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1982 compilation album by various artists
Flex Your Head
Front cover since 2010.
Compilation album by
various artists
Released
January 1982
Recorded
April 1980 – December 1981
Studio
Inner Ear Hit & Run C.A.B.
Genre
Hardcore punk
Length
41:49
Language
English
Label
Dischord
Producer
Skip Groff Chris Haskett Ian MacKaye Bert Queiroz Lyle Preslar
Early cover art
First pressing cover.
Alternative cover
Second pressing cover.
Alternative cover
1985 reissue cover.
Professional ratings
Review scores
Source
Rating
AllMusic
[1]
Flex Your Head is a sampler album featuring early hardcore punk bands from the Washington, D.C., area.[1] It was originally released in January 1982 on Dischord Records,[nb 1] with a pressing of 4,000 copies on vinyl record that sold out within one week;[2] an additional 3,000 copies were released shortly after. In 1982, a third pressing of 2,000 copies was released under license in the United Kingdom by Alternative Tentacles.[nb 2][3] Each of the first three pressings featured a different front cover.
^ abCurd, Zach. "Flex Your Head: AllMusic Review by Zach Curd". AllMusic. Retrieved April 20, 2016.
^Azerrad, Michael (Little, Brown and Company, 2001). Our Band Could Be Your Life: Scenes from the American Rock Underground 1981-1991. First e-book ed., 2012. Hachette. ISBN 9780316247184. pp. 340-341.
^Azerrad, Michael (Little, Brown and Company, 2001). Our Band Could Be Your Life: Scenes from the American Rock Underground 1981-1991. First e-book ed., 2012. Hachette. ISBN 9780316247184. p. 376.
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