Damaged was a great album.But Wattie of the Exploited was 100% correct when he said,'Henry Rollins is a wanker.' So true.

Early Black Flag was some of the most under-appreciated punk domestically-

Before the West-Coast became saturated with glam-rock 80's faux-rock bands (that overstayed their welcome into the 90's) there was Black Flag. Great glue-sniffing garage band. The Sex Pistols were more famous and (perhaps) more produced, but check out this band's early work.

"Everything Went Black" is a CD of hard-to-find tracks. . .go there for a start.

the early years of this band are pretty untouchable,too bad those later albums were so wattered down.fave:fix me!

While Henry Rollins is a miserable pompous ass, his old band was superb.

i bet all these crappy punk bands of today wish they were as good as black flag

One of the last, and best, of the American punk bands from the Golden Period. Maybe there were others that followed, but Black Flag was really the last band from that genre that I ever followed, or was interested in. I guess I figured that after listening to them, anything else would be sort of anti-climactic. After all, Black Flag had sort of said everything there was to say. Who was ever going to do it better, or more intensely?

Hard core old school punk doesn't get any better.

A great band. Buy "Damaged" and "In My Head" first, then get "The First 4 Years" to hear 27 intense minutes of pre-Rollins Black Flag. At their best, no one was better. The truly amazing thing is, they suffered for their art; for years, they worked their butts off, for very little money. Henry Rollins' "Get In The Van" is an amazing rock memoir; he deserved the Grammy. However, I don't understand what Rollins has against U2.

Before Henry became all self righteous and annoying.