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” is a compilation album by American hardcore punk legends Black Flag, released in 1987 by SST Records.
Black Flag did indeed have a less serious side to them, as if to temper their anthems like ‘Rise Above’, their confrontational songs like ‘Police Story’, and their numerous forays into manic depression and dire agony (‘Depression’, ‘Thirsty and Miserable’, ‘Damaged’, etc). Like cartoons at a horror movie festival, the tracks compiled on this posthumous LP worked as comic relief, a catharsis of sorts, and not surprisingly some of this was the best Black Flag stuff, like the ode to drunkenness ‘Six Pack’, the revelling-in-media babysitting ‘T.V. Party’, the hilarious slaughter of ‘Louie Louie’ that would make the Metallic KO Stooges proud, and the nuts-on-parade of ‘Wasted’, had it been released in the late ’50s.
A pretty smart release, as opposed to the usual post-breakup greatest-hits LP; ” will change the minds of so many who persisted in thinking of Black Flag as a one-dimensional, armageddon-is-coming nihilist hardcore act, or one bereft of brains or humour.
Tracklisting:
Side A:
1. Wasted
2. T.V. Party
3. Six Pack
4. I Don’t Care
5. I’ve Had It
6. Jealous Again
7. Slip It In
Side B:
8. Annihilate This Week
9. Loose Nut
10. Gimme Gimme Gimme
11. Louie Louie
12. Drinking And Driving
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