Live '84
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| Live '84 | ||||
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| Live album by | ||||
| Released | December 1984 | |||
| Recorded | August 26, 1984 | |||
| Venue | The Stone, San Francisco, California | |||
| Genre | Hardcore punk, post-hardcore, jazz fusion, sludge metal | |||
| Length | 75:28 | |||
| Label | SST (030) | |||
| Producer | Greg Ginn | |||
| Black Flag chronology | ||||
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| Review scores | |
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| Source | Rating |
| AllMusic |   [1] |
| Alternative Rock | 8/10[2] |
| The Boston Phoenix |  [3] |
| The Encyclopedia of Popular Music | [4] |
| MusicHound Rock: The Essential Album Guide | [5] |
| Punknews.org | [6] |
| The Rolling Stone Album Guide | [7] |
| Spin Alternative Record Guide | 4/10[8] |
Live '84 is an album released by Black Flag in 1984 on SST Records.[9][10] It is a live recording of a show played in 1984 and features mostly tracks from My War and Slip It In. A video was shot simultaneously and was briefly available through SST; the now-out-of-print video has been widely bootlegged.
The album was originally issued as a cassette-only release, almost simultaneously with Slip It In. In 1998, Greg Ginn remixed the album for CD reissue.
The album was recorded at the Stone nightclub in San Francisco, CA.[11]
Critical reception
Maximum Rocknroll called the album "a superior quality live tape showcasing an evening with a seminal, legendary, masochistic, poignant, chaotic beast of an outfit who have not lost one iota of aggro."[12] Trouser Press wrote that "Black Flag concerts were typically an utter mess, which suits the songs perfectly, making this chaotic explosion naturally one of their best releases."[13] The Spin Alternative Record Guide deemed it "tolerable until the lounge-core latter half of side two."[8]
