Public Flipper Limited: Live 1980-1985

Flipper | Format: Audio CD

Product Details

• Audio CD (December 9, 2008)
• Original Release Date: 2008
• Number of Discs: 2
• Label: Water
• ASIN: B001G2S436
• Also Available in: Vinyl  |  MP3 Download
• Average Customer Review: 5.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (8 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #237,384 in Music (See Top 100 in Music)

Editorial Reviews

(2-CD set) Public Flipper Limited was originally released in 1986 as a double LP of live material culled from 1980-1985. The sound quality and playing are both a grimy, distorted mess, which suits the band just fine. Always alternating between endearing and abrasive Flipper left no room for the middle ground of 'like.' The album title is a shot at John Lydon and his alleged plagiarism of Flipper's artwork for his own PIL and it proves that Flipper was never opposed to alienating its audience, no matter how sanctified. Harsh, art-rock classics from one of SF's most important post-hippy era bands.

Customer Reviews

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3 of 3 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Simply the BEST of Flipper!!!, December 30, 2008

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Daniel J. Leonard (Auckland - NZ) - See all my reviews
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Public Flipper Limited is amazing!! - put it this way if i was stuck on a remote Island and could only have one album with me to play this would be my choice - easy. The recording quality is good throughout and the dry relationship between the band and the audience makes me laugh. My personal favourite has to be "Hard Cold World" - it's brilliant and must be played super loud to be most effective. I own almost everything Flipper has to offer from the dvd to Generic , Blown Chunks , Sex Bomb Baby and Gone Fishin and i love them all BUT this x2 disc live release is my #1 -- 10/10 dirt perfection from the masters of dirt.

Daniel J Leonard

2 of 2 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Cynical One Off Towards the Musical Establishment and a Blast in the Right Direction, January 7, 2009

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directions "neuralbuddhist" (Space Time Foam) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Public Flipper Limited: Live 1980-1985 (Audio CD)

I think a time waster would be to categorize this. Hardcore? Post punk? Indie rock? Slowcore (whatever that means)? Who cares? Rather than define it just approach it with this perspective. Flipper took the loud, fast and sloppy approach of hardcore and massively slowed it down, repeatedly in a torturous but ear splitting Philip Glass style (it was part of a whole scene and some of the bands were closer to the avant-garde which Flipper clearly was not) but still enjoyable. Part of it was a reaction to the previous style but part of it was to actually appreciate the songs instead of the one minute incoherent blasts that some of hardcore (although there were clearly stand-outs in the genre)devolved into. And of course as any fan knows it still rocks. But it was also a reaction to some of post punk's pseudo-intellectualism. The title refers to P.I.L.'s self titled "Album" (or "Cassette" or "CD" depending on what you bought) lifting Flipper's concept of "Generic" as an album and obviously making fun of P.I.L.'s "album as a product concept". So basically it was a fresh break from anything that had occured before but influential on later more recognized bands.
Obvious "Generic" and "Sex Bomb Baby" would be starter album and this collection from live tours seems like "odd 'n' sods" by description but it has the immediate feel of a classic live show by Flipper, as if they were drunk and couldn't play from the way they come off with one liners but immediately go into a song and it immediately rocks, so the whole "they can hardly get their act together live" was just a stance against the elaborate shows that some bands at the time put on. Truthfully this was flipping the bird not just at the musical establishment but at others who pretended to challenge the musical establishment but yet totally influential on countless bands. Flipper were a force of nature live and this is an excellent way to hear their live experience. Thanks for the (very belated)reissues.

3 of 4 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars classic live flipper, March 13, 2009

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J. brown "importcds.comsucks" (bolder freak,ca) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Public Flipper Limited: Live 1980-1985 (Audio CD)

this is a great live album!
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