Guadalcanal Diary, Flip Flop, 1989 on Elektra

The fourth and final (original) full length from Marietta Georgia’s Guadalcanal Diary. Guadalcanal Diary is kind of the most underappreciated indie 80s band from Georgia – they weren’t R.E.M. or the B-52s or Pylon or even Let’s Active, but this is a great album.

It takes some guts to label one side of your fourth major label record “flop” – maybe they knew this would be their last?

My copy is a promo pressing via Pitchfork Records in Concord NH – complete with checkmarks on the back perhaps added by a radio DJ?

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