The First Four Years

Label: Sst Records
Release date: 24 Jan 2006
Running length: 16 tracks
Running time: 28:04

Tracklist

	Track	Duration	Listeners
1	Nervous Breakdown	2:11	101,433
2	Fix Me	1:31	62,165
3	I've Had It	1:31	51,926
4	Wasted	1:00	88,108
5	Jealous Again	2:15	60,857
6	Revenge	1:08	53,912
7	White Minority	1:11	64,590
8	No Values	2:59	53,891
9	You Bet We've Got Something Personal Against You	0:52	3,960
10	Clocked In	1:30	39,663
11	Six Pack	2:09	159,790
12	I've Heard It Before	1:40	30,945
13	American Waste	1:32	37,757
14	Machine	1:27	25,254
15	Louie Louie	1:19	43,836
16	Damaged I	3:49	78,273

About this album

The First Four Years was a compilation of early songs by the American hardcore punk band Black Flag recorded before Henry Rollins became the band’s vocalist in 1981. Released in 1983 on SST Records, it essentially collects the EPs Nervous Breakdown, Jealous Again, Six Pack, and the single “Louie Louie”, with a couple of bonus tracks from various artists’ albums.

Tracks 1-4 are taken from the Nervous Breakdown EP
Tracks 5-9 are taken from the Jealous Again EP