Time to clear out the ol' ear canals. Flipper's "Sex Bomb". Yeah baby. It might not have the same punch as it did back in the day. But, man, the first time I heard it was like a revelation. A record could be intellectually barren but still physically felt. It came out in 1981, right on the tail end of the late seventies punk rock era. Hardcore was big, but no one yet knew what would be next. Flipper was not hardcore. They weren't punk rock, or they were punk rock to the extreme. Think about it. Take, for instance, the Ramones. They dumbed it down by reducing the amount of chords to three, eliminating solos and having lyrics that were, well, stupid. Structurally, the songs were good, and volume helped. That said, they were like a metalflake paint job to Flipper's primer gray. Flipper took what the Ramones (and the Stooges, and...) did and took a dump on it. A sloppy, grinding monotonous dirge with hardly any lyrics ("Sex Bomb" has only seven words in it). The only things that really resemble regular rock 'n' roll is that there are guitars bass and drums, there is volume, and it is repellent to some. But that's way over-thinking it. Flipper's like eating jalapeno peppers with your ears.
A post over at Primitive Offerings has a zip of thirteen songs, including their first two 45's and five live cuts. The original 45 version of "Sex Bomb" is in the mix, and also below as a YouTube link if you're on the fence. And "Ever" is down there just because I had a link to it.
Monday, April 18, 2022
FROM THE LAND FAR AWAY FROM OKI-DOG
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