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Flipper
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San Francisco, United States (1979 – present)
Flipper is an influential punk rock band from San Francisco, USA, forming in 1979 from the ruins of punk bands Sleepers and Negative Trend, and continuing in often erratic fashion to this day.
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.
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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Album: Generic Flipper
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Gone Fishin'
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Shoutbox
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Bleach00 wrote:
i cant stop laughing
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Bleach00 wrote:
>tagged as: some guy yelling in a garage
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Hayzi22 wrote:
Flipper is my favorite.
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doctorjmo wrote:
faster than lightnin'................
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anarchoqueer wrote:
Anyone who likes this band should check out Children In Adult Jails and Cyanamid.
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Magictacosinus wrote:
Less than 50 thousand listeners on Last.fm? Jesus Christ.
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beat_radiation wrote:
I hope you're joking. Hence, Public Flipper Ltd.
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typicalnewjack wrote:
@nichtstuer, what are you talking about??? flipper completely ripped off PiL with that "generic" thing
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sotdan wrote:
omfg this shoutbox is TERRIBLE
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SemRecreio wrote:
wat
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nichtstuer wrote:
Well, Flipper isn't so good as Kurt Cobain was, because they don't have a habit to steal another's songs
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IanCurtis13 wrote:
Flipper kicks Kurt Cobain's pussy little ass.
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beat_radiation wrote:
if you don't think you're a fan of FLIPPER, get DRUNK and play GENERIC as loud as possible. then you will realize that FLIPPER STILL RULE, O.K.?
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typicalnewjack wrote:
@aaron, sorry, fliper's good, but just doesn't compare to kurt's genius...RIP
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aaronWHAT wrote:
and to all those faggots calling Flipper a Nirvana side project, so suck black dick. pssht.
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aaronWHAT wrote:
Adore Flipper. <333 and @burning_citizen... wtf can you expect? the band haven't released new material in 16 years. SIXTEEN FUCKING YEARS. You seriously can't expect ANY band to produce music equally as good as their old stuff when they're all middle aged.... wtf. I love the new album, yeah it's not as good as Generic or American Grafishy, but it's still good. love the live album too. <33
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typicalnewjack wrote:
@Kunggi do u lstn to yngve malmstein bc he's a 'technical genius'?
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unerthliBehaved wrote:
Did they not cancel FunFunFun Fest?
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Kunggi wrote:
If someone likes this I recommend to try Butthole Surfers. They're also very serious of not being serious. Oh and Get Away is nice song. Unfortunally I don't like this band all that much. I just don't care about all this blabla philosophy or funny lyrics. I just want good music. If I want read I just go buy book instead and I hate books they so boring and retarded
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burning_citizen wrote:
Old stuff is much more better than new. It's sad.
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