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Black Flag (1978-1985) – 5 Fan Albums

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For those not in the know, fan albums are the attempts of me and many others to take songs and put them on an album, typically they’re made to improve upon something, such as an existing album or to take non-album tracks and put them on an album.

Black Flag is a band that started off with a lot of recordings and not a lot of albums. Eventually they stabilized with few strays and a lot of albums. It seemed like a fun challenge to sort this all out despite not being terribly fond of the band. The product of the early tracks is an album I’m calling Nervous Breakdown. It contains every unique track pre-Damaged, not including anything re-recorded later. Surprisingly, the result is a shockingly short twenty minutes. Due to a lot of historically relevant alternate versions being left on the chopping block, I made an album of those alternates. There’s enough recordings between these two to make three full LPs. In between Damaged and My War are more alternates and four unique cuts. I decided to make a very short EP and a fuller alternate version album. Finally, two 1985 EPs are combined to create a disparate album, but not anymore than the official My War or Family Man. Minuteflag is left as an EP due to it being a collab with Minutemen and thus it’s own thing. Also, the alternate versions albums haven’t been listened to and were merely ordered in as close to recording date as possible.

In parentheses is the release a track came from.

Black Flag – Nervous Breakdown (1981) – YouTube, Spotify

TRACKLISTING

SIDE A

  1. “Nervous Breakdown” (Nervous Breakdown) (Recorded January 1978)
  2. “Fix Me” (Nervous Breakdown) (Recorded January 1978)
  3. “I’ve Had It” (Nervous Breakdown) (Recorded January 1978)
  4. “Wasted” (Nervous Breakdown) (Recorded January 1978)
  5. “Clocked In” (EWB track 13) (Recorded October-November 1979)
  6. “My Rules” (EWB track 14) (Recorded October-November 1979)
  7. “Jealous Again” (Jealous Again) (Recorded October-November 1979)

SIDE B

  1. “Revenge” (Jealous Again) (Recorded November 1979 or April 1980)
  2. “White Minority” (Jealous Again) (Recorded November 1979 or April 1980)
  3. “No Values” (Jealous Again) (Recorded November 1979 or April 1980)
  4. “You Bet We’ve Got Something Against You!” (Jealous Again) (Recorded November 1979 or April 1980)
  5. “Louie Louie” (Louie Louie single) (Recorded January 1981)
  6. “I’ve Heard It Before” (Six Pack) (Recorded April-May 1981)
  7. “American Waste” (Six Pack) (Recorded April-May 1981)
  8. “Machine” (Chunks) (Recorded April-May 1981)

PERSONNEL

  • Keith Morris – lead vocals (tracks 1-4)
  • Greg Ginn – lead guitar (tracks 1-15)
  • Chuck Dukowski – bass (tracks 1-15)
  • Brian Migdol – drums (tracks 1-4)
  • Ron Reyes – lead vocals (tracks 5-11)
  • Robo – drums (tracks 5-15)
  • Dez Cadena – lead vocals (tracks 12-15)

Black Flag – Everything Went Black (1978-1981) (1981) – YouTube

TRACKLISTING

  1. “Gimme Gimme Gimme” (EWB track 1) (Recorded January 1978)
  2. “I Don’t Care” (EWB track 2) (Recorded January 1978)
  3. “White Minority” (EWB track 3) (Recorded January 1978)
  4. “No Values” (EWB track 4) (Recorded January 1978)
  5. “Revenge” (EWB track 5) (Recorded October 1979)
  6. “Depression” (EWB track 6) (Recorded October 1979)
  7. “Clocked In” (EWB track 7) (Recorded October 1979)
  8. “Police Story” (EWB track 8) (Recorded October 1979)
  9. “Wasted” (EWB track 9) (Recorded October 1979)
  10. “Depression” (EWB track 11) (Recorded October-November 1979)
  11. “Police Story” (EWB track 12) (Recorded October-November 1979)
  12. “Jealous Again” (EWB track 15) (Recorded October-November 1979)
  13. “Police Story” (EWB track 16) (Recorded October-November 1979)
  14. “Clocked In” (Cracks In The Sidewalk (see note) (Recorded October-November 1979)
  15. “Gimme Gimme Gimme” (EWB track 10) (Recorded November 1979 or April 1980)
  16. “Damaged I” (EWB track 17) (Recorded August 1980)
  17. “Louie Louie” (EWB track 18) (Recorded January 1981)
  18. “No More” (EWB track 19) (Recorded January 1981)
  19. “Damaged I” (Louie Louie single) (Recorded January 1981)
  20. “Room 13” (EWB track 20) (Recorded April-May 1981)
  21. “Depression” (EWB track 21) (Recorded April-May 1981)
  22. “Damaged II” (EWB track 22) (Recorded April-May 1981)
  23. “Padded Cell” (EWB track 23) (Recorded April-May 1981)
  24. “Gimme Gimme Gimme” (EWB track 24) (Recorded April-May 1981)
  25. “Spray Paint” (Licorice Pizza And More… bootleg) (Recorded April-May 1981)
  26. “Police Story” (Let Them Eat Jellybeans) (Recorded April-May 1981)
  27. “Six Pack” (Six Pack) (Recorded April-May 1981)

