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San Francisco, United States (1979 – present)
They made their first recordings available in late 1979 via the SF Underground 7” compilation series released via Steve Tupper’s newly-formed Subterranean Records. In 1981 a 7” followed
Love Canal andHa Ha Ha and the original lineup made 2 full-length studio albums on Subterranean, 1982’s Generic and the 1984 followup Gone Fishin’.
Flipper’s music was very shambolic and noisy, and oft considered “slow” for a punk band of the time. In many early shows, the band had half the audience on stage with them singing backup vocals, and encouraged horn players to join them for their anthem,
Sex Bomb — and the crowding on stage usually knocked the stringed instruments out of tune. Guitarist Ted Falconi installed spikes in the head of his guitar to help prevent this, but blaring, out-of-tune dissonance became part of the band’s signature sound.Bassist/vocalist Will Shatter died in 1987 of a heroin overdose. The remaining members reformed for the 1993 album American Grafishy on Def American Recordings which re-issued Generic, and a compilation called Sex Bomb Baby on Rick Rubin and Henry Rollins’ Infinite Zero label. This relationship soured and the surviving Flipper members allegedly were duped out of their rights to their back catalog.
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Generic
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Sex Bomb Baby
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Gone Fishin'
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Blow'n Chunks
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U-Brother
they're so beautiful that it's ugly/repulsive [3]
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expiry223
Dudes & Dudettes: Seing y'all are tossing out them lyrics: Check out Unsane's cover of Ha ha ha on youtube. It's just awesome.
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Rocknrolla44
они настолько отвратительны, что это прекрасно [5] they're so ugly/repulsive that it's beautiful
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fluoxetine20mg
worst mixing of all time makes these guys all time greats
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SmellTheMagic_
they're so ugly/repulsive that it's beautiful [5]
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j-yeags
and i said ha ha ha ha ha ha ha
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Kurt_Cobain321
they're so ugly/repulsive that it's beautiful [4]
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bEATWEAKer
Minutemen are awesome. Spammer below.
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SPITfire35
Hi! How are you! If you like Flipper maybe you like my band Dumb Dish too! I have just uploaded the first studio track of Dumb Dish which is a cover of Scratch Acid's Cannibal. Please give it a listen and let us know what you think about it! Oh, and if you like it, please make sure to subscribe and to share! Namasté! http://youtu.be/m-F4OvQQPjI
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Punching_joe
они настолько отвратительны, что это прекрасно [3] they're so ugly/repulsive that it's beautiful
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Isaaaaaak
'i love how *wrong* an *off* this band sounds ' i agree. they have a really unsettling sound. hypnotic but at the same time just vaguely disturbing. brilliant.
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owlies
i love how *wrong* an *off* this band sounds
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Isaaaaaak
ever wish the human race didn't exist and then realise you're one too?
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Nimbie
они настолько отвратительны, что это прекрасно [2] they're so ugly/repulsive that it's beautiful
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werewolfsemen
best band there ever was.
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antonio_votkin
они настолько отвратительны, что это прекрасно
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roberluiz
“She’s a sex bomb, My baby, Yeah”
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MuddyBongWaters
best band 2 smoke kush 2 in history
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mr_homyak
HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HE HE HE HE HE HE HE HO HOH HO HO HO HO
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MINIMALSEX
GREAT BANDDD ! ! !RAHHH!!! FLIPPERRR ! !
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