[21] The sides on the original LP divide the tracks into stylistic halves. Nothing left, not even pride. Nothing left but to repent Ginn doubled on bass guitar under the name "Dale Nixon" for the recording as co-founding bassist Chuck Dukowski left the band shortly before recording; the album includes two tracks Dukowski wrote. [4], Following the release of Damaged, Black Flag absorbed a wider range of influences, such as the doom metal of Saint Vitus (who released via SST) and the more experimental hardcore of Flipper, Void, and Fang.
artist: "Five Finger Death Punch", [27] Howard Hampton at the Boston Phoenix called My War "unbearably boring ... resorting to standard [heavy metal] machinations". [16] It is considered to have helped usher in post-hardcore along with such releases as Hüsker Dü's Zen Arcade and Minutemen's Double Nickels on the Dime the same year. On "Three Nights" Rollins compares himself to feces stuck to his shoe: "And I've been grinding that stink into the dirt / For a long time now".
Ginn responded, "It's Italian for God. [25] Robert Christgau considered the B-side a "waste". War Lyrics: AXL (AXL), AXL (AXL), AXL (AXL) / Woi-oi / Ayy / I don't cop things for resale, don't do iCloud, don't do email / Feds wanna tap up man and wire up man like Chubbs did Detail
[28], My War was the first of four Black Flag releases in 1984, a year that also saw Family Man, Slip It In, and Live '84 appear from SST.
This isn't how I thought the future would go [22] Michael Azerrad praised the strength of the material while denigrating the "frustrating lack of ensemble feel" as the album was recorded without a full lineup. Nothing left, not even pride Dukowski left the band, but stayed on to co-run SST. [36] The first punk concert Nirvana frontman Kurt Cobain attended was a Black Flag show during the My War tour,[11] and he listed My War on his list of top fifty albums.
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On the B-side are three tracks in a sludge metal style, each breaching six-minutes with ponderously slow tempos and dark, unrelenting lyrics of self-hatred. [37], This article is about the Black Flag album.
The A-side of the LP is composed of six generally high-paced, thrashy hardcore tracks, featuring guitar solos unusual in punk music. He feels empty because everything in his life is going downside. Hell-bent, soul is spent It polarized fans on its release in 1984 on SST Records over the LP's B-side, on which the band slowed down to a heavy, Black Sabbath-esque trudge, despite the reputation the band had earned as leaders in fast hardcore punk on its first album, Damaged (1981). [24], Black Flag toured the My War material from March 1984, with the Nig-Heist and Meat Puppets as opening acts. [32] My War polarized Black Flag fans; it alienated those who wanted the band to stay true to its simple hardcore roots[5] and who were put off by the length of the songs, the riff-heaviness, and the solos—elements widely thought of as un-punk. [30] John Dougan at AllMusic called the A-side of the album "quite good", but described the B-side as "self-indulgence masquerading as inspiration and about as much fun as wading through a tar pit". Unicorn's bankruptcy in 1983 freed the band from the injunction. [12] Ginn had been frustrated with Dukowski's sense of rhythm, and in Germany during a European tour in 1983 gave Dukowski an ultimatum to quit, or Ginn himself would leave. [5] The band revisited early influences such as Black Sabbath, the MC5, and the Stooges for new approaches to songwriting other than relying on the high speed that had become the Black Flag hallmark. [31] It had been a year since the band had toured, and Rollins, Ginn, and Stevenson had grown out their hair; punks associated long hair with the hippies they loathed and found it dissonant with Rollins' accepted image as a hardcore skinhead. Soon SST was releasing recordings by other bands as well, beginning with Minutemen's Paranoid Time in 1980. Now with a library of over 300,000 user-submitted interpretations, if you want a song interpreted, Lyric Interpretations is the place to be. The album never materialized, and the heavily bootlegged demos have never been officially released; re-recordings of several of the tracks from the session were to feature on My War and other later albums. Ginn and Rollins share credit on the metallic "Forever Time" and the noisy "Swinging Man". The band members had grown their hair long when they toured the album in 1984, further alienating their hardcore skinhead fanbase. song: "This Is My War",
This Song is about a battle with oneself. [34], The muffled sound of the album's production has attracted criticism; Stevie Chick disparaged the lack of character in Ginn's bass-playing on "My War" when compared to the 1982 demo of the same song with Dukowski on bass. div_id: "cf_async_" + Math.floor((Math.random() * 999999999)) Song MeaningHe's struggling with his life, everything he's trying to accomplish feels like a battle he's facing. [6], The band toured extensively in North America and Europe to often hostile, violent hardcore punk crowds. My War Lyrics: My war, you're one of them / You say that you're my friend / But you're one of them / You don't wanna see me live / You don't want me to give / Cause you're one of them / My war god i love that line so much. When he says "nothing left but to repent I've gotta dig myself out of this hole" he is meaning that he is aware of all the bad things he did while taking the wrong path towards his future.
Don’t have an account? [11], The band recorded a set of ten demo tracks at Total Access studios in 1982 for a planned follow-up to Damaged on which Chuck Biscuits replaced Damaged drummer Robo. [16] Eager to get back in the studio but still without a bassist, Ginn took on bass duties under the pseudonym "Dale Nixon" and practiced the new material with Stevenson up to eight hours a day, teaching the drummer to slow down and let the rhythm "ooze out" at a pace Stevenson was unused to;[17] the band called this approach the "socialist groove", as all beats were equally spaced.
The line-up did not last long—frustrated with the band's legal troubles, Biscuits left[12] in December 1982, replaced by Bill Stevenson,[14] and in 1983 Cadena left to form DC3. Hell-bent, soul is … [19] Critic Clay Jarvis commended the album, emphasizing the risks taken on it and its influence, calling it "more a test than an album", and saying, "independent music is stronger because Black Flag formulated it". Despite mixed reception at the time of the album's release, My War is now regarded as one of Black Flag's seminal releases and had a major influence on the development of sludge metal, grunge, and math rock.
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[1], Black Flag recorded its first album Damaged in 1981 at Unicorn Studios and arranged a deal with the studio's record label Unicorn Records, which had distribution with MCA Records. The first half features five tracks of high-powered hardcore punk and closes with a noisy freak-out, "The Swinging Man". In 1978 Black Flag guitarist and cofounder Greg Ginn converted his ham radio business Solid State Transmitters to SST Records to release the band's first EP Nervous Breakdown. It polarized fans on its release in 1984 on SST Records over the LP's B-side, on which the band slowed down to a heavy, Black Sabbath-esque trudge, despite the reputation the band had earned as leaders in fast hardcore punk on its first album, Damaged (1981). After a period of legal troubles which prohibited the band from using its own name on recordings, Black Flag returned to the studio with a new approach to its music that incorporated a greater variety of styles, resulting in a sound orthodox punks found difficult to accept.
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