#417/1052
October 1985
Black Flag
In My Head
Genre: ExperiMetal
3.75 out of 5
I’ve made no secret about my dislike for Greg Ginn. There was one good song in Black Flag’s repertoire as far as I am concerned, the sarcastic and obnoxiously hilarious “TV Party”. How Henry Rollins became the poet laureate of Punk is a testament to good PR and stick to it-iveness.
That said, the sludgy opening of “Paralyzed” and how it leads into the darkly mental “The Crazy Girl” is almost a culmination of so many missed targets coming together in a cohesion that renders all the bad feelings moot.
Those two tracks actually set the tone for the whole record and then, towards the end, it’s almost as though the guys are aiming for…listenability? (“Society’s Tease” has them proving they learned something from listening to Ramones records)
Amazing that it took getting to their swan song for them to get here. And maybe that’s what ended them.
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