).{{Cite book|last=O'Connor|first=Alan|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=cf14AAAAQBAJ&dq=fugazi+album+sales+figures&pg=PA68|title=Punk Record Labels and the Struggle for Autonomy: The Emergence of DIY|date=2008|publisher=Lexington Books|location=Lanham, Maryland|isbn=978-1-4616-3408-9|language=en}}

{{Album ratings

| rev1 = AllMusic

| rev1Score = {{rating|5|5}}{{cite web |url=http://www.allmusic.com/album/13-songs-mw0000206716 |title=13 Songs – Fugazi |publisher=AllMusic |access-date=March 17, 2010 |last=Kellman |first=Andy}}

| rev3 = Encyclopedia of Popular Music

| rev3score = {{rating|4|5}}{{cite book |title=The Encyclopedia of Popular Music |title-link=Encyclopedia of Popular Music |last=Larkin |first=Colin |author-link=Colin Larkin (writer) |publisher=Omnibus Press |edition=5th concise |year=2011 |isbn=978-0-85712-595-8}}

| rev4 = The Great Rock Discography

| rev4score = 8/10{{cite book |title=The Great Rock Discography |last=Strong |first=Martin C. |author-link=Martin C. Strong |publisher=Canongate Books |edition=7th |year=2004 |isbn=1-84195-615-5}}

| rev5 = MusicHound Rock

| rev5score = {{rating|4.5|5}}MusicHound Rock: The Essential Album Guide (1998-99)

| rev7 = Robert Christgau

| rev7score = {{Rating-Christgau|cut}}{{Cite web|last=Christgau|first=Robert|author-link=Robert Christgau|title=Fugazi|url=https://www.robertchristgau.com/get_artist.php?name=Fugazi|access-date=April 21, 2020}}

| rev8 = The Rolling Stone Album Guide

| rev8Score = {{Rating|4|5}}{{cite book |chapter=Fugazi |last=Wolk |first=Douglas |author-link=Douglas Wolk |title=The New Rolling Stone Album Guide |title-link=The Rolling Stone Album Guide |editor1-last=Brackett |editor1-first=Nathan |editor2-last=Hoard |editor2-first=Christian |publisher=Simon & Schuster |edition=4th |year=2004 |isbn=0-7432-0169-8 |pages=[https://archive.org/details/newrollingstonea00brac/page/315 315–16] }}

| rev9 = Spin Alternative Record Guide

| rev9score = 8/10{{cite book |title=Spin Alternative Record Guide |editor1-last=Weisbard |editor1-first=Eric |editor2-last=Marks |editor2-first=Craig |publisher=Vintage Books |year=1995 |isbn=0-679-75574-8}}

| rev6 = OndaRock

| rev6score = 7.5/10{{cite web|url=https://www.ondarock.it/rockedintorni/fugazi.htm|title=Fugazi|author=Claudio Lancia|website=OndaRock|access-date=September 9, 2020}}

| rev10 = Uncut

| rev10score = 9/10{{Cite web|url=https://archive.org/details/uncut-april-2021/page/78/mode/2up|title=Uncut - April 2021}}

