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The line-up did not last long—frustrated with the band's legal troubles, Biscuits left[12] in December 1982, replaced by Bill Stevenson,[14] and in 1983 Cadena left to form DC3. When he says "nothing left but to repent I've gotta dig myself out of this hole" he is meaning that he is aware of all the bad things he did while taking the wrong path towards his future.
Ginn doubled on bass guitar under the name "Dale Nixon" for the recording as co-founding bassist Chuck Dukowski left the band shortly before recording; the album includes two tracks Dukowski wrote.
Unicorn's bankruptcy in 1983 freed the band from the injunction. [16] Eager to get back in the studio but still without a bassist, Ginn took on bass duties under the pseudonym "Dale Nixon" and practiced the new material with Stevenson up to eight hours a day, teaching the drummer to slow down and let the rhythm "ooze out" at a pace Stevenson was unused to;[17] the band called this approach the "socialist groove", as all beats were equally spaced. [26], The album had a large influence on the hardcore-meets-Sabbath sounds of the Melvins, Mudhoney, and Nirvana. Exploring the meanings of songs since 2003. [22] Michael Azerrad praised the strength of the material while denigrating the "frustrating lack of ensemble feel" as the album was recorded without a full lineup.
Hell-bent, soul is … [5] Mark Arm of Mudhoney related he was moved to tears at a Black Flag concert in 1983 when he was first exposed to "Nothing Left Inside", and the experience inspired him to seek out bands like Black Sabbath. The band obtained and distributed the already-pressed 20000 copies of Damaged and adorned it with a label displaying Bergamo's "anti-parent" quote.
[6] In an interview in 1983 with Mark Arm the band declared its admiration for heavy metal band Dio; when asked, "Dio?
[19] Against a slow, heavy, start-and-stop bass riff and a constant drum thudding,[18] Rollins closes "Scream" with a bellow after delivering the Ginn-penned lines: "I may be a big baby / But I'll scream in your ear / 'Til I find out / Just what it is I am doing here". "Beat My Head Against the Wall" rails at conformity and the band's experience with a major label: "Swimming in the mainstream / Is such a lame, lame dream". In 1978 Black Flag guitarist and cofounder Greg Ginn converted his ham radio business Solid State Transmitters to SST Records to release the band's first EP Nervous Breakdown. [12] The rest of the lineup consisted of Ginn and former vocalist Dez Cadena on guitars, Rollins on vocals, and Dukowski on bass. [25] Robert Christgau considered the B-side a "waste". [10] Dukowski, who also wrote poetry and fiction, encouraged Rollins to write as well, and Rollins found inspiration in Dukowksi's bleak lyrical style. [30] John Dougan at AllMusic called the A-side of the album "quite good", but described the B-side as "self-indulgence masquerading as inspiration and about as much fun as wading through a tar pit". He feels empty because everything in his life is going downside. /* TFP - lyricinterpretations */ protesting the vietnam war. This isn't how I thought the future would go.
Ginn and Rollins share credit on the metallic "Forever Time" and the noisy "Swinging Man".
This Song is about a battle with oneself. [3] The double album Everything Went Black—a compilation of earlier, unreleased material—appeared from SST in 1982 without the band's name on it.
[32] My War polarized Black Flag fans; it alienated those who wanted the band to stay true to its simple hardcore roots[5] and who were put off by the length of the songs, the riff-heaviness, and the solos—elements widely thought of as un-punk. The line-up had shrunk from five members to three: vocalist Henry Rollins, drummer Bill Stevenson, and co-founding guitarist Greg Ginn. Song MeaningHe's struggling with his life, everything he's trying to accomplish feels like a battle he's facing. }; My War is the second studio album by American band Black Flag. My War is the second studio album by American band Black Flag.
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Dukowski left the band, but stayed on to co-run SST.
The album never materialized, and the heavily bootlegged demos have never been officially released; re-recordings of several of the tracks from the session were to feature on My War and other later albums. On the B-side are three tracks in a sludge metal style, each breaching six-minutes with ponderously slow tempos and dark, unrelenting lyrics of self-hatred. adunit_id: 100001411, On "Three Nights" Rollins compares himself to feces stuck to his shoe: "And I've been grinding that stink into the dirt / For a long time now". [9] Dukowski felt that Rollins' vocal approach was better suited than that of the band's earlier three singers to the new material he was writing such as "I Love You" and "My War". Despite mixed reception at the time of the album's release, My War is now regarded as one of Black Flag's seminal releases and had a major influence on the development of sludge metal, grunge, and math rock. can basically be used for any war, there is a better way, maybe, i dunno if u guys were taught this, but i was taught that fighting doesnt get you anywhere, its better to talk and resolve the problem, i think all world leaders fighting deserve a good whipping, mainly bush. Create an account with SongMeanings to post comments, submit lyrics, and more. [11], The band recorded a set of ten demo tracks at Total Access studios in 1982 for a planned follow-up to Damaged on which Chuck Biscuits replaced Damaged drummer Robo. div_id: "cf_async_" + Math.floor((Math.random() * 999999999)) Nothing left, not even pride.
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