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Track List
01) Rise Above
02) Spray Paint
03) Six Pack
04) What I See
05) TV Party
06) Thirsty and Miserable
07) Police Story
08) Gimmie Gimmie Gimmie
09) Depression
10) Room 13
11) Damaged II
12) No More
13) Padded Cell
14) Life of Pain
15) Damaged I
01) Rise Above
02) Spray Paint
03) Six Pack
04) What I See
05) TV Party
06) Thirsty and Miserable
07) Police Story
08) Gimmie Gimmie Gimmie
09) Depression
10) Room 13
11) Damaged II
12) No More
13) Padded Cell
14) Life of Pain
15) Damaged I
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First Released
1981
Hardcore Punk
Excitable
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Damaged is the debut studio album by the American hardcore punk band Black Flag. It was released on December 5, 1981 through SST Records.
Over the years since the album's original release it has been recognized as a punk classic and one of the most influential punk records ever made by appearing on a number of "best of" lists by punk fans and critics alike. In 2003, the album was ranked number 340 on Rolling Stone's list of The 500 Greatest Albums of All Time. Pitchfork Media also ranked it number 25 on its list of the Top 100 Albums of the 1980s.
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Consisting of mostly undigested lumps of bile spat out with a caustic vehemence, the word ‘uncompromising’“ might well have been designed with LA punk combo, Black Flag, in mind. There’s an almost autistic single-mindedness about this album’s monochromatic howl. Consisting of short–sharp-shock songs taken at a frenzied pace, the stripped-back garage sound is topped by the splenetic baying of vocalist Henry Rollins.
Formed in 1977 and guided by guitarist Gregg Ginn, the band was the embodiment of dysfunctional, disaffected white America, borrowing from the UK’s punk movement but adding more than enough attitude to derail an oncoming train. It wasn’t until fan of the band, Rollins, joined the group – after jumping on stage during a gig – that they found their stride and recorded their guttural debut. Essentially an album of electric protest songs, if asked what it was they were getting hot under the collar about, then you’d have to say just about everything! The likeably buffoonish “TV Party” and “Six Pack” are acute digs at slackers everywhere, whilst “Gimme, Gimme, Gimme” takes a swing at the insularities and shortcomings of the ‘me’ generation.
Mostly though, their invective nails self-doubt, alienation and the self-inflicted martyrdom of being square pegs tired of being battered into a round of hole of conformity. The one variation in their acidic drench of sound is “Life of Pain”, opening with an angular motif revealing that Ginn had more than a passing knowledge of Robert Fripp’s 1979 solo album, Exposure.
Despite coming a few years after the white heat of the punk revolution had cooled off somewhat, the album caused waves when released in 1981 for the extremes of its furious nihilism. Further albums of similar ferocity (though widened musicality) followed, but they folded in 1986. Even after more than 25 years, listening to it is akin to stumbling into the middle of a bar-room brawl. Though you wouldn’t guess it from this outing, Henry Rollins went on to become of the most incisive observers of the period via his book and spoken word CD, Get In The Van.
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Damaged is the debut studio album by the American hardcore punk band Black Flag. It was released on December 5, 1981 through SST Records.
Over the years since the album's original release it has been recognized as a punk classic and one of the most influential punk records ever made by appearing on a number of "best of" lists by punk fans and critics alike. In 2003, the album was ranked number 340 on Rolling Stone's list of The 500 Greatest Albums of All Time. Pitchfork Media also ranked it number 25 on its list of the Top 100 Albums of the 1980s.
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Consisting of mostly undigested lumps of bile spat out with a caustic vehemence, the word ‘uncompromising’“ might well have been designed with LA punk combo, Black Flag, in mind. There’s an almost autistic single-mindedness about this album’s monochromatic howl. Consisting of short–sharp-shock songs taken at a frenzied pace, the stripped-back garage sound is topped by the splenetic baying of vocalist Henry Rollins.
Formed in 1977 and guided by guitarist Gregg Ginn, the band was the embodiment of dysfunctional, disaffected white America, borrowing from the UK’s punk movement but adding more than enough attitude to derail an oncoming train. It wasn’t until fan of the band, Rollins, joined the group – after jumping on stage during a gig – that they found their stride and recorded their guttural debut. Essentially an album of electric protest songs, if asked what it was they were getting hot under the collar about, then you’d have to say just about everything! The likeably buffoonish “TV Party” and “Six Pack” are acute digs at slackers everywhere, whilst “Gimme, Gimme, Gimme” takes a swing at the insularities and shortcomings of the ‘me’ generation.
Mostly though, their invective nails self-doubt, alienation and the self-inflicted martyrdom of being square pegs tired of being battered into a round of hole of conformity. The one variation in their acidic drench of sound is “Life of Pain”, opening with an angular motif revealing that Ginn had more than a passing knowledge of Robert Fripp’s 1979 solo album, Exposure.
Despite coming a few years after the white heat of the punk revolution had cooled off somewhat, the album caused waves when released in 1981 for the extremes of its furious nihilism. Further albums of similar ferocity (though widened musicality) followed, but they folded in 1986. Even after more than 25 years, listening to it is akin to stumbling into the middle of a bar-room brawl. Though you wouldn’t guess it from this outing, Henry Rollins went on to become of the most incisive observers of the period via his book and spoken word CD, Get In The Van.
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