{{Use mdy dates|date=May 2025}} {{Infobox album | name = American Grafishy | type = Album | artist = [[Flipper (band)|Flipper]] | cover = Americangrafishy.jpg | alt = | released = 1992 | recorded = | venue = | studio = | genre = | length = 42:05 | label = [[Def American]] | producer = Flipper | prev_title = [[Gone Fishin' (Flipper album)|Gone Fishin']] | prev_year = 1984 | next_title = [[Love (Flipper album)|Love]] | next_year = 2009 }} '''''American Grafishy''''' is the third studio album by the San Francisco-based [[punk rock]] band [[Flipper (band)|Flipper]].<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.allmusic.com/artist/flipper-mn0000187162/biography|title=Flipper Biography, Songs, & Albums|website=AllMusic}}</ref> It was released in 1992 by [[Def American]]; label president [[Rick Rubin]] had once been in a Flipper tribute band.<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://eastbayexpress.com/something-fishy-this-way-comes-1/|title=Something Fishy This Way Comes|work=East Bay Express |date=March 6, 2002}}</ref><ref>{{cite news |last1=Lepage |first1=Mark |title=Cacophonous collision: Flipper Twist is anthem for slacker clubland generation |work=The Gazette |date=27 Feb 1993 |location=Montreal |page=E9}}</ref> The album title is a pun on the [[coming-of-age]] film ''[[American Graffiti]]''. The band promoted the album with a North American tour.<ref>{{cite news |title=FLIPPER TO PLAY ANTICIPATED LAWTON GIG |work=Lawton Constitution |date=July 19, 1993 |page=11A}}</ref>
==Production== The album was produced by Flipper.<ref>{{cite magazine |title=Album reviews — American Grafishy by Flipper |magazine=Billboard |date=Jan 23, 1993 |volume=105 |issue=4 |page=62}}</ref> The opening and closing tracks allude to former bandmember Will Shatter's death.<ref>{{cite news |last1=Jenkins |first1=Mark |title=Rock That's Hell On the Listener |newspaper=The Washington Post |date=12 Feb 1993 |page=N25}}</ref> John Dogherty replaced Shatter on bass.<ref>{{cite news |last1=Pahnelas |first1=Bill |title=FLIPPER, 'American Grafishy' |work=Richmond Times-Dispatch |date=February 21, 1993 |page=J9}}</ref>
==Critical reception== {{Music ratings |rev1 = [[AllMusic]] |rev1score = {{Rating|2.5|5}}<ref>[{{AllMusic|class=album|id=american-grafishy-r77933|pure_url=yes}} AllMusic review]</ref> |rev2 = ''[[Chicago Tribune]]'' |rev2score = {{rating|3.5|4}}<ref>{{Cite news|url=https://www.chicagotribune.com/1993/01/21/flipper-american-grafishy-def-american-starstarstar-12the/|title=Flipper American Grafishy (Def American)|work=[[Chicago Tribune]]|date=1993-01-21|author=Kot, Greg|author-link=Greg Kot|access-date=2017-11-04|language=en}}</ref> |rev3 = ''[[Christgau's Consumer Guide]]'' |rev3score = {{rating-Christgau|dud}}<ref>{{Cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=xVQbszFuEGMC|title=Christgau's Consumer Guide: Albums of the '90s|last=Christgau|first=Robert|date=2000-10-15|publisher=[[Macmillan Publishing]]|author-link=Robert Christgau|page=105|isbn=9780312245603|chapter=Flipper|chapter-url=http://robertchristgau.com/get_artist.php?name=flipper|language=en}}</ref> |rev4 = ''[[Martin Popoff|Collector's Guide to Heavy Metal]]'' |rev4score = 7/10<ref>{{cite book |last1=Popoff |first1=Martin |author-link1=Martin Popoff |title=The Collector's Guide to Heavy Metal: Volume 3: The Nineties |publisher=[[Collector's Guide Publishing]] |year=2007 |location=[[Burlington, Ontario]], [[Canada]] |isbn=978-1-894959-62-9 |page=157}}</ref> |rev5 = ''[[Entertainment Weekly]]'' |rev5score = C<ref>{{Cite magazine|url=http://ew.com/article/1993/02/19/american-grafishy/|title=American Grafishy|date=1993-02-19|magazine=[[Entertainment Weekly]]|author=Arnold, Gina|author-link=Gina Arnold|access-date=2017-11-04|language=en-US}}</ref> |rev6 = ''[[Spin Alternative Record Guide]]'' |rev6score = 3/10<ref>{{Cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=-bfuAAAAMAAJ|title=Spin Alternative Record Guide|last1=Weisbard|first1=Eric|author-link1=Eric Weisbard|last2=Marks|first2=Craig|date=1995|publisher=[[Vintage Books]]|isbn=9780679755746|language=en}}</ref> }} ''[[Trouser Press]]'' noted that "the band’s patented approach to noise still packs a punch."<ref>{{cite web |title=Flipper |url=https://trouserpress.com/reviews/flipper/ |website=Trouser Press |access-date=1 September 2022}}</ref> The ''[[Chicago Reader]]'' deemed ''American Grafishy'' a "feeble reunion album."<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://chicagoreader.com/music/pioneers-of-american-punk/|title=Pioneers of American Punk|date=October 12, 1995|website=Chicago Reader}}</ref> ''[[The Boston Globe]]'' called it "semi-hooky, appealingly tortured, snarling, gnarled punk."<ref>{{cite news |last1=Sullivan |first1=Jim |title=FLIPPER AMERICAN GRAFISHY Def American |work=The Boston Globe |date=21 Jan 1993 |department=Calendar |page=7}}</ref> The ''[[Toronto Star]]'' considered it "hard, lean, exciting, vital."<ref>{{cite news |last1=Howell |first1=Peter |title=Disc matchup |work=Toronto Star |date=30 Jan 1993 |page=G12}}</ref>
''[[The Atlanta Journal-Constitution]]'' wrote: "What was once radical now sounds rote, and if a band capable of such titanic anarchy can even bother with a career, what does it say about the rest of us number-crunchers, dishwashers and wage slaves?"<ref>{{cite news |last1=Dollar |first1=Steve |title=American Grafishy Flipper |work=The Atlanta Journal-Constitution |date=February 6, 1993 |page=L20}}</ref>
== Track listing == {{Track listing | collapsed = | headline = | total_length = 42:05 | all_writing = Flipper | title1 = Someday | length1 = 4:18 | title2 = Flipper Twist | length2 = 4:48 | title3 = May the Truth Be Known | length3 = 2:51 | title4 = We're Not Crazy | length4 = 3:11 | title5 = Fucked Up Once Again | length5 = 5:31 | title6 = Exist or Else | length6 = 5:18 | title7 = Distant Illusion | length7 = 4:28 | title8 = Telephone | length8 = 3:18 | title9 = It Pays to Know | length9 = 4:50 | title10 = Full Speed Ahead | length10 = 3:37 }}
== Personnel == * Bruce Loose – lead and backing vocals * Ted Falconi – guitar, illustration * John Dougherty – bass, backing vocals * Steve DePace – drums, backing vocals
=== Other personnel === * Flipper – producer, art direction * [[Rick Rubin]] – executive producer * Garry Creiman – associated producer, engineering * Barrle Goshko – art direction, design * Tami Herrick-Needham – design * Jay Blakesberg – photography
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