Flip-Flop (album) explained

Flip-Flop
Type:Album
Artist:Guadalcanal Diary
Cover:GDFlipFlop.jpg
Released:1989
Genre:Rock
Label:Elektra
Producer:Don Dixon
Prev Title:2X4
Prev Year:1987
Next Title:At Your Birthday Party (live)
Next Year:1999

Flip-Flop is the fourth and final studio album by the American band Guadalcanal Diary.[1] [2] It was released in 1989 on Elektra Records.[3] The band supported the album with a North American tour.[4] "Always Saturday", for which a video was shot, was released as a single.[5]

Production

The album was produced by Don Dixon.[6] Drummer John Poe wrote several of the album's songs.[7] "Ten Laws" was inspired by Joseph Campbell's Myths to Live By.[8]

Critical reception

The Los Angeles Times wrote: "One of the most underrated, overlooked and inaccurately compared to R.E.M. bands around doesn't offer much to change that on its fourth album."[9] The Northwest Florida Daily News deemed the album "artsy rock 'n' roll" that "doesn't stray too far from homespun melodies and twangy guitars."[10]

The Toronto Star called it "raucous, energizing, intelligent guitar rock."[11] The Gazette determined that the album finds the band "working some of the melancholy out of singer Murray Attaway's vocals."[12] The Chicago Tribune labeled Flip-Flop "terrific mainstream rock, a shade quirkier than John Mellencamp or Tom Petty but no less deserving of Top 40 status."

Track listing

  1. "Look Up!" – 2:33
  2. "Always Saturday" – 4:15
  3. "The Likes of You" – 3:06
  4. "Barometer" – 4:07
  5. "Happy Home" – 2:53
  6. "Whiskey Talk" – 3:36
  7. "Pretty Is As Pretty Does" – 4:08
  8. "Everything But Good Luck" – 2:53
  9. "Ten Laws" – 3:44
  10. "Fade Out" – 4:59
  11. "...Vista" – 3:05

Notes and References

  1. Web site: Jeff Walls, Guitarist for Guadalcanal Diary, Hillbilly Frankenstein and The Woggles, Has Died. May 30, 2019. pastemagazine.com. October 11, 2019. June 12, 2019. https://web.archive.org/web/20190612233353/https://www.pastemagazine.com/articles/2019/05/jeff-walls-guitarist-for-guadalcanal-diary-hillbil.html. dead.
  2. Gittins . Ian . Guadalcanal Diary . Melody Maker . Feb 25, 1989 . 65 . 8 . 29.
  3. Web site: TrouserPress.com :: Guadalcanal Diary. www.trouserpress.com.
  4. News: Zibart . Eve . Family Diary . The Washington Post . 14 Apr 1989 . N22.
  5. News: Harrison . Tom . Band feels like family . The Province . 14 June 1989 . Entertainment . 48.
  6. News: Heim . Chris . Up-and-comers and cult favorites . Chicago Tribune . 17 Mar 1989 . Friday . 54.
  7. News: Blackstock . Peter . Battle for success rages with Guadalcanal Diary . Austin American-Statesman . 4 Apr 1989 . B14.
  8. News: Murray Attaway, 31, is the lead singer... . Orlando Sentinel . 7 May 1989 . Calendar . 4.
  9. News: Hochman . Steve . Record Rack . Los Angeles Times . 12 Mar 1989 . Calendar . 86.
  10. News: Wheeler . Kris . Georgia band alters Southern rock sound . Northwest Florida Daily News . 31 Mar 1989 . C6.
  11. News: Quill . Greg . Guadalcanal Diary Flip Flop . Toronto Star . 31 Mar 1989 . D15.
  12. News: Guadalcanal Diary Flip Flop . The Gazette . 6 Apr 1989 . F6.

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