Flex your head

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Flex your head
Compilation album by various artists

Publication
(s)

1982

Label (s) Dischord Records

Format (s)

LP

Genre (s)

Hardcore punk

Title (number)

32

running time

40 min 57 s

production

Skip Groff

Flex Your Head is a compilation album with music by hardcore punk groups from the East Coast of America, particularly from Washington, DC , released in January 1982 by Dischord Records . It is the label's first long-playing record.

History of origin

A cover variant

Ian MacKaye and Jeff Nelson were active in 1980 in the band The Teen Idles . Since there was no record company that wanted to release their music, they founded the label Dischord Records. Their first release was the EP Minor Disturbance by their own band. Based on the Teen Idles, several new hardcore bands such as Government Issue , SOA (with Henry Rollins ), the Untouchables and Youth Brigade formed in Washington . In January 1982, the label, which had just moved into a new apartment, decided to bring out a compilation with pieces from befriended bands. As with all other publications of the label Dischord be availed of DIY -Maxime and the compilation completely self-released, from production and paying the press shop to creating and sticking together of the record covers .

The album was released as the label's seventh release. Mostly unpublished songs were used, especially those of the now defunct Teen Idles and the follow-up band Minor Threat . The groups presented also included Artificial Peace , Deadline, Youth Brigade , Iron Cross , Red C, Untouchables, Void and Government Issue. The compilation contains a total of 32 pieces. The pieces by Government Issue, Void, Untouchables, Deadline and Artificial Peace were their first releases, and Red C's were also their only ones. The record was released with a total of four different record covers. A CD version of the album was released in 1993 by Dischord, a remixed reprint in 2002.

meaning

This first compilation by Dischord is considered to be one of the most important hardcore releases. She laid the foundation for the supremacy of the DC hardcore scene, from which hardcore punk became one of the greatest sub-scenes of the punk subculture of the 1980s. By putting together the first titles from Minor Threat and the forerunner Teen Idles, the foundation for the straight-edge movement was laid. The US magazine Stereogum described the sampler in a list of the 13 most important recordings of the DC hardcore as " Rosetta Stone of the hardcore scene" and together with the debut album of Bad Brains as a "starting point for everything that followed (to hardcore music) then" .

A similar compilation called This Is Boston, Not LA appeared in Boston a few months later .

Track list

  1. The Teen Idles - I Drink Milk
  2. The Teen Idles - Commie Song
  3. The Teen Idles - No Fun
  4. Untouchables - Rat Patrol
  5. Untouchables - Nic Fit
  6. Untouchables - I Hate You
  7. SOA - I Hate the Kids
  8. SOA - Disease
  9. SOA - Stepping Stone Party
  10. Minor Threat - Stand Up
  11. Minor Threat - 12XU
  12. Government Issue - Hey, Ronnie
  13. Government Issue - Lie, Cheat & Steal
  14. Youth Brigade - Moral Majority
  15. Youth Brigade - Waste of Time
  16. Youth Brigade - Last Word
  17. Red C - Jimi 45
  18. Red C - Pressure's One
  19. Red C - 6 O'Clock News
  20. Red C - assassin
  21. Void - Dehumanized
  22. Void - Authority
  23. Void - My Rules
  24. Iron Cross - Wargames
  25. Iron Cross - New Breed
  26. Iron Cross - Live for Now
  27. Artificial Peace - Artificial Peace
  28. Artificial Peace - Outside Looking In
  29. Artificial Peace - Wasteland
  30. Deadline - Stolen Youth
  31. Deadline - Hear the Cry
  32. Deadline - Aftermath

Versions

The first pressing appeared with a violin on the cover and was pressed 4000 times, the second pressing with a cornfield on the cover 3000 times. A third version with a blurry head on the cover appeared in a 3000 edition. A special version for the UK appeared with the straight edge movement symbol, three capital X, on the cover and was distributed by Alternative Tentacles . Later reprints in CD format contained miniature editions of the record covers and a reprint of the text sheet plus cover.

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c Flex Your Head - comp. LP / CD ( Memento from October 20, 2007 in the Internet Archive ).
  2. ^ Dischord Records at Discogs
  3. ↑ a b American Hardcore , USA 2006.
  4. ^ History ( Memento of April 30, 2008 in the Internet Archive ).
  5. ↑ Stereogum.com: 13 Essential DC Hardcore Albums. Retrieved May 6, 2017 .