Damaged
by Black Flag
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Damaged is ranked as the best album by Black Flag.
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Damaged track list
The tracks on this album have an average rating of 80 out of 100 (all tracks have been rated).
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Damaged rankings
Calculated from aggregate positions across 60,000 charts (2 million album rankings). Click to see how the rankings are calculated (Last updated: 4 hours ago)
| Year | Source | Chart | Rank | Rank Score |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2026 |  Hayden | Top 100 Music Albums of the 1980s | 77/100 | 5 |
| 2026 | bobnickmad | Top 57 Music Albums of the 1980s | 51/57 | 2 |
| 2026 | Juneof44 | Top 50 Music Albums of 1981 | 25/50 | 3 |
| 2026 | Johnnyo | Greatest albums of 1981 by Ultimate Record Collector | 36/55 | - |
| 2026 | pjerske | Top 100 Music Albums of the 1980s | 53/100 | 10 |
| 2026 | fabm0 | All Time Pt 3 | 19/100 | - |
| 2026 | BlueNote | Best Album Covers | 20/25 | - |
| 2026 | OFarrio | Top 25 Music Albums of 1981 | 6/25 | 4 |
| 2026 |  Patman360 | Top 100 Music Albums of 1981 | 1/100 | 5 |
| 2026 |  ERadio | Top 80 Music Albums of 1981 | 7/80 | 5 |
| Total Charts: The total number of charts that this album has appeared in. | 402 | |||
| Total Rank Score: The total rank score. | 2,026 | |||
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Damaged ratings
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| Rating | Date updated | Member | Album ratings | Avg. album rating |
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| ! | 09/05/2026 19:13 |  LedZep | 5,145 | 79/100 |
| ! | 09/02/2026 05:20 | Olli | 7,933 | 62/100 |
| ! | 04/15/2026 17:29 | gmessian | 385 | 60/100 |
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This album is rated in the top 7% of all albums on BestEverAlbums.com. This album has a Bayesian average rating of 75.4/100, a mean average of 74.1/100, and a trimmed mean (excluding outliers) of 75.5/100. The standard deviation for this album is 18.3.
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Damaged forum mentions
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corenfro TOP 100 COMMENTER 06/22/2017 02:21 | #193003 | TOP COMMENT
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I've never been more convinced I didn't like something after giving it 3 listens. It's even worse than punk. Somehow it got more childish, more outputting, less mature, and even less musically interesting than its predecessors in it's genre who it's not even worth my time to fully type out. Not for me! (Edited)
The sound of depression had been done before. But never like this. This is the sound of a man fighting for his life with everything he's got. With bile. With rage. He doesn't want to die & he's pist as all hell at being sick. At being attacked by his own body, his own mind. He screams out for help from anyone completely naive that no one can help him. So he just becomes more angry, more confused. One of the best albums ever at depicting mental illness and sickness in general. Shit, this is music's In a Bell Jar. And I love who the album itself is completely manic-depressive itself! Besides Bowie's Low, has there ever been two sides of an album so divergent, yet so inexorably meant to be together?
Angst ridden and fast. Considered one of the greatest punk albums of all time, Damaged provided an expression to youth who were angry at the world and needed an outlet for it. This album provides the lyrics and the music for that angst and it does well.
swhaze TOP 100 COMMENTER 09/11/2014 18:53 | #121729 | TOP COMMENT
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There's nothing to make you say "yeah, that's a good song" because the music's simply there and has no impact.
One of the best hardcore punk albums ever. Angry, aggressive, and noisy. Black Flag at their best. (Edited)
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