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The album has gone on to receive critical acclaim, despite being a compilation, with many calling it one of the best albums of the post-hardcore genre. Stereogum called it "as auspicious as punk debuts come", further noting that on the album, "most of the Fugazi elements were in place from the jump, albeit in a somewhat less-developed form. If the concept of a punk band writing a song from the perspective of a woman being hooted at by sexist loudmouths seems revolutionary now, imagine what it sounded like in 1988, when the canon of classic punk still consisted largely of songs dealing with beating on brats, lynching landlords, and the ritual impaling of cats."{{Cite web|last=Toth |first=James Jackson|title=Fugazi Albums From Worst To Best|url=https://www.stereogum.com/1133821/fugazi-albums-from-worst-to-best/franchises/counting-down/attachment/fugazi-13-songs-album-cover/|work=Stereogum|date=August 23, 2012 |access-date=April 21, 2020}} In a 5-star review for Allmusic, Andy Kellman called the album "timeless" and wrote that "the importance of this record can perhaps be more suitably measured by the number of people who remember the first time they heard it. 13 Songs is usually among the first records that spring to mind when defining alternative rock. Furious, intelligent, artful, and entirely musical, it's a baker's dozen of cannon shots to the gut -- not just a batch of emotionally visceral and defiant songs recorded by angry young men, but something greater." Consequence of Sound called it "a solid classic, instantly grabbing the ear with a timeless quality that you just don’t find every day. [...] I know this music is over 20 years old, but it sounds like it’s pouring out of someone’s garage down the street. You can’t fake this kind of timeless authenticity, though God knows many have tried."{{cite web|url=https://consequenceofsound.net/2011/02/wait-youve-never-heard-fugazi-13-songs/|title=Wait, You've Never Heard: Fugazi – 13 Songs|first=Megan|last=Ritt|website=Consequence of Sound|date=February 23, 2011|access-date=April 18, 2020}} According to Popmatters, the album (along with Repeater) "remain the band's most widely successful and consistently praised work. 13 Songs, for instance, has sold over three million copies -- all without radio singles, music videos, or any of the tools of corporate publicity that help musicians reach that stratospheric level of success."{{Cite web|last=Beasley|first=Corey|title=1, 2, 3, Go: The 10 Best Fugazi Songs |url=https://www.popmatters.com/10-best-fugazi-songs-2495916384.html?rebelltitem=3#rebelltitem3|work=PopMatters|date=November 23, 2011|access-date=April 21, 2020}}

In 2005, 13 Songs was ranked 29 in Spin's "100 Greatest Albums, 1985–2005".{{cite web|url=https://www.spin.com/2005/06/100-greatest-albums-1985-2005/ |title=100 Greatest Albums, 1985–2005 |work=Spin |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20090804123605/https://www.spin.com/2005/06/100-greatest-albums-1985-2005/ |archive-date=2009-08-04}} NME ranked it #284 in their list of "The 500 Greatest Albums of All Time" in 2014.{{cite web|url=http://www.rocklistmusic.co.uk/nme_500_greatest_albums_2013.htm|title=NME: The 500 Greatest Albums Of All Time : October 2013|access-date=2016-01-05|website=rocklistmusic.co.uk}} Paste ranked it at #57 on their list of "The 80 Best Albums of the 1980s".{{cite web|url=http://www.pastemagazine.com/blogs/lists/2012/02/the-80-best-albums-of-the-1980s.html|publisher=Paste|work=pastemagazine.com|date=2012-02-01|access-date=2016-01-05|first1=Josh|last1=Jackson|title=The 80 Best Albums of the 1980s}} In 2016, Rolling Stone ranked it 35th on their list of the "40 Greatest Punk Albums of All Time".{{cite magazine|title=40 Greatest Punk Albums of All Time |url=https://www.rollingstone.com/music/music-lists/40-greatest-punk-albums-of-all-time-75659/|magazine=Rolling Stone|date=April 6, 2016 |access-date=April 21, 2020}}

