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Mike L @ WFMU's Beware of the Blog, Sept 1st 2005: The endlessly storied 1980's hardcore scene based around Washington DC is a topic I spent a good deal of time obsessing over during my formative years as a fan of the weirdo music. Every rotten generation has musical saving graces of one sort or another, and being a dispossessed and underachieving teenager while Government Issue, Scream, Shudder to Think, Beefeater, Soul Side, and a then-new group called Fugazi (click any band name to stream songs in Real Audio from the WFMU archives) were doing their thing is something that I still feel pretty fortunate for, given that most of my peers seemed eerily satisfied with the flaccid metal and pantywaist pop of that same era. In 1984, I'd only been to DC once (with my parents, on vacation) but a
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Catalogue & Listenership
Tracks
13
Albums
1
Total audio
47m 41s
FMA listens
4,416
Favourites
2
Avg bitrate
224 kbps
Genre & Licence Profile
| Genre | Tracks |
|---|---|
| Rock | 13 |
- Attribution-Noncommercial-Share Alike 3. — 13
Top Tracks by Listens
| Track | Album | Year | Duration | Listens |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Dirty Water Come | live at Washington DC's 9:30 Club, 1988 | 2005 | 2m 49s | 925 |
| Lullabye | live at Washington DC's 9:30 Club, 1988 | 2005 | 3m 41s | 570 |
| Ain't Talkin 'bout Love | live at Washington DC's 9:30 Club, 1988 | 2005 | 3m 44s | 517 |
| Life Keeps Getting Longer | live at Washington DC's 9:30 Club, 1988 | 2005 | 3m 12s | 417 |
| Everywhere You Look | live at Washington DC's 9:30 Club, 1988 | 2005 | 6m 43s | 356 |
| Lick the Moon | live at Washington DC's 9:30 Club, 1988 | 2005 | 3m 27s | 261 |
| I Don't Want to be Anything | live at Washington DC's 9:30 Club, 1988 | 2005 | 4m 14s | 236 |
| Read my Back | live at Washington DC's 9:30 Club, 1988 | 2005 | 2m 45s | 234 |
| My Only Sin | live at Washington DC's 9:30 Club, 1988 | 2005 | 3m 04s | 205 |
| Joy and Posion | live at Washington DC's 9:30 Club, 1988 | 2005 | 3m 34s | 201 |
Track Length Distribution
| Length | Tracks | Share |
|---|---|---|
| 1–3 min | 2 | 15.4% |
| 3–6 min | 10 | 76.9% |
| Over 6 min | 1 | 7.7% |
Artists in the Same Rock Lineage
- 144 Disco Missile tracks
- 126 Obits tracks
- 100 +HIRS+ tracks
- 86 King Ghidorah! tracks
- 75 Glove Compartment tracks
- 68 Blah Blah Blah tracks
- 66 Waylon Thornton and the Heavy Hands tracks
- 64 half cocked tracks
Track Catalogue
13 tracks shown
| Track | Album | Genre | Duration | Listens | Licence |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Life Keeps Getting Longer [25, 109] | live at Washington DC's 9:30 Club, 1988 2005 | Rock | 3m 12s | 417 | Attribution-Noncommercial-Share Alike 3. |
| I Don't Want to be Anything [25, 109] | live at Washington DC's 9:30 Club, 1988 2005 | Rock | 4m 14s | 236 | Attribution-Noncommercial-Share Alike 3. |
| My Only Sin [25, 109] | live at Washington DC's 9:30 Club, 1988 2005 | Rock | 3m 04s | 205 | Attribution-Noncommercial-Share Alike 3. |
| Lullabye [25, 109] | live at Washington DC's 9:30 Club, 1988 2005 | Rock | 3m 41s | 570 | Attribution-Noncommercial-Share Alike 3. |
| Joy and Posion [25, 109] | live at Washington DC's 9:30 Club, 1988 2005 | Rock | 3m 34s | 201 | Attribution-Noncommercial-Share Alike 3. |
| Body is Your Mind [25, 109] | live at Washington DC's 9:30 Club, 1988 2005 | Rock | 3m 13s | 152 | Attribution-Noncommercial-Share Alike 3. |
| Crawl into Tomorrow [25, 109] | live at Washington DC's 9:30 Club, 1988 2005 | Rock | 3m 42s | 164 | Attribution-Noncommercial-Share Alike 3. |
| Lick the Moon [25, 109] | live at Washington DC's 9:30 Club, 1988 2005 | Rock | 3m 27s | 261 | Attribution-Noncommercial-Share Alike 3. |
| Dirty Water Come [25, 109] | live at Washington DC's 9:30 Club, 1988 2005 | Rock | 2m 49s | 925 | Attribution-Noncommercial-Share Alike 3. |
| Words Taste Good [25, 109] | live at Washington DC's 9:30 Club, 1988 2005 | Rock | 3m 33s | 178 | Attribution-Noncommercial-Share Alike 3. |
| Everywhere You Look [25, 109] | live at Washington DC's 9:30 Club, 1988 2005 | Rock | 6m 43s | 356 | Attribution-Noncommercial-Share Alike 3. |
| Read my Back [25, 109] | live at Washington DC's 9:30 Club, 1988 2005 | Rock | 2m 45s | 234 | Attribution-Noncommercial-Share Alike 3. |
| Ain't Talkin 'bout Love [25, 109] | live at Washington DC's 9:30 Club, 1988 2005 | Rock | 3m 44s | 517 | Attribution-Noncommercial-Share Alike 3. |