Live '84

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Live '84
Live album by
Black Flag
ReleasedDecember 1984
RecordedAugust 26, 1984
VenueThe Stone in San Francisco, California
GenreHardcore punk, post-hardcore, jazz fusion, sludge metal
Length75:28
LabelSST (030)
ProducerGreg Ginn
Black Flag chronology
Slip It In
(1984) 		Live '84
(1984) 		Loose Nut
(1985)
Professional ratings
Review scores
SourceRating
AllMusic[1]
Alternative Rock8/10[2]
The Boston Phoenix[3]
The Encyclopedia of Popular Music[4]
MusicHound Rock: The Essential Album Guide[5]
Punknews.org[6]
The Rolling Stone Album Guide[7]
Spin Alternative Record Guide4/10[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.

Recording[edit]

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

Critical reception[edit]

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[edit]

  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[edit]

References[edit]

  1. ^ Dougan, John. "Live '84 – Black Flag | Songs, Reviews, Credits, Awards | AllMusic". AllMusic. Retrieved July 3, 2015.
  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.
  3. ^ "The Boston Phoenix February 06-12, 1998: Vol 27 Iss 6". Internet Archive. Retrieved April 18, 2022.
  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. ^ a b Spin Alternative Record Guide. Vintage Books. 1995. pp. 44–45.
  9. ^ "Black Flag | Biography & History". AllMusic.
  10. ^ Thompson, Dave (March 9, 2000). Alternative Rock. Hal Leonard Corporation. ISBN 9780879306076 – via Google Books.
  11. ^ Earles, Andrew (September 15, 2014). Gimme Indie Rock: 500 Essential American Underground Rock Albums 1981-1996. Voyageur Press. ISBN 9781627883795 – via Google Books.
  12. ^ "Live '84 cassette".
  13. ^ "Black Flag". Trouser Press. Retrieved March 9, 2021.
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