"Tribute"
Year: 2022
Label: Cult Nation
Format: digital
Tracks: 9
Time: 38 min.
Genre: rock
Style: Punk
"Tribute"
Year: 2021
Format: digital
Tracks: 8
Time: 49 min.
Genre: rock
Style: Punk
"Tribute"
Year: 2006
Label: Rockum
Format: CD
Tracks: 11
Time: 36 min.
Genre: rock
Style: Punk
"24 Black Flag songs to benefit the west memphis three"
Year: 2002
Label: Universal
Format: CD
Tracks: 24
Time: 55 min.
Genre: rock
Style: Punk
"what the..."
Year: 2013
Label: SST
Format: CD, LP
Tracks: 22
Time: 44 min.
Genre: rock
Style: Punk
Really, once you hear one track on What The… you've heard them all. There are no stand out tracks. Everything blurrs together like a kindergartener's finger painting. No distinguishable shapes or bright stand out sections, just an amalgamation of slop. And this is coming from a guy who champions powerviolence and fastcore (all hail the deceased Xbrainiax, drink the wine), genres famous for brief bursts and breakneck writing that oftentimes blurs together. Black Flag's songs and lyrics are so interchangeable that the album stoops to a level of cut and paste writing. Instead of going off the deep end the way Family Man did, Ginn and company play it safe. Its embarrassing to listen to and to know I've actually purchased this. Why did I purchase this?!
And before I bring myself down, before I put bullets through this record in my backyard in these city limits I reside in, you'll notice that there are no sample songs on here. Why? Because the when Ron Reyes quit the band pulled everything off the internet. From their music video for “The Chase” to “Down in the Dirt” and “Wallow in Despair.” Their site is little more than a logo. Their Twitter, Facebook, and Instagram are silent. So instead, beneath these venomous paragraphs I've penned, I'm going to post something better for you. I wanted to put up something like the Xfliesx classic “Please Break Up Before You Embarrass Us All” or a funeral song of sorts, but I found something better. Something more appropriate. Something that can summarize this album simply.
Bottom line: this is Shit with a capital S. I'm usually excited for a band to get back together but after listening to this band for 10+ years and reading every aspect of their history I've been able to get my hands on in a variety of books over the years that is too large to post on here because I'll go over my word count (which has already happened anyway, sorry Jeremy, but when I'm pissed I don't stop until my knuckles are raw), I can't help but wonder why Ginn even bothered with this. And while mulling this over, I keep referring to this line I wrote in the opening paragraph: “Sometimes contemporary records feel grossly uninspired and distant from their source material—from the greats.” Black Flag's past will always be great but their present form is laughably bad. But let's not be so glum. I recall there was a really fantastic album released last year in the vein of old Black Flag and Circle Jerks. It was a self-titled record called OFF!. Go grab that instead, it's awesome. Fuck this crap (*Review by
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"loose nut"
Year: 1986
Label: SST
Format: CD
Tracks: 10
Time: 35 min.
Genre: rock
Style: Punk
Loose Nut is the fifth full-length album released in 1985
by Black Flag on SST Records. The album is noteworthy in the Black Flag
catalogue for introducing a more commercial sound to their already
gestating jazz heavy metal hybrid. In some ways, it is a fusion of the
jazz punk style of Slip It In and the jazz metal of In My Head.
"in my head"
Year: 1985
Label: SST
Format: CD, LP
Tracks: 12
Time: 32 min.
Genre: rock
Style: Punk
In My Head is the sixth
studio album released by Black Flag. All of the music was written by
guitarist Greg Ginn, who intended to record it as his first solo album.
After hearing the band rehearsing the album, singer Henry Rollins wrote
lyrics for several of its songs. Many fans consider this record to be
perhaps their best album musically. This is a sentiment shared by Kira
Roessler,
who played bass on the record, according to the biography of "Spray
Paint the Walls, The Story of Black Flag" written by Stevie Chick (The
sentiment in question being located on pages 374-375 of the
aforementioned book). The album represents Black Flag's final stylistic
change, to free jazz and hardcore punk influenced heavy metal. It was
released in 1985 on SST Records, and was their final album before their
reunion in 2013. The CD reissue adds three of the four songs from the I Can See You EP, replicating the original 1985 cassette release which came out concurrent to the LP.
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"Slip it in"
Year: 1984
Label: SST
Format: CD, LP
Tracks: 9
Time: 40 min.
Genre: rock
Style: Punk
"Slip it in" is the fourth studio album by the hardcore punk band Black Flag, released in 1984 on SST Records. "Slip it in" is an extension of the sound Black Flag utilized on its predecessor My War:
heavy, cathartic, intense, dense and progressive. At this point, Black
Flag was considered by many to be one of the leading bands of the
american punk scene. The album pursued the newer, lengthier song
arrangements that Black Flag would develop until its demise. It also
features Henry Rollins'
further development as a songwriter, contributing four of eight tracks
on the album. This album also demonstrates Black Flag’s increasing use
of instrumentals, where Greg Ginn demonstrates his increasingly more
complex playing style.
"my war"
Year: 1983
Label: SST
Format: CD, LP
Tracks: 9
Time: 40 min.
Genre: rock
Style: Punk
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"damaged"
Year: 1981
Label: SST
Format: CD , LP
Tracks: 15
Time: 33 min.
Genre: rock
Style: Punk
Damaged is the debut studio album by the hardcore
punk band Black Flag. It was released on December 5, 1981 through SST
Records. Over the years since the album's original release it has been
recognized as a punk classic and one of the most influential punk
records ever made by appearing on a number of "best of" lists by punk
fans and critics alike. In 2003, the album was ranked number 340 on Rolling Stone's
list of The 500 Greatest Albums of All Time. Pitchfork Media also
ranked it number 25 on its list of the Top 100 Albums of the 1980s. Kurt
Cobain listed it in his top fifty albums of all time.
"nervous breakdown"
Year: 1979
Label: SST
Format: CD, LP
Tracks: 16
Time: 24 min.
Genre: rock
Style: Punk
This is just a compilation with the 16 first tracks of the
band. So here there is just simple punk-rock from late 70s, nothing
about jazz punk, experimental punk or spoken words. The techncal level
of the band is very low and also the quality sound production is frankly
low... but I like very much despite this facts because it sound fresh
and spontaneaous. This compilation was also issued under other names as "
the first four years" or "
everything went black" among others.
