Willoughby, Campbell and Schurr began jamming together during the declines of their respective bands Pure Joy, Chemistry Set and Seers of Bavaria.

Johnson, drummer for seminal Seattle punk band The Fastbacks, frequented many of the parties at the U-District house and eventually joined them, completing the foursome.

Flop's live performances over its first two years were marked with near fall-down drunkenness, numerous pitchers of beer poured on band members and audiences alike, and many broken instruments (both theirs and others).

Following the release of Drugs, Johnson left on an Alaska vacation (i.e., gutting fish in a fish-canning boat), putting the band on a year-long hiatus.

[4] Four of the album's sixteen tracks, "I Told A Lie", "Anne," "Tomato Paste" and "Hello," would later be included on the band's Munster Records 7-inch EP, We Are You.

[3] Following several national and regional club tours, some headlining, others supporting acts like The Lemonheads and The Screaming Trees, Schurr left the band.

Edwin Fotheringham designed a poster for the reunion which was screen printed and sold to the 100 (or so) family, friends, and fans in attendance, with proceeds going to the Music for Marriage Equality organization.

Flop has been referred to as a band with "dangerous tendencies toward dubious ostentation,"[8] "dry-witted, intelligent pop"[3] and "too idiosyncratic to be lumped in with what most people think of as 'the Seattle sound'".

[9] The music performed by Flop was described by Michael Sutton of AllMusic as "pure power pop" and "recalling the punk-fueled energy of The Jam and Buzzcocks".