Gone Fishin' (Flipper album)

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Gone Fishin'
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Studio album by
Flipper
ReleasedAugust 29, 1984
Recorded1984
Genre Noise rock, post-punk, art punk, experimental rock
Length37:32
Label Subterranean Records (US original release)
Water Records (2008 US CD reissue)
4 Men with Beards (2009 US LP reissue)
Fundamental Records (UK original release)
Domino Records (2009 UK reissue)
Producer Flipper
Flipper chronology
Album Generic Flipper
(1982)		Gone Fishin'
(1984)		 American Grafishy
(1993)
Professional ratings
Review scores
SourceRating
AllMusic Star full.svgStar full.svgStar full.svgStar empty.svgStar empty.svg [1]
Robert Christgau B [2]
The Encyclopedia of Popular Music Star full.svgStar full.svgStar full.svgStar empty.svgStar empty.svg [3]
The Rolling Stone Album Guide Star full.svgStar full.svgStar full.svgStar full.svgStar empty.svg [4]
Spin Alternative Record Guide 6/10 [5]

Gone Fishin' is the second studio album by San Francisco-based punk rock band Flipper, released in 1984 by Subterranean Records. [6] [7] The album's artwork featured a depiction of Flipper's tour van as a ready-to-cut-out-and-assemble centerpiece, with similar cutouts of the four band members on the back cover. [6] At the time of the album's release, Subterranean offered extra empty covers of the album by mail order for $2 for those Flipper fans that wanted to have a cover to cut up and assemble. The album was reissued by Water Records on December 9, 2008, for the first time on CD, with liner notes provided by Buzz Osborne of the Melvins.

Contents

Critical reception

Trouser Press wrote that "if you want to understand [Flipper's] creative mind, Gone Fishin’ is the ideal synthesis of sickness and health." [7] The Rough Guide to Rock opined that "only The Stooges' Funhouse comes close to the demented wonder of this record." [8]

Track listing

  1. "The Light, the Sound, the Rhythm, the Noise" (Loose, Shatter) – 3:43
  2. "First the Heart" (DePace, Loose, Wilkinson) – 5:22
  3. "In Life My Friends" (Falconi, Harris) – 4:22
  4. "Survivors of the Plague" (Loose, Shatter) – 5:17
  5. "Sacrifice" (Shatter) – 4:26
  6. "Talk's Cheap" (Loose, Shatter) – 2:32
  7. "You Nought Me" (Loose, Shatter) – 5:02
  8. "One by One" (Falconi, Shatter) – 6:30

Personnel

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References

  1. ↑ "Gone Fishin' - Flipper | Songs, Reviews, Credits | AllMusic" – via www.allmusic.com.
  2. ↑ Christgau, Robert. "Robert Christgau: CG: Feelies". robertchristgau.com. Retrieved 2 January 2014.
  3. ↑ Larkin, Colin (2006). The Encyclopedia of Popular Music. Vol. 3. MUZE. p. 502.
  4. ↑ The Rolling Stone Album Guide. Random House. 1992. p. 253.
  5. ↑ Spin Alternative Record Guide. Vintage Books. 1995. p. 153.
  6. 1 2 Earles, Andrew (September 15, 2014). Gimme Indie Rock: 500 Essential American Underground Rock Albums 1981-1996. Voyageur Press. ISBN   9780760346488 – via Google Books.
  7. 1 2 "Flipper". Trouser Press. Retrieved 3 August 2020.
  8. ↑ Buckley, Peter (August 3, 2003). The Rough Guide to Rock. Rough Guides. ISBN   9781843531050 – via Google Books.
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