Black Flag “Louie Louie” b/w “Damage I” 1981. Posh Boy Records. This is Dez Cadena era Black Flag (post-Keith Morris and Ron Reyes, pre-Henry Rollins) before he blew out his voice with his scream-growl singing style.  Side A is a lightning-fast, irreverent punk cover of the classic “Louie Louie” (originally written in 1958 by Richard Berry but made popular – and controversial – by The Kingsmen in 1963); Black Flag notoriously performed an extended version of “Louie Louie” after Ron Reyes quit the band mid-gig at their ‘80 show in Redondo Beach, inviting the audience up on stage to sing. Black Flag’s main songwriter Greg Ginn and Dez darkly rework the famously misinterpreted lyrics into a punk lament that are pictured on the single’s cover, “You know the pain/That’s in my heart/It just shows/I’m not very smart/Who needs love/When you’ve got a gun/Who needs love/To have any fun.” Side B’s “Damage I” is a long (in punk minutes) sludgy screamer that would be reworked into “Damaged II” (sung by Henry Rollins) on Black Flag’s LP Damaged.