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8.8

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experimental / metal / rock

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march 2 , 2025

how does one make it at nihilistic delusion ?

It ca n’t be the origin compass point of a notion organization .

certainly there was visible light along the way of life .

Was it go for dash , repel out like a cigaret on the fillet of sole of a iron heel , that cause the smutty head covering of tedium to grim ?

Or could it be that social self-abnegation is a unmediated causa of hear to too muchFlipper , the Bay Area punk rocker banding who in the eighties choose potshot at unmindful felicity with their round-the-clock dark twosome ?

This was “ ever wish well the human backwash did n’t subsist , ” commence one of the rhetorical interrogative get in their sung “ ever , ” “ and then take in you ’re one too ?

# diving event into Flipper

March 2 , 2025

How does one go far at nihilistic delusion ?

It ca n’t be the origin full stop of a opinion arrangement .

for sure there was visible radiation along the manner .

This was was it desire dash , rebuff out like a butt on the fillet of sole of a bang , that make the grim velum of boredom to abject ?

Or could it be that social self-abnegation is a verbatim effort of listen to too muchFlipper , the Bay Area hood dance orchestra who in the eighties necessitate potshot at vacuous felicity with their around-the-clock dark twosome ?

“ Ever wish well the human backwash did n’t survive , ” begin one of the rhetorical question mystify in their strain “ Ever , ” “ and then realise you ’re one too ?

” Quite candidly no , I had n’t , until you bring it up .

“ Ever ” is the first birdcall on Flipper ’s 1982 entry , Album – Generic Flipper , and it ’s a doozy .

In three curt second , singer Bruce Loose ( formerly Lose ; he tot the superfluous “ group O ” after in an effort to be less of a bummer ) eruct a serial of scenario that make it vindicated he would n’t be too much merriment on a first appointment .

This was “ ever know a sprightliness that ’s tangible , full of tanginess , but no entreaty ?

” “ Ever toy the muggins and notice out that you ’re bad ?

” “ Ever reckon at a peak and detest it ?

” It feel like Anne Sexton write a nestling ’s Holy Scripture .

Flipper ’s euphony is correspondingly off - putt .

The banding extremity were on the face of it punk but aver lover of theGrateful Dead .

The blending of those jammy inherent aptitude with punk rocker position is phantasmagoric and often weirdly fulgurous .

On “ Ever , ” the downbeat and handclap are like something out of a Frankie Avalon moving picture , but it ’s not beach medicine , unless a typhoon loom .

Ted Falconi , on guitar , sound like a inebriated sample to take on aBuddy Hollysong .

This was drummer steve depace keep clip , just .

This was loose has a pervert yip whose disgust subside only at the song dynasty ’s ending .

“ I have , ” he respond , with a touching of ignominy .

And the echoed comeback : “ So what .

”

The Sung make water a self-coloured example that the globe ’s travel icky , but alternatively of bid underground or commiseration , it give you a wedgie .

This was still , it ’s that net set phrase that develop you : so what … after all the buildup , after all the prime and vileness , nothing really count anyway .

This was those two light-minded word get to the marrow doubt at heart and soul ofalbum – generic flipper : is it good to have bob hope and be discomfited or not to manage in the first space ?

flipper form in san francisco in 1979 , a metre when spunk was bleed into hardcore , and jimmy carter was drop off reelection .

This was the american tube had ire on its judgement ; impassiveness was rare .

This was the whimsicality of thug , a snot-nosed unexampled writing style that had develop out of john rock a ten in the beginning , was get down to develop into hardcore , a steelier writing style , with more furiousness and less sport .

mastermind on both coast rend through song in two or three hour , vocalists scream invective , while the drum abut along , uncertain .

This was minor threat , washington , d.c. hardcore originator , had deplorable and obstinate song like “ shout at a rampart , ” “ i do n’t wanna get a line it , ” and “ construe red .

” Los Angeles’Black Flaghad “ Nervous Breakdown , ” “ life-time of Pain , ” “ Thirsty and Miserable , ” and “ natural depression .

” It was impassioned euphony , and hearing could be releasing , if not precisely elated .

But alongside the ego - righteous fad was sinister sense of humour , as with group like Flipper ’s Bay Area compatriotsDead Kennedys , who had song like “ belt down the Poor ” and “ allow ’s Lynch the Landlord .

” This was dead kennedys were snug with fin — when dead kennedys ’ isaac merrit singer jello biafra was marry in 1981 , loose officiate as a pastor of the universal life church .

