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| 1. | Low Rider
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| 2. | Friends
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| 3. | Brainwashed
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| 4. | One by One
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| 5. | Ha, Ha, Ha
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| 6. | Oh, Oh, Ay Oh
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| 7. | Love Canal
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| 8. | The Wheel
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| 9. | End the Game
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| 10. | Shine
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| 11. | Nothing
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| 12. | Low Rider
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| 13. | One by One
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| 14. | Hard Cold Old World
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| 15. | Life
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| 16. | Sex Bomb
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Bruce Loose
Steve DePace
Ted Falconi
Will Shatter
From the archives of SF's famous Target Video comes this monster release from the classic original early 80s line up of Flipper. Capturing extreme and scorching performances from 1980 and 1981 this DVD helps form a picture of the band that slowed down punk rock and made the kids suffer in the "louder faster" days of hardcore. An intense blend of noise punk and drone music coupled with an in your face attitude and performance style made Flipper one of most "out there " bands of the early 80s scene. This DVD features stellar performances from Berkeley and the Kezar and is (mostly) unreleased and incredible snapshot into the other side of "American Hardcore.
A lot has been said about Flipper and their live shows over the years -- comments ranging from being a daring band that challenged their audience by not doing the expected "punk rock moves," or merely being an unpredictable, drunken mess. But the vintage performances that comprise the 2008 DVD Live Target Video 1980-1981 show the band in all their slowed-down-fury-glory. This is the visual proof that Flipper was the first-ever punk band to slow down all the speed to a Sabbath-y crawl -- common territory for metal bands, but virtually unheard of at the time for punkers (and an approach soon adopted by the likes of Black Flag, the Melvins, etc.). You'll also get a rare visual glimpse of the original Flipper lineup (bassist Will Shatter bought the farm back in 1987) performing quite a few all-time punk classics, including "Ha, Ha, Ha," "Love Canal," and "Sex Bomb," among others. That said, don't expect precisely played renditions, but as Flipper's legion of admirers will attest, it was exactly this loosey goosey, devil-may-care attitude that set them apart from the punk pack in the first place. Also of note is the crowd they play in front of during the first performance here. Instead of punkers with Mohawks, safety pins, and leather jackets, it's mostly comprised of friends and older family members. Live Target Video 1980-1981 is a fitting testament as to why Flipper is considered one of the most groundbreaking and influential punk bands to ever hit a note.
---Greg Prato, All Music Guide
Flipper
Active Decades: '80s and '90s
Born: 1978 in San Francisco, CA
Died: 1993
Genre: Rock
Styles: Alternative Pop/Rock, American Underground, Hardcore Punk, L.A. Punk, Noise-Rock
They came, they saw, and they conquered -- sort of. Never topping the charts, nor possessing a huge following, San Francisco's Flipper, even in the '90s alt-rock sweepstakes, would still be considered a fringe act. But, in 1982, they were the toast of rock critics across the country with their post-hardcore punk masterpiece "Sex Bomb." Clocking in at over seven minutes, possessing one riff played over and over (and sloppier and sloppier), with vocalist Will Shatter screaming rather than singing (total lyrics: "She's a sex bomb/My baby/yeah"), it was a remarkable record: loud, proud, defiantly obnoxious, and relentlessly dumb. But in it's own gleeful and intentionally moronic way it was (and remains) a perfect record.
With "Sex Bomb" providing the impetus, Shatter and fellow Flippers, vocalist/bassist Bruce Loose, drummer Steve DePace, and guitarist Ted Falconi, emerged from the fractious muck of the California hardcore punk scene (Shatter and DePace played in the Bay Area hardcore band Negative Trend in the late '70s) with a crushingly loud, slowed-down sound that resembled the Stooges at their most drug-addled (see "We Will Fall" from the first Stooges LP). Flipper didn't care if you loved or loathed them (most everyone loathed them), they simply played until you couldn't stand it anymore. There was something wonderfully uncomplicated about this attitude, which is probably the reason that Flipper, despite being seen as a one-shot band, had a career that lasted longer than 15 minutes.
Their debut album, Album -- Generic Flipper, included "Sex Bomb" along with a handful of good-to-great songs about anonymity and desperation that were not all-bleak, nor without moments of humor. In fact, Flipper may have been the first hardcorepost-hardcore band to essay life-affirming messages on its album (no matter how tongue-in-cheek it might sound). So, although there's a track called "Life Is Cheap," there is also "Life" which offers the sentiment: "I too have sung death's praises/But I'm not gonna sing that song anymore." Adding the oft-stated sentiment, "Life is the only thing worth living for." Hmmm. How, uh, un-punk.
With much of the rock press singing their praises (and deservedly so), Flipper went on to demi-celebrity status as the reigning kings of American underground rock, for a few years. They never released anything as mind-blowingly good as Album, but until they split up in 1987, the music was usually very good. Precipitating their breakup was Shatter's death from a heroin overdose, with the remaining members spending the next half-dozen years stepping in-and-out of music. In 1992, Flipper fan and American Recordings label honcho Rick Rubin encouraged the remaining members to record a new album. The subsequent effort, American Grafishy, only hinted at their greatness. Their comeback attempt notwithstanding, Flipper's greatness lies in their ability to say "let's rock our way."
---John Dougan, All Music Guide |
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