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Album Review: Flip Your Wig

  • Artist: Hüsker Dü
  • Rating: StarStarStarStarStar
  • Release Date: 1985 09
  • Total Time: 40:09
  • Type: Lyrics are included with the album
  • Genre: Rock

Review

Spot -- SST's house producer who manned the boards for Zen Arcade and New Day Rising -- didn't produce Flip Your Wig, Hüsker Dü's second album of 1985, and the difference is immediately noticeable. Everything on Flip Your Wig is cleaner and brighter than on its two immediate predecessors, which is appropriate, considering that Bob Mould and Grant Hart have only increased their debt to '60s pop. The hooks and melodies are on the surface, right from the kick-start call-and-response of the title track. On paper, it might sound as if Hüsker Dü have watered down their hardcore ideals, but it doesn't play that way. Flip Your Wig is pop played as punk, as if this is the only time these songs could ever be heard. Which means Hart's love song "Green Eyes" and Mould's pure pop single "Makes No Sense at All" are delivered with the same rage and passion as Mould's blistering "Divide and Conquer" and Hart's "Keep Hanging On," or the pair of surging, neo-psychedelic and noise-wracked instrumentals that close the album. Flip Your Wig would be a remarkable record on its own terms, but the fact that it followed New Day Rising by a matter of months and Zen Arcade by just over a year is simply astonishing. ~ Stephen Thomas Erlewine, All Music Guide

Tracks

Track TitleComposersPerformersTime
Flip Your Wig Bob Mould Hüsker Dü (2:33)
Every Everything Grant Hart Hüsker Dü (1:56)
Makes No Sense at All Bob Mould Hüsker Dü (2:43)
Hate Paper Doll (Lyrics) Bob Mould Hüsker Dü (1:52)
Green Eyes Grant Hart Hüsker Dü (2:58)
Divide and Conquer Bob Mould Hüsker Dü (3:42)
Games (Lyrics) Bob Mould Hüsker Dü (4:06)
Find Me (Lyrics) Bob Mould Hüsker Dü (4:05)
The Baby Song Grant Hart Hüsker Dü (:46)
Flexible Flyer Grant Hart Hüsker Dü (3:01)
Private Plane (Lyrics) Bob Mould Hüsker Dü (3:17)
Keep Hanging On (Lyrics) Grant Hart Hüsker Dü (3:15)
The Wit and the Wisdom Bob Mould Hüsker Dü (3:41)
Don't Know Yet Bob Mould Hüsker Dü (2:14)

Credits

Bob Mould (Vocals (Background)), Bob Mould (Percussion), Grant Hart (Vibraphone), Grant Hart (Vocals (Background)), Grant Hart (Whistle (Instrument)), Greg Norton (Bass), Bob Mould (Vocals), Bob Mould (Producer), Grant Hart (Percussion), Grant Hart (Producer), Grant Hart (Drums), Grant Hart (Slide Whistle), Grant Hart (Vocals), Bob Mould (Guitar), Bob Mould (Bass), Bob Mould (Piano), Steven Fjelstad (Engineer)
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Flip Your Wig
Studio album by Hüsker Dü
Released September 1985
Recorded March to June 1985
Genre Alternative rock
Length 40:09
Label SST Records
Producer Bob Mould and Grant Hart
Professional reviews
Hüsker Dü chronology
New Day Rising
(1985)
Flip Your Wig
(1985)
Candy Apple Grey
(1986)

Flip Your Wig is a 1985 album by the American punk rock band, Hüsker Dü, and its last release on SST Records. With each album, Hüsker Dü's sound grew more sophisticated[citation needed]. By the time of this release, they had signed a major-label record deal. However, the band felt they owed one more album to SST and delivered Flip Your Wig. Perhaps owing to the expedient circumstances of its recording, Flip Your Wig is overall lighter in tone than Hüsker Dü's earlier albums, with filler such as "The Baby Song." In this respect, it is viewed as less essential than New Day Rising and Zen Arcade, but critical opinion of the album generally registers high.[citation needed] The title track and "Keep Hanging On" became staples of the band's live shows, while power pop anthem "Makes No Sense at All" was featured in a music video; this song was sometimes performed by Mould in his 1990s solo career, though he otherwise largely distanced himself from his years in Hüsker Dü. The album concludes with two instrumental songs.

"Makes No Sense at All" was released as a single, with "Love Is All Around" (the theme song of the Mary Tyler Moore Show) on the b-side. The "Makes No Sense at All" video includes both songs, back-to-back.[citation needed]

Flip Your Wig, like Hüsker Dü's other SST releases, has never been remastered for improved sound on compact disc.[citation needed]

Contents

Track listing

Side one
  1. "Flip Your Wig" (Bob Mould) – 2:33
  2. "Every Everything" (Grant Hart) – 1:56
  3. "Makes No Sense at All" (Mould) – 2:43
  4. "Hate Paper Doll" (Mould) – 1:52
  5. "Green Eyes" (Hart) – 2:58
  6. "Divide and Conquer" (Mould) – 3:42
  7. "Games" (Mould) – 4:06
Side two
  1. "Find Me" (Mould) – 4:05
  2. "The Baby Song" (Hart) – 0:46
  3. "Flexible Flyer" (Hart) – 3:01
  4. "Private Plane" (Mould) – 3:17
  5. "Keep Hanging On" (Hart) – 3:15
  6. "The Wit and the Wisdom" (Mould) – 3:41
  7. "Don't Know Yet" (Mould) – 2:14

Personnel

Notes

  1. ^ Weisbard & Marks, 1995. p.187

References

  • Weisbard, Eric; Craig Marks (1995). Spin Alternative Record Guide. Vintage Books. ISBN 0679755748. 



 
 
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