Flip Your Wig

Flip Your Wig

Infobox Album | Name = Flip Your Wig
Type = Album
Artist = Hüsker Dü


Released = September 1985
Recorded = March to June 1985
Genre = Hardcore punk Alternative rock
Length = 40:09
Label = SST Records
Producer = Bob Mould and Grant Hart
Reviews =
* Allmusic Rating|5|5 [http://www.allmusic.com/cg/amg.dll?p=amg&sql=10:58qpg4ettv4z link]
* Robert Christgau A- [http://www.robertchristgau.com/get_artist.php?name=husker link]
* "Spin" Rating|9|10Weisbard & Marks, 1995. p.187]
* Trouser Press (Favorable) [http://www.trouserpress.com/entry.php?a=husker_du link]
Last album = "New Day Rising"
(1985)
This album = "Flip Your Wig"
(1985)
Next album = "Candy Apple Grey"
(1986)

"Flip Your Wig" is a 1985 album by the Minneapolis band, Hüsker Dü, and its last release on SST Records. With each album, Hüsker Dü's sound grew more sophisticated, and 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. 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.

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

Track listing

#"Flip Your Wig" (Bob Mould) – 2:33
#"Every Everything" (Grant Hart) – 1:56
#"Makes No Sense at All" (Mould) – 2:43
#"Hate Paper Doll" (Mould) – 1:52
#"Green Eyes" (Hart) – 2:58
#"Divide and Conquer" (Mould) – 3:42
#"Games" (Mould) – 4:06
#"Find Me" (Mould) – 4:05
#"The Baby Song" (Hart) – 0:46
#"Flexible Flyer" (Hart) – 3:01
#"Private Plane" (Mould) – 3:17
#"Keep Hanging On" (Hart) – 3:15
#"The Wit and the Wisdom" (Mould) – 3:41
#"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

*cite book
last= Weisbard
first= Eric
coauthors= Craig Marks
title= Spin Alternative Record Guide
publisher= Vintage Books
year= 1995
isbn= 0679755748


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