| Product Summary | | Label: Bmg/restless | | UPC: 00018777237826 | | Release Date: 8/12/1993 | | Buy.com Sku: 60161184 | | Item#: M95R67 | Format:  CD |
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Disc 1
| | Song Title | Sample | | 1. Nothing Left To Lose ~ The Wipers/Greg Sage |  | | 2. Way Of Love ~ The Wipers/Greg Sage | | | 3. Some Place Else ~ The Wipers/Greg Sage | | | 4. Chill Remains, The ~ The Wipers/Greg Sage | | | 5. Soul's Tongue ~ The Wipers/Greg Sage | | | 6. Blue Cowboy ~ The Wipers/Greg Sage | | | 7. Taking Too Long ~ The Wipers/Greg Sage | | | 8. Circle, The ~ The Wipers/Greg Sage | | | 9. Romeo ~ The Wipers/Greg Sage | | | 10. Messenger ~ The Wipers/Greg Sage | | | 11. Better Off Dead ~ The Wipers/Greg Sage | | | 12. No Solution ~ The Wipers/Greg Sage | | | 13. My Vengeance ~ The Wipers/Greg Sage | | | 14. Just A Dream Away - (bonus track) ~ The Wipers/Greg Sage | | | 15. Different Ways - (bonus track) ~ The Wipers/Greg Sage | | | 16. Loser's Town - (bonus track) ~ The Wipers/Greg Sage | |
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| | Album Notes and Credits |
Notes & Personnel Info |  | This CD contains contains 16 tracks chroncling the 10 year history of this influential Pacific Northwest band. It features all 5 Restless studio releases as well as Greg Sage's solo album, plus rare early album tracks. | | The Wipers emerged from late-1970s Portland, Oregon, as one of America's first great punk bands, inspiring both the first U.S. punk wave and the subsequent punk-influenced grunge movement (they were even covered by Nirvana). The only thing is, as this collection makes clear, they weren't strictly a punk band. Frontman Greg Sage was something of a guitar hero (a very un-punk thing to be), and you can hear his distortion-laden journeys unfurl throughout these songs. Also, there was more melodic/dynamic sophistication underlying the melancholy vibe, particularly apparent on the Sage solo cuts here. While the Wipers' influential first album is unrepresented, this disc captures some key moments from the '80s recordings of both the band and Sage on his own, and makes for an excellent second step once that first album has been fully appreciated. | | The Wipers have a long-standing reputation as sounding like "Jimi Hendrix fronting a garage band," and while Greg Sage's nimble fretwork might draw comparisons to Hendrix, the Wipers prove on this disc that they're far more proficient than any garage band. The pulsating rhythm section manages to sound vibrant but subdued, allowing Sage's squelching guitar noise to dominate the palette. Unlike other guitar luminaries whose popularity is restrained to a specific audience (e.g., gearheads for Joe Satriani, stoners for Kyuss), Sage's fretboard ramblings made him the favorite guitar hero of the late-'80s underground rock scene. From the deadly riff of "Taking Too Long" to the textured frustration of "Way of Love" to the ringing desire of "Just a Dream Away," Sage proves he is both a versatile and unique talent. Not just among the best of the U.S. post-punk wave, but an enormously influential act that made an indelible mark on styles as disparate as the noise rock of Sonic Youth and Pavement's slacker indie pop. ~ Ari Wiznitzer |
| | Artist Overview | | Greg Sage and his band, the Wipers, were one of the biggest influences on the Pacific Northwest indie-rock scene that exploded with Seattle's grunge movement of the 1990s. Formed in the late '70s and hailing from Portland, Oregon, the Wipers played a dark, brooding style of punk--marked by Sage's innovative near-virtuosic guitar work--that helped define the region's sound. Although criminally overlooked on a commercial level, the fiercely DIY Sage and his band have amassed an impressive list of followers, which includes, among others, Kurt Cobain. Under the Wipers name, and his own, Sage continued to release records into the 2000s. |
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| | Technical Info | | Release Date : 06/01/1990 | | Original Release Date : 1990 | | Catalog ID : 72378 | | Label : Restless Records (USA) | | Number of Discs : 1 | | Runtime : 50m : 56s | | Studio/Live : Studio | | Mono/Stereo : Stereo | | SPAR Code : AAD | | UPC : 00018777237826 |
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| | Professional Reviews | | | Goldmine - Recommended - "...nice introduction to this underrecognized band..." |
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