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| | In My Head | | | 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. Paralyzed
2. Crazy Girl
3. Black Love
4. White Hot
5. In My Head
6. Out of This World
7. I Can See You
8. Drinking and Driving
9. Retired at 21
10. Society's Tease
11. It's All Up to You
12. You Let Me Down
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Customer Reviews of This Album/CD |
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 Heavy, Sludgy, classic Rollins
Submitted on: 2009-09-24 |
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Mid-80s Black Flag was the end of an era. The best hardcore band ever kept putting out heavy, depressing, grungy albums with lost of rants and screams by frontman Henry Rollins. I had this 20 years ago and it was never my favorite, but always had that catchy sound to headbang.
I Still dig this cd, it is primal hardcore/rock pre-metal and marked the end of great run. Not as good as previous 80's releases, but every song is solid and well worth the used price, buy it! |
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The last Black Flag album was a good effort
Submitted on: 2009-08-05 |
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In My Head was the last album by Black Flag before vocalist Henry Rollins formed The Rollins Band. This album does not disappoint. It's not my favorite Flag album, but it certainly is good. Greg Ginn's guitar sounds a little different than on previous albums, and that's a good thing.
There are very unique melodic changes in the songs. The album opener, Paralyzed, is a good example. My personal favorite song on the album is The Crazy Girl. Good lyrics, guitar, and attitude. This song's slower parts remind me a little bit of the song Rat's Eyes from the album Slip It In. This song plain rocks. The song White Hot is a favorite of mine. The title track follows, and is typical Black Flag attitude. Out Of This World begins with guitarist Greg Ginn dragging his pick on the guitar strings, then the song explodes with furiosity and great vocals by Rollins. The song Retired At 21 is kind of a throwback to their Damaged days. Their Damaged album has songs that are more upbeat and on the lighter side. The song You Let Me Down is the album closer and is one of my favorite songs on the album. Henry Rollins doesn't scream as much on this album compared to previous albums, but he still does a great job when he does scream and moan. I almost view this album as a preview of what was to come with The Rollins Band.
If you like raw and powerful music with a punk edge to it, then I highly recommend this album.
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 Near flawless... just like all their albums.
Submitted on: 2009-04-08 |
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My only complaints for this record is the song 'I Can See You', which I usually skip, and MAYBE the production... but that's nitpicking. Other than those two complaints it's full of extremely solid, straight ahead punk ROCK. The experimental type songs are hear too with 'Black Love', The Crazy Girl, and You Let Me Down... which may take a while to grow on you but trust me, listen to them about 10 times and they'll stick with you. If you love My War, Slip It In, and Loose Nut then there is no reason you shouldn't own this album. Get it, now.
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Black Flag puts down the black coffee
Submitted on: 2007-09-22 |
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| Black Flags last album, In My Head. My personal 2nd favorite album by the band. It's slower than their earlier stuff, but I'm in love with some of Ginn's guitar work on this one. If you're looking for some fast slam dance Black Flag, get Damaged or one of their earlier EPs. |
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We want to experiment without being an art band
Submitted on: 2005-12-19 |
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| The quote in the title is from Will Shatter (Flipper) and in hindsight it is easy to see how innovative Black Flag really were, always -aginst the grain- pushin their music and themselves forward - even if it meant stealing spare tyres, going without sleep for five days and eating dog food. I remember there was a poll in Flipside around the time this album came out titled 'band you think should call it a day' and yes - Black Flag came out top and whilst that may have been right as the band was crippled by the hatred between Henry Rollins and Greg Ginn, this album shows they still had it. For anyone who hasn't heard it, the album is a lot more experimentally "sonic" that the preceding albums with Ginn creating creepy crawling spidery riffs more complex than out and out metal riffing of 'Loose Nut'. The songs have weird shape shifting tempos with everthing treated with hallucinatory reverberation. Rollins vocals are buried in the mix and could be called 'psychotic whispering' which I believe is down to the fact that this album was originally intended to be an instrumental album (i also read it was to be Greg Ginn's first solo album) and was recorded in its entirety without Rollins. That is what gives it a quality unlike any other BF album that takes most of the songs away from normal 'rock' into almost improv riffing as Henry jams on songs like 'Black Love', 'Crazy Girl'. There are a few bootlegs of the band at this time floating around and i would recommend people to track them down as well as it shows how great the band would have been live at this time. They play this material tight but at faster 4/4 tempos and Rollins is screaming the lyrics. Great album from a great band. |
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