Antony & The Johnsons "The Crying Light"
Iron & Wine "Around the Well"
Warlocks "The Mirror Explodes"
Acid Mothers Temple & The Melting Paraiso U.F.O. "Lord of the Underground: Vishnu & the Magic Elixir"
Extra Golden "Thank You Very Quickly -Vol. 3"
Flipper "Album Generic Flipper"
Big Star "#1 Record"
Big Star "Radio City"
Pontiak "Maker"
Michael Hurley "Armchair Boogie"
Animal Collective "Merriweather Post Pavillion"
Ahhhh...Flipper. About as far from the audiophile's dream as you can get, "Generic Flipper Album", recently reissued by Four Men With Beards, once sounded so atonal to me. Now it seems positively tuneful. This record actually help shift my tastes quite a bit back in the early 1980s, listening to noisy lo-fi music became much more palatable thanks largely to Flipper. What a great band name too- you just had to laugh when you told friends about them. I've heard Krist Novoselic plays bass for them now, aren't most of the original Flipper guys dead? The "Sex Bomb Baby" LP always seemed a bit "novelty" to me, whereas "Generic" seemed to be the real deal. I've heard that the reissue rights were stripped from the mighty Subterranean label (original issue) when a written contract with the band couldn't be produced (kinda like The Butthole Surfers- Touch & Go saga), and "Generic" ended up on Johnann Kugelberg's (& Henry Rollins) Infinite Zero imprint for about ten minutes before the major label funding was pulled from that experiment (always kinda wondered what would have happened with Infinite Zero if the cash continued to flow). The Target Video footage of early Flipper always is a treat to watch, I wish I would have seen them in Minneapolis when they played the 7th St Entry in 1983. Fang & Flipper- the Bay Area's first offerings of post-Hardcore-whatsis. Besides the noise there was lots of punk bravado attitude lyrically, best line I remember is "Ever look at a flower and hate it?".
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