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Damaged II 3:23
A great track, Gregg shows off his excellence 'trippy' guitar playing again here. One of the more obscure songs. Completely breaks down in parts to noise, then comes right back atchya!
No More 2:25
This is brilliant, I love the way the bass and drums both gradually ... Read review
Founded by guitarist/songwriter Greg Ginn, Black Flag exploded out of LA in 1981 with a ... more
debut album so confrontational that MCA Records refused to release it, stating that Black Flag was "immoral" and lacking "redeeming social value". When the album fi...
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Advantages: Punk! The best BF album. Disadvantages: If only Henry was still this good!
...end though.
Damaged II 3:23
A great track, Gregg shows off his excellence 'trippy' guitar playing again here. One of the more obscure songs. Completely breaks down in parts to noise, then comes right back atchya!
No More 2:25
This is brilliant, I love the way the bass and drums both gradually speed up at the beginning. Very good build up, reminds me of the start of a fight or something?! ... ...sounding songs!
Damaged I 3:53
A slow weird track to end off the album. Henry's lyrical talent is really shown here, reminds me a lot of the newer BF albums. Sounds a bit reminiscant to Rats Eyes of their Slip It In album?
All in all, Damaged was the benchmark for punk music at the time. The raw, gritty recording and the aggression just show everything a punk album should be. Add in the strange guitar ... more
Black Flag.. one of the most influential American punk bands of the 80's released their debut with Henry Rollins in 1981. It would become a classic album, with many great tunes such as the angry 'Rise Above', and the party tune 'TV Party'!
Rise Above 2:25
This track, for me has to be one of my favourites of the album. A song with such aggression, and Henry's short snappy vocal lines at the beginning can't help but get me chanting along! And such a simple chorus. A total energy packed song!
Spray Paint 0:33
The shortest track on the album, racking in at only 33 seconds long. I don't think there's actually a part of this song where Henry rests for a breather! Love shouting out 'spray paint the walls!' too!
Six Pack 2:20
Probably one of Black Flag's more known songs, this opens up with such a sweet bass line. Gregg Ginn's skilled guitar playing is really evident in this song, as he goes off into experimental solos which go against Henry's shouting. Love the last half a second of a song too.
What I See 1:55
One of the more depressing songs on the album (though I'm sure Henry's being tounge-in-cheek about it). I'm not very keen on this track, I find it a tad boring.
TV Party 3:31
Now, this song is an anthem! Many weekends have I drunk beer to this song, shouting out names of favourite TV programs! This has such a nice riff too. And one of the best chorus's I've ever heard in my life. It just makes me happy this one! And the video, if you get chance to see it - haha.
Thirsty And Miserable 2:05
Another angry song, with more of Gregg Ginn's guitar work on display. Quite a trippy song actually! I love the lyrics on this one.
Police Story 1:32
Probably one of my other favourite songs on the album! Just completely sums up the whole Punk vs. Police scene in 80's America.
Gimmie Gimmie Gimmie 1:47
This is a catchy one, and one of their older tracks.
Depression 2:28
Love it! Black Flag just comes out of no where from their feedback, and the chorus is brilliant! 'Depressions got a holda me!' A very, very energetic track. I can just picture Henry shouting his head off to this when I listen to it!
Room 13 2:04
One of the less strong tracks on the album, song structure doesn't really alter much through out the song. Nice bit towards the end though.
Damaged II 3:23
A great track, Gregg shows off his excellence 'trippy' guitar playing again here. One of the more obscure songs. Completely breaks down in parts to noise, then comes right back atchya!
No More 2:25
This is brilliant, I love the way the bass and drums both gradually speed up at the beginning. Very good build up, reminds me of the start of a fight or something?!
Padded Cell 1:47
Track opens up with a nice little riff, I really love the lyrics on this song actually.
Life Of Pain 2:50
This song is mad! Completely, utterly mad! My favourite track by far! I can't help but shout along 'Self Destruct!' with the chorus. Another of Black Flag's more obscure sounding songs!
Damaged I 3:53
A slow weird track to end off the album. Henry's lyrical talent is really shown here, reminds me a lot of the newer BF albums. Sounds a bit reminiscant to Rats Eyes of their Slip It In album?
All in all, Damaged was the benchmark for punk music at the time. The raw, gritty recording and the aggression just show everything a punk album should be. Add in the strange guitar techniques of Gregg and you have a brilliant fusion!