PERSONNEL

  • Keith Morris – lead vocals (tracks 1-9)
  • Greg Ginn – lead guitar (tracks 1-27)
  • Chuck Dukowski – bass (tracks 1-27)
  • Brian Migdol – drums (tracks 1-4)
  • Robo – drums (tracks 5-27)
  • Ron Reyes – lead vocals (tracks 10-11, 15)
  • Dez Cadena – lead vocals (tracks 12-27)

Black Flag – Damaged (1981) – YouTube, Spotify

Black Flag – What Can You Believe (1982) – YouTube (Tracks either from the TV Party EP or the 1982 Demos compilation)

TRACKLISTING

SIDE A

  1. “I’ve Got to Run”
  2. “My Rules”

SIDE B

  1. “What Can You Believe”
  2. “Yes, I Know”

PERSONNEL

  • Henry Rollins – lead vocals (tracks 1-4)
  • Greg Ginn – lead guitar (tracks 1-4)
  • Dez Cadena – rhythm guitar, vocals (tracks 1-4)
  • Chuck Dukowski – bass (tracks 1-4)
  • Bill Stevenson – drums (tracks 1-2)
  • Chuck Biscuits – drums (tracks 3-4)

Black Flag – 1982 (1982) – YouTube (Tracks either from the TV Party EP or the 1982 Demos compilation)

  1. “TV Party”
  2. “Slip It In”
  3. “Modern Man”
  4. “My War”
  5. “Black Coffee”
  6. “Beat My Head Against the Wall”
  7. “Can’t Decide”
  8. “I Love You”
  9. “Nothing Left Inside/Scream”

PERSONNEL

  • Henry Rollins – lead vocals (tracks 1-9)
  • Greg Ginn – lead guitar (tracks 1-9)
  • Dez Cadena – rhythm guitar, vocals (tracks 1-9)
  • Chuck Dukowski – bass (tracks 1-9)
  • Emil Johnson – drums (track 1)
  • Chuck Biscuits – drums (tracks 2-9)

Black Flag – My War (1984) – YouTube, Spotify

Black Flag – Family Man (1984) – YouTube, Spotify

Black Flag – Slip It In (1984) – YouTube, Spotify

Black Flag – Live ‘84 (1984) – YouTube, Spotify

Black Flag – 1984 Radio Tokyo – YouTube

Black Flag – Loose Nut (1985) – YouTube, Spotify

Black Flag – I Can See You (1985) – YouTube, Spotify (Tracks either from the The Process of Weeding Out EP or the I Can See You EP. All apparently recorded March 1985.)

TRACKLISTING

SIDE A

  1. “Your Last Affront”
  2. “Screw the Law”
  3. “The Process of Weeding Out”

SIDE B

  1. “Southern Rise”
  2. “I Can See You”
  3. “Kickin’ & Stickin’”
  4. “Out of This World”
  5. “You Let Me Down”

PERSONNEL

  • Henry Rollins – lead vocals (tracks 5-8)
  • Greg Ginn – lead guitar (tracks 1-8)
  • Kira Roessler – bass (tracks 1-8)
  • Bill Stevenson – drums (tracks 1-8)

Black Flag – In My Head (1985) – YouTube, Spotify

Black Flag – Minuteflag (1986) – YouTube, Spotify

Black Flag – Who’s Got the 10½? (1986) – YouTube, Spotify

Black Flag – What The… (2013) – YouTube, Spotify

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