Ooooh, just remembered another shitty Fugazi anecdote.
At the time I was most obsessive about them, there was another guy I was becoming friends with who also made music. He was into stuff like Weezer & Pearl Jam, and one time he asked me who this “Fugazi” band were on the hoodie I wore. I went on about how amazing they were, and that every single one of their albums was pure gold and forgot all about it.
Anyway, years later, after we hadn’t become very close in the end, I was having a conversation with him in the students union, when it came up that he really didn’t like Fugazi. I was surprised to hear it, and after asking why, in a surly tone he told me that after our conversation years ago, he’d asked his sister to get him one of their albums for Christmas as her present to him. Bare in mind we were students and this was pre-streaming days, so buying an album required a lot of thought and investigation. The album was Steady Diet Of Nothing and he absolutely hated it. Despised it. Everything from the vocals, to the production to the lack of catchy hooks, it actively made him angry to listen to it. The funny thing was, his whole tone suggested that he genuinely blamed me for the recommendation, as though I’d wasted his time with such a terrible recommendation. I had no retort, just had to accept the fact that for a couple of years this guy had a chip on his shoulder about me because I’d liked Fugazi too much. Fuck him.
