Flipper-Blow'n Chunks (1984)


 

Artist:  Flipper

Title: Blow'n Chunks

Label:  Danceteria/ROIR Europe

Format: CD

Cat: RE 126CD

Year of Release: 1984

Country and Year of Edition: France 1991 reissue

Listed Condition: VG+/VG+ 

Sell Date: 7/7/22

Sell Price: $11.99

Discogs Last Sold:5/25/22 NM/NM $10.00

Low: $5.99

Median: $9.15

Average: $9.97

High: $15.25

Current low price:$9.00

Current Number on Sale at Discogs: 3

Have/Want: 41/44

Where Sold: El Cerrito, CA

Time it took to sell: 11 years

Where and When Bought: NYC Etheria $8.99 used,  sticker still on it early to mid aughts

Gwiz-gau Letter Grade: A

Sad To See It Go: No

I always thought Public Flipper Limited  was the ultimate live Flipper release.  Somehow I never got this cassette only release in it's day until maybe a decade after it's reissue when it turned up in a used cd bin.    While PFL was an overview from 80-85, Blow'n Chunks was a CBGB's 1983 show.  Clearly they were at the peak of their powers, somewhere between Album and Gone Fishin' and all that implies.  Way Of The World, Lights, Sound, Rhythm, Noise, Love Canal, Ha Ha Ha...  It's all there.  This 1991 edition replicates the cassette version that came out in 1984. The end of the tape is also announced.  This is a conceptual release, not a soundboard.   When side one ends the band tells you to turn the tape over.   Later versions added some songs like "Life" and "Sacrifice" that didn't make the initial cut.  "In Your Arms," an unreleased song otherwise opens the second side.

Flipper are better than they have any right to be.  Almost savant-like brilliance, even when there is slop. And, yes Virginia, there is slop to be eaten up the way a pig sees it's trough. Their first decade lineup up to the passing of Will Shatter is probably one of the most important bands of my lifetime I never got to see until it was too late.  You can't turn back the clock.  The spark that makes greatness evaporates.

Like the aforementioned pig, I will gladly eat up this beautiful mess.


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