Black Flag – 'Damaged'

Best paired with: a Cup of Noodle and the cheapest six pack you can find
 

The Cup of Noodle experience is just like your average hardcore-punk song — short-lived and aggressively terrible. Yet, somehow, both have resonated with people across cultures for over three decades. They've found a way to transcend taste in a way that's strangely satisfying and easily accessible.

In the world of hardcore, food has neither nuance nor nutrition. It's really just a means to an end to help keep the booze down (besides, if you're living that life correctly, you should be too angry to be hungry). To truly appreciate the essence of Damaged, it helps to put yourself in the mind of a marginalized, mohawked gutter-punk living in a derelict punk-house.

So spray paint the walls, grab your 6-pack, smash your TV, and hope your roommates didn't already pawn your microwave.

From Damaged 1981