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Title: This record sucks ass
Review: I should point out that I love Flipper. I love that a punk band can create something so heavy and visceral without playing at the standard breakneck pace. I love the sarcastic poetry of the lyrics and the simple-but-clever rhythms. I love how they violated every rule of punk rock dogma and were still ten times as original as the other crap being made at the time. But this is just awful.I've bought enough live punk records to know what to expect: terrible sound quality, songs that are indecipherable from each other, amplifiers hissing feedback into the microphones, musicians that are too high to perform...Maybe that would be the point with a live Flipper record, because they took pride in driving away fans at their shows. But I buy records to listen to them, not to have as conceptual art conversation pieces. This is so painful that it's like the musical equivalent of a Warhol movie (and the joke's on you).
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