They just don't make punk albums like they used to.
Advantages: Can strip paint from just about any surface! Disadvantages: Weak production, but adds to the charm.
Black Flag's 1981 album "Damaged", marked the debut of one Henry Rollins on the L.A. Hardcore crew's mic-stand, in one of the early 80's most incendiary Punk releases. Following the departure of Keith Morris to the Circle Jerks, Rollins (recruited from the crowd at a D.C. gig) takes hold of the new line-up's material and screams his way through 15 tracks of dischordant venom.
This album became the benchmark for a whole scene, with perhaps only Minor ... ...in terms of sheer scorching intensity at that time. I remember first hearing this band around 13 years ago (too late to see live - they split in 1986), and nothing I have heard since has held a flame to it. Tracks such as "Rise Above", "Thirsty and Miserable", "Police Story" and "Depression" provide an unrivalled visceral thrill, with guitars sounding like chainsaws revving up for a good days work in a forest.
This album has become one of the most ...
kormacoma 10.01.2005
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Advantages: Cheap, Great intorduction to the band Disadvantages: I cant find any fault, all the tracks are; for me great, but all very different
albums I own for me this collection is definitely the pinnacle of their work. It holds its energy all the way through, and will give you an insight to the experimental nature of the band, but also the multiple sides, and types of music they made. If I was a Fugazi neophyte, someone interested in the underground post-hardcore scene, or someone simply looking for some second wave punk, before it was diluted by bands like the Offspring and Greenday, I would start here.
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First Three Years is a compilation album by singer-songwriter Frank Turner, released in December 1, 2008 through Xtra Mile Recordings. The compilation is also included on the re-release of Love, Ire and Song, released January 26, 2009. The album itself is only available directly from Xtra Mile.
The album compiles material that does not appear on either of Turner's two studio albums, including tracks from early EP's, split singles, covers and unreleased material. The collection also includes a cover of "Smiling at Strangers on Trains" - Turner's former band, Million Dead's, first single.
The title and cover artwork reference the BlackFlag album The First Four Years, a similar compilation of early material.
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Personnel: Henry Rollins (vocals); Dez Cadena (guitar, background vocals); Greg Ginn (guitar); Charles Dukowski (bass); Robo (drums). Perhaps the quintessential California punk band, and one of the founding fathers of hardcore, Black Flag is to America what the Sex Pistols are to the U.K. DAMAGED is the band's most loved album, featuring some of its best-known songs. Though the group's speedy, full-frontal assault laid the groundwork for the faster-and-louder generation of punks to come, the guitar interplay of Greg Ginn and Dez Cadena is still melodic, and often even hook-filled. The songs, delivered in an impassioned rant by a young Henry Rollins, are classic Cal-punk, mocking American complacency ("Six Pack," "TV Party") with a winning combination of anger and satire, as well as an ingratiating sense of structure. Also included on the disc is the early, pre-Rollins EP JEALOUS AGAIN, on which the band similarly rages against the machine, though the attack is a bit less refined. DAMAGED is an American punk classic, and the cornerstone of any punk collection.
Album Reviews
Spin (5/01, p.109) - Ranked #18 in Spin's "50 Most Essential Punk Records" - "...Orange County angst at its most devastating..." Q Magazine - (5/02 SE, p.134) - Included in Q's "100 Best Punk Albums". Mojo (3/03, p.76) - Ranked #18 in Mojo's "Top 50 Punk Albums" - "...This is the album that screams and shimmers with fury, nihilism, claustrophobia and excess..." Q (1/96, p.146) - 3 Stars - Good - "...[DAMAGED] catches them at the point where Exploited-style ramalams like `TV Party' were giving way for tricksier, more obtuse material..." Mojo (3/01, p.114) - "...Features the debut of new vocalist Henry Rollins....For 45 minutes he screams until his innards dilate, then screams some more..."
Titles on disc 1
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Rise Above
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Spray Paint
3.
Six Pack
4.
What I See
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TV Party
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Thirsty And Miserable
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Police Story
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Gimme Gimme Gimme
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Depression
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Room 13
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Damaged II
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No Moe
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Padded Cell
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Life Of Pain
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Damaged I
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Jealous Again
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Revenge
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White Minority
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No Values
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You Bet We've Got
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Something Against You
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