Loose Nut

Loose Nut
Studio album by Black Flag
Released	1985
Recorded	March 1985
Studio	Total Access, Redondo Beach, California
Genre	Hardcore punk, heavy metal
Length	34:07
Label	SST (035)
Producer	Bill Stevenson Greg Ginn David Tarling
Black Flag chronology
Live '84 (1984) Loose Nut (1985) The Process of Weeding Out (1985)

Loose Nut is the fifth studio album by American band Black Flag, released in 1985 on SST Records.

Reception

Professional ratings

Review scores
Source	Rating
AllMusic	[1]
The Encyclopedia of Popular Music	[2]
The Great Rock Discography	5/10 [3]
MusicHound Rock	[4]
Punknews.org	[5]
(The New) Rolling Stone Album Guide	[6]

Spin wrote, "Henry Rollins' manic ravings make mascaraed posturers seem pale. This band goes off, takes a lot of chances, and when you hear this, you have a lot of fun. Who knows when radio programmers will catch up to them? Black Flag really deserves to be, like, bigger than Thriller ." ^[7]

Track listing

Side A

No.	Title	Writer(s)	Length
1.	"Loose Nut"	Greg Ginn	4:35
2.	"Bastard in Love"	Ginn	3:20
3.	"Annihilate This Week"	Ginn	4:44
4.	"Best One Yet"	Kira Roessler, Henry Rollins	2:37
5.	"Modern Man"	Ed Danky, Chuck Dukowski	3:11

Side B

No.	Title	Writer(s)	Length
6.	"This Is Good"	Ginn, Rollins	3:34
7.	"I'm the One"	Roessler, Rollins	3:15
8.	"Sinking"	Ginn, Rollins	4:36
9.	"Now She's Black"	Bill Stevenson	4:51

Personnel

• Henry Rollins – lead vocals
• Greg Ginn – guitars
• Kira Roessler – bass, backing vocals
• Bill Stevenson – drums
• Raymond Pettibon – artwork
• Milo Aukerman – backing vocals on "Loose Nut"

References

1. Ogg, Alex. Loose Nut at AllMusic. Retrieved 2011-07-01.
2. Larkin, Colin (2007). The Encyclopedia of Popular Music (4th ed.). Oxford University Press. ISBN   978-0195313734.
3. Martin C. Strong (1998). The Great Rock Discography (1st ed.). Canongate Books. ISBN   978-0-86241-827-4.
4. Gary Graff, ed. (1996). MusicHound Rock: The Essential Album Guide (1st ed.). London: Visible Ink Press. ISBN   978-0-7876-1037-1.
5. "Black Flag - Loose Nut". January 21, 2005.
6. Sheffield, Rob (2004). "Black Flag". In Brackett, Nathan; Hoard, Christian (eds.). (The New) Rolling Stone Album Guide (4th ed.). London: Fireside Books. ISBN   0-7432-0169-8 . Retrieved November 5, 2021.
7. Sue Cummings (September 1985). "Spins". Spin . No. 5. p. 31.