Fugazi
In On The Kill Taker

THE REVIEW

Marco was the cool kid in school, long hair, always with a cigarette, and holey t-shirts depicting bands unknown to us mere mortals.

If you wanted to listen to something new, his house was the right place;

He lived in a two-story house and was an only child, which allowed him to have a room just for his hobbies, namely: music, books, and movies. When you walked into that hobby room (let’s call it that), you couldn't help but notice the tons of vinyl records piled on the floor (how did a 17-year-old kid have all those records? I'll tell you, they were his father's, who was a long-haired hippie in the past, who did nothing but listen to anything, of any genre as long as it, as he said, "made him travel"). Now he was just a poor distracted man working in a pharmacy and occasionally cursed while watching reality TV.

Back to the hobby room, there weren't just vinyl records but also many CDs (those were bought by Marco), a TV with a built-in DVD player, and a stand with about 100 movies, which at first sight might seem little compared to the value that music held in that house.

One day he came to school with a t-shirt that said “my father hates the Beatles,” explaining to most of us that his father told him the Beatles couldn't play and made pop songs for untraveled ears (untraveled ears??? Boh...but everyone seemed to agree) and said that back then you had to listen to Hendrix, The Who, Jefferson Airplane, and Sam Cooke. I liked the Beatles very much, Revolver was no longer played in my stereo, I had worn it out, but that day while Marco said what were, for me, obscenities about the Beatles, I said nothing, what could I say... I didn’t even know who Sam Cooke was.

I met Marco two days later at the community park, I had just bought a Pearl Jam bootleg, Marco saw me, greeted me, and said "what did you buy?" I showed him the record, he exclaimed with a smirk, "still with these guys? They're grunge impostors, thieves" (first the Beatles and now P.J, why did he scoff at everything I liked!?) I replied "I’m not too into them, but I don’t mind them" out of nowhere Marco asked me to go to his house, he wanted to lend me an album...he said this album would erase all the bad music I was listening to!!!

He gave me this original album with a yellowish cover and a small writing in the top left corner that said Fugazi.

From that day my life changed, I never gave it back to him, I listened to it for a week straight and thought to myself (what an idiot and to think I didn’t even know who Ian MacKaye was until recently), the album was titled “In on the Kill Taker.” I liked those screams, those mistreated guitars, that rough sound, and that "Great Cop" with that opening bass and those lyrics so... so cool, yeah cool like Marco.

"Got a lot of questions for me
You got a lot of questions for me
Got your finger pointing at me
Distrusted
I look for wires when I'm talking to you
You'd make a great cop"

Now I’m in college, I’m