black flag

...black flag, one of the last truly important bands, not only important in a rock'n'roll way, but vital in a socio-politico sense, they took the truth out to the kids, turned on a generation that had been stifled by TV/government drugs/FMradio (frampton-nugent-eagles)...incredibly right on lyrics (police story/depession/no values) expressing the thoughts of so many caught up in the oppressive dominant culture that was/is destroying the young with coercion lies to keep the consumer society from failing and being shown for what it really is, a company scam where the dollar bill ain't nothing but a store coupon...intense urgent missives from the underground, relentless rock'n'roll pounding its way into the senses, breaking the chains that held free thought in suspended animation, waking the kids from the lifeless consumer sleep that school and pigs enforced to ensure obedience to the republic...this wax was a stop-gap release when the flag ran into business problems that held them up for a couple of years in the early 80s (funny how when anyones getting the truth out and being listened to they run into trouble, from elvis going into the army/chuck berry in the big house and so on down the line), which was a compilation of unreleased cool cuts from the beginning years featuring the vocalists keith morris, chavo reyes and
dez cadena before henry rollins fronted them into the history books...the amazing power that comes from the flag in any era is a worthwhile indulgence and right from the start the flag was a mighty unstoppable entity that took on a life of immediate independence, a force that drew out the best in whoever was in the band, a mercurial electric charge that lit the beacons of hope in so many lonely and desperate minds...
...wasted...