In My Head (album)

In My Head
Studio album by
ReleasedOctober 1985
RecordedOctober 1984, January 1985, March 1985
StudioTotal Access Recording, Redondo Beach, California
Genre
Length37:12
47:31 (original cassette and CD reissue)
LabelSST (045)
ProducerGreg Ginn, Bill Stevenson, David Tarling
Black Flag chronology
The Process of Weeding Out
(1985)
In My Head
(1985)
Minuteflag
(1986)

In My Head is the sixth studio album by American punk band Black Flag. It was released in 1985 on SST Records, and was their final studio album before their breakup in 1986. The CD reissue adds three of the four songs that later appeared on the I Can See You EP, replicating the original 1985 cassette release which came out concurrent to the LP.

After building a reputation for confrontational hardcore punk, late-era Black Flag turned to a more experimental, heavy metal-inflected sound, in particular on their last two albums. Greg Ginn intended In My Head to be his first solo album.[1] The cover is a collage of six drawings by Ginn's brother Raymond Pettibon which SST cut up and used without paying him and without his permission, resulting in Raymond cutting ties with the label.[2]

  1. ^ Earles 2014, p. 43.
  2. ^ Chick 2011, p. 345.