Flex Your Head

Flex Your Head
2010 remastered LP edition cover
Front cover since 2010.
Compilation album by
various artists
ReleasedJanuary 1982
RecordedApril 1980 – December 1981
StudioInner Ear
Hit & Run
C.A.B.
GenreHardcore punk
Length41:49
LanguageEnglish
LabelDischord
ProducerSkip 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
SourceRating
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.

  1. ^ a b Curd, Zach. "Flex Your Head: AllMusic Review by Zach Curd". AllMusic. Retrieved April 20, 2016.
  2. ^ 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.
  3. ^ 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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