In 1985 Husker Du were on a very productive streak, and
released their second album of the year with Flip Your Wig. They had moved further away from their
hardcore roots at this point. The title
track which opens the album sets the tone, it’s an almost poppy, catchy tune
with Bob Mould’s rocking guitars. It’s
followed up by the breakneck stomp of Every Everything, matched for speed later
by Mould’s bawling on Divide and Conquer.
They very much had their pop sensibilities to the fore. Makes No Sense At All and Hate Paper Doll are
two of Husker Du’s catchiest tracks.
When they take things down a bit, such as on Grant Hart’s Green Eyes and
Mould’s Games (sounding like a future Sugar track), the band sound effortlessly
rocking.
One of the standouts is Find Me, Mould’s guitars lurching
backwards and forwards with some great solos.
After the pointlessly awful Baby Song interlude, the band are right back
on form with Hart’s Flexible Flyer and Mould’s Private Plane.
The album tails off a little in quality towards the end with
a pair of instrumentals: the fast and loose The Wit and the Wisdom and the
pseudo-psychedelic Don’t Know Yet but otherwise it’s one of their finer albums.
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