Fugazi (album)
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March 12, 1984 |
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November 1983 – February 1984 |
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Progressive Rock, Neo-Prog |
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7th |
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45:57 |
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Nick Tauber |
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Fugazi is the second studio album by the British rock band Marillion . It was released in 1984 and was the first album with Ian Mosley on drums .
Emergence
The album was recorded at Manor Studio , Sarm East, Eel Pie and Maison Rouge Studios, London , November 1983 - February 1984. The producer was Nick Tauber, with whom the band had already worked on the previous album.
The album was created under difficult circumstances, while after the departure of drummer Mick Pointer , the band employed a number of successors in rapid succession and then threw them out again before choosing Ian Mosley .
The band later stated that they were not satisfied with the result of their work and especially the production quality. A newly mastered version appeared in 1998 as a double CD with the B-sides of singles and demos.
content
The opening piece Assassing deals with character assassination , the title being a word creation by the songwriter Fish, mixed from the terms assassin ("murderer") and sassing ("disrespectful to someone"). The text contains a variety of metaphors on the subject of word warfare / fighting with words, e.g. B. unsheathe the blade within the voice ("pulling the blade in the voice out of its sheath").
The song Punch & Judy refers to two characters from the English puppet theater Punch and Judy , who roughly correspond to the couple Kasper and Gretel from the German puppet theater. The theme of the song is divorce .
During a live performance, Marillion singer Fish said that the song Incubus is about the situation in which the narrator meets his former girlfriend (possibly with another man) in a pub and reminds her of certain erotic images that were previously shot of her . So it's about the revenge and hostility of a disappointed lover. The song contains the gently spoken line: I'm the irritating speck of dirt that came from absolutely nowhere. ("I am the annoying dirt stain that came out of absolutely nothing.")
According to Fish , the title song and album name refer to a slang phrase from the Vietnam War that he found in a collection of war veterans' tales. Fugazi was a backronym for F ucked U p, G ot A mbushed, Z ipped I n . Correspondingly, it means “sitting in the shit, being ambushed , being put in a body bag ” ( Zipped in means closing the zipper of the body bag). The song lists innumerable intersections in life and mentions religion , the environment , wars and capitalism .
Track list
- Assassing - 7:02
- Punch & Judy - 3:21
- Jigsaw - 6:49
- Emerald Lies - 5:08
- She Chameleon - 6:52
- Incubus - 8:30
- Fugazi - 8:12
Track list of the bonus CD
- Cinderella Search (12 "version) - 5:31
- Assassing (Alternate Mix) - 7:40
- Three Boats Down from the Candy (1984 Re-Recording) - 4:00
- Punch & Judy (demo) - 3:50
- She Chameleon (demo) - 6:34
- Emerald Lies (demo) - 5:32
- Incubus (demo) - 8:09
Web links
Individual evidence
- ↑ Our second album was to be aptly named "Fugazi" (all fucked up, all screwed up), which was a word I'd found in a book called "Nam" - a collection of reminiscences from veterans of the Vietnam war, put together by Mark Baker. (Fish in the liner notes for the remastered version)