WIPERS Is This Real LP WEIRD SYSTEM 1979 GER reissue+inner GREG SAGE OREGON PUNK
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WIPERS
Revered punk rockers from the Pacific Northwest, melding the furious rage
and independent punk ethic with a fondness for loud, long guitar workouts.
Misunderstood, mistreated, underrated, and/or just plain unknown, Greg Sage should be mentioned in the first breaths about trailblazing guitarists and U.S. independent music of the '80s and '90s. Since forming his band, Wipers, in Portland, OR, in the late '70s, Sage has been put through the ringer more than enough to justify his hermetic operating methods and attitude. While most of his devout fans consider it a travesty that his name isn't as known as a contemporary like Bob Mould or even an unabashed fan-boy turned legend like Kurt Cobain, Sage would likely retort that it's not for the notoriety that he began making music."IS THIS REAL?"
<reissue, originally published in 1979>
Produced by Greg Sage
LP WEIRD SYSTEM RECORDS WS024
MADE IN GERMANY 1987 REPRESSING
SINGLE COVER + LYRICS INNER SLEEVE
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LABEL: WEIRD SYSTEM - BLACK LABEL [w/YELLOW ARTWORK on SIDE B] - WHITE/BLACK TEXT
Label Code: LC 9079
Catalog on cover: (spine & rear) WS024
Catalog on inner: 76.22577 (WS 024)
Catalog on labels: (Side A only) WS024
Matrix / Runout [Side A, Etched, (the first "B" scratched out)]:
WS-024-WIPEOUT'86-B?A LYN-14201 - IUT .Z. PSYCHO - 22 - B (Stamped): 4
Matrix / Runout [Side B, Etched, (the first "A" scratched out)]:
WS-024-WIPEOUT'86-A?B PSYCHO - 22 - A (-) LYN-14200 - IUT .Z. (Stamped): 10
On labels: (Side A only) STEREO
GEMA (boxed)
LC 9079
(Side B only): rim text reads "All Rights.........Prohibited"
On Inner Sleeve: Music and Lyrics by Greg Sage
All titles © (Trap Publishing)
On Back Cover: Weird System.....Hamburg 1 W. Germany...
? +©1979
All Rights Reserved
Park Ave. P.O. Box 19479 Seattle, WA USA 98109
tracklisting
Side A: RETURN OF THE RAT - MYSTERY - UP FRONT
LET'S GO LET'S GO AWAY - IS THIS REAL? - TRAGEDY - ALIEN BOY
Side B: D-7 - POTENTIAL SUICIDE - DON'T KNOW WAHT I AM
WINDOW SHOP FOR LOVE - WHAT A MINUTE
grading
RECORD NEAR MINT but (please, read above description)
SLEEVE NEAR EX but (please, see pictures and read above description)
The production leaves much to be desired with its tinny-sounding drums, but,
fortunately, the negatives don't outweigh the positives on this album.
Guitarist/vocalist Greg Sage writes fairly simplistic songs with power chords,
but each melody infects your brain like a fever. Even though Sage is from Oregon,
he sings in a New York-style slur not dissimilar to Joey Ramone.
Throughout the album, there is a very dark and ominous feel to the material (e.g., "D-7"),
but it's made interesting on tracks like "Alien Boy," which changes from 4/4 time to 2/4 time.
Sage also has a unique guitar style where he strums chords and lets them
sustain into feedback, which creates rich textures in the songs
(e.g., "Potential Suicide" and "Don't Know What I Am")...(AllMusic)
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