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Loose Nut

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This particular Black Flag album has gotten me through some really tough times in the past. All I have to do is put it in my car stereo,start screaming the lyrics along with Hank, and everything feels better afterwards. Have you ever been in an awful relationship or been screwed over? Instead of going to a shrink listen to this album.It's worked for over 15 years for me. Try it.

If you like loud, fast , anger driven music then this is the disc for you. No wimpy soft pop songs here. I can't see any teen pop fans singing "Bastard In Love", "Loose Nut", "Annihilate This Week" or "Best One Yet". And I am glad that I wont. Those songs listed above along with the other 5 songs are great and will get the listener in the mood to start breaking stuff, and that is a great feeling.

First let me say that I love Black Flag's music, any Black Flag music. I love it more than my girlfriend, my family, hell, even my country. I need this music more than any of those things. This was my first Flag album I ever bought and it's their best, in my opinion. Every flag album has one song that I usually skip, except this one, this album is completely flawless. I'm waiting patiently for another band to come along that moves me as much as Black Flag does.

Loose Nut is vintage Black Flag. I agree with another reviewer who said this album can help you get through tough situations. I find all Black Flag albums work like a charm when I'm mad about something. It's good music to listen to when you're p*ssed about something.

This album is solid throughout. Henry Rollins is in top form. Typical Black Flag attitude saturates this album. The track Loose Nut reminds me of some of their earlier material from the album Damaged. The song Annihilate This Week has boisterous vocals by what sounds like the whole band yelling at once. Best One Yet really rocks with classic Rollins shouting. Modern Man sounds almost Black Sabbath-like in the beginning of the song. Then it changes into typical Black Flag. One of my favorite songs is This Is Good. Great lyrics reminiscent of I Love You from the album My War. The song Sinking is very catchy. Great guitar and bass. Now She's Black is somewhat Sabbath-like with a two minute introduction before Rollins steps in to scream his lungs out.

A solid Black Flag album that I highly recommend. Buy it.

This is a must get to any Black Flag fan. With simple, grinding guitars and basic drum patterns, the band masters once again what is truely meant to be punk rock. Also includes "Anailate This Week" EP. A definate hit with great songs. Tell your friends!

black flags experiments in stoner college rock (well now its called alternative rock)when i first heard this album i was only 15 i had never gottin stoned or went to college .so i first take on this album was it was very experimental.coming from the band that did MY WAR (the only other album i have heard at that time)I was very obsessed with this album.it was very color full .alot of out of this world guitar playing (kind of loose heavy)the vocals where all running through effects like massive echo reverb(not the typical screaming).the bass was solid but jazzy.the drums where solid(kind of like that bonham sound)there was all sorts of weird guitar overdubs with incendental noise stuff. so at the time i just liked it for basically being different than any other record out there. but some years later i listened to this album at a college stoner party and hit me .this was there little college rock experiment of an album.it all made sence(well things do when you are stoned) but anyways this is a very highly recommended album from the flag . but if you are still in the damaged phase this will seem lame.but for me this is probably there best album to listen to loud .its one of those louder is better albums .not because its an old recording but because it was ment to be heard loud so when you are at a college keg party you will get the party really going ..a litte thing also everysong on this album is like verse chorus verse chorus.so its with the chorus parts you can sing along to. sing along to "bastard in love" or "annhilate this week"or "loose nut" and espically "modern man" at the time it made those violent femmes/replacements/rem college rock partys really seem lame!!!

What really surprises me about Lose Nut is that it was recorded not to long after other great albums like Slip It In. What the heck happened? This is not the Black Flag that I love. Yes, I understand that bands need to evolved, but, in my opinon this album was a major decline both musically and spiritually. I love the other Black Flag albums because they were spontanouse, without pretension, musical yet raw, and emotionally harrowing. Black Flag on Dammaged sounded like a band not giving a damn about polishy production values, a band concerned with capturing the immidiate spiritual truth, almost feeling as if they haphazardly recorded the music in thier basements obeying only an inexorable need to purge themselves through their music. Listening was both imperitive and cathartic. Not so much a band, but a life force. Sadly, I feel this quality is sorely missing from Lose Nut. The drums are flat and alienated, while overall the band seems conventional and too stiff. At times Henry Rollins singing seems to me perfunctury, stale, and unispired. Some of the songs are good and effective but lack an soul, that feeling of urgency that creates a trancendant experience I find in their other recordings and other truely great records. Somehow, this albums just doesn't take me there, to those special hieghts - certianly not when I hear Rollins' bored, perfuctury chorus on "Bastard In Love" while the band aloofly plays along. Black Flag's dubious technical musical talents are not nearly good enough to compensate for the emotional flatness, they have not the brilliant guitar work of a Slayer, or melody of the Beatles. Lose Nuts comes across with an more metal sound, however, a very awkward metal sound. I concede that my opinion may be a bit harse because I so adore their other work but this record is not memorable, at least, not in any good way. Lose nut, on its own merits, is not a really bad record, it just isn't a very good one. Approach with caution.

Black Flag's best album. Rollins writes half of the songs! Must have now.

For an 80's pop sound, this one is still pretty good, despite the rather deflated drum sound. Check out 'Bastard', 'I'm The One', 'Best One', and 'Sinking'.

1985. Just OWNING a Black Flag album meant that you were on drugs, gay, satanic, communist, racist... you know, troubled. The band denied even being into punk or shock rock at all, and I believe they meant it. In those days, you didn't gain an audience with that rep. Compare to Marilyn Manson.

I emphasize OWNING because, after listening on CD, I admit that I didn't LISTEN all that much to most of their albums. Henry Rollins was into ZZ top, Van halen, Madonna-- if you don't believe me, read. Greg Ginn was into REEFER. Both gentlemen are now in their forties. Taken together, we are forced to conclude that Loose Nut was their unsuccessful stab at stoner pop. Black Flag was always good at thick riffs, but not very good at tunes. Much better than "1234,1234 I hate you, Reagan" contemporaries, but not Van Halen.

Rollins is now a VH1 talking head. As with many powerlifter types, he's much shorter than you would think. Greg Ginn? who knows. At a 1986 record signing, I watched him wander off to look at the vinyl (which was your only choice. That or the tapes behind the counter.) I imagine he eventually didn't come back. I could see him running a used collectible store.

They did earn some of the teenage folklore around them. Not the "isms", not the gay, not the drugs. But the anger and sadness of "My War" and side 2--whoops, no sides anymore-- the second half of "Slip it in" would worry parents and friends even today. And, mind you, this was done with one or two curse words. Just screaming, screaming of a kind not heard since. Not to mention the album covers. Nobody does "scary" anymore with a hand puppet against baby blue. Nowadays its just pentagrams, dildos, chronic leaves....