Slip It In Songs Ranked

Slip It In is the fourth studio album by the American hardcore punk band Black Flag, released in 1984 on SST Records. Slip It In is an extension of the sound Black Flag utilized on its second album My War: heavy, cathartic, intense, dense and progressive. At this point, Black Flag was considered by many to be one of the leading bands of the American punk scene. The album pursued the newer, lengthier song arrangements that Black Flag would develop until its demise. It also features Henry Rollins’ further development as a songwriter, contributing four of eight tracks on the album. This album also demonstrates Black Flag’s increasing use of instrumentals, where Greg Ginn demonstrates his increasingly more complex playing style. Here are all of Slip It In songs ranked.

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8. You’re Not Evil

“You’re Not Evil”, which much like “The Bars” I’m hesitant to call ‘good’ since it’s such a good example of what’s wrong with the album in its egregious length, pointlessly disorienting tempo shifts that seem more sloppy than intentional, and dumb-ass moralizing.”

7. The Bars

“The Bars”, which is pretty much a direct re-write of “Slip It In” without the sinister riff and without the sex moans, but Ginn does get to let loose on some throbbing dissonance toward the end, and Henry’s screams of ‘LIES!!!’ are powerful in their throat-shredding way; it certainly sounds like the guy believes what he’s yelling about.”

6. Rat’s Eyes

“Rat’s Eyes” – this is one of those tracks where the production fails hard – if you listen really close, you can hear some delays and ‘rat sounds’ that would have enhanced the song greatly.”

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5. Black Coffee

“Black Coffee”, a praise of Henry’s favorite drug with a cool messy-thrashy chorus. Not quite the ‘shot to the heart’ they seem to think it is, and it could’ve ended at 3:00 if not earlier. But good.

4. My Ghetto

“My Ghetto”, the shortest song on the album with an oddly-spaced riff and some generic hardcore ranting. Greg Ginn carries this one with what I am told is jazz-inspired guitar playing. My experience of jazz is pretty much limited so I can’t say if that’s true, but I do know how it drives me wild like nothing else.”

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3. Obliteration

“Obliteration”, a lengthy instrumental where Ginn stops and starts and wanks off and generally forgets that there’s a reason he’s an accompanist and not a solo artist — not by this point, anyway, God help us.”

2. Wound Up

“Wound Up”, which as Robert Christgau observed could’ve been stronger if they’d opted to play tighter, but it has a solid two-chord Ramones-y thing down pretty good.”

1. Slip It In

“The title track, which features the best riff on the album (the spacing of the throbbing low E minor chords and the dissonant four-note jump up to the treble is as great a riff as Ginn ever came up with; somehow he makes it seem like the low chords are resonating just for a split second as he slides up to the high end, and it sounds awesome) and some much-maligned juvenile sex lyrics where Rollins talks a girl with a boyfriend into fucking while simultaneously chastising her for it in a pretty hateful, bro-y kinda way.”