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Format: LP
Label: Dischord Records
Year: 2023
Media Condition: New
Sleeve/Cover Condition: New
A1 Teen Idles - I Drink Milk
A2 Teen Idles - Commie Song
A3 Teen Idles - No Fun
A4 Untouchables - Rat Patrol
A5 Untouchables - Nic Fit
A6 Untouchables - I Hate You
A7 State Of Alert - I Hate The Kids
A8 State Of Alert - Disease
A9 State Of Alert - Stepping Stone Party
A10 Minor Threat - Stand Up
A11 Minor Threat - 12XU
A12 Government Issue - Hey Ronnie
A13 Government Issue - Lie, Cheat & Steal
A14 Youth Brigade - Moral Majority
A15 Youth Brigade - Waste Of Time
A16 Youth Brigade - Last Word
B1 Red C - Jimi 45
B2 Red C - Pressure's On
B3 Red C - Six O'Clock News
B4 Red C - Assassin
B5 Void - Dehumanized
B6 Void - Authority
B7 Void - My Rules
B8 Iron Cross - Wargames
B9 Iron Cross - New Breed
B10 Iron Cross - Live For Now
B11 Artificial Peace - Artificial Peace
B12 Artificial Peace - Outside Looking In
B13 Artificial Peace - Suburban Wasteland
B14 Deadline - Stolen Youth
B15 Deadline - Hear The Cry
B16 Deadline - Aftermath
Originally released in 1982. This edition pressed on opaque white vinyl.
Dischord Records assembled Flex Your Head as a way to record the many punk bands that had started up, and sometimes also ceased, in the previous years in the D.C. area. The album served as either a debut or sophomore release for every band on it except Minor Threat, for whom it was their third.
At the time of the album's release not only had most of the bands on it already have broken up, but many had gone on to start other bands, some of those bands also appear on the album. The Teen Idles had broken up in late 1980 and by the time of the release of Flex Your Head members had already started Minor Threat and Youth Brigade.
The Untouchables broke up in 1981 and with the former members joining a multitude of bands including The Faith, The Warmers, Rites of Spring, One Last Wish, Skewbald, Happy Go Licky, Youth Brigade, and The Meatmen. State of Alert had also folded in early 1981 as singer Henry Garfield had joined Black Flag. Minor Threat had disbanded (although they would reunite a few months after the album's release) and since then Ian MacKaye and Jeff Nelson had founded Skewbald while Lyle Preslar joined an early version of Big Black.
Youth Brigade and Red C both existed solely during 1981, and both Artificial Peace and Deadline would break up within a few months of the release of Flex Your Head, aside from Youth Brigade these band's only recorded output is on the compilation, though from those bands would come the longer lasting Beefeater, Marginal Man and Fugazi. Only Government Issue and Iron Cross would survive past the next year.
The compilation takes its title from the Minor Threat lyric shouted in the song "12XU", included on the album, originally by the English band Wire.
Label: Dischord Records
Year: 2023
Media Condition: New
Sleeve/Cover Condition: New
A1 Teen Idles - I Drink Milk
A2 Teen Idles - Commie Song
A3 Teen Idles - No Fun
A4 Untouchables - Rat Patrol
A5 Untouchables - Nic Fit
A6 Untouchables - I Hate You
A7 State Of Alert - I Hate The Kids
A8 State Of Alert - Disease
A9 State Of Alert - Stepping Stone Party
A10 Minor Threat - Stand Up
A11 Minor Threat - 12XU
A12 Government Issue - Hey Ronnie
A13 Government Issue - Lie, Cheat & Steal
A14 Youth Brigade - Moral Majority
A15 Youth Brigade - Waste Of Time
A16 Youth Brigade - Last Word
B1 Red C - Jimi 45
B2 Red C - Pressure's On
B3 Red C - Six O'Clock News
B4 Red C - Assassin
B5 Void - Dehumanized
B6 Void - Authority
B7 Void - My Rules
B8 Iron Cross - Wargames
B9 Iron Cross - New Breed
B10 Iron Cross - Live For Now
B11 Artificial Peace - Artificial Peace
B12 Artificial Peace - Outside Looking In
B13 Artificial Peace - Suburban Wasteland
B14 Deadline - Stolen Youth
B15 Deadline - Hear The Cry
B16 Deadline - Aftermath
Originally released in 1982. This edition pressed on opaque white vinyl.
Dischord Records assembled Flex Your Head as a way to record the many punk bands that had started up, and sometimes also ceased, in the previous years in the D.C. area. The album served as either a debut or sophomore release for every band on it except Minor Threat, for whom it was their third.
At the time of the album's release not only had most of the bands on it already have broken up, but many had gone on to start other bands, some of those bands also appear on the album. The Teen Idles had broken up in late 1980 and by the time of the release of Flex Your Head members had already started Minor Threat and Youth Brigade.
The Untouchables broke up in 1981 and with the former members joining a multitude of bands including The Faith, The Warmers, Rites of Spring, One Last Wish, Skewbald, Happy Go Licky, Youth Brigade, and The Meatmen. State of Alert had also folded in early 1981 as singer Henry Garfield had joined Black Flag. Minor Threat had disbanded (although they would reunite a few months after the album's release) and since then Ian MacKaye and Jeff Nelson had founded Skewbald while Lyle Preslar joined an early version of Big Black.
Youth Brigade and Red C both existed solely during 1981, and both Artificial Peace and Deadline would break up within a few months of the release of Flex Your Head, aside from Youth Brigade these band's only recorded output is on the compilation, though from those bands would come the longer lasting Beefeater, Marginal Man and Fugazi. Only Government Issue and Iron Cross would survive past the next year.
The compilation takes its title from the Minor Threat lyric shouted in the song "12XU", included on the album, originally by the English band Wire.