Flip Your Wig

Husker Du - Flip Your Wig

Flip Your Wig
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Artist: Husker Du
Brand: HUSKER DU
Edition: Music CD
CD Release Date: 1990-10-25
Music Label: Sst Records
Soundtracks:
  1. Flip Your Wig
  2. Every Everything
  3. Makes No Sense At All
  4. Hate Paper Doll
  5. Green Eyes
  6. Divide and Conquer
  7. Games
  8. Find Me
  9. The Baby Song
  10. Flexible Flyer
  11. Private Plane
  12. Keep Hanging On
  13. The Wit And The Wisdom
  14. Don't Know Yet

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Music Review: One of the band's very best
Rating: 5 Stars

Flip Your Wig was the second album that Husker Du released in 1985, and was also the first in which usual producer Spot had no involvement in. From the very first notes that open the title track, Flip Your Wig certainly sounds a bit cleaner, since this time the band themselves had a larger contribution in the production. Gone is the harsh intensity of the last few albums, here, they've replaced it with a richer guitar tone and have gotten a fuller drum sound. While the album is less intense than its predecessor New Day Rising, the Huskers make up for it by delivering their strongest set of songs yet. They also take lessons from the more melodic tracks from the previous album (namely "Girl Who Lives on Heaven Hill" and "Celebrated Summer," two of my favorite Husker Du songs, by the way) and expand on that palette by adding even more melody. "Makes No Sense At All" and "Flexible Flyer" are certainly catchy enough, but after hearing the moody euphoria of "Green Eyes," I came to the realization that Bob Mould and Grant Hart are the best songwriting duo since John Lennon and Paul McCartney (I'm serious about this). I love the Beatles, but any band who writes songs like "Green Eyes" and "Celebrated Summer" are certainly worthy of a rivalry with the Fab Four.

Flip Your Wig downplays the aggressive punk attack of the previous few albums. Even the punkier numbers like "Every Everything" and "Hate Paper Doll" keep the melodies right up there in the front. However, if you think I'm saying that the Huskers have gone soft, you are quite mistaken. They attack the songs with as much ferocity as ever, this time around, they've brought the melodies more up to the front. The songs are all catchy, but also have dark overtones, which is how I like this kind of music to sound anyway. I love the ringing guitar found in the song "Games;" it reminds me a bit of R.E.M. with a little more fuzz thrown in for good measure. Grant Hart provides some great backing vocals on this track, even though they are subtly understated. "Makes No Sense At All" is catchy as hell and I am willing to bet you that you won't be able to get it out of your head once you've heard it. "Find Me" is cool because they use a tambourine in the intro. Also try listening to "Find Me" and the Pixies' "Caribou" back to back and see where ol' Black got his inspiration for that particular song. "The Baby Song" is a forty-five second instrumental slide whistle based song that is absolutely hilarious (I can actually picture a baby crawling in time to the music)! I don't think Husker Du made another song quite this funny elsewhere, but "The Baby Song" proves that the band certainly had a great sense of humor. For a change of pace, "Keep Hangin' On" is one of Grant Hart's greatest moments, he sings with his usual wistful passion, and the song seems to have a nervous energy crawling underneath it. The melodic backing vocals provide a suitably Byrds/Beatles-ish touch. The album closes with not one, but two experimental tracks, both of which are instrumentals, proving that they hadn't completely left behind the acute experimentation of Zen Arcade. The first of these two tracks, "The Wit and the Wisdom," starts off with an abrasive swirling guitar which then goes into some lightning fast solo work by Bob Mould (I love his solos; I think he's a great guitarist, he also used feedback extremely well). The last of the two, "Don't Know Yet" has an atmosphere that is more melancholy, and makes an effective use of backwards drum tracks. In fact, I think of the two as one piece, "Wit and Wisdom" represents a harrowing nightmare, while "Don't Know Yet" represents waking up, since the song has an "early morning" kind of feel to it. Just my interpretation.

Flip Your Wig closes out the holy trinity of the classic Husker Du albums (actually, quartet if you count the short but sweet Metal Circus EP, since it was the one that got the ball rolling anyway). All that aside, this is a great album to listen to, and if you're a fan, you won't want to be without this. If your new to Husker Du, I would actually recommend getting this one first, since it is less extreme, but still a great representation of this band's sound. In short, casual fans and diehards alike should find much to treasure here. This is a great album, and it deserves to be heard.

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Description of Flip Your Wig

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Genre: Popular Music
Media Format: Compact Disk
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Release Date: 15-JAN-1990
Brutality was always the central selling point for this loud and fast Minneapolis trio, but there was a strange development after five years on the independent SST Records. Melodies happened. The last album before jumping to big Warner Bros. Records, 1985's Flip Your Wig contains some of guitarist Bob Mould's strongest songcraft, from the cracked chorus of "Makes No Sense at All" to the big-rock chords of the sociopolitical power lesson "Divide and Conquer." Though Hüsker's raw production and biting lyrics helped them avoid punk charges of "selling out," this album hints at traditional pop values. --Steve Knopper

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