The record flips the strict fundamentalism of its genre, with stomping rap drums, Red Hot hooks, and wilting alt interludes, embracing turn-of-the-century hybrid rock styles that many punks of a similar age have left stuffed under childhood beds.
While I myself see both (intensely imbalanced) sides to the whole affair, and have flipped a record or two in my day, the immediate poo-pooing of record flipping and selling on eBay (plus the resulting stigma attached to it) is cultural fallout that I find to be a little ridiculous.
Miller continually mulls inventory records, flipping acreage Lennar doesn't need and bulking up strongholds in hot spots such as the San Francisco Bay Area and Houston.
Soundtrack of the month: On the seriously instrumental tip, Mike Patton's Ipecac Records flips the script following the release of The Melvin's last effort with Ectopia by Steroid Maximus (aka J.G. Thirlwell aka Foetus).
Bush's debate plan was to keep boring in on the Kerry record: flip-flopping this year on the war, but all too consistently liberal for 20 years on tax increases.
Hillary Clinton's record flip-flops in every area but her unwavering commitment to the Business Party.
For old-timers who still go to record stores, flip through bins, buy albums and dig into the liner notes, the experience of streaming songs on a service like Spotify or Rhapsody can be dismaying.
"It'd be great to think that somebody who buys a copy of Loaded having heard it in a club will get the record home, flip it over and discover Ramblin' Rose.
The songs evoke the days of wop-bop-a-lu-bop-a-wop-bam-boom as exuberant couples gyrate in a Beale Street nightclub; energized record-buyers flip out — in one case literally — in a staid department store; and elaborate dance numbers explode in a playground, a radio station, various television studios and a concert hall.
Federal prosecutors and federal law enforcement have a long, successful record of flipping defendants through plea bargains, using them to get to bigger targets.
