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| | Slip It In | | | Music Artist : | | Black Flag | | Music Style : | | General | | Record Label : | | Sst Records | | Release Date : | | 1990-10-25 | | Store Price : | | $16.98 | | Artistopia's Price: $16.98 | | Usually ships in 24 hours | | |
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CD Tracks/Songs
Disc 11. Slip It In - Black Flag, Suzi Gardner
2. Black Coffee
3. Wound Up
4. Rat's Eyes
5. Obliteration
6. Bars
7. My Ghetto
8. You're Not Evil
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 One of the best Black Flag albums
Submitted on: 2009-08-05 |
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Slip It In is similar to the album My War in a lot of ways, only it doesn't have the slower metal-like songs on My War (such as Three Nights and Scream). This album is a mixture of hardcore punk rock, hard rock, and heavy metal.
The title track launches the album, a song with a great beat and bass. Suzanne Gardner provides good backing vocals. The next song, Black Coffee, is one of the best tracks on the album and one of my favorite Black Flag songs. Great guitar work. The song Wound Up follows, a good rocker. The next song is also one of my favorite Flag songs ever, Rat's Eyes. This song is a sinister, evil, dirty, gets-under-your-skin kind of song. Henry Rollins' rat-like vocals will blow you away. This song makes me think of the lowest of the low in life, the "gutter mentality." So many Black Flag songs talk about dirty, filthy, "I'm in the gutter" subject matter. The dark and evil and dirty stuff. Gotta love it. The next song is instrumental, called Obliteration. Good changes, and it rocks. The Bars has great bass, My Ghetto has good shouting and screaming by Rollins, and the album closer You're Not Evil is a hard rocker with a good melody.
This album is great. Period. Highly recommended for fans of this type of music. It's raw and in-your-face punk metal. |
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Isn't it amazing...
Submitted on: 2009-04-08 |
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how horrible some people's taste in music is? How anyone could give this album a 1 star review blows my mind, all I can think is that they never bothered listening.
Well, no big surprises here, just another near-flawless album from Black Flag, the only track I skip sometimes is "My Ghetto"... but even that song isn't terrible. Every song brings something different and they're all winners, (especially the title track and 'You're Not Evil') so buy it and listen. |
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Slip It In
Submitted on: 2008-07-25 |
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Black Flag-Slip It In *****
So basically the album opens with a six minute guitar solo from Ginn while Henry Rollins and a woman shout 'slip it in' and simulate sex through a microphone. The tempo changes in the song symbolizing the breaths one must take while engaging in intercourse. This is classic Black Flag and maybe their most diverse and sophisticated album (musically at least) and the opening title track warns you of this.
Ginns guitar work is unmatched in the punk realm. Only a few can even come close; Slip It In is a testament to this. As for the rest of the band they are in top form to, namely Rollins. His vocals seems angrier than on Damaged and his lyrics while not as overtly political as previous releases, they focus more on social issues. 'Rats Eyes' finds Rollins playing Jim Morrison dressed up as a straight edge hardcore punk amongst Reagan's youth. 'You're Not Evil' serves as not only one of the smartest songs to emerge from the hardcore movement of the eighties but finds Rollins once again taking a role other than himself; something of a psychic healer.
Slip It In serves as maybe even a better album than that of Damaged, the bands magnum opus. Anything that wasn't needed was thrown out leaving what I consider a perfect album in the world of hardcore punk. Many had turned their back on the band at this point leaving me speechless as this is truly one of the best albums of the time. There is really no bad songs on the record. So would it recommend it...you bet! |
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If You Like Other Black Flag.....You Will Like This
Submitted on: 2007-09-22 |
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| On my list of best Black Flag albums, Slip It In is #3. It's bassist Kira Roessier first album with Black Flag. Greg Ginn starts exploring his talent as a guitarist by becoming more technical. This is also what I consider Black Flag's last overall fast album. In the following album, Loose Nut, you notice a slower pace to more songs, although still heavy with Black Flag's usual angst. I'd recommend buying this to any Black Flag fan who's already got Damaged and My War. |
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Black Flag - 'Slip It In' (SST)
Submitted on: 2007-05-15 |
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| I've never been the biggest fan of hardcore, but I do know a great record when I hear it. 'Slip It In' is the band's third effort that was originally released in 1984. Tunes I found myself playing a lot off here were the title track "Slip It In", the in-your-ugly-*ss-mug "Black Coffee", "Rat's Eyes", "The Bars" and the body slammin' classic "My Ghetto". This is the sort of music that lures you to drive around at 3am and smash up every mail box (the ones they have by the end of the driveway) within a two mile radius. Line-up: Henry Rollins-vocals, Greg Ginn-guitar, Kira Roessler-bass and Bill Stevenson-drums. Should appeal to most fans of Misfits, the Germs, Minor Threat and Dead Kennedys. Believe I saw guitarist Greg Ginn's post-Black Flag trio, Gone play an actual in-store appearance. Wasn't just a three song mini-set, it was like a 45 minute show that had nearby tenants calling the police. You KNOW you've had a great time when that happens. Highly recommended. |
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