Best BLACK FLAG Album Poll !

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!

Awesome, but whaoa about that wheelchair-surfing, honestly never saw anything like that before.

wow

this was last night at MacArthur Park btw

lol there were no cops, security was actually a lot nicer than at most outdoor shows

those aren't cops stage left? they're in uniform, no?

they were rentacop venue security, got a little bugged out after not doing anything about 30 mins of stage diving because for the past few years the venue has only really hosted world music shows, but all this is beside the point really, it was a great show, good sound, fun crowd

ah, gotcha.

GREEN with envy not to have been there, btw!

whole thing is here

i always heard bad things about In My Head but this is pretty awesome, kinda weird twisted heavy metal

Has this been posted anywhere?

http://trickledown.files.wordpress.com/2010/06/blackflaghair_chronology.jpg

If I'd seen this picture before, say, today I'd have made it my profile picture on FB.

shouts out to kira and bill for absolutely killing it on "the bars"

think slip it in is my fav black flag record these days

I feel that

As I said way the fuck upthread:

Fuck vocals; Slip It In wins for me because of Bill Stevenson's drumming on the title track and on "The Bars."

i often forget that both of the live records are really great

who the fuck voted for Family Man??

i like their style tbh

rollins' early writing is kinda charmingly amateurish to me, like very self-consciously Dark and Heavy, Man while also getting very playful and silly. "armageddon man" + the instrumental side are great and have always been imo

OK good point on the instrumentals

the timeline of this band is fucking wild to me. early singles with lineup shifts seemingly every few seconds -> damaged -> two years of legally being unable to record -> five studio albums in two years -> break up

x-post

I did not vote for Family Man but I bet my finger hovered over the button for a few seconds

Not mention in two yrs being unable to record they went through three drummers!

An insane band

would prob vote for in my head at this point, beautifully deranged record

rollins/ginn/roessler/stevenson is objectively the best lineup of this band

Their most iconic work (Damaged) is not their best. This I am sure of. Mostly because it sounds like absolute dogshit. It’s not even the good kind of crappy production. Muddy is OK with hardcore (cf. the Bad Brains ROIR debut); paper-thin bass and drums is not.

First Four Years is my go-to, but those last two records are intriguing and I need to revisit them.

all you really need is whos got the 10 1/2 and damaged!

Much as I have trouble with Rollins, it'd have to be a tie between Damaged (though the occasional goofiness detracts) and My War (esp. when they get into that proto-Caspar Brotzmann Massaker slow groove). Can only dream of how great those records would have been with Dez singing.

Muddy is OK with hardcore (cf. the Bad Brains ROIR debut); paper-thin bass and drums is not.

I've only ever owned a beaten-up vinyl copy of Damaged but it sounds great and not paper-thin to my ears (I've always thought SST CDs sounded p bad)

damaged is totally their best-sounding record.... lol

i do love the watery flooded basement sound where every instrument feels like it's recorded separately yet is still slightly out of sync

in the best cases (second side of my war, entirety of in my head it serves the murky confusion of the music itself

Damaged sounds physical, like you're being whalloped by a heavy object or something

Anyone notice that The Stains, the early SST band whose freak guitar arguably influenced Ginn's guitar style, just started an instagram page? Their debut is brilliant, and costs $$$ and has never been reissued.

otm - great album

Black Flag records do sound pretty murky - sometimes wonder if someone accidentally turned the treble down when they were mixing the albums

The treble supply was used up making the Husker Du records.

lmao