Flex Your Head

by Various Artists

Flex Your Head cover art
  • Type: Compilation
  • Released: January 1982
  • Label: Dischord
  • Country: United States
  • Community rating: 3.65/5 from 2 ratings

Album Notes & Community Reviews

Serving as a vital manifesto for the burgeoning Washington, D.C. hardcore scene, this compilation documented the raw energy of an intensely focused, youth-driven musical revolution. Featuring early, blistering tracks from Minor Threat, Teen Idles, and Government Issue, it crystallized the blistering speeds and ideological fervor of the era. The release cemented Dischord Records as a premier institution for independent punk rock.

Genres

Descriptors: drugs, conscious, noisy

Tracklist

  1. I Drink Milk
  2. Commie Song
  3. No Fun
  4. Rat Patrol
  5. Nic Fit
  6. I Hate You
  7. I Hate The Kids
  8. Disease
  9. Stepping Stone Party
  10. Stand Up
  11. 12XU
  12. Hey Ronnie
  13. Lie, Cheat & Steal
  14. Moral Majority
  15. Waste Of Time
  16. Last Word
  17. Jimi 45
  18. Pressure's On
  19. Six O'Clock News
  20. Assassin
  21. Dehumanized
  22. Authority
  23. My Rules
  24. Wargames
  25. New Breed
  26. Live For Now
  27. Artificial Peace
  28. Outside Looking In
  29. Suburban Wasteland
  30. Stolen Youth
  31. Hear The Cry
  32. Aftermath

Credits

  • Various - primary artist
  • Geordie Grindle - guitar
  • Nathan Strejcek - vocals
  • The Stooges - written-by
  • Rich Moore - drums
  • Eddie Janney - guitar
  • Alec MacKaye - vocals
  • Untouchables - written-by

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