Flip Your Wig
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| Studio album by Hüsker Dü | ||||
| Released | September 1985 | |||
| Recorded | March–June 1985 | |||
| Genre | Alternative rock, punk rock | |||
| Length | 40:09 | |||
| Label | SST | |||
| Producer | Bob Mould and Grant Hart | |||
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| Singles from Flip Your Wig | ||||
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| Source | Rating |
| AllMusic |  |
| Chicago Tribune | |
| The Rolling Stone Album Guide |  |
| Spin Alternative Record Guide | 9/10 |
| The Village Voice | A− |
Flip Your Wig is the fourth album by American band Hüsker Dü, released in September 1985. It was the band's first self-produced album. It was the best-selling album to that point for the band's label SST Records, and the last album they made for that label. The band spent months in the studio to achieve higher-quality production for the album's melodic power pop songs.
As of 1985 Hüsker Dü was the best-selling band on the SST Records. The band had wanted to produce their previous album New Day Rising, but SST insisted on sending long-time label producer Spot. With Flip Your Wig the band was finally allowed to self-produce. Recording took place over several sessions in the band's hometown of Minneapolis from March to June 1985, by far the longest the band had spent in the studio. The cleaner production complemented the more melodic songs, still performed with heavily distorted guitars in a high-powered manner.
Guitarist Bob Mould and drummer Grant Hart each wrote roughly half the songs, which continued the band's trend toward power pop and away from the fast, noisy hardcore punk of their earliest material.
"Makes No Sense at All" was released as a single, with "Love Is All Around" (the theme song of the Mary Tyler Moore Show) on the b-side. The "Makes No Sense at All" video was the band's first and includes both songs, back-to-back. "Makes No Sense at All" was the band's first song to achieve singificant airplay on album-oriented rock radio.
Flip Your Wig appeared via SST in September 1985. It débuted at No. 5 on the CMJ album charts and received more radio ariplay and mainstream press attention than the band's earlier releases, including stories in Creem, Spin,Rolling Stone.Robert Christgau declared in The Village Voice that with the album's production the band had "never sounded so good", and the album placed in the top ten of the magazine's critics' poll for 1985 along with New Day Rising.Flip Your Wig became SST's best-selling album at the time of its release, moving 50,000 copies in its first four months.
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