Album · Black Flag
Damaged by Black Flag
Damaged is an album by Black Flag, released in 1981. 3 songs from it have charted on rock radio countdowns, with 25 countdown appearances in total. The biggest is “TV Party”, on 16 lists with a best position of #42.
Damaged, Black Flag's first full-length album, came out on Greg Ginn's own SST label in November 1981, with Spot producing, and it sounds like a pressure cooker with the lid blown clean off. Henry Rollins had just joined as singer, and he barks Ginn's songs of isolation, paranoia, neurosis and poverty like a man pacing a cell. Ginn's guitar squalls and skids in atonal bursts over thrash as blunt as the Ramones, with Chuck Dukowski, Dez Cadena and Robo rounding out the lineup.
"Rise Above", "TV Party" and "Six Pack" are the ones that stuck, and the whole record carries the band's anti-authority snarl from first note to last. Hardly anyone noticed at the time, critics included, but it has since come to be counted among the most influential punk records ever made.
Written with AI assistance from RockLists chart data, MusicBrainz and Wikipedia.
Songs from Damaged on radio countdowns
| # | Song | Strength | Lists | Best | #1s | Years |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | TV Party | 16 | #42 | – | 1994–2021 | |
| 2 | Rise Above | 4 | #256 | – | 2019–2024 | |
| 3 | Six Pack | 5 | #1803 | – | 2007–2011 |
Only songs that appear on at least one countdown are listed. Release data from MusicBrainz.