Loose Nut
by Black Flag

Loose Nut by Black Flag
Year: 1985
Overall rank: 18,373rd   Overall chart history
Average Rating: 
74/100 (from 31 votes)
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Accolades:
Award Top albums of 1985 (210th)
Award Top albums of the 1980s (2,429th)
Award Best albums of all time (18,373rd)

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Loose Nut by Black Flag (CD, 1990)
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Black Flag bestography

Loose Nut is ranked 4th best out of 14 albums by Black Flag on BestEverAlbums.com.

The best album by Black Flag is Damaged which is ranked number 840 in the list of all-time albums with a total rank score of 2,047.

Black Flag album bestography « Higher ranked (10,417th)
The First Four Years
This album (18,373rd)
Loose Nut
Lower ranked (18,449th) »
Slip It In

(N.B. Bestographies include all albums by an artist (and their variations), but do not include albums ranked outside the top 100,000).

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Loose Nut rankings

Rankings summary
Overall rank: 18,373rd | 1980s rank: 2,429th | 1985 rank: 210th

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Average Rating: 
74/100 (from 31 votes)
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03/12/2026 12:12 Beattieboi  Ratings distribution  2364/100
 
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08/09/2025 15:20 JamesMowbray  Ratings distribution  5,39269/100
 
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02/07/2025 23:36 mrmcrook  Ratings distribution  1,04677/100
 
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08/19/2024 12:03 videoheadcleaner  Ratings distribution  12,24985/100
 
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01/04/2024 15:07 MW19704U  Ratings distribution  6,99059/100

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This album is rated in the top 22% of all albums on BestEverAlbums.com. This album has a Bayesian average rating of 73.8/100, a mean average of 72.6/100, and a trimmed mean (excluding outliers) of 74.3/100. The standard deviation for this album is 16.2.

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80/100
From 09/09/2020 01:01 | #257931
A great punk album. 'Best one Yet' and 'Modern Man' being the standout tracks for me. Tapers of a bit in the second half but still an all round better punk album than many of the other contenders
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From 05/26/2014 03:22 | #112950
This easily Black Flag's most polished recording. A lot of the racks lean more towards metal than punk, with Anhilliate This Week being the stand out track for me.
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