Be pissed off, happy, fucked up, drunk... No matter what your mood is, Flipper is always enjoyable. Flipper is A BAND (call it punk or anti-punk or noise rock, whatever) they were formed in San Francisco in 1979, got alot of hatred and just little bit of admiration, but from the right people. They were hated 'cause "they coudln't play" or were just so annoyingly slow to the punkers of the time when punk rock songs were really fast and short. They spraypainted to the side of their tourbuss "Flipper suffered for their music, now it's your turn". Flipper was not following the trend. Their songs had simple drum beat and bass riff which held together the song, the guitar was full noise and i just love it. The vocals were sang either by Will Shatter or Bruce Loose. Their lyrics were haunting and real and sometimes fun at the same time. To me, Flipper are heavy, fun and real. Flipper consisted of the vocalists who i mentioned before, they also both played bass. Ted Falconi was the guitarist and Steve DePace their drummer. Generic Flipper was their first LP and heres the fucken review:
1. Ever
Noisy medley starts the song, then the drums kick in with the bass. Guitar starts "playing" and then the vocals join up,
Ever live a life that's real
Full of zest, but no appeal
Ever want to cry so much
You want to die
Ever feel that you've been had
Had so much that you turn mad
Ever been depressed that
(to) those you turn to, you bring distress
Ever sit in tormenting silence
That turns so loud, you start to scream
Ever take control of a dream
And play all the parts and set all the scenes
Ever do nothing and gain nothing from it
Ever feel stupid and then know that you really are
Ever think you're smart and then find out you aren't
Ever play the fool and then find out that you're worse
Ever look at a flower and hate it
Ever see a couple kissing and get sickened by it
Ever wish the human race didn't exist
And then realize you're one too
Well, have you? ever... I have
So what!
The lyrics are just so great that i wanted to show them all here. This is the song that really opened my eyes. Before this i didn't like Flipper much at all. I didn't ever really listen to them. Each line of the song was something i could relate to. I felt exactly what Bruce was singing while i first heard this. It's still as current to me as it was back then.
2. Life Is Cheap
Quite deep bass riff starts the song and continues through the whole song. Bruce sings here too. This song is pretty depressive aswell. Hard lyrics, but totally true. "People cling to things to make to make their lives seem real, Crawling like bugs at some fool leader’s heels, Boasting of freedom when they’re tied down with chains". The vocals can be heard as an echo voice or something and normal in the background, sounds really haunting.
3. Shed No Tears
This has way more happy feel to it. How weird that might sound. Will Shatter does the vocals here. The song states "Shed no tears for the martyr dying, Shed no tears for the cop bleeding, Shed no tears for the nun beaten, Shed no tears for the suicide", "No tears wasted, No sorrow no pity, No, no crying, no loss" it's not my loss, don't expect me to cry. Don't call this song awful, call it inspirational.
4. (I Saw You) Shine
One of their most haunting songs. The bass line and the drums are deep. Will sings it, "Turn away, turn away from the waaaaaaaaaaall", each line is heavy as fuck. The song deals with rejection. Half of the song is played without any lyrics at all. Flipper did this quite often. Was it because they didn't know how to end the song, or that they got so deep into it that they couldn't stop it when "it was supposed to". The longest song on the album.
5. Way Of The World
Proboably the most infamous Flipper tune. First one i ever heard from them. Simple bass strumming starts it with the drums, the geetar noise adds with them soon. "There are eyes that cannot see and fingers that cannot touch! that's the way of the woooooorld!". Each line states which is still current in the way of the world, "There are kisses undelivered, Sighs and moans unuttered, That's the way of the world"...
6. Life
"This is our favorite song, and it's dedicated to all of you" Will Shatter said in a gig in 1982. The crowd had to be quite stoned by seeing them since theres not much clapping or shouting after the songs. Guitar feedback on the background as the bass line starts the song and the drums kick in soon. "Life! Life! Life is the only thing worth living for!" Bruce does some backing vocals "I know it got it's ups and downs".
Pretty much the whole song is only singing "Life, life, life is the only thing worth living for...".
7. Nothing
"So what do you wanna hear? You don't wanna hear anything? so that means nothing, they wanna hear nothing!" Said Bruce at the same gig in 1982. Let the lyrics speak for themselves. "Nothing, nothing, nothing, nothing, Sitting around and you're wasting my time, Nothing, nothing, nothing, nothing, Once you were a good friend of mine", "You gotta let me out of here!" You can hear a glass going to bits in the background with the noise near the end of the song.
8. Living For The Depression
Shortest song on the album and i think the fastest aswell. Half of it deals with people who cannot realize how capitalistic society were living in and they deal with it by just ignoring everything. Oh well, "Who cares anyway? Who listens to what I say?, This song rhymes and we play it in time, I'm not living life to be, A really cheap fucker like you, Copout!!!"
9. Sex Bomb
Aah this is the classic. The bassline and drum beat over and over and over again as usual, with some saxophone added into it, to mock the boring songs that had saxophone used in them always and it was just annoying as hell. It fits so well here. Total party song. There are pretty meaningful, serious lyrics aswell lets not forget them, "She's a sex bomb my baby yeah!!".
First time i heard this song. I was like most people first time hearing Flipper, "What the fuck??" the song sounds so much different to me now, it makes no sense at all so much it makes a bit sense.
My rating: 8/8
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