Best BLACK FLAG Album Poll !

only saw the bad brains twice, both shows in support of 'i against i' -- the one gig at the ritz was pretty amazing but the cb's show was so oversold that people were passing out left and right and there wasn't enough room for a pit so the place felt like a cauldron of pent-up testosterone.

husker du = one of my favorite bands of all time, and sure i saw them 5 or 6 times, too, all before 'warehouse' era. they were so incredibly loud and trebley it was really really hard to go see them. one show, them at 688 in atlanta, they were so loud and it was a pretty small club, it was so loud that you couldn't hear them, it felt like you were underwater or inside a vacuum or something -- might have even been close to mbv levels of loud.

the totally angular/ jagged/ crazy stuff that dez and greg were doing together

that's why I vote for Damaged, the two guitar attack was never duplicated elsewhere and that is what moves my soul.

Are you deaf because of it Mike? ;)

actually yes -- what else could explain my love fro bands like slovenly and half japanese and trad gras och stenar and blind mamie forehand and etc?

I'VE NEVER ACTUALLY HEARD ANY OF THEM.

i just think they are cute!

supposed to say love FOR bands but i also like the idea of "love fro bands" as a genre -- ohh yeah they're another one of those "love 'fro"
bands.

http://www.freewebs.com/theconspirators/Britny_Fox_-_Britny_Fox-fro.jpg

scary pic

man black flag really did embrace their glam side at the end of their run didn't they

just a few hair/wardrobe tweaks:

http://www.ipass.net/jthrush/flag86b.jpg

ends wednesday get those votes cast

the guy second from right in the above picture always looks so uncomfortable in that pic.

was he a hunchback?

That's C'el, isn't it? He was the acid-head bassist they hired after Kira left. Rollins doesn't think much of him in GITV.

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So what's going to finish behind Damaged and First Four Years?

I went for Slip It In but that's just because it's what I'm feeling lately. Black Coffee, Rats Eyes, The Bars, My Ghetto. That sums up my life experience for the last few months. Don't get me wrong, I grew up on Damaged and all the pre-Rollins stuff, but Nervous Breakdown, TV Party, Rise Above and Six Pack express a hope and sense of lightness I don't really feel right now.

I think My War is going to be a bit of a dark horse in this poll.

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Ahhh! The First Four Years beaten into third by the lurking My War fans! Damn it all to hell!

lol

ILM is doom central these days

I voted mah war

what clown car pulled up and voted for who's got the 10 1/2?

I love that there are votes for every album. Somebody more obsessive than me needs to find out which other bands on ILM have had that kind of result.

Husker Du managed that too.

what clown car pulled up and voted for who's got the 10 1/2?

I think thats a great live album.

Yeah, as far as live albums go, that's one of the better ones I've ever heard.

Just listening to it now for the first time. Sounds tons better than Live '84 so far.

i found one cassette of a audio book version of get in the van in our practice space, been rocking rollins bad vibes in the car all week.

good lord i can't believe anyone put themselves through that shit. lots of lolz but jesus christ it sounds like it was miserable.

dunno, it always struck me as blandly rocking combined with rollins being insufferable by that point. I find the whole "who's got the 10 1/2" routine is cringe-inducing.

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I might just put the cd on now actually

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HrZpZOPI0g0

goddamn you herman g neuname

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no offense, it's just got a certain ring to it.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UhxW0ulSjFg&feature=related

Oh god, I'm boring but it's Damaged all the way.

My favourite Flag story comes from a friend of mine who saw them at the Christmas on Earth Festival in Leeds. When was it? 1981? He must have been about 13.

The glue bag, studded ,mohawks just did not understand

How could this fucking Yank bunch of 'straights' out punk by far, every fucker on the bill.

I don't think the amg writer would agree with the ILM placing of My War

and does Edward III still hate that live album?

Wasted ... Again! is dope and should be here

I forget if we did an ep's poll. If we didn't, anyone interested in one? Or are we all SST'd out for now?

If 5 people say do it then I might just go ahead.

Edward III are you around?

Just tried listening to My War for the first time in like 25 years. Yeesh. They should have called it quits after Damaged.

heh at least 20 ilx0rs disagree with you

Of course they do.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=56dOPjx-zC0

http://newestra.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/07/IMG_3232-630x472.jpg

really, no one cares about this???

Dukowski! No Age! Keith Morris! LA cops!