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Damaged
by Black Flag
The 274th greatest album of all time
Damaged, released in 1981, is Black Flag's first full-length album and a touchstone of American hardcore punk. The record pairs Greg Ginn's jagged, dissonant guitar work and propulsive, stop-start rhythms with Henry Rollins' confrontational, shouted vocals, moving between short bursts of speed and slower, grinding passages. Its raw production and lyrics about alienation and anger helped shape a harsher, more abrasive strain of punk in the early 1980s.
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