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Slip It In

Eight tracks with Kira Roessler on bass, drawing on metal, hardcore, blues rock and jazz.
Black Flag, 1984

Released
December 1984
Label
SST Records
Producer
Spot, Greg Ginn and Bill Stevenson

Slip It In was recorded in a short break from the My War tour, in a year when the band released three full-length albums. The record draws on metal, hardcore, blues rock and jazz, and Obliteration is an instrumental showing off Ginn's chords. The cover is a Pettibon drawing of a nun embracing a bare male leg. Roessler later said that after seeing it she realized the band certainly did not glorify women. Suzi Gardner and Davo Claassen sing backing vocals on the title track, which also got a low-budget video.

Trouser Press found the songs built on trite riffs. Brandon Sideleau of Punknews called the album a classic and a landmark for independent music, and defended the title track as raunchy but not sexist.

Track listing

  1. Slip It In5:13
  2. Black Coffee4:53
  3. Wound Up4:17
  4. Rat's Eyes3:57
  5. Obliteration5:51
  6. The Bars4:20
  7. My Ghetto2:02
  8. You're Not Evil7:00

Personnel

More from Black Flag

Nervous Breakdown (1979), Damaged (1981), My War (1984), In My Head (1985)

Sources

  1. Slip It In, Wikipedia
  2. Black Flag - Slip It In, Punknews.org (2005-08-28)
  3. Kira Roessler, Wikipedia
  4. Family Man (Black Flag album), Wikipedia