Black Flag – My War

Name: Black Flag - My War
Rating: 4.4 (321 reviews)

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Label:	SST Records – SST 023
Format:	Vinyl, LP, Album, Misprint
Country:	US
Released:	Mar 1984
Genre:	Rock
Style:	Punk, Hardcore

Tracklist

A1	My War Written-By – C. Dukowski*	3:52
A2	Can't Decide Written-By – G. Ginn*	5:27
A3	Beat My Head Against The Wall Written-By – G. Ginn*	2:34
A4	I Love You Written-By – C. Dukowski*	3:23
A5	Forever Time Written-By – G. Ginn, H. Rollins	2:25
A6	The Swinging Man Written-By – G. Ginn, H. Rollins	2:55
B1	Nothing Left Inside Written-By – G. Ginn, H. Rollins	6:39
B2	Three Nights Written-By – G. Ginn, H. Rollins	5:51
B3	Scream Written-By – G. Ginn*	6:54

Companies, etc.

Phonographic Copyright ℗ – SST Records
Copyright © – Cesstone Music
Recorded At – Total Access Recording Studios
Mastered At – K Disc Mastering
Pressed By – Rainbo Records – S-11541
Pressed By – Rainbo Records – S-11542

Credits

Artwork [Cover Drawing] – Raymond Pettibon
Bass – Dale Nixon
Drums – Bill Stevenson
Engineer – Spot
Guitar – Greg Ginn
Producer – Bill Stevenson, Greg Ginn, Spot
Vocals – Henry Rollins

Notes

Cover drawing © 1983 Raymond Pettibone

The back cover and labels flip the order for tracks A5 and A6.

Barcode and Other Identifiers

Matrix / Runout: SST-023-A S-11541 Kdisc EXPLORING THE INSIDE OF EMPTY GUNS
Matrix / Runout: SST-023-B S-11542 Kdisc LOOKING FOR THE MARKINGS OF RIFLED THOUGHTS. IS THAT IT THEN? ☉

Other Versions (5 of 38)

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	Title (Format)	Label	Cat#	Country	Year
Recently Edited	My War (LP, Album)	Aggressive Rockproduktionen	AG 0031	Germany	1984
Recently Edited	My War (LP, Album)	Roadrunner Records	RR 9864	Europe	1984
	My War (LP, Album, Misprint)	SST Records	SST 023	UK	1984
Recently Edited	My War (LP, Album)	Fringe Product	FPL 3013	Canada	1984
Recently Edited	My War (LP, Album)	SST Records	SST 023	US	1984

Reviews

AJHartford Mar 6, 2023
Is this pressing the original vinyl pressing of this album?
judahreed Feb 28, 2023
Three nights is the perfect epitome of bottled up emotions, let out in an ugly sound. So ugly it’s beautiful. God that feedback and distortion at the beginning, gives me chills, takes me to another planet, the soloing, bill Stevensons drums, Henry screaming. Probably the most intense song ever recorded it makes me wanna cry. The chair creaking. Stick Me! Stick me! This whole album is great. Id say this and “Everything went black” are BF best records.
cartafgrak Jan 10, 2023
After listening to this pressing, I realized that the CD of this sounds sounds especially bad. I got rid of it a long time ago, so I don't know what the year was, but I bought it some time in the late 90s, and eventually unloaded it because it was not a joy to listen to. I figured that's just how the recording sounded, but nope.
FranklinRoadRecords Sep 20, 2022
The LP is available for pre-order on the SST store, anyone know when it's supposed to drop? Or any other info would be very helpful. Cheers!
magsrecords. Sep 4, 2020
Edited 2 years ago
I'm not a huge audiophile type, but quite honestly my '85 cassette reissue sounds better than the newest repress. lots of little quiet spoken bits / studio sounds on this record that you can't really hear at all on the newest vinyl issue
acyberpunk Jan 2, 2020
does anyone have a copy of the lyric sheet insert for this? which was available only from SST
looking for a high res digital scan or physical photocopy/print
and the same for the first LP also
thanks
Patrenoma Dec 30, 2014
in my runout it says LYN-14109-1Y
donpicon Apr 5, 2014
Edited 8 years ago
This lp sets the sludge roots. One of the first efforts approaching American Hc and Black Sabbath sounds, evolving into the same lp to different, psychotic and original rhythms.
nickksaw Aug 24, 2013
Where is the blue version?
media_wasteland Jun 6, 2013
Edited 9 years ago
People either love or hate this record, probably because it sounds so harsh, dark, and serious. I like to think of My War as the painful sound of punk trying to evolve into something more. This album probably had just as big an influence on Hardcore, just without the notoriety of "Damaged". Each track of this album slowly devolves into despair and anger. By the time you reach "Scream", you have a song which itself sounds like it was recorded through one mic in the middle of a room, as to say the recording process itself has broken down as well. In my opinion; a brilliant, misunderstood, and powerful album.