Editing Loose Nut

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{{Infobox album
| name       = Loose Nut
| type       = studio
| artist     = [[Black Flag (band)|Black Flag]]
| cover      = Black Flag - Loose Nut cover.jpg
| alt        =
| released   = May 14, 1985
| recorded   = March 1985
| venue      =
| studio     = [[Total Access Recording]], Redondo Beach, California
| genre      = [[Hardcore punk]], [[Heavy metal music|heavy metal]]
| length     = 34:07
| label      = [[SST Records|SST]] (035)
| producer   = Bill Stevenson<br />Greg Ginn<br />David Tarling
| prev_title = [[Live '84]]
| prev_year  = 1984
| next_title = [[The Process of Weeding Out]]
| next_year  = 1985
}}
'''''Loose Nut''''' is the fifth studio album by American band [[Black Flag (band)|Black Flag]], released in 1985 on [[SST Records]].

==Reception==
{{Album ratings
| rev1 = [[AllMusic]]
| rev1Score = {{Rating|3|5}}<ref>{{AllMusic|class=album|id=r1969|first=Alex|last=Ogg|accessdate=2011-07-01}}</ref>
| rev2 = ''[[Encyclopedia of Popular Music]]''
| rev2Score = {{Rating|2|5}}<ref>{{cite book|last=Larkin|first=Colin|author-link=Colin Larkin|title=Encyclopedia of Popular Music|year=2007|publisher=[[Oxford University Press]]|edition=4th|isbn=978-0195313734|title-link=Encyclopedia of Popular Music}}</ref>
|rev3 = ''[[Martin C. Strong|The Great Rock Discography]]''
|rev3score = 5/10<ref>{{cite book|title=The Great Rock Discography|author=Martin C. Strong|author-link=Martin C. Strong|edition=1st|year=1998|isbn=978-0-86241-827-4|publisher=[[Canongate Books]]}}</ref>
| rev4 = ''[[MusicHound|MusicHound Rock]]''
| rev4score = 3/5<ref>{{cite book|title=[[MusicHound|MusicHound Rock: The Essential Album Guide]]|editor=Gary Graff|editor-link=Gary Graff|edition=1st|year=1996|location=London|isbn=978-0-7876-1037-1|publisher=[[Visible Ink Press]]}}</ref>
| rev5 = Punknews.org
| rev5Score = {{Rating|5}}<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://www.punknews.org/review/3658/black-flag-loose-nut|title = Black Flag - Loose Nut| date=January 21, 2005 }}</ref>
| rev6 = ''[[The Rolling Stone Album Guide]]''
| rev6Score = {{Rating|2|5}}<ref>{{cite book |chapter=Black Flag|editor1-last=Brackett |editor1-first=Nathan |editor2-last=Hoard |editor2-first=Christian |first=Rob |last=Sheffield |author-link=Rob Sheffield |title=[[The Rolling Stone Album Guide|The New Rolling Stone Album Guide]] |edition=4th |year=2004 |publisher=[[Fireside Books]] |location=London |isbn=0-7432-0169-8 |chapter-url=https://books.google.com/books?id=t9eocwUfoSoC&q=black+flag|access-date=November 5, 2021 }}</ref>
}}
''[[Spin (magazine)|Spin]]'' wrote, "Henry Rollins' manic ravings make mascaraed posturers seem pale. This band goes off, takes a lot of chances, and when you hear this, you have a lot of fun. Who knows when radio programmers will catch up to them? Black Flag really deserves to be, like, bigger than ''[[Thriller (album)|Thriller]]''."<ref>{{cite magazine| magazine= [[Spin (magazine)|Spin]] | title=Spins|author=Sue Cummings| date=September 1985|issue=5|page=31}}</ref>

==Track listing==
{{Tracklist
|headline        = Side A
|title1  = Loose Nut
|length1 = 4:35
|writer1 = [[Greg Ginn]]
|title2 = Bastard in Love
|length2 = 3:20
|writer2 = Ginn
|title3 = Annihilate This Week
|length3 = 4:44
|writer3 = Ginn
|title4 = Best One Yet
|length4 = 2:37
|writer4 = [[Kira Roessler]], [[Henry Rollins]]
|title5 = Modern Man
|length5 = 3:11
|writer5 =Ed Danky, [[Chuck Dukowski]]
}}
{{Tracklist
|headline = Side B
|title6 = This Is Good
|length6 = 3:34
|writer6 = Ginn, Rollins
|title7 = I'm the One
|length7 = 3:15
|writer7 = Roessler, Rollins
|title8 = Sinking
|length8 = 4:36
|writer8 = Ginn, Rollins
|title9 = Now She's Black
|length9 = 4:51
|writer9 = [[Bill Stevenson (musician)|Bill Stevenson]]
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==Personnel==
*[[Henry Rollins]] – lead vocals
*[[Greg Ginn]] – guitars
*[[Kira Roessler]] – bass, backing vocals
*[[Bill Stevenson (musician)|Bill Stevenson]] – drums
*[[Raymond Pettibon]] – artwork
*[[Milo Aukerman]] – backing vocals on "Loose Nut"

==References==
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{{Black Flag}}

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[[Category:Black Flag (band) albums]]
[[Category:1985 albums]]
[[Category:SST Records albums]]
[[Category:Albums produced by Bill Stevenson (musician)]]
[[Category:Albums with cover art by Raymond Pettibon]]