Black Flag: Damaged (SST Import)
Garry Bushell, Sounds, 30 January 1982
"THE RUNAWAYS on angel dust," was how my pal Jimmy 'Bubbles' Skinner summed up this awesome Yank Punk broadside. The Stooges on bad sulphate is what I'd have said.
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