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Family Man

~ Black Flag
3.5 out of 5 stars See all reviews (2 customer reviews)
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  • Audio CD (31 Dec 1993)
  • Number of Discs: 1
  • Label: Sst
  • ASIN: B000000LZQ
  • Other Editions: Audio Cassette  |  Vinyl  |  MP3 Download
  • Average Customer Review: 3.5 out of 5 stars See all reviews (2 customer reviews)
  • Amazon.co.uk Sales Rank: 184,345 in Music (See Bestsellers in Music)

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Song Title Time Price
Listen  1. Family Man 1:20£0.79
Listen  2. Salt On A Slug 1:31£0.79
Listen  3. Hollywood Diary0:35£0.79
Listen  4. Let Your Fingers Do The Walking 2:32£0.79
Listen  5. Shed Reading (Rattus Norvegicus) 1:23£0.79
Listen  6. No Deposit - No Return0:38£0.79
Listen  7. Armageddon Man 9:13£0.79
Listen  8. Long Lost Dog Of It 2:04£0.79
Listen  9. I Won't Stick Any Of You Unless And Until I Can Stick All Of You! 5:48£0.79
Listen10. Account For What? 4:19£0.79
Listen11. The Pups Are Doggin' It 4:16£0.79

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Sleeved in a controversial Raymond Pettibon drawing of a man with a gun to his temple standing near the dead bodies of his wife and child, FAMILY MAN is possibly the oddest of Black Flag's many releases. Recorded in 1984, as the band was abandoning punk for a sort of jazz- and hardcore-tinged version of heavy metal, the album literally splits the band into two halves. Side one is a collection of unaccompanied poetryreadings and spoken-word pieces by Henry Rollins, who at the time was just beginning his long career as a poet/essayist. The pieces are a combination of sociopolitical broadsides,many of which are punctuated with disturbing images, and wry, self-deprecating, and humorous bits of the kind he would continue to explore in his non-musical work in the future. Side two is made up of instrumentals by the rest of Black Flag, drummer Bill Stevenson, bassist Kira Roessler, and guitarist Greg Ginn, whose metal-edged solos dominate the varied-length songs.

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4.0 out of 5 stars "An enthusiasm and vigour not seen by many...", 2 Feb 2000
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Unlike their contemporaries, Black Flag never felt the need to dilute their hardcore: the Minutemen (with jazz) Meat Puppets (country)or Husker Du (folk) preferring to keep it brutal and bludgeoning to both ear and mind; this album is an effective showcases . Although few would argue that this is Black Flag's finest hour it is, perhaps, the finest example of what the band was about. Bizzare trade mark spoken word from Henry Rollinson which you can never quite tell if he's serious (Salt On a Slug), and some crunching hardcore sounds from SST boss Greg Ginn and the rest of the band. The finest moment on the record is when the two forces combine on the 7 minute Armageddon Man. A good starting point for a would-be fan.
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3.0 out of 5 stars Black Flag's most bizarre record, 1 Nov 2007
By Ec Tipton "donkey_sandwich" (Hereford, England) - See all my reviews
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This has to be the oddest record of Black Flag's career. The first half is solo Henry Rollins spoken word material. The second half is instrumentals in the vein of 'The Process Of Weeding Out' EP.
Some of the spoken word material is very good (the title track and 'Let Your Fingers Do The Walking' in particular) but some of it is real filler.

The instrumental side is very much the same deal. 'I Won't Stick Any Of You...' is Black Flag at their dynamic, adrenalin fuelled best but some of the cuts are too short and too bland to make any real impact.
The only full band track 'Armageddon Man' isn't bad but is barely essential. In fact it sounds not unlike randomly playing one of the spoken word tracks over one of the instrumentals!

This is one of Black Flag's four album releases from 1984 (the others being My War, Slip It In and Live 84) and to be honest it does sound like the leftovers from those other records.

If you're a fan of Black Flag's other albums there's plenty here that you will enjoy but this certainly wouldn't interest a casual fan.
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