active listening: Egg hunt

Friday, September 29th, 2006

Egg Hunt was a short-lived project started by Ian MacKaye and Jeff Nelson in early 1986. This ran concurrent with the tail end of Ian’s Revolution Summer era band Embrace (9 shows over 9 months 1985-1986).

MacKaye and Nelson went to England and recorded the 2 song 7” ‘We All Fall Down’/’Me and You’.  ‘We All Fall Down’ is said to be Ian’s feelings regarding the end of Revolution Summer and perhaps the impending break-up of Embrace.

Following Embrace, Ian and Jeff went into the basement with ex-members of Gray Matter but the project failed to coalesce. Nelson and the Gray Matter people left and formed the band 3. MacKaye found ex-Rites of Spring people and an ex-Beefeater Roadie and formed Fugazi.

We All Fall Down
Why do we act like we just learned how to walk
when we’ve been walking all this time?
What was carved in granite just wiped off like chalk
What was ours is now yours or mine

I guess in our own minds we’re never wrong
and I swear to you this is the last time I’ll write this song
I’m sure you’re sick and tired of hearing from this child
I’m feeling kind of lonely, I won’t be dying for a while

In search of the quiet life
We all fall down
In search of the righteous life
We all fall down

We are falling down

We all fall down