An extremely hard-core punk band, Flipper were fueled by an endless consumption of speed and beer. Their thing was to play as demonically loud and slow as possible. While every other punk group in the universe got faster and faster and faster: um-chuck, um-chuck, um-chuck un-chuck Flipper just ground them booted heels into the pit like they were crushing a bunch of mohawked spiders.
Everyone was slamming around in ultra-hyper-mega-death slow motion. The frustration level from the would-be frantic moshers was so thick you could have cut it with a chainsaw. Many half filled beer bottles whirled viciously at many wary foreheads. Human spit-fountains hawk-a-loogied away gigantic gobs of hilarious slime - back and forth from stage to pit.
Flipper only got their shit together to do one album, Generic Flipper before super-nova-ing away. Like the Sex Pistols, Never Mind The Bollocks. It was all they needed to do, however. They did release a number of singles, some of which are true anthems of Irritationalism Brainwash (In a speed induced mania the song repeats: "Um, ok like, see there was this, and, what and then the - forget it, never mind, you wouldn't understand anyway" Over and over again for seven minutes) and There Was An Old Lady Who Swallowed a Fly. (which concludes with: "There was an old lady who swallowed a goat: she croaked" -- I'm sure you remember the 5000 other rhyming couplets). (Finally re-released on CD -- check it out.