Black Flag The First Four Years Stoner Rock The production by Brian Eno

The production by Brian Eno and Daniel Lanois was a taste of things to come

"Paranoid Android" is a six-minute-plus epic with alternating time signatures

the group slips into a funky James Brown homage ("The Crunge")

From the strung-out stomp of "Waiting For the Man" to the churning

or as they put it

Black Flag The First Four Years Stoner Rock The production by Brian EnoBlack Flag: Dez Cadena (vocals, guitar); Chuck Dukowski (vocals, bass); Keith Morris, Chavo (Ron Reyes) (vocals); Greg Ginn (guitar); Brian Migdol, Robo (drums). 1983's THE FIRST FOUR YEARS is a handy compilation of Black Flag's first three seven inch EPs, 1978's NERVOUS BREAKDOWN, 1980's JEALOUS AGAIN, and 1981's SIX PACK, along with two tracks from compilations and both sides of 1981's "Louie Louie" Damaged I" single. All told, it contains the