13 Songs

Infobox Album |
Name = 13 Songs
Type = Compilation album
Artist = Fugazi


Released = October, 1989
Recorded = Inner Ear Studios and Southern Studios, June and December, 1988
Genre = Post-hardcore
Post-punk
Indie
Length = 40:10
Label = Dischord
Producer = Ted Niceley and John Loder
Reviews =
* Allmusic Rating|5|5 [http://www.allmusic.com/cg/amg.dll?p=amg&sql=10:px3m967o3ep1~T1 link]
Last album = "Margin Walker" (1989)
This album = "13 Songs"
(1989)
Next album = "Repeater"
(1990)

"13 Songs" is a compilation of all the songs from the seminal post-hardcore US band Fugazi's first two EPs. It was released in September 1989. The EPs were "Fugazi" (1988), which was recorded at Inner Ear Studios in June 1988, and "Margin Walker" (1989), which was recorded in December 1988 at Southern Studios. 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.

In 2005, "13 Songs" was ranked 29 in "Spin"'s "100 Greatest Albums, 1985-2005".

Track listing

# "Waiting Room" – 2:53
# "Bulldog Front" – 2:53
# "Bad Mouth" – 2:35
# "Burning" – 2:39
# "Give Me the Cure" – 2:58
# "Suggestion" – 4:44
# "Glue Man" – 4:23
# "Margin Walker" – 2:30
# "And the Same" – 3:27
# "Burning Too" – 2:50
# "Provisional" – 2:17
# "Lockdown" – 2:10
# "Promises" – 4:02

* Tracks 1 to 7 are taken from "Fugazi" (1988)
* Tracks 8 to 13 are taken from "Margin Walker" (1989)

Recording details

* Brendan Canty – drums
* Joe Lally – Bass
* Ian MacKaye – Guitar, Vocals
* Guy Picciotto – Guitar, Vocals
* 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

In pop culture

Waiting Room was featured on The Wildhearts covers album Stop Us If You've Heard This One Before Vol 1. It has also been played live by the Red Hot Chili Peppers during the mid-1990s. Pearl Jam covered 'Suggestion' in various concerts in the early 1990s, usually as a tag to another song or an improvization.