According to Kathleen Hanna of Bikini Kill: "13 Songs is to underground music what Led Zeppelin IV is to suburban potheads."{{cite magazine|url=http://archive.org/details/sim_spin_2005-07_21_7|title=100 Greatest Albums" 1985–2005|magazine=Spin|date=July 2005|volume=21|issue=7|page=80|via=Internet Archive|language=en}} According to Conrad Keely of ...And You Will Know Us by the Trail of Dead, the album along with Unwound's Fake Train "epitomized America's disaffected, self-hating white middle-class guilt victims screaming about the fact that they have nothing to do with their time other than be bored, nothing to speak out against other than their own ennui and unwarranted discontent. And although that might sound like a criticism or an indictment, the fact is that this sentiment existed, it was shared by a lot of us, and it found its voice in albums like [13 Songs]."{{Cite web|first=Conrad |last=Keely |title=Conrad Keely: 10 albums that changed my f**king life forever|url=https://www.musicradar.com/news/guitars/conrad-keely-10-albums-that-changed-my-fking-life-forever-633166|access-date=2021-06-30|website=MusicRadar|date=18 January 2016|language=en}} "Looking back upon the arc of alternative rock, punk and indie throughout the decade," writes Treble, "from Nirvana to Jawbox, Shudder to Think, Sunny Day Real Estate, Quicksand and The Afghan Whigs, there’s a line that traces back to the jittery funk and searingly melodic hardcore of Fugazi’s first two EPs, which comprise 13 Songs."{{Cite web|last=Terich|first=Jeff|date=November 13, 2011|title=Celebrate the Catalog: Fugazi|url=https://www.treblezine.com/celebrate-the-catalog-fugazi-albums-ranked/|access-date=April 21, 2020|work=Treble}} Both Jack Johnson{{Cite web|title=Jack Johnson lists his 12 must-have CDs|url=https://ew.com/article/2005/04/04/jack-johnson-lists-his-12-must-have-cds/|work=Entertainment Weekly|date=April 4, 2005|access-date=April 21, 2020}} and Eddie Vedder have named 13 Songs as one of their favorite albums of all time.{{Cite web|title=My Life in Music: Eddie Vedder |url=https://www.spin.com/2003/07/my-life-music-eddie-vedder/|work=Spin|date=July 15, 2003|access-date=April 21, 2020}} Rise Against cited the album as one of their 12 key influences, alongside works by Bad Religion, Dead Kennedys and Jawbreaker.{{cite web|url=https://www.ign.com/articles/2008/10/07/rise-againsts-the-12-albums-that-changed-the-world|archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20220619141408/https://www.ign.com/articles/2008/10/07/rise-againsts-the-12-albums-that-changed-the-world|title=Rise Against's The 12 Albums That Changed The World|work=IGN|author=Rise Against|date=October 7, 2008|archivedate=June 19, 2022|access-date=June 19, 2022}}

{{Tracklisting

| extra_column = Lead vocals

| title1 = Waiting Room

| length1 = 2:53

| extra1 = MacKaye

| title2 = Bulldog Front

| length2 = 2:53

| extra2 = Picciotto

| title3 = Bad Mouth

| length3 = 2:35

| extra3 = MacKaye

| title4 = Burning

| length4 = 2:39

| extra4 = Picciotto

| title5 = Give Me the Cure

| length5 = 2:58

| extra5 = Picciotto

| title6 = Suggestion

| length6 = 4:44

| extra6 = MacKaye

| title7 = Glue Man

| length7 = 4:23

| extra7 = Picciotto

| title8 = Margin Walker

| length8 = 2:30

| extra8 = Picciotto

| title9 = And the Same

| length9 = 3:27

| extra9 = MacKaye

| title10 = Burning Too

| length10 = 2:50

| extra10 = MacKaye

| title11 = Provisional

| length11 = 2:17

| extra11 = Picciotto

| title12 = Lockdown

| length12 = 2:10

| extra12 = Picciotto

| title13 = Promises

| length13 = 4:02

| extra13 = MacKaye

}}

• Tracks 1–7 taken from Fugazi
• Tracks 8–13 taken from Margin Walker

;Fugazi

• Ian MacKaye – lead and backing vocals, guitar
• Guy Picciotto – lead and backing vocals
• Brendan Canty – drums
• Joe Lally – bass

;Additional personnel

• Edward Janney – Popsloppy guitar on "Provisional"
• Ted Niceley – producer on tracks 1–7
• Fugazi – producer on tracks 1–7
• Don Zientara – engineer on tracks 1–7
• John Loder – producer, engineer on tracks 8–13
• Paul Gadd – engineer on tracks 8–13
• Glen E. Friedman – Inner front cover photo
• Adam Cohen – Traycard photo
• Bert Queiroz – Back photo
• Kurt Sayenga – graphics

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