Flip Your Wig

Mould plays guitar, bass, piano and percussion and sings, Norton plays bass, and Hart plays drums, vibraphone, slide whistle and percussion and sings. Mould told SPIN in December 1985 that the general sound overall is a lot cleaner, a lot more defined, and that on earlier albums they consciously buried the vocals. It was their best-selling SST album to that point and the last for SST, debuting at 5 on the CMJ chart and selling about 50,000 copies in four months, and reached number 1 on the UK indie chart. Trouser Press's John Leland and Ira Robbins called it positively brilliant, AllMusic gave 5 stars, Christgau an A-minus, and the Spin Alternative Record Guide 9 of 10; Wikipedia says Mould later called it the best album the band made. Steve Pick names "Makes No Sense at All" its standout.