Flip Your Wig is the fourth album by American band Hüsker Dü, released in September 1985. It was the best-selling album to that point for the band's label SST Records, and the last they made for that label. As the band's first self-produced album, they spent months in the studio to achieve higher-quality production for its melodic power pop songs. Production By 1985 Hüsker Dü was the best-selling band on 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. Songs 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 a-side was the band's first song to achieve significant airplay on album-oriented rock radio. and its video was the band's first. "The Baby Song" was a tribute to Grant Hart's newborn child. In 2010, The A.V. Club named it one of "24 songs that almost derail great albums". Release and reception Flip Your Wig appeared via SST in September 1985. It débuted at No. 5 on the CMJ album charts and received more radio airplay 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. By the time the album was released Hüsker Dü had signed a record deal with the major-label Warner Music Group, who were keen to release the album themselves. However, out of loyalty, and because of SST's appointment