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Generic Flipper (CD)

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DISC 1 for Generic Flipper (CD) Album By Flipper (Artist)
1   Ever
2   Life Is Cheap
3   Shed No Tears
4   (I Saw You) Shine
5   Way Of The World
6   Life
7   Nothing
8   Living For The Depression
9   Sex Bomb
 

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Review

Spin (5/01, p.109) - Ranked #21 in Spin's "50 Most Essential Punk Records" - "...Doomy dirgecore anthems about existential futility...as lyrically caustic as their sulfuric guitars..."
Q (10/93, p.120) - 4 Stars - Excellent - "...Flipper bring to all their one-dimensional squalling all the antipathy and rancor being spoilt by the American Dream confers....If you've ever wondered what an ingrate sounds like, the answer is right here..."
Musician (12/92, p.99) - "..one of the most arresting records ever made...Great...belongs next to those other alienation classics, Black Flag's DAMAGED and the Angry Samoans' BACK FROM SAMOA.."
Mojo (Publisher) (3/01/04, p.55) - Included in Mojo's The 67 Lost Albums You Must Own! - "[R]emains the most relentless US punk set since the Stooges' debut..."
Mojo (Publisher) (3/01, p.114) - "...Presaged what would become a prevailing trend in '80s post-'core: by slowing down proceedings, the emotional impact was enhanced..."
Record Collector (magazine) (p.92) - 4 stars out of 5 -- "Sonically, GENERIC stands up as a bleak-rock marvel thick with the dirt of the era....Its impact on Kurt Cobain is there in every nihilist twang of tracks such as 'Shed No Tears' and 'The Way Of The World.'"

Title Note

Flipper: Bruce Lose (vocals, bass, hand claps, percussion, effects); Will Shatter (vocals, bass, hand claps, percussion); Ted Falconi (guitar, hand claps, percussion); Steve DePace (drums, tympani, hand claps, percussion).

Additional personnel includes: Bobby, Ward (saxophone); Johnnie, Die Ant, Curtis (percussion).

Recorded between October 1980 and August 1981.

Flipper was part of that coterie of early-'80s California punk bands committed to changing the genre's rules. This, the band's definitive recording, presents the group as an arty alternative to SoCal hardcore, wallowing in a poetic barbiturate haze. The guitars and drums assault the listener with unrelenting force, but the tempo is slowed to the extent that one questions the speed at which the tape machine was running. Flipper's shambolic attack is nearly psychedelic in its embrace of open-ended chaos. There's almost a hint of Glen Branca in the avant-garde sonorities of the guitars.

Equally impressive is the album's lyrical content. While lyricists/vocalists Bruce Lose and Will Shatter share plenty of punk's disillusioned anti-authoritarianism, there's a real poetry at work here. With a minimum of words, Shatter and Lose convey their existential angst in a way that's both cathartic and artful. The real stroke of genius, however, is the tortured ray of hope that shines through in "(I Saw You) Shine" and "Life," where a fragile flower of idealism blooms amid the molasses-paced frenzy. An emotional and sonic tour de force, this recording is a heady mix of punk and poetry.

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