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Portland’s Wipers were the songwriting outlet for punk virtuoso Greg Sage. Sage originally envisioned the Wipers as a self-contained, DIY studio project that would record 15 albums in 10 years. They ended up following a slightly more conventional path, although never in their music. The Wipers sound exists somewhere outside of genre classifications: it’s punk, pop, garage, psychedelic, and yet none of those things. Sage was a gear-head and rabid experimenter who had gotten into music by playing with a record lathe his father, who worked in the industry, had procured. In 1973 he met Beauregard, an early pioneer of the “bad guy” wrestler character who was cutting an album and insisted that Sage play on it. He happily obliged.
It was a few years later that punk rock opened the door for the first Wipers single, Better Off Dead, which came out on Sage’s own Trap records in 1979. The rough, 3 song four track recording was followed up shortly by the classic debut LP Is This Real?. Sage, bassist Dave Koupal and drummer Sam Henry created 11 songs of strange and terrifying beauty. Even Sage’s most upbeat pop hooks were tempered by his uneven singing style and dark lyrics. Feelings of alienation and fear permeate tracks like the desperate “Potential Suicide” or ominous “D-7.” The original tracks were recorded live on 4-track.
It was a few years later that punk rock opened the door for the first Wipers single, Better Off Dead, which came out on Sage’s own Trap records in 1979. The rough, 3 song four track recording was followed up shortly by the classic debut LP Is This Real?. Sage, bassist Dave Koupal and drummer Sam Henry created 11 songs of strange and terrifying beauty. Even Sage’s most upbeat pop hooks were tempered by his uneven singing style and dark lyrics. Feelings of alienation and fear permeate tracks like the desperate “Potential Suicide” or ominous “D-7.” The original tracks were recorded live on 4-track.
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ChaosUkDk wrote:
Till 1999 are 15 recordings. the boxset(2001) have great notes of sage on it + the history of portand punk are also great, "trap sampler" is crazy & no one knows about the promotional "electric medicine" aside PIO at the end of the boxset booklet.
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AR-DZEJ wrote:
fak yeah!!
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liquidphil wrote:
sage
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ChaosUkDk wrote:
how many of you believe in love at first sight haha greg say that in germany great gig!
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eliaswhatever wrote:
just thought id add since people are name dropping ahead of their time alternative acts, the wipers may be the earliest, but the meat puppets still also played a huge role. they were only a year or so later. not to mention the afore mentioned husker du, dino jr, minutemen, replacements, etc
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americantruck wrote:
"Is This Real?" would still sound fresh if it came out yesterday. So far ahead of its time.
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AloneInTheSky wrote:
fucking amazing band!!, the best of the best
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koyenjxx wrote:
where s youth of america.. great song, the melvins do also a great cover of it.
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ChuckDynamite wrote:
Where's Rebel With a Cause on the top 15? Friend got me into the Wipers, that's my favourite song by them
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teenagejesus666 wrote:
i dont need the boxset, I have all the lps
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createdthen wrote:
fuck, forgot how good they are
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ChaosUkDk wrote:
i have all their Albums !
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DerekBowie wrote:
I'm getting it, I'm getting it. Maybe even tomorrow!
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beat_radiation wrote:
if you don't have the Wipers box set, you just don't like good music.
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willywonka091 wrote:
grew on me
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glassandahalf wrote:
hugh hefner on this shoutbox back in april 2006 got it right -- underlistened is probably a better term for these guys than underrated, as noone Ive ever met who has heard them has anything bad to say about Wipers at all... I love them so much. I love the cheap box set from the website making their music affordable and you get the feeling the royalties go to the band as opposed to so many other greatest hits/repackagings....
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nancykitten wrote:
word
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HustlerDu wrote:
u should
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spacematador wrote:
After hearing Mystery, I feel like i should own everything they ever released.
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PeterNidetzki wrote:
@Iancurtis13 Apparently you never saw Dinosaur Jr. live recently, which means in their original lineup. They feckin ROCK! Aww, Greg Sage is god anyway...
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