Loose Nut
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{{Infobox album
| name = Loose Nut
| type = studio
| artist = Black Flag
| cover = Black Flag - Loose Nut cover.jpg
| alt =
| released = May 14, 1985
| recorded = March 1985
| venue =
| studio = Total Access Recording, Redondo Beach, California
| genre = Hardcore punk, heavy metal
| length = 34:07
| label = SST (035)
| producer = Bill Stevenson
Greg Ginn
David Tarling
| prev_title = Live '84
| prev_year = 1984
| next_title = The Process of Weeding Out
| next_year = 1985
}}
Loose Nut is the fifth studio album by American band Black Flag, released in 1985 on SST Records.
Reception
{{Album ratings
| rev1 = AllMusic
| rev1Score = {{Rating|3|5}}{{AllMusic|class=album|id=r1969|first=Alex|last=Ogg|accessdate=2011-07-01}}
| rev2 = Encyclopedia of Popular Music
| rev2Score = {{Rating|2|5}}{{cite book|last=Larkin|first=Colin|author-link=Colin Larkin|title=Encyclopedia of Popular Music|year=2007|publisher=Oxford University Press|edition=4th|isbn=978-0195313734|title-link=Encyclopedia of Popular Music}}
|rev3 = The Great Rock Discography
|rev3score = 5/10{{cite book|title=The Great Rock Discography|author=Martin C. Strong|author-link=Martin C. Strong|edition=1st|year=1998|isbn=978-0-86241-827-4|publisher=Canongate Books}}
| rev4 = MusicHound Rock
| rev4score = 3/5{{cite book|title=MusicHound Rock: The Essential Album Guide|editor=Gary Graff|editor-link=Gary Graff|edition=1st|year=1996|location=London|isbn=978-0-7876-1037-1|publisher=Visible Ink Press}}
| rev5 = Punknews.org
| rev5Score = {{Rating|5}}{{Cite web|url=http://www.punknews.org/review/3658/black-flag-loose-nut|title = Black Flag - Loose Nut| date=January 21, 2005 }}
| rev6 = The Rolling Stone Album Guide
| rev6Score = {{Rating|2|5}}{{cite book |chapter=Black Flag|editor1-last=Brackett |editor1-first=Nathan |editor2-last=Hoard |editor2-first=Christian |first=Rob |last=Sheffield |author-link=Rob Sheffield |title=The New Rolling Stone Album Guide |edition=4th |year=2004 |publisher=Fireside Books |location=London |isbn=0-7432-0169-8 |chapter-url=https://books.google.com/books?id=t9eocwUfoSoC&q=black+flag|access-date=November 5, 2021 }}
}}
Spin wrote, "Henry Rollins' manic ravings make mascaraed posturers seem pale. This band goes off, takes a lot of chances, and when you hear this, you have a lot of fun. Who knows when radio programmers will catch up to them? Black Flag really deserves to be, like, bigger than Thriller."{{cite magazine| magazine= Spin | title=Spins|author=Sue Cummings| date=September 1985|issue=5|page=31}}
Track listing
{{Tracklist
|headline = Side A
|title1 = Loose Nut
|length1 = 4:35
|writer1 = Greg Ginn
|title2 = Bastard in Love
|length2 = 3:20
|writer2 = Ginn
|title3 = Annihilate This Week
|length3 = 4:44
|writer3 = Ginn
|title4 = Best One Yet
|length4 = 2:37
|writer4 = Kira Roessler, Henry Rollins
|title5 = Modern Man
|length5 = 3:11
|writer5 =Ed Danky, Chuck Dukowski
}}
{{Tracklist
|headline = Side B
|title6 = This Is Good
|length6 = 3:34
|writer6 = Ginn, Rollins
|title7 = I'm the One
|length7 = 3:15
|writer7 = Roessler, Rollins
|title8 = Sinking
|length8 = 4:36
|writer8 = Ginn, Rollins
|title9 = Now She's Black
|length9 = 4:51
|writer9 = Bill Stevenson
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Personnel
- Henry Rollins – lead vocals
- Greg Ginn – guitars
- Kira Roessler – bass, backing vocals
- Bill Stevenson – drums
- Raymond Pettibon – artwork
- Milo Aukerman – backing vocals on "Loose Nut"
References
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{{Black Flag}}
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Category:Black Flag (band) albums