Flip-Flop (album)

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Flip-Flop
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Studio album by
Guadalcanal Diary
Released1989
Genre Rock
Label Elektra
Producer Don Dixon
Guadalcanal Diary chronology
2X4
(1987)		Flip-Flop
(1989)		At Your Birthday Party (live)
(1999)

Flip-Flop is the fourth and final studio album by the American band Guadalcanal Diary. [1] [2] It was released in 1989 on Elektra Records. [3] The band supported the album with a North American tour. [4] "Always Saturday", for which a video was shot, was released as a single. [5]

Contents

Production

The album was produced by Don Dixon. [6] Drummer John Poe wrote several of the album's songs. [7] "Ten Laws" was inspired by Joseph Campbell's Myths to Live By . [8]

Critical reception

Professional ratings
Review scores
SourceRating
AllMusic Star full.svgStar full.svgStar full.svgStar empty.svgStar empty.svg [9]
Chicago Tribune Star full.svgStar full.svgStar full.svgStar empty.svg [10]
Houston Chronicle Star full.svgStar full.svgStar full.svgStar half.svgStar empty.svg [11]

The Los Angeles Times wrote: "One of the most underrated, overlooked and inaccurately compared to R.E.M. bands around doesn't offer much to change that on its fourth album." [12] The Northwest Florida Daily News deemed the album "artsy rock 'n' roll" that "doesn't stray too far from homespun melodies and twangy guitars." [13]

The Toronto Star called it "raucous, energizing, intelligent guitar rock." [14] The Gazette determined that the album finds the band "working some of the melancholy out of singer Murray Attaway's vocals." [15] The Chicago Tribune labeled Flip-Flop "terrific mainstream rock, a shade quirkier than John Mellencamp or Tom Petty but no less deserving of Top 40 status." [10]

Track listing

  1. "Look Up!" – 2:33
  2. "Always Saturday" – 4:15
  3. "The Likes of You" – 3:06
  4. "Barometer" – 4:07
  5. "Happy Home" – 2:53
  6. "Whiskey Talk" – 3:36
  7. "Pretty Is as Pretty Does" – 4:08
  8. "Everything but Good Luck" – 2:53
  9. "Ten Laws" – 3:44
  10. "Fade Out" – 4:59
  11. "...Vista" – 3:05

References

  1. ↑ "Jeff Walls, Guitarist for Guadalcanal Diary, Hillbilly Frankenstein and The Woggles, Has Died". Paste. May 30, 2019. Archived from the original on June 12, 2019. Retrieved October 11, 2019.
  2. ↑ Gittins, Ian (February 25, 1989). "Guadalcanal Diary". Melody Maker. Vol. 65, no. 8. p. 29.
  3. ↑ "Guadalcanal Diary". Trouser Press.
  4. ↑ Zibart, Eve (April 14, 1989). "Family Diary". The Washington Post. p. N22.
  5. ↑ Harrison, Tom (June 14, 1989). "Band feels like family". Entertainment. The Province. p. 48.
  6. ↑ Heim, Chris (March 17, 1989). "Up-and-comers and cult favorites". Friday. Chicago Tribune. p. 54.
  7. ↑ Blackstock, Peter (April 4, 1989). "Battle for success rages with Guadalcanal Diary". Austin American-Statesman. p. B14.
  8. ↑ "Murray Attaway, 31, is the lead singer...". Calendar. Orlando Sentinel. May 7, 1989. p. 4.
  9. ↑ Flip-Flop at AllMusic
  10. 1 2 Kot, Greg (May 11, 1989). "Recordings". Chicago Tribune. p. 19C.
  11. ↑ Racine, Marty (April 2, 1989). "Records". Zest. Houston Chronicle. p. 10.
  12. ↑ Hochman, Steve (March 12, 1989). "Record Rack". Calendar. Los Angeles Times. p. 86.
  13. ↑ Wheeler, Kris (March 31, 1989). "Georgia band alters Southern rock sound". Northwest Florida Daily News. p. C6.
  14. ↑ Quill, Greg (March 31, 1989). "Guadalcanal Diary Flip Flop". Toronto Star. p. D15.
  15. ↑ "Guadalcanal Diary Flip Flop". The Gazette. April 6, 1989. p. F6.
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