Live '84 | ||||
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Released | December 1984 | |||
Recorded | August 26, 1984 | |||
Venue | The Stone in San Francisco, California | |||
Genre | Hardcore punk, post-hardcore, jazz fusion, sludge metal | |||
Length | 75:28 | |||
Label | SST (030) | |||
Producer | Greg Ginn | |||
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Source | Rating |
AllMusic | ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() |
Alternative Rock | 8/10 [2] |
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The Encyclopedia of Popular Music | ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() |
MusicHound Rock: The Essential Album Guide | ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() |
Punknews.org | ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() |
The Rolling Stone Album Guide | ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() |
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.
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.
The album was recorded at the Stone nightclub in San Francisco, CA. [11]
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]