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Live '84
Black Flag - Live '84 cover.jpg
Live album by
Black Flag
ReleasedDecember 1984
RecordedAugust 26, 1984
Venue The Stone in San Francisco, California
Genre Hardcore punk, post-hardcore, jazz fusion, sludge metal
Length75:28
Label SST (030)
Producer Greg Ginn
Black Flag chronology
Slip It In
(1984)		Live '84
(1984)		 Loose Nut
(1985)
Professional ratings
Review scores
SourceRating
AllMusic Star full.svgStar full.svgStar full.svgStar full.svgStar empty.svg [1]
Alternative Rock 8/10 [2]
The Boston Phoenix Star full.svgStar full.svgStar full.svgStar half.svg [3]
The Encyclopedia of Popular Music Star full.svgStar full.svgStar empty.svgStar empty.svgStar empty.svg [4]
MusicHound Rock: The Essential Album Guide Star full.svgStar half.svgStar empty.svgStar empty.svgStar empty.svg [5]
Punknews.orgStar full.svgStar full.svgStar full.svgStar full.svgStar empty.svg [6]
The Rolling Stone Album Guide Star full.svgStar half.svgStar empty.svgStar empty.svgStar empty.svg [7]
Spin Alternative Record Guide 4/10 [8]

Live '84 is an album released by Black Flag in 1984 on SST Records. [9] [10] It is a live recording of a show played in 1984 and features mostly tracks from My War and Slip It In . A video was shot simultaneously and was briefly available through SST; the now-out-of-print video has been widely bootlegged.

Contents

The album was originally issued as a cassette-only release, almost simultaneously with Slip It In. In 1998, Greg Ginn remixed the album for CD reissue.

Recording

The album was recorded at the Stone nightclub in San Francisco, CA. [11]

Critical reception

Maximum Rocknroll called the album "a superior quality live tape showcasing an evening with a seminal, legendary, masochistic, poignant, chaotic beast of an outfit who have not lost one iota of aggro." [12] Trouser Press wrote that "Black Flag concerts were typically an utter mess, which suits the songs perfectly, making this chaotic explosion naturally one of their best releases." [13] The Spin Alternative Record Guide deemed it "tolerable until the lounge-core latter half of side two." [8]

Track listing

  1. "The Process of Weeding Out" (Ginn) – 8:31
  2. "Nervous Breakdown" (Ginn) – 2:06
  3. "Can't Decide" (Ginn) – 5:01
  4. "Slip It In" (Ginn) – 5:54
  5. "My Ghetto" (Ginn/Rollins) – 1:14
  6. "Black Coffee" (Ginn) – 4:53
  7. "I Won't Stick Any of You Unless and Until I Can Stick All of You!" (Ginn) – 4:53
  8. "Forever Time" (Ginn/Rollins) – 2:20
  9. "Fix Me" (Ginn) – 0:53
  10. "Six Pack" (Ginn) – 2:26
  11. "My War" (Dukowski) – 3:34
  12. "Jealous Again" (Ginn) – 1:59
  13. "I Love You" (Dukowski) – 3:19
  14. "Swinging Man" (Ginn/Rollins) – 3:10
  15. "Three Nights" (Ginn/Rollins) – 6:10
  16. "Nothing Left Inside" (Ginn/Rollins) – 6:25
  17. "Wound Up" (Ginn/Rollins) – 4:00
  18. "Rat's Eyes" (Ginn/Rollins) – 4:21
  19. "The Bars" (Dukowski/Rollins) – 4:38

Personnel

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References

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  2. ↑ Thompson, Dave (April 12, 2000). "Alternative rock". San Francisco : Miller Freeman Books ; Berkeley, CA : Distributed to the book trade in the U.S. and Canada by Publishers Group West ; Milwaukee, WI : Distributed to the music trade in the U.S. and Canada by Hal Leonard Publishing – via Internet Archive.
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  4. ↑ Larkin, Colin (2006). The Encyclopedia of Popular Music. Vol. 1. MUZE. p. 630.
  5. ↑ MusicHound Rock: The Essential Album Guide. Visible Ink Press. 1999. p. 112.
  6. ↑ "Black Flag - Live '84". www.punknews.org.
  7. ↑ The Rolling Stone Album Guide. Random House. 1992. p. 62.
  8. 1 2 Spin Alternative Record Guide. Vintage Books. 1995. pp. 44–45.
  9. ↑ "Black Flag | Biography & History". AllMusic.
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  11. ↑ Earles, Andrew (September 15, 2014). Gimme Indie Rock: 500 Essential American Underground Rock Albums 1981-1996. Voyageur Press. ISBN   9781627883795 – via Google Books.
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  13. ↑ "Black Flag". Trouser Press. Retrieved March 9, 2021.
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