Sold Date: November 25, 2024
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This is a rare and authentic Flipper vinyl record from 1982, featuring their signature punk rock style. The LP has a black color and is made of high-quality vinyl material. It has been graded as Excellent (EX) and is a must-have for any rock or punk music collector. The record label is Subterranean Records, and the release title is "Generic Flipper". This LP is a true gem from the 1980s era and will surely impress any music enthusiast. Inner paper sleeve is slit.
 praised the album, describing the music as "crude ("Everybody start at the same time, ready"), unremitting ("Sex Bomb" has seven words and lasts close to eight minutes), and immensely charitable and good-humored ( with 's soul, I'm not kidding)." He described the lyrics as "existential resignation at its most enthusiastic." "If great rock & roll is supposed to be about breaking the rules," wrote Mark Deming of , "then Flipper's still-astonishing debut, Album -- Generic Flipper, confirms their status as one of the great rock bands of their day." He described the "brilliant" "Sex Bomb" as "the closest thing '80s punk ever created to the beer-fueled genius of 's "," and a song with a great beat that you just can't dance to." He also noted that despite their "sincere" misanthropy and cynicism, "on "Life" they dared to express a tres-unhip benevolence, declaring "Life is the only thing worth living for."" He concludes by writing that the band "plays  with none of the pretension that later bands brought to the form, proving that music doesn't have to be fast to be punk (a lesson that gave  a reason to live), and creating a funny, harrowing, and surprisingly engaging masterwork that profoundly influenced dozens of later bands without sounding any less individual two decades later." Another reviewer described the band's performance on the album as "[d]rawing upon the same brand of frustrated nihilism one associates with such SoCal contemporaries as Fear and the Germs" and argues that "Flipper broods where their peers seethe, slowing tempos and moaning rather than spitting their despairing lyrics." Elsewhere, in Noel Gardner's review for , he described the band as one "who made a punishing virtue out of being sloppy, offbeat and imprecise. Flipper existed at the epicentre of the Californian punk scene in the early ’80s, but as their hardcore peers sped up, they slowed down. A simple concept that helped to create a remarkable, incomparable signature sound, one which trickled down into the musical visions of, most famously,  and ." He calls the album "their definitive statement [...] Lyrically a bipolar flip between ugly negativity and lightbulb-moment optimism (“Life is the only thing worth living for!”), musically, Generic turns almost unrelated layers of free expression into a blackened mass of enduring power