Black Flag - Who's Got the 10 1/2?
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Artist: Black FlagEdition: Music CD
Format: Live
CD Release Date: 1990-10-25
Music Label: Sst Records
Soundtracks:
- Loose Nut
- I'm The One
- Annihilate
- Wasted
- Bastard In Love
- Modern Man
- This Is Good
- In My Head
- Sinking
- Jam
- The Best One Yet
- My War
- Slip It In/Gimme, Gimme, Gimme
- Drinking and Driving
- Louie Louie
Music reviews of Who's Got the 10 1/2?
Music Review: A mixed bag, but mostly full of good stuff
Rating: 4 Stars
Just your typical "greatest hits played faster" live album.
Just kidding.
First, the good:
The band is on fire through most of this, especially the rhythm section. The song selection cherry-picks the best of the often boring middle-period Flag, which can be excellent indeed. Examples include the extended "Slip It In/Gimme Gimme Gimme", "I'm The One", "Wasted" (a very early track), "Modern Man" and "Drinking And Driving" (from their last album}. And the sound quality is killer - all the instruments are well separated; the drums and bass have a LOT of punch, and are spot-on all the time, even when the guitar isn't. More on that below.
Second, the "ehh...":
Rollins' voice is totally SHOT on such tracks as "My War", due to excessive touring (I believe I heard a statistic like 250 days a year). "Sinking" is boring, frankly, but thankfully is one of the only plodding, ponderous tracks on the album. Fast and driving usually means high quality in the Black Flag catalog. Also, Ginn's playing can be a pretty sloppy, despite being extremely creative. And finally, although you can't hear it in her playing, you can imagine Kira suffering with carpal tunnel syndrome as she plays - a byproduct of Greg Ginn's maniacal insistence on practicing as much as eight hours a day, every day, when not touring (and probably when touring too). You can read more about this stuff in Michael Azerrad's excellent book "This Band Could Be Your Life" - I admit I'm cribbing some of this review from said source. Please don't hate me for doing so.
I hope the fact that the con section outweighs the pro wordwise doesn't dissuade you from buying the album. It's def. a worthy purchase, and you'll get a lot out of it if you enjoy the best that eighties punk had to offer. And by the way, go ahead and order the vinyl version direct from SST if you like (which is often the best way to go with SST titles, because of the better sound quality of the pure waveforms of vinyl), but this is a rare case in which the CD is better, due to the extended performances allowed by the CD format's longer length. (It says "extended CD version" on the back of the case.)
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