Flipper - Sex Bomb Baby

If you need Flipper explained to you, you're probably in the wrong location.

This is the first CD release of the original 1988 Subterranean record, released on ol' Hank Garfield's Infinite Zero Recordings. It compiled all of Flipper's early non-LP tracks, including the classic "Sex Bomb" and "Love Canal" 7"s, both of which serve as the Rosetta Stones to every bit of pigfuck I've been listening to over the past 25 years. It also served as a memorial to former Flipper bassist & vocalist Will Shatter, who had died in 1987 of a heroin overdose.

What's odd to me, when I look at the Flipper discography, is realizing how many of their records have entered and exited my collection. Selling your records off in your 20s and 30s might as well be a rite of passage, but it dawned on me that I've owned all of their Subterranean releases on vinyl at one point or another. Yet none still live in my collection. Such is life.

I've no clue why the cover art for this was redone by then-contemporary bassist John Dougherty, but I like it more than the O.G. Steve Tupper cover. It's heretical, I'm sure, but it's not like these guys ever stood on ceremony.

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