#327/962
September 1 1985
Husker Du
Flip Your Wig
Genre: Alternative
5 out of 5
Highlights:
Flip Your Wig
Makes No Sense At All
Hate Paper Doll
Divide And Conquer
Private Plane
Keep Hanging On
The Wit and the Wisdom
Guitar solos? In a Husker Du song? Like…traditional guitar solos? That’s…unexpectedly weird. Not unwelcome. Just weird.
Maybe it was Spot, the producer, that I hated. Cuz I love this. I still think it’s produced by people who are under some influence. Everything is flat but that’s the droning sound that is Du, I guess.
Punk songs, that sound like they’ve been violated by an injection of Pop (or maybe the reverse) results in great shit like “Hate Paper Doll” & “Green Eyes” (Because, as much as I like the first few tracks, once again, it’s the Hart song that cuts through the noise more than the others. Cuz He. Is. Better. Then. Mould.) A great example of this is the wail of mental instability that is Hart’s “Keep Hanging On”. You just know that guy isn’t gonna make it out of his 40s.
Flip Your Wig is a poorly produced, muddled slab of brilliance.
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