Raunchy guitars with heavy drums, the tempo pausing during the chorus really convey the anticipation of slipping it in. Always one to fall for sexual innuendos, the opening “Slip It In” doesn’t do a very good job hiding it’s intentions. Or maybe I like the slightly longer, for them at least, songs that highlight their different talents. Maybe I’m more of a Rollins guy, since he did have more song writing influence on this one. Take nothing away from Damaged, it is a great hard hitting album that deserves all the respect it commands. Most people swear by their first official release, Damaged, but for me it was all about 1984’s Slip It In. By the time I discovered them, front man Henry Rollins was off starting the Rollins Band and Black Flag was basically over. While all punk has it’s roots in Iggy and the Stooges, these SoCal punk gods paved their own way starting the American west punk sound and style. That was my experience finding Black Flag. Then you had to hope the nearest record store, yes record store, even carried the band. If it wasn’t mainstream getting radio play, you usually found new music from a friend of a friend who probably had an older sibling. There was no Google or Amazon to search through, so your options were very limited.
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On the other hand, You're Not Evil - especially its delirious outro - is so excellent as to forgive most of those sins, and the instrumental Obliteration might be the ultimate counterpoint to anyone trying to claim that the hardcore punk scene lacked for strong musicianship.My musical guilty pleasure this week takes me back to the late eighties where a small town mid-western misfit was always in search of new music. Rat's Eyes falls flat - it's almost a good song, mind, but the repetition of the chorus section is a bit excessive and just loses its power after a while, and it could have done with extensive tightening up on that front. The end result is a fascinating trip through a darker and more hard-edged take on the sort of territory that their buddies and labelmates in the Minutemen were exploring at the same time, filtered through some absolutely furious emoting from Henry Rollins. That sound is pretty much "My War, Side 1, Part 2" - whilst there's some shots of the doomier sound of side 2 of My War, for the most part the material here more involves an attempt to return to a hardcore-oriented sound but with the various other styles that Black Flag had dabbled in over the past year - doom metal and jazz in particular - more fully integrated into that hardcore sound. That may make it more palatable to some listeners, because whereas Family Man (which emerged between My War and this one) was made up of a mass of unusual material recorded at different times during a period of extensive musical development, Slip It In has a much more cohesive sound. Slip It In was recorded in a single group of sessions in June 1984, just as My War was recorded in a focused set in December 1983. Thanks to Unitron for the addition and Bosh66 for the updates Buy BLACK FLAG - SLIP IT IN music Reissued 11th May 2011.ġ2" marbled green vinyl LP released 2011 on SST Records (SST 029).
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12" vinyl and cassette album released December 1984 on SST Records (SST 029).ġ2" vinyl and cassette released 1984 in Canada on Fringe Product (FPL 3016).ġ2" vinyl LP released 1984 in Germany on Aggressive Rockproduktionen (AG 0041).ĬD released 1987 on SST Records (SST-CD-029).ĬD and 12" translucent red vinyl LP released 1990 on SST Records (SST 029).ĬD released 23rd April 1997 in Japan on King International Inc.