BLACK FLAG Everything Went Black - 1987 U.S. vinyl 2-LP issue of classic compilation album
Format: LP Condition: New Year of Release: 1987 Cat. No.: SST15 Label: SST
When 'Everything Went Black' was first released in 1983, Black Flag was in the middle of a backbreaking legal dispute with Unicorn Records.
As a result of litigation, the band was prevented from using the Black Flag name on any records. Hence the original packaging for this album, which listed only the names of individual bandmembers on the cover (this was rectified on subsequent issues).
It's a double-album (on vinyl) compilation of previously released material and outtakes -- though the European edition features a wholly different running order.
The material, dating from 1978 to 1981, is excellent in places, average in others. However, only obsessives need track it down -- as signified by the inclusion of two versions of several songs (including stalwarts "Damaged" and "Police Story").
The fourth side of the original vinyl issue also included a sequence of radio spots discussing forthcoming Black Flag gigs, which is entertaining stuff, but it's more useful as a historical document than a listening experience.
~ Review by Alex Ogg, All Music Guide
TRACK LISTING:
1 1 Gimmie Gimmie Gimmie - Black Flag, 2 I Don't Care - Black Flag, 3 White Minority - Black Flag, 4 No Values - Black Flag, 5 Revenge - Black Flag, 6 Depression - Black Flag, 7 Clocked In - Black Flag, 8 Police Story - Black Flag, 9 Wasted - Black Flag, 10 Gimmie Gimmie Gimmie - Black Flag, 11 Depression - Black Flag, 12 Police Story - Black Flag, 13 Clocked In - Black Flag, 14 My Rules - Black Flag, 15 Jealous Again - Black Flag, Dez Cadena, Dez 16 Police Story - Black Flag, Dez Cadena, Dez 17 Damaged I - Black Flag, Dez Cadena, Dez 18 Louie, Louie - Black Flag, Dez Cadena, Dez 19 No More - Black Flag, Dez Cadena, Dez 20 Room 13 - Black Flag, Dez Cadena, Dez 21 Depression - Black Flag, Dez Cadena, Dez 22 Damaged Ii - Black Flag, Dez Cadena, Dez 23 Padded Cell - Black Flag, Dez Cadena, Dez 24 Gimmie Gimmie Gimmie - Black Flag, Dez Cadena, Dez 25 Crass Commercialism - Black Flag, Dez Cadena, Dez
