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A pivotal record in the development of American punk music, NERVOUS BREAKDOWN is both Black Flag's first record and the first release on Black Flag guitarist Greg Ginn's prolific SST Records. Recorded in a single session in January 1978 by the band's original lineup of Ginn, singer Keith Morris (soon to decamp to the Circle Jerks), bassist Chuck Dukowski, and drummer Robo, these four speedy Ginn-penned tunes roar past in a blur of hyperspeed guitars, alienated lyrics, shouted vocals, and maniacal rhythms.
Streamlining the already-barebones ethos of punk to the barest minimum, NERVOUS BREAKDOWN establishes the groundwork for hardcore. One of these songs, "Wasted," became a Black Flag anthem which was also covered brilliantly by Camper Van Beethoven.
Recorded at Media Art Studio, Hermosa Beach, California in January 1978.
Black Flag: Keith Morris (vocals); Greg Ginn (guitar); Chuck Dukowski (bass); Robo (drums).
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The Washington, D.C. straightedge hardcore punk scene began with Minor Threat. The band recorded two LPs on its own Dischord label, plus an EP and the miscellaneous singles that are collected on this CD. Many of the early recordings on this collection seethe with teen-age angst and indignation. The songs rage against bullies, religious hypocrisy, and the herd mentality.
Other songs, taken from later in Minor Threat's career, feature tighter and more sophisticated playing. Metallic flourishes tinge the guitar work, vocal harmonies abound, and song dynamics vary more than on the earlier record. On certain songs, Ian MacKaye's lyrics address the complexities of friendship, loyalty, and self-expression. "Look Back and Laugh," "Little Friend," and "It Follows" all incline more toward introspection and ambiguity; conveying loss and sadness in addition to outrage. This second set of songs seems to especially anticipate MacKaye's later work with Fugazi. The album also ...
| | Black Flag Jealous Again CD (1980)
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Black Flag's second EP, 1980's JEALOUS AGAIN finds the band with a new lead singer, Chavo, whose Everypunk vocals were less distinctive than those of his predecessor, future Circle Jerks frontman Keith Morris, but perhaps better suited to guitarist Greg Ginn's unpretentious anthems of punk life. The five speedy and short songs on ...
| | Black Flag Six Pack CD (1981)
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Black Flag's early years were tumultuous: three years, three singles, three lead singers. The frontman this time is Dez Cadena, who later spent a brief period in Redd Kross. Harsher-sounding than his immediate predecessors, Chavo and Keith Morris, but more melodic than his declamatory replacement Henry Rollins, Cadena is something ...
| | Black Flag Damaged CD (1981)
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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 ...
| | Black Flag Everything Went Black CD (1983)
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Principally recorded at Media Art Studio, Hermosa Beach, California. Includes liner notes by Spot.
EVERYTHING WENT BLACK was originally released as a stop-gap during a protracted legal skirmish with SST's former distributor, Unicorn Records, which temporarily barred Black Flag from using its own name. As a result, the original two-LP vinyl edition featured only the bandmembers' names for identification.
Featuring live tracks and studio outtakes recorded between 1978 and 1981 with singers Keith Morris (later of the Circle Jerks), Chavo and Dez Cadena, EVERYTHING WENT BLACK is something of a hodgepodge, with several songs repeated by different lineups. Despite its patchwork nature, ...
| | Black Flag First Four Years CD (1983)
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1983's THE FIRST FOUR YEARS is a handy compilation of Black Flag's first three seven-inch EPs, 1978's NERVOUS BREAKDOWN, 1980's JEALOUS AGAIN, and 1981's SIX PACK, along with two tracks from compilations and both sides of 1981's "Louie Louie"/Damaged I" single. All told, it contains the band's entire output from its pre-Henry Rollins era, though this has not stopped SST Records from reissuing the three EPs in a seemingly endless stream of formats and combinations.
