Slip IT In - Recording and Style

Recording and Style

Slip It In was recorded on a brief break on the continuous tour for My War, My War saw Black Flag at their most ambitious. This year they would release three full-length albums, and toured nearly constantly, with Rollins noting 178 performances for the year, and about that many for 1985. With Dukowski gone, Ginn ceded much of the spotlight to Rollins, who had expressed some discomfort over being the group's de facto spokesman, while Ginn was the recognized leader (Ginn wrote the majority of the group's songs and lyrics).

The style of Slip It In is very similar to their previous release My War but is not exact. The songs are considered heavy, but are in a faster tempo similar to influential début album Damaged. At the middle point of the album, there is an instrumental track called "Obliteration" which highlights Ginn's chord progressions where Brandon Sideleau of Punknews.org claims that it "...mashes sludge and jazz into an ominous hybrid." One critic writes that Slip It In "blurs the line between moronic punk and moronic metal"Greg Ginn's lyrics on the title track "Slip It In" are raunchy and angry, the song in general is about people and their choices and caring about them more than anything else. One time, Ginn himself once described it as something along the lines of "why is it that only guys can openly express their enjoyment of promiscuous sex without being labeled 'sluts?'"