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Which is better: Live 84 or Who's Got the 10 1/2?
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eumaas wrote:Which is better: Live 84 or Who's Got the 10 1/2?
Probably Who's Got the 10 1/2?, but I enjoy both immensely.
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eumaas wrote:Which is better: Live 84 or Who's Got the 10 1/2?
Probably Who's Got the 10 1/2?, but I enjoy both immensely.
Who's Got The 10.5. I love the Loose Nut and In My Head albums, and they kicked the hell out of those songs on there.

I remember reading the playlist for Live 84 before I heard it and getting damn excited, but heard it and was kinda let down. Sounded like the band was disconnected ala Lochem. I don't get that sense for a second from 10 1/2.
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Still216 wrote:
Flex wrote:
eumaas wrote:Which is better: Live 84 or Who's Got the 10 1/2?
Probably Who's Got the 10 1/2?, but I enjoy both immensely.
Who's Got The 10.5. I love the Loose Nut and In My Head albums, and they kicked the hell out of those songs on there.

I remember reading the playlist for Live 84 before I heard it and getting damn excited, but heard it and was kinda let down. Sounded like the band was disconnected ala Lochem. I don't get that sense for a second from 10 1/2.
The bolded: me too.

I've actually never heard Who's Got, though I have heard Live 84.
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Damn. Minor Threat Radio on Pandora is currently playing My War off 10 1/2. THIS is what I'm talking about. Rollins comes out of the "if I had a gun..." bridge as scary-sounding as I've ever heard him.

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Still216 wrote:Damn. Minor Threat Radio on Pandora is currently playing My War off 10 1/2. THIS is what I'm talking about. Rollins comes out of the "if I had a gun..." bridge as scary-sounding as I've ever heard him.

Edit: "YES!!! ANNIHILATE! YES! ANNIHILATE! YES! DESTROY!!! (incoherent).....Thank you" - Rollins
I just realized I don't own 10 1/2.

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Wolter wrote:
Still216 wrote:Damn. Minor Threat Radio on Pandora is currently playing My War off 10 1/2. THIS is what I'm talking about. Rollins comes out of the "if I had a gun..." bridge as scary-sounding as I've ever heard him.

Edit: "YES!!! ANNIHILATE! YES! ANNIHILATE! YES! DESTROY!!! (incoherent).....Thank you" - Rollins
I just realized I don't own 10 1/2.

WHAT THE HELL?
Problem rectified.

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Wolter wrote: THANKS, INTERNET!
You just took food out of the mouths of one of Greg Ginn's 872 cats. Hope you're proud of yourself...
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I'm a little to busy to do so now, but I'm totally busting out BLACK FLAG WEEK at work next week. Woe betide those that contradict me.

And yes, I am proud of myself. Maybe if the fucker would remaster some shit, he'd get my ducats.
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Wolter wrote:I'm a little to busy to do so now, but I'm totally busting out BLACK FLAG WEEK at work next week. Woe betide those that contradict me.

And yes, I am proud of myself. Maybe if the fucker would remaster some shit, he'd get my ducats.
Yeah, he completely missed the boat on updating and remastering those 1989 barely-audible CD issues of the SST catalog. Pity he's a good five years too late to make any real money off of it now.
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Still216 wrote:
Wolter wrote:I'm a little to busy to do so now, but I'm totally busting out BLACK FLAG WEEK at work next week. Woe betide those that contradict me.

And yes, I am proud of myself. Maybe if the fucker would remaster some shit, he'd get my ducats.
Yeah, he completely missed the boat on updating and remastering those 1989 barely-audible CD issues of the SST catalog. Pity he's a good five years too late to make any real money off of it now.
SST is basically a joke, unfortunately. We mostly just have to hold out hopes that more and more bands will sue to get the rights to their catalog back and get their stuff put out on a label that gives a damn. Unfortunately, for obvious reasons this isn't like to happen with Flag.

Anyhow, I shall join Wolter in making next week BLACK FLAG WEEK, but this weekend I need to listen to a lot of Outlaw Country and American Oi.
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Still216 wrote:
Wolter wrote:I'm a little to busy to do so now, but I'm totally busting out BLACK FLAG WEEK at work next week. Woe betide those that contradict me.

And yes, I am proud of myself. Maybe if the fucker would remaster some shit, he'd get my ducats.
Yeah, he completely missed the boat on updating and remastering those 1989 barely-audible CD issues of the SST catalog. Pity he's a good five years too late to make any real money off of it now.
Was just considering picking up my missing holes (I have Damaged in LP, First Four, Loose Nut, and In My Head in CD--and that's it). Holy shit are they expensive, even the used copies on Amazon. I'll probably just grab 10 1/2 and continue to wait on the others (as usual). A dude was going to send me his Flag CDs once but never got around to it.
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I love how morons scoff at Black Flag in FLAC by saying the original has terrible quality. Hey idiots: if you take something that's terrible, then put it through a process that makes it more terrible, what do you get? SOMETHING WORSE THAN TERRIBLE!
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eumaas wrote: Was just considering picking up my missing holes (I have Damaged in LP, First Four, Loose Nut, and In My Head in CD--and that's it). Holy shit are they expensive, even the used copies on Amazon. I'll probably just grab 10 1/2 and continue to wait on the others (as usual). A dude was going to send me his Flag CDs once but never got around to it.
If I had to choose four Flag CDs, those would be the four.

I have all of their albums and the NB 7" on vinyl, but all my CDs (except Damaged, Process Of Weeding Out, and 10 1/2) are CDR burns from the old unixpunx ftp site with kinda low bitrate. Should probably get those upgraded - my turntable needs a new stylus, and shitty CD masters at 128k mp3 might subconsciously turn me against the band.
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