“Now see I’ve just made a typical critics’ faux pas and none of you stopped me. So now I have to stop myself and explain my error. Flipper were NOT a slow band. They played punk speed, like the Sex Pistols. They just didn’t play HARDCORE speed like all the other punk bands in California in the early ’80s. Plus every once in a while they’d throw in a jeeper creeper where’d you get those peeper like “I Saw You Shine,” a 15-year-song about banging your head against a wall. The sound of Generic Flipper is as follows: loud, heavily reverbed drums that sound like they were played in a dungeon, topped with a dull, dead sounding bass playing really catchy anthems, a guitar just making a bunch of feedback and noise and a couple of goofy louts shouting on top of the noise. Why does it work? (A) As I just FUCKING SAID, the bass lines are really catchy, (R) the lyrics speak to the experience of the everyman in a way not heard of since Pink Floyd’s popular Dark Side Of The Poon LP released seven years earlier TO THE DAY! (okay, I made that up) and (A) the trashy noise makes you feel drunk….. even when you’re only high! The songs alternate between joyfully stupid (“Sex Bomb”!) and cryingly giveuppable (“Life Is Cheap”), but always with a “We Give A Shit About You But Not About Music” air about it. If you can handle the noise, you need to buy it now. If you can’t, you’re a faggot. Ha! All I meant was that you’re a “bundle of sticks meant for burning”! (that has sex up the ass with other bundles of sticks meant for burning)” – Mark Prindle
Flipper
Album – Generic Flipper
MediaFire Download Link
Tracklist:
01. Ever
02. Life Is Cheap
03. Shed No Tears
04. (I Saw You) Shine
05. Way Of The World
06. Life
07. Nothing
08. Living For The Depression
09. Sex Bomb
