Английская Википедия:Flip Your Wig
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Flip Your Wig is the fourth studio album by American band Hüsker Dü, released in September 1985. It was the best-selling album to that point for the band's label SST Records, and the last they made for that label. As the band's first self-produced album, they spent months in the studio to achieve higher-quality production for its melodic power pop songs.
Production
By 1985 Hüsker Dü was the best-selling band on SST Records.Шаблон:Sfn The band had wanted to produce their previous album New Day Rising, but SST insisted on sending long-time label producer Spot.Шаблон:Sfn With Flip Your Wig the band was finally allowed to self-produce.Шаблон:Sfn Recording took place over several sessions in the band's hometown of MinneapolisШаблон:Sfn from March to June 1985, by far the longest the band had spent in the studio.Шаблон:Sfn The cleaner production complemented the more melodic songs, still performed with heavily distorted guitars in a high-powered manner.Шаблон:Sfn
Mould said, "There's more emphasis on the vocals. They're a little more out-front. The production is the main thing. Clearer vocals and less emphasis on guitar. The crazy solos... I think we're a little out of that now."[1]
Songs
Guitarist Bob Mould and drummer Grant Hart each wrote roughly half the songs,Шаблон:Sfn which continued the band's trend toward power pop and away from the fast, noisy hardcore punk of their earliest material.Шаблон:Sfnm
"Makes No Sense at All" was released as a single,Шаблон:Sfn with "Love Is All Around" (the theme song of the Mary Tyler Moore Show) on the b-side.[2][3] The a-side was the band's first song to achieve significant airplay on album-oriented rock radio.Шаблон:Sfn and its video was the band's first.Шаблон:Sfn
"The Baby Song" was a tribute to Grant Hart's newborn child. In 2010, The A.V. Club named it one of "24 songs that almost derail great albums".[4]
Release and reception
Flip Your Wig appeared via SST in September 1985. It débuted at No. 5 on the CMJ album charts and received more radio airplay and mainstream press attention than the band's earlier releases, including stories in Creem, Spin,Шаблон:Sfn Rolling Stone.Шаблон:Sfn Robert Christgau declared in The Village Voice that with the album's production the band had "never sounded so good",Шаблон:Sfn and the album placed in the top ten of the magazine's critics' poll for 1985 along with New Day Rising.Шаблон:Sfn Flip Your Wig became SST's best-selling album at the time of its release,Шаблон:Sfn moving 50,000 copies in its first four months.Шаблон:Sfn
By the time the album was released Hüsker Dü had signed a record deal with the major-label Warner Music Group,Шаблон:Sfn who were keen to release the album themselves.[5] However, out of loyalty, and because of SST's appointment of new promotions manager Ray Farrell, the album was given to SST.Шаблон:Sfnm
Decades later, Bob Mould saw Flip Your Wig as "the best album Hüsker Dü ever did".Шаблон:Sfn Ira Robbins and John Leland at Trouser Press describe the album as "Positively brilliant — fourteen unforgettable pop tunes played like armageddon were nigh" and rate "Makes No Sense at All" as "one of 1985's best 45s".Шаблон:Sfn AllMusic's review says "Flip Your Wig would be a remarkable record on its own terms, but the fact that it followed New Day Rising by a matter of months and Zen Arcade by just over a year is simply astonishing."[6]
Track listing
Personnel
Liner notes adapted from the album sleeve.[7]
- Hüsker Dü
- Bob Mould – guitar, bass, piano, lead and background vocals, percussion, producer
- Greg Norton – bass
- Grant Hart – drums, lead and background vocals, vibraphone, slide whistle, percussion, producer
- Technical
- Steve Fjelstad – engineer
- Fake Name Communications – cover design[8]
- Bruce A. Christianson – front cover photography
- Daniel Corrigan – back cover and insert photography
Charts
| Chart (1985) | Peak position |
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| UK Indie Chart | 1Шаблон:Sfn |
References
Works cited
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