Flip Your Wig

by H眉sker D眉

Flip Your Wig cover art
  • Type: Album
  • Released: September 1985
  • Label: SST
  • Country: United States
  • Length: 40:48
  • Community rating: 3.86/5 from 9 ratings

Artists on this release: Grant Hart, Greg Norton, Bob Mould

Album Notes & Community Reviews

Releasing their second brilliant album of 1985, H眉sker D眉 entirely self-produced 'Flip Your Wig', pushing their sound into pure, fuzz-drenched power pop. The record dials back the hardcore aggression, focusing instead on intensely melodic, remarkably catchy guitar hooks and bittersweet vocal harmonies. It is a playful, highly energetic, and incredibly influential blueprint for 90s alternative rock.

Genres

Descriptors: melodic, noisy, jangly, fast-paced, earnest, fast, distorted, dynamic

Tracklist

  1. Flip Your Wig (2:35)
  2. Every Everything (1:58)
  3. Makes No Sense At All (2:46)
  4. Hate Paper Doll (1:54)
  5. Green Eyes (3:02)
  6. Divide And Conquer (3:46)
  7. Games (4:08)
  8. Find Me (4:09)
  9. The Baby Song (0:46)
  10. Flexible Flyer (3:02)
  11. Private Plane (3:20)
  12. Keep Hanging On (3:19)
  13. The Wit And The Wisdom (3:42)
  14. Don't Know Yet (2:17)

Credits

  • H眉sker D眉 - primary artist
  • Greg Norton - bass
  • Fake Name Communications - design [cover]
  • Grant Hart - drums, lead vocals, backing vocals, vibraphone, slide whistle, percussion, producer [produced by], written-by
  • Steve Fjelstad - engineer [engineered by]
  • Bob Mould - guitar, bass, piano, lead vocals, backing vocals, percussion, producer [produced by], written-by
  • Howie Weinberg - lacquer cut by
  • Daniel Corrigan - photography by [back cover and insert]
  • Bruce A. Christianson - photography by [front cover]

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