FLIPPER OPV

(Oddly, I've always thought "Love Canal" was almost as turgid and hard to get through as "The Old Lady Who Swallowed a Fly.")

the vox processing puts it way up there for me, and one of their heaviest grooves. get away is right up there for me too. and "the light the sound..."

That's about it.

plus all in between song banter from those extravagant live shows.

Not necessarily in that order

Maybe "Sex Bomb" is too obvious a choice for audiophiles to put in their Flipper OPV list, but come on-- that song is, as Allmusic so accurately put it-- the closest thing the 80's had to "Louie Louie." It's got to be one of the best bass lines in recorded history. And that whining, high-pitched noise (what the hell is that?) completes the picture. A perfect song by a band I know hardly anything about.

I Saw You Shine has an undeniable intensity.

we don't understand
love canal
sex bomb
sacrifice
life

the lights the sound the rhythm the noise
life
way of the world
sex bomb
ever

life
ha ha ha
sex bomb
ever
in your arms

Just FYI, Water is reissuing four Flipper albums this week - Generic, Sex Bomb Baby and two that have never been on CD before, Gone Fishin' and the double live album, Public Flipper Limited.

I'll rep for Shine, and throw in a post-Will jam

Get Away
Life
the lights the sound the rhythm the noise
I saw you shine
Someday

Ever
Sacrifice (Not So Quiet On The Western Front version)
Sex Bomb
Ha Ha Ha
New Rules No Rules

i like how they're philosophical

Curious if anyone knows how they would have done the vocal effects on tracks like HaHaHa and Love Canal. Just by putting the mic through a guitar pedal of some sort?

Just saw the 40 th anniversary live tour gig near me. Original guitarist and drummer plus David Yow of Jesus Lizard on vocals and a newer bassist. Yow climbed up on balcony, bared his big gut, let audience members join in onstage on vocals and saxophone. Sometimes lame, sometimes great, it was a crazy night in Baltimore. They did most of the songs mentioned in this thread

We Don't Understand
Life
The Lights, The Sound, The Rhythm, The Noise
Sex Bomb
The Wheel

I doubt the 1st 3 are ever not going to be in my Flipper POV but I'll swap out 2 from 11 years ago for:

Ever
Sacrifice (Not So Quiet On The Western Front version)
Ha Ha Ha
(I Saw You) Shine
One By One

would've liked to see the Yow Flipper, wasn't feasible unfortunately. glad I at least got to see them once

o yeah I forgot abt the early version of "Sacrifice", swap that out the "The Wheel" in my list

Only got to see them as the Novoselic line up back in '06.
But been on FB with the members so interesting to see what they take stands on politically/philosophically etc.
Not as nihilistic as the songs might imply.

First saw em around 1982 in DC. Recall a fair amount of sneering comments about DC hardcore between songs.

I have seen the Flipper/Yow set-up twice now. Pretty fun, the band sounds good and chunky and Yow hams it up.

Was at that Baltimore show and during the first song he jumped into the crowd and sang most of it from there. For a couple seconds directly into a girl’s face and she... did not seem to appreciate it. Like she was going through a nervous/personal thing at the moment and that amplified it significantly. I don’t think think there was much thought/awareness on Yow’s part, but she seemed shaken and weepy afterwards and it kinda made me think a lot of stuff unexpectedly for the first 15 mins of the show.

I was standing against back wall and didn’t see that. It didn’t look like a woman he tried to get to sing along in the balcony later, appreciated his putting the mic to her. Although a couple of women chose to jump on stage at one point( their choice).

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JwoEFCFlM5I

I'm seeing social media posts that say Bruce Loose Calderwood has passed away.

His health has been deteriorating after a stroke, and he's been regularly updating his social media accounts with darkly humorous and unsettling glimpses into his healthcare, including one grim photo of what was apparently him sharing a hospital room with a deceased person.

Just read it myself. His back giving out robbed him off most of the last decade.

They sounded great when I saw them circa 82 although I recall several of them were trying to rile up the crowd making jokes about dc hardcore straight edge types .

Oops , I mentioned that already upthread

RIP

RIP

true heroes

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8wSYzMx8BBs

RIP...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RCfWy7OQZ8w

sux. and for this to happen only a week before the re-opening of Mabuhay Gardens

There's a partial reunion show next weekend at the Mab. Side note: I bought tix for it, went last night, was pretty confused that hardly anyone was there, realized after the first band that I had the week wrong (they obv didn't even scan my phone pdf ticket when I arrived).