Flip Your Wig

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
Allmusic link Robert Christgau A- link Spin [1] Trouser Press (Favorable) link
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]}

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

8. "Find Me" (Mould) – 4:05
9. "The Baby Song" (Hart) – 0:46
10. "Flexible Flyer" (Hart) – 3:01
11. "Private Plane" (Mould) – 3:17
12. "Keep Hanging On" (Hart) – 3:15
13. "The Wit and the Wisdom" (Mould) – 3:41
14. "Don't Know Yet" (Mould) – 2:14

Personnel

• Bob Mould – guitar, bass, piano, vocals, percussion
• Greg Norton – bass
• Grant Hart – drums, vocals, vibraphone, slide whistle, percussion

Notes

References

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

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