Black Flag – Nervous Breakdown

VERSION #8

RELEASE: Unknown quantity pressed in 1990. Used the same plates from Rainbo Records used for version #7 but changed the color of vinyl.

SLEEVE: Navy blue ink on white gloss paper sleeve. Artist - Raymond Pettibon's artwork on the front of the sleeve is exactly the same as the 7th pressing (only now in navy blue ink). The back of the sleeve shows some significant changes... the artwork is smaller, the four Black Flag Bar Logo has been added and a bar code shows up for the first time. The sleeve is cut in an upward arch across the top edge of the front and a crescent downward across the back top edge. Has a barcode "0 18861-0001-7 6".

LABEL: Blue label same as the label on the 7th pressing with the same following characteristics: sides are labeled as "Side One" and "Side Two". Has Black Flag font and Black Flag 4 bar logo. Typo showing the song length of "Nervous Breakdown" on Side One as being 2:55 instead of 2:05.

VINYL: 7”, Translucent red vinyl, small hole, deadwax runout has “SST 001-A R-12806 L-19417” on side one and “SST 001-B L-19417-X R-12807” on side two.

PRIMARY DIFFERENCE(S) TO PREVIOUS VERSION: This 8th pressing/version has a sleeve with navy blue ink with changes to the artwork on the back of the sleeve including the introduction of the barcode. The color of the vinyl changed from translucent yellow to translucent red.

Recorded at Media Art Studio, Hermosa Beach, CA - Jan. 1978.

© 1978 Cesstone Music (BMI)
℗ 1978 SST Records, P.O. Box 1, Lawndale, CA 90260