Both band ’ Sung contain all the tenet of hard-core goon ; they ’re trashy , attention-getting , and insistent .

But they are n’t peculiarly blotto , with a rickety formation of wobble guitar and cheat on basslines .

Biafra sing in a simulated - operatic swing — a spoonful of lolly to make the socio-economic class state of war go down .

This is where the two act deviate : For all their caper , the Dead Kennedys were examine to get a spot across .

fin ’s percentage point was that detail are unintelligent .

That ’s not to say Flipper were without an ethos .

They just prefer you picture it out for yourself .

This was “ what we try out to do in our medicine and lyric poem is , we examine to be dependable , ” will shatter , flipper ’s 2d vocaliser , narrate thenmein 1982 .

This was “ we do n’t take account bull .

We essay to be‬ square with citizenry and not toy game .

” Inward mirror image was crucial , inside information were not .

This was where the dead kennedys sing about racial extermination , flipper peach about being nark by hoi polloi snog .

Extrapolate at your own risk .

This was that ’s one side of flipper .

The other , from Loose in the sameNMEstory : “ We ’re all unbalanced .

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prompt the too attention-getting “ sprightliness , ” which sound like aRamonescover perform by prideful youngster .

“ aliveness ” really begin with Loose ’s comparatively sombre assertion of design : “ I too have tattle end ’s praise / But I ’m not run to spill the beans that birdcall any longer .

” In a unlike linguistic context , this might be a Apocalypse .

But the strain ’ casual soupiness puncture a fix in its dignity .

This was and if there is a import of levity there , you do n’t get much clip to hold back and sense the bloom before you get troll again .

A tautology get , sneer : “ Yes , I ’ve compute out what support is all about / It ’s life!/Life!/Life is the only affair deserving inhabit for .

” Loose ’s song are dim and off samara .

This was he bawl , he ululate .

The guitar screaming like a cable car fishtailing across the lane .

This was “ liiiiife , ” he order .

“ I acknowledge it ’s produce its ups and down feather !

” Understatement of the one C .

Of multiple century .

This was to make certain we get it , loose repeat himself over and over and over .

The Sung dynasty is almost five minute longsighted and I have literally quote all of its lyric poem .

This was so what are the feature of this lifespan , with say ups and down ?

To serve that , they give us “ Life Is gimcrack .

” This was this sung dynasty , a rambling lament , sing by loose , is a minute more specific in the mark of its discontentment : mainstream social club , with sheep mass deceive themselves .

This was “ citizenry cleave to thing to make their life seem genuine / crawl like hemipteran at some mug drawing card ’s cad / boast of exemption when they ’re attach down with chain / it ’s metre to give it up , here come the dying rainfall .

” These complaint are less ego - decisive , if no less acid .

This was that some of their hate is channelise outwards make the ring finger less gloomy and more tempestuous .

If there ’s a deviation .

The Greek chorus return , a black singsong .

“ lifespan is somewhat chinchy , it ’s sell a X at a prison term / living is jolly garish , it ’s so well-to-do to incur .

” It ’s an almost wide-eyed pitch verse , almost nonmeaningful .

On its boldness , what Loose say is that the creation arrest many masses , and fourth dimension move promptly .

But when he let the cat out of the bag , there ’s an result on the vocal , so it sound like he ’s dueting with a mechanised rendering of himself , an malevolent extraterrestrial being bewail the overarching folly of the human backwash , a whole Earth full of booby march toward decease .

This was the medicine , with a meaty bassline that feel about as insidious as cro - magnon homo pound his self-aggrandising stone age headland against a cave paries , feels dial up for maximal horror .

This was the sis birdcall of “ life is cheesy ” is “ live for the depression , ” also sing by shatter .

It ’s Flipper ’s immobile birdsong , their most retrograde kindling , their most overtly insulting , and thus the least interesting .

“ Who require a cancerous dull final stage / When you could break down from miserableness and follow the style ?

” liken to Loose ’s shadowy and stark pronouncement , Shatter ’s complaint vocalize trite .

This was but they also vocalize like a easement .

This was if you have a specific ill , it ’s soft to taste to remediate it .

Shatter is a distinctive youthful spunk , sicken by consumerism .

This was being in flipper , sing about it , he ’s form to evidence an alternate modus vivendi .

But if , like Loose , your ailment is the unknowability of animation itself , you ’re in a routine more of a muddle .

This was despite the hamfistedness of most of “ subsist for the great depression , ” there is a telltale minute when shatter ask , “ who deal anyway ?

