“I've Had It” by Black Flag

"I've Had It" rips through Nervous Breakdown, the debut EP by Black Flag and the first thing SST Records ever released, and it's all Greg Ginn's work, words and music. Keith Morris hollers it, on the only Black Flag record outside the compilations to carry his voice, with Chuck Dukowski on bass and Brian Migdol on drums.

The making of it is a punk parable. Ginn bankrolled the session out of the takings of Solid State Tuners, the ham radio electronics company he ran by mail order, and the band cut it at Media Art, a brand-new studio they found through Spot, an apprentice engineer Ginn already knew. Bomp! Records was supposed to put it out, but the band got tired of waiting, took the master rights back, and Ginn and Dukowski started SST to do it themselves. The EP became a turning point for hardcore punk.

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