Before Rollins brought ...
| | Superchunk Come Pick Me Up CD (1999)
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Superchunk's ninth full-length disc is easily the most melodic, catchy, and fun disc of the band's career. Perhaps Superchunk is feeling celebratory as a result of the 10-year anniversary of its record label, Merge Records. But regardless of what inspired it, COME PICK ME UP is an unbridled onslaught of hooks and infectious phrases. Produced by Jim O'Rourke (Gastr Del Sol), this disc offers some subtle alterations to the Superchunk recipe. While some songs flaunt string and horn sections, other tracks feature a lighter, friendlier version of Mac McCaughan's endearing squeal. Instead of screaming out the high notes in his trademark fashion, McCaughan instead sings them in a gentle falsetto. It's a wonderful, rousing disc from America's flagship ...
| | Rory Block Ain't I A Woman CD (1992)
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Rory Block's 11th album marked both a personal and professional milestone. Now a thoroughly experienced singer, Block sounded much more confident and assured doing traditional blues tunes. Her performance on the title cut was both assertive and definitive, while she also displayed her customary versatility, doing country and folk-flavored numbers such as "Silver Wings" and "Rolling Log" in addition to a stunning gospel number, "Walk In ...
| | Trey Gunn Raw Power: Surfacings 1 CDs (1999)
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This 1999 production represents material culled from Chapman Stick/Warr guitarist Trey Gunn's bank of previously unreleased outtakes or, as he states, "surfacings." Here, Gunn enlists the services of prominent modern jazz trumpeter/composer Dave Douglas along with drummer Pat Mastellotto (a fellow King Crimson bandmate) and drummer/percussionist Bob Muller. In addition, a female vocalist simply known as Serpentine sings on two tracks; yet, other than the leader, all the instrumentalists appear on selected pieces. With this effort, Gunn utilizes his electronic "tapping" instruments to lay down complex ostinato-type motifs while multi-tracking bass parts and churning out electrified solos. Hence, Gunn paints polytonal fabrics of sound via his cunning discourses and obliquely stated passages. Overall, the artist provides a disparate mix, consisting of ambient dreamscapes atop hard-driving backbeats and East Indian modalities. Meanwhile, Douglas and Gunn execute harmonious unison choruses amid straight-four rock measures and worldbeat-style grooves. Thus, Raw Power: Surfacings is a noteworthy outing from a musician ...
| | Magpie CD (2003) (Import) United Kingdom
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Subtitled "20 Junkshop Pop Ads and Themes," this is a collection whose theme isn't easily grokked by a cursory listen, particularly for listeners outside of the U.K. The basic premise, it emerges, is to collect incidental music from 1970-1974 that sort of formed a backdrop to British pop culture of the era, drawn from TV themes, film soundtracks, ads, and indeed some actual low-budget rock releases. Almost by definition, such common-denominator stuff is much more of nostalgic value than enduring artistic merit. And Magpie is a strange jumble sale of scraps, although some stars actually show up from time to time. CCS's cover of Led Zeppelin's "Whole Lotta Love," for instance, was actually a U.K. Top 20 hit, qualifying for inclusion here on the tenuous grounds of having served as a TV theme on Top of the Pops. You also get to hear Elton John singing "Spirit in Sky," taken from one of the sessions he did around 1970 for low-budget albums with shameless copies of chart records by session musicians. Then there's Don Fardon (who had the first hit version of "Indian Reservation") singing "Belfast Boy" from a documentary on soccer star Georgie Best, Love Affair lead singer Steve Ellis doing a song from the soundtrack of Loot, and TV star Peter Wyngarde providing oily narration for "Neville Thumbercatch." The Murgatroyd Band's theme to Magpie is credible blue-eyed soul-rock, done by the post-Steve Winwood Spencer Davis Group ...
| | Methadones Career Objective CD (2003)
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Fronted by former Riverdales bassist Daniel Schafer (also a regular presence in the Screeching Weasel/Queers axis of bubblegum punk), the Methadones are yet another terrific pop/punk band flying the "I'm in my 30s, but part of me inside is still a bored teenager playing video games in my mom and dad's basement" flag. Less goofy than the Mr. T Experience and less pure-pop than the Queers, the Methadones are basically serious -- on "I'm About To Crack," Schafer howls as if he means it -- but they have a decidedly snarky edge that adds bite to songs like "Premature Mid-Life Crisis" ...
| | Rock Ballads CDs (1999) Import
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| | John Hollenbeck Joys & Desires CD (2005)
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This is a very different type of big-band album. Arranger/composer/drummer John Hollenbeck conceives of the 18-piece Jazz Bigband Graz not so much as a jazz big band but as an ensemble-oriented orchestra filled with unusual tone colors that is capable of expressing most emotions. "The Bird with the Coppery, Keen Claws" has some odd narration by singer Theo Bleckmann, "Just Like Him" finds the horns playing long tones ...
| | Storys CD (2006)
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| | Guy Smiley Can't Turn Back CD (2007)
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