Wipers

[marqueemoon]

Any fans here?

Definitely a band I didn’t get at first. It’s punk with a pop sensibility without being remotely “pop punk”, and often ventures into experimental territory.

Greg Sage’s guitar sound has been pretty inspirational for me. Apparently the main ingredients are an SG Special, Distortion +, and Ampeg Gemini with some Echoplex sprinkled in, but Greg built a lot of his own tube gear.

Probably going to take a crack at covering Messenger (From Over The Edge) with my band. For my money that’s a good album to start with.

[stevejamsecono]

Not a huge one, but definitely respect them a lot. I prefer the first album to the later, more adventurous stuff, but it's all deftly done and the guitar playing is definitely impressive. I got the three album boxset that Sage released on CD back in college in 2007.

[PorkyPrimeCut]

I tried but never really clicked with them. On the other hand, the UK radio version of D7 by Nirvana* is one of my all-time favourites of theirs.











Sorry to realise the inevitability of someone mentioning the "N word" when the Wipers are brought up.

[s_mcsleazy]

love em. over the edge is one of my favorite straight punk rock albums ever and i still stick it on once in a while when i'm feeling like i'm in a creative rut. i honestly also really like some of their later works and maintain that sinking as a stone from the herd is one of my favorite guitar solos ever, right up there with marquee moon and impossible germany, which is high praise indeed for someone that finds guitar solo's boring.

because mark mentioned teh kurdz, this is where i'm going to actually bring up a discussion about nirvana and the power of influence. i think the best thing about nirvana was their influences and how they championed smaller bands. doesn't sound like a big deal but i'd argue there's not really been many bands as big that championed smaller bands like them which i honestly think is something that's kinda missing in modern music. like the only example i can think in recent years was sleep token talking up how much they loved failure. granted, the infrastructure of music is way different nowadays.

[PJazzmaster]

I was soooo into the youth of america album as a teen in the 90s. It was the music music I would listen to at home before going out (on cassette). It took me a couple of years to find a vinyl copy of it.

My favorite track:
When it’s over

[Larry Mal]

Love the Wipers. The first four albums are an amazing run. I especially like Is This Real?, it's just fast new wave songs played tight and great.

Here's a favorite.

[LVC]

Really interesting and underrated band. In my case it was the Melvins' pretty amazing cover of Youth of America that put them on my radar in the early 2000s.

[beauzooka]

I drove down to Tacoma to see them many moons ago - but they unfortunately cancelled.

Not sure why but I love Land of the Lost and Follow Blind the most. The latter has a great mood but is paced strangely. The mellowest tracks are first and the most intense tracks are at the end - so it has a great build up to the crescendo.

[muffonrat]

Def one of the most influential bands during my teenage years. Is it real and over the edge are such good records. I remember listening to doom town and thinking about my hometown,, good times!

[Jaguar018]

I got into them because of Nirvana. I still listen to the Wipers now and then, but I never listen to Nirvana anymore.

[BoringPostcards]

I hesitate to admit I have honestly never heard their music. I will go and listen, when I have the opportunity.
Other than seeing Cobain wear a Wipers tee a few times, that’s all I know of them.

It was VERY hard to find music where I grew up, so I was only ever exposed to whatever music my friends and parents were listening to. That is, until the internet came along, and I started trading music over mIRC.
I somehow still missed out on them.

Edit: D7 is a Wipers song?? And Return of the Rat?!

How did I not know this? I’ve been aware of those songs since people were sharing the Outcesticide bootlegs in the 90s!