Live '84

Live '84 is an album released by Black Flag in 1984 on SST Records. 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 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, CA.

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." 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." The Spin Alternative Record Guide deemed it "tolerable until the lounge-core latter half of side two."

Track listing

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

Personnel

Black Flag

• Henry Rollins – vocals
• Greg Ginn – guitar
• Kira Roessler – bass
• Bill Stevenson – drums

Additional performers

• Tom Troccoli – backing vocals
• "various audience members" – backing vocals