Loose nut is my favorite BF album. This was the first BF album I heard. My buddy bought it when it first came out in 1985. I loved it so much, The next week I went and bought Slip it in. I still listen to this album several times a year. Favorite song Now She’s Black
I can't hang with the dated production on Loose Nut, but I LOVE the songs because "Who's Got The 10 1/2" was my first BF and I think it sounds awesome.
@@jonathonawarnberg That album is very good but thé only thing I can’t stand is the drums. I find the drums sound terrible and i’m not sure who the drummer is but it’s definitely not Bill. I love Bill, he sounds insanely good. The drummer is not bad at all, just the tuning of the kit and the production of it really disappoints me. Not sure why
I was a metal head that thought I try to get into punk and picked up Family Man album. I definitely picked up the wrong damn one. Heard Damaged years later and “ got it”
Henry did not "kick" Chuck out of the band. Chuck worked for SST for a long time. It was a Greg thing. In My Head was supposed to be a Headphones album. That is what Greg told me. I like it a lot. Charles Manson w/ King Crimson.
My favorite is MY WAR, but SLIP IT IN comes next. DAMAGED is a classic debut, but it sounds like one long song. Still love it. But i love even MINUTEFLAG
Family man actually cemented black flag for me as ok this is fucking nuts. I heard my war then a couple ep's a few years ago but when family man hit I was fucking floored like what...
Best HC band and easily one of my faves of all time ( Rollins era only). Great podcast, tho' "My War" is the best IMO, although I love all of the full LP ( non instrumental) albums. Got to see them on the "Loose Nut" tour and it was one of the greatest live acts I've ever seen - Kira had the 10 1/2! Ya'll will dig GONE I think. Lot's of variety to the LPs. They're definitely worth a listen and would open up for BF on tour, again, showing what a tireless guitarist Greg Ginn was. He's in my top 3 of greatest guitarists ever , yeah, I said it.
Keith Morris and Rollins have both said that Ginn never paid royalties to former members, I think Flag was a way to make a few bucks back that were owed. And also a way to hear those songs without a theremin solo being thrown in.
Oops, you can't do Everything Went Black, because technically it wasn't put out by Black Flag due to the legal issues. Even the Bars are erased off that album.
A couple corrections: You’re pronouncing Valleley wrong according to the guy himself. The lawsuit you guys are discussing is the preliminary lawsuit… there was another ruling after this one that heavily favored Ginn and SST and closed the case.
U guys are correct the spoken word should have been separated from all music either separate albums or Henry Rollins solo whoever did the poetry solo because they should have kept the music to the music spoken word spoken word two different entities I believe
I figured you guys would do this group, but JFA(skaters), Minutemen, Crass(anarchy), Mission to Burma, Danzig, Minor Threat? Quite impressive. These bands are in the same genre but Flipper, TSOL, DK, & MDC were more prolific & evolved, or devolved, like Black Flag did. But you'd have to include the 7" singles. The punk scene way back was about the shows, not the albums. Sex Pistols & Siouxsie Sioux in 1976. But I always listened to things wayyyyyyyy off the radar. & I was born in 1967. The band I would HIGHLY suggest is the Jazz Butcher Conspiracy & his Sikorskies from Hell, aka JBC. A British rock band that put out, IDK 14 - 20 albums? Soul Happy Hour, D.R.I.N.K., & Girls Who Keep Goldfish from maybe '78 to now? Everyone I turned on to them, loved the music. That vinyl was impossible to find, Glass records, good luck. Ask your friend that likes "obscure alternative" about them. I love your show guys.
I don't know if it was Mike or Alex who said they're "not interested in hearing FLAG" because Kira and Bill Stevenson on rhythm section was the best. While I can't disagree with you in terms of their recorded work - FLAG is LEGIT. Chuck Dukowski. Bill Stevenson. Steven Egerton and Dez on guitars? Keith Morris on vocals? TFOH. I won't lie, I'd like to see Rollins in this. But I love Keith Morris as a human (and I love OFF). And even though they don't move the way they used to, their feel is still sick as fuck, and that's, to me, what Black Flag was all about. The intro to this set is insane. I get chills. ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-X3z1KF2s8Sc.html
Best hardcore punk album in more "recent" years is the Queers - Beyonce the valley & Back to the Basement; but their best albums overall were Don't back down, Grow up, Punkrock confidential & Pleasant Screams.
Mike speaks with grand authority on subjects that the facts do not support... quickly corrected by Alex in most cases. Don't go in the deep end if you can't swim.
Slip It In was my gateway album and tour. Great album. Always my favorite. Loose Nut was a great period. The band, support acts, and road crew crashed at our house in Columbia SC after the show in June '85. Great night. We then saw them again the very next night in Charlotte. No more memorable way to kick off the summer. Plus, I had just graduated high school two weeks earlier.
I have a super fucked up black flag tattoo. Its a 6 pack of duff beer with one can knocked over and the spilled beer says black flag....🙄 Sounded like a great idead but it turned out like ass
Sorry, but I have to say that... Ron Reyes is "by far" the best singer of the Flag. Rollins has the charisma, maybe fitted better in the band, but just as a singer, Ron was good. Good voice! 😉
