| Loose Nut | ||||
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| Released | May 14, 1985 | |||
| Recorded | March 1985 | |||
| Studio | Total Access Recording, Redondo Beach, California | |||
| Genre | Hardcore punk, heavy metal | |||
| Length | 34:07 | |||
| Label | SST (035) | |||
| Producer | Bill Stevenson Greg Ginn David Tarling | |||
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Loose Nut is the fifth studio album by American band Black Flag, released in 1985 on SST Records.
| Review scores | |
|---|---|
| Source | Rating |
| AllMusic |   [1] |
| Encyclopedia of Popular Music | [2] |
| The Great Rock Discography | 5/10 [3] |
| MusicHound Rock | 3/5 [4] |
| Punknews.org | [5] |
| The 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]
| 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 |
| 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 |
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