Editing Live '84

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{{Infobox album
| name       = Live '84
| type       = live
| artist     = [[Black Flag (band)|Black Flag]]
| cover      = Black Flag - Live '84 cover.jpg
| alt        =
| released   = December 1984
| recorded   = August 26, 1984
| venue      = [[The Stone (San Francisco)|The Stone]] in [[San Francisco]], [[California]]
| genre      = [[Hardcore punk]], [[post-hardcore]], [[jazz fusion]], [[sludge metal]]
| length     = 75:28
| label      = [[SST Records|SST]] (030)
| producer   = [[Greg Ginn]]
| prev_title = [[Slip It In]]
| prev_year  = 1984
| next_title = [[Loose Nut]]
| next_year  = 1985
}}
{{Music ratings
| rev1 = [[AllMusic]]
| rev1Score = {{rating|4|5}}<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.allmusic.com/album/live-84-mw0000651856 |title=''Live '84'' – Black Flag <nowiki>| Songs, Reviews, Credits, Awards |</nowiki> AllMusic |last=Dougan |first=John |website=[[AllMusic]] |access-date=3 July 2015}}</ref>
| rev2 = ''[[Dave Thompson (author)|Alternative Rock]]''
| rev2score = 8/10<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://archive.org/details/alternativerock0000thom|title=Alternative rock|first=Dave|last=Thompson|date=April 12, 2000|publisher=San Francisco : Miller Freeman Books; Berkeley, CA : Distributed to the book trade in the U.S. and Canada by Publishers Group West; Milwaukee, WI : Distributed to the music trade in the U.S. and Canada by Hal Leonard Publishing|via=Internet Archive}}</ref>
| rev3 = ''[[The Boston Phoenix]]''
| rev3score = {{rating|3.5|4}}<ref>{{cite web|url=https://archive.org/details/sim_boston-phoenix_february-06-12-1998_27_6/page/n95/|title=The Boston Phoenix  February 06-12, 1998: Vol 27 Iss 6|website=[[Internet Archive]]|access-date=18 April 2022}}</ref>
|rev4 = ''[[The Encyclopedia of Popular Music]]''
|rev4score = {{rating|2|5}}<ref name="CL">{{cite book |last1=Larkin |first1=Colin |title=The Encyclopedia of Popular Music |date=2006 |publisher=MUZE |volume=1 |page=630}}</ref>
|rev5 = ''[[MusicHound|MusicHound Rock: The Essential Album Guide]]''
|rev5score = {{rating|1.5|5}}<ref name="MH">{{cite book |title=MusicHound Rock: The Essential Album Guide |date=1999 |publisher=Visible Ink Press |page=112}}</ref>
|rev6 = Punknews.org
|rev6score = {{rating|4|5}}<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.punknews.org/review/14966/black-flag-live-84|title=Black Flag - Live '84|website=www.punknews.org}}</ref>
|rev7 = ''[[The Rolling Stone Album Guide]]''
|rev7score = {{rating|1.5|5}}<ref name="RS">{{cite book |title=The Rolling Stone Album Guide |date=1992 |publisher=Random House |page=62}}</ref>
|rev8 = ''[[Spin Alternative Record Guide]]''
|rev8score = 4/10<ref name="SP">{{cite book |title=Spin Alternative Record Guide |date=1995 |publisher=Vintage Books |pages=44–45}}</ref>
}}
'''''Live '84''''' is an album released by [[Black Flag (band)|Black Flag]] in 1984 on [[SST Records]].<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.allmusic.com/artist/black-flag-mn0000091650/biography|title=Black Flag &#124; Biography & History|website=AllMusic}}</ref><ref>{{Cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=ZHP-r9-eqdAC&pg=PA205|title=Alternative Rock|first=Dave|last=Thompson|date=March 9, 2000|publisher=Hal Leonard Corporation|isbn=9780879306076|via=Google Books}}</ref> 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 [[compact audio cassette|cassette]]-only release, almost simultaneously with ''Slip It In''. In 1998, [[Greg Ginn]] remixed the album for CD reissue.

==Recording==
The album was recorded at the Stone nightclub in [[San Francisco, California|San Francisco, CA]].<ref>{{Cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=D_eKBAAAQBAJ&pg=PA42|title=Gimme Indie Rock: 500 Essential American Underground Rock Albums 1981-1996|first=Andrew|last=Earles|date=September 15, 2014|publisher=Voyageur Press|isbn=9781627883795|via=Google Books}}</ref>

==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."<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://maximumrocknroll.com/review/mrr-21/live-84-cassette/|title=Live '84 cassette}}</ref> ''[[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."<ref name="TP">{{cite web |title=Black Flag |url=https://trouserpress.com/reviews/black-flag/ |website=Trouser Press |access-date=9 March 2021}}</ref> The ''[[Spin Alternative Record Guide]]'' deemed it "tolerable until the lounge-core latter half of side two."<ref name=SP/>

==Track listing==
#"The Process of Weeding Out" (Ginn) – 8:31
#"Nervous Breakdown" (Ginn) – 2:06
#"Can't Decide" (Ginn) – 5:01
#"Slip It In" (Ginn) – 5:54
#"My Ghetto" (Ginn/Rollins) – 1:14
#"Black Coffee" (Ginn) – 4:53
#"I Won't Stick Any of You Unless and Until I Can Stick All of You!" (Ginn) – 4:53
#"Forever Time" (Ginn/Rollins) – 2:20
#"Fix Me" (Ginn) – 0:53
#"Six Pack" (Ginn) – 2:26
#"My War" (Dukowski) – 3:34
#"Jealous Again" (Ginn) – 1:59
#"I Love You" (Dukowski) – 3:19
#"Swinging Man" (Ginn/Rollins) – 3:10
#"Three Nights" (Ginn/Rollins) – 6:10
#"Nothing Left Inside" (Ginn/Rollins) – 6:25
#"Wound Up" (Ginn/Rollins) – 4:00
#"Rat's Eyes" (Ginn/Rollins) – 4:21
#"The Bars" (Dukowski/Rollins) – 4:38

==Personnel==
*[[Henry Rollins]] – vocals
*[[Greg Ginn]] – guitar
*[[Kira Roessler]] – bass
*[[Bill Stevenson (musician)|Bill Stevenson]] – drums
*Tom Troccoli – backing vocals

==References==

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[[Category:Black Flag (band) live albums]]
[[Category:1984 live albums]]
[[Category:SST Records live albums]]