Flipper – Album Generic Flipper

Mine’s maybe an early second pressing with a leftover cover from the first? Everything to do with the vinyl matches this but my jacket does not have the label logo on the back. The merch sheet mentions the Chrome box set that was released mid ‘82 but there’s no date on the merch sheet like there is on others. Anybody know what the deal is with that. I’ve had this since before I bought Gone Fishin’ new right as it was released so it’s got to be pretty early.

I love this god damn album. Sort of like if someone turned the VU song Sister Ray into a band.

seems to be a slightly later repress with the later releases on the catalog and the subt logo on the back.

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PiL ripped off the cover! Nirvana ripped off the sound!

FLiPPER - Possibly the best and most heavy sound of the hardcore punk of their era, if not all time. Without having the typical hardcore sound. Extremely Bass driven. They are the settlers of noise-rock who paved the way with for band like Sonic youth and Nirvana. FLiPPER suffered for their music, now its your turn!

The best part of this record are the guitar solos.

The nosiest punk album besides every METZ album. Flipper is a acquired taste it takes some time to develop

Favorite Tracks: Way Of The World, Ever, Nothing, Life Is Cheap, Sex Bomb

Least Fav: Life, Living For Depression

a crucial part of Negative Trend 1978 - San Francisco

one of the best punk albums of all time. The sound of nihilism.

A 'horrible' album in the best sense of the word, this is an underground classic.

Not everyone "gets" this. But then again, I'd be worried if everyone did.

Slow and sloppy, monotone, anti-melodic atmosphere music for the maladjusted. The lyrics are bitter yet clever. The guitar is schizophrenic -- totally unpredictable. Drums and bass seem to be the cornerstone for the overlaying guitar and vocal histrionics.

I put this record on now and then to remind myself that I'm a square wheel and that there are other square wheels out there, too. That is part of the magic of music -- when you find a record by a bunch of freaks you've never met, never WILL meet, and they are laying down ideas and sounds that could have sprung from your own brain. When I first heard Flipper, I thought, "So, there are others like me... I must find them."

"Sex Bomb" is probably the song most people will find the most appealing -- and it is one of the band's best-known numbers. But I live for the opening notes of "Life Is Cheap." And the disturbing female backing vocals on that song cut me up every time.

Nirvana often said that Flipper was a big influence on their sound. I have never been a Nirvana fan, really. But now, listening to Flipper, I can hear it. I guess that means that Flipper were way ahead of their time.

Speaking of time, check the release date on this LP. 1981. What was going on in US punk circa 1981? Great stuff: Minor Threat, Black Flag, all the classics. BUT, while the aforementioned hardcore gods were getting faster and faster, Flipper decided to slow it down. Of course this alienated a lot of punks, which was probably the point: destroy the rule book. The irony was lost on many but not all. Punk rock gods like Biafra and Rollins loved Flipper and extolled their virtues. But like I said in Sentence One, not everybody "gets" this.

If you don't mind a little coloring outside the lines, if you think punk is more attitude than checklist, consider Flipper an ally.

And let us not forget that a couple of the Flips were in the goddamn immortal Negative Trend.