''Gone Fishin is the second studio album by San Francisco-based

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, released in 1984 by

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. The album's artwork featured a depiction of Flipper's tour van as a ready-to-cut-out-and-assemble centerpiece, with similar cutouts of the four band members on the back cover. At the time of the album's release, Subterranean offered extra empty covers of the album by mail order for $2 for those Flipper fans that wanted to have a cover to cut up and assemble. The album was reissued by Water Records on December 9, 2008, for the first time on CD, with liner notes provided by

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of the

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Critical reception

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'' wrote that "if you want to understand lipper'screative mind, ''Gone Fishin’'' is the ideal synthesis of sickness and health." ''The Rough Guide to Rock'' opined that "only The Stooges' ''Funhouse'' comes close to the demented wonder of this record." ''

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'' wrote, "Crawling guitar drones and tuneless, barely tonal ramblings. A semi-anaesthetized tortoise could play faster than these four San Francisco snivellers, who tackle boredom and the meaning of life."

Track listing

*All songs published by Insect Music, BMI #"The Light, the Sound, the Rhythm, the Noise" (Loose, Shatter) – 3:43 #"First the Heart" (DePace, Loose, Wilkinson) – 5:22 #"In Life My Friends" (Falconi, Harris) – 4:22 #"Survivors of the Plague" (Loose, Shatter) – 5:17 #"Sacrifice" (Shatter) – 4:26 #"Talk's Cheap" (Loose, Shatter) – 2:32 #"You Nought Me" (Loose, Shatter) – 5:02 #"One by One" (Falconi, Shatter) – 6:30

Personnel

*Bruce Loose – vocals (1, 3, 5, 7, 8), bass (2, 4, 6),

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(4), backing vocals (4) *Will Shatter – vocals (2, 4, 6), bass (1, 3, 5, 7, 8) *Ted Falconi – guitars *Steve DePace – drums, congas (4, 8),

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(7), piano (7) *Kirk "Charles" Heydt –

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References

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