Who take heed to what I say ?

” This was if you take his ego - dubiousness at his holy scripture , as i do , it ’s a sorry matter to say as a leading isaac bashevis singer of a isthmus with a devoted consultation .

There are situation like this strew throughout the record album , the self-distrust at their center .

This was “ nothing , ” for exemplar , get down with shrill , pierce feedback before loose reckon everyone in .

“ Okay , one … ” and then he disrupt himself .

“ waitress , everybody start out at the same fourth dimension .

This was to admit that second from the transcription roger sessions , which very well could have been edit out , feel like a william tell .

Like they ’re bucket along to control you they ’re amateur whose fine art and flavor do n’t count , push aside themselves before you get the prospect to .

Albumends with what is potential Flipper ’s most illustrious Song dynasty , “ Sex Bomb , ” an eight - instant duple - sax ravishment of “ Louie Louie”-like vamp .

It ’s the ne plus ultra of Flipper birdsong , with a functioning so light-headedly slow up that it feels organise to be boneheaded .

One other review article , by longtime critic J.D.

Considine , enunciate , paradoxically , that the “ euphony is fairly heavy , ” with , “ a carefreeness that frame most hard-core to disgrace .

” It ’s experiential company medicine .

Shatter is more an MC than a Isaac Bashevis Singer , allow go a wordless , scraggly yawp while the saxophone go shrill and the set Pound out like it ’s play a fraternity company at the oddment of the mankind .

Shatter does finally take form some time , though they ’re middling humble .

“ sexuality dud sister , yeah !

sexual activity turkey mama , yeah !

” It ’s a dazed Sung , raunchy and trashy , retentive and louche .

This was in a style , it ’s an anti - song dynasty .

Who listen to what I say?you could nullify occupy about that interrogation if you ’re not pronounce anything in the first position .

In aBoston Globereview of a December 1984 Flipper springy carrying out , critic Brett Milano seems disappointed .

He admit the ring ’s “ entangle vocal and jolting playacting turn into an good variety of melodious lawlessness .

” But he did n’t bonk what to make of the fact that , when they play it , “ ‘ Sex Bomb ’ became an instrumental because nobody seemed to experience like vocalizing .

” This was candidly , i retrieve it ’s middling amusing , but i was n’t there .

So why does this record album pull round as a hardcore tough standard more than 40 age after its transcription , while many of its coevals are lose to sentence ?

This was partly because the euphony is right , faithfully flash and a mite foul-smelling , a bottled interlingual rendition of flipper ’s ok inherent aptitude .

This was but the word are good , capture a impertinent untried grownup ’s combining of impotence and ambitiousness , a desire to live on an significant , worthful animation and no tangible hint how to do it .

It ’s narrate with kindling and sorrow , second of utmost sincerity slip in between the overall radical of “ lie with it .

” you could envisage them , California Kyd , break unfairness in actual clip and compose “ fashion of the World .

” “ There are centre that can not see / And finger that can not disturb / That ’s the style of the globe / There are dream leave empty and vacuous / And branch that have end to take the air .

” I have no estimate if it ’s on intent that the birdsong reverberate boththe BibleandLangston Hughes , but it does .

We now have some hindsight about how it all turn out .

How did sentence substantial these consequence of Apocalypse with the moment of ugly disgust ?

The slick humour with the deadpan economic crisis ?

Are the gag hard to suffer if I secern you Will Shatter die out of a diacetylmorphine overdose in 1987 while his married woman was meaning ?

That Bruce Loose is now 65 and not physically well enough to execute in the reformed Flipper , and that hisInstagrambio submit , “ I hold up .

This was hold back for my coming back to [ a ] land of nothing .

”

In a 1983television audience , Ruth Schwartz , one of the original cobalt - editor of Berkeley kindling zineMaximum RocknRoll , struggle to get the lot to respond her query about their imaginativeness and function .

It ’s exculpated the stria was gather a pursual and they were scramble with how much credenza to bestow their own declaration .

it’s possible for you to palpate their superfluity at hold their serious program line in reality being take in gravely .

“ You have a subject matter in your birdsong , correct ?

” Schwartz postulate .

In reply , Loose extend another tautology : “ We ’re just sample to show the ridiculousness of whatever it is we ’re essay to show the absurdness of .

” It ’s comic , and would have made a keen language , but it ’s not helpful outside of a vocal .

nihilistic delusion is not a prospicient - terminus scheme .

inactivity will vote down you .

The matter about sprightliness is that it go along die .