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Hindsight usually emphasizes the more strident, aggressive aspects of Black Flag's career. The image of Henry Rollins' muscular, tattooed physique and glowering face as he stalked the stage screaming and spitting defiant and often angry lyrics, backed by Greg Ginn's screaming, almost violent, metal-edged guitar, is the first thing that usually comes to mind. And so sometimes we forget that especially in the early days, Black Flag could be pretty damn goofy. Many of the band's early songs were silly/satiric sketches of suburban California life, but none were more ridiculous than the Ramones-meet-the-Dictators 1981 single "TV Party." Ginn's odes to cheap beer, potato chips, and a remote control--complete with shouted backing vocals calling out the names of favorite shows--are simultaneously celebratory and sardonic, and the band's playing is as light and poppy as ever. The two remaining tracks are more standard hardcore-era Black Flag tunes.
Photographer: Glen E. Friedman.
Black Flag: Dez Cadena (vocals, guitar); Henry Rollins (vocals); Greg Ginn (guitar); Chuck Dukowski (bass); Bill Stevenson, Emil (drums).
Personnel: Dez Cadena (vocals, guitar); Henry Rollins (vocals); Greg Ginn (guitar); Emil, Bill Stevenson (drums).
Black Flag TV Party Songs | 1. | TV Party |
| 2. | I've Got to Run |
| 3. | My Rules |
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Purchase TV Party CD To buy, Click on price to add to cart | Black Flag Nervous Breakdown CD (1978)
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 $9.79   
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 ...
| | Black Flag Jealous Again CD (1980)
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$11.39
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 JEALOUS AGAIN are practically the archetypes of hardcore punk. Where the songs on NERVOUS BREAKDOWN, the band's 1978 debut, were beholden to British punk tropes, these more streamlined songs are harder, faster, louder, and considerably more powerful.
For those looking for value, all five songs from JEALOUS AGAIN, plus the band's first and third EPs, two compilation tracks, and a single, are contained on ...
| | Black Flag Six Pack CD (1981)
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$6.39
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 akin to a hardcore version of FUN HOUSE-era Iggy Pop. The title track is one of guitarist Greg Ginn's funniest odes to suburban teenage life, but the EP's other two songs, the slash-and-burn "I've Heard It Before" and "American Waste," point toward the more serious themes of the band's first full-length album, 1981's DAMAGED.
Those wishing more value for money will find all three of these songs, plus ...
| | Black Flag Damaged CD (1981)
TV Party songs
$13.79  
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 ...
| | Black Flag Everything Went Black CD (1983)
TV Party album
$13.85
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, it's a surprisingly solid and illuminating overview of the band's pre-Rollins years, as they slowly progressed from sloppy Dictators-like goofiness into more streamlined and serious proto-hardcore. The highlight, however, is "Crass Commercialism," a side-long suite of radio ads for Black Flag shows that's a fascinating and often hilarious audio souvenir of the halcyon days of early West Coast punk.
Recording ...
| | Black Flag First Four Years CD (1983)
TV Party CD music
$14.69 
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 his more serious and political concerns to the band, Black Flag was a sometimes-goofy punk band in the tradition of the Dictators. Keith Morris and Dez Cadena, who (separately) sing most of this material, later spent time with the Circle Jerks and Redd Kross, respectively, and the sometimes pop-tinged punk of those ...
| | Pulse Worlds Apart CD (2004) Import
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| | America Hideaway CD (1976)
TV Party songs
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| | Clifford Brown And Eric Dolphy- Together CD (2008) (Import)
TV Party album
$11.79
| | Sven Vath In The Mix: The Sound Of The Seventh Season CDs (2006)
TV Party CD music
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DJ: Sven Väth.
| | Ultra 10 CDs (2007)
TV Party music CDs
$15.95
Audio Remixers: Output Music Org.; Frank Knebel; JJ; Peter Rauhofer.
Recording information: Digidance Studio 2, The Netherlands; JIANT-ACM Studios, England; NBG Studio, Antwerp, Belgium; Nevco Studios, NY; Stonebridge Productions, Stockholm, Sweden.
Editor: David Waxman.
Photographer: Sergio Kurhajec.
Arrangers: Benny Benassi; Eric Prydz; Alle Benassi.
Personnel: ...
| | Wnua 95.5 - Smooth Jazz Sampler, Vol. 20 Anniversary CD (2007)
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| | Chamber Orchestra Of Linkola:Winds CD (2008)
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