What is your favorite song by THE WIPERS?

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― gygax! (gygax!), Friday, 3 September 2004 14:23 (twenty years ago)

"Potential Suicide"
"Youth Of America"
"Romeo"

― jack cole (jackcole), Friday, 3 September 2004 14:59 (twenty years ago)

"When Its Over"!!!
then "Mystery" and "YofA"

― artdamages (artdamages), Friday, 3 September 2004 15:10 (twenty years ago)

My absolute favorite song is "ALIEN BOY". Nothing else comes close.

― gygax! (gygax!), Friday, 3 September 2004 15:14 (twenty years ago)

the reality is that it is hard for me to choose up to and including the third album (after that it starts to get spotty qualitywise). the wipers are the only great band portland has ever produced.

― jack cole (jackcole), Friday, 3 September 2004 15:16 (twenty years ago)

you mean, besides quarterflash?

― gygax! (gygax!), Friday, 3 September 2004 15:23 (twenty years ago)

no, nu shooz and the dan reed network

― jack cole (jackcole), Friday, 3 September 2004 15:24 (twenty years ago)

quarterflash, the band formerly known as Seafood Mama before they "sold out"

― jack cole (jackcole), Friday, 3 September 2004 15:25 (twenty years ago)

speaking of real great bands, how could I have forgotten the Kingsmen?

― jack cole (jackcole), Friday, 3 September 2004 15:27 (twenty years ago)

yeah, i was gonna say!

― gygax! (gygax!), Friday, 3 September 2004 15:28 (twenty years ago)

some might also add paul revere and the raiders, but i wouldn't

― jack cole (jackcole), Friday, 3 September 2004 15:29 (twenty years ago)

hello. I would say "Romeo", because that was the 45 in the Satyricon jukebox

― mayo apetrain (mayoape), Friday, 3 September 2004 15:55 (twenty years ago)

Gygax, you only love Alien Boy because Malkmus covers it live!!!

― dean? (deangulberry), Friday, 3 September 2004 15:57 (twenty years ago)

He does do a pretty good (uh... straight) cover of it, but no, I'd heard the original about 12 years prior during the first Wipers revival.

― gygax! (gygax!), Friday, 3 September 2004 16:04 (twenty years ago)

I should mention here that Jack Cole spent the summer of '95 following Quaterflash on their state fair circuit, selling chili dogs out of the back of his Geo Metro for gas money.

― mayo apetrain (mayoape), Friday, 3 September 2004 16:15 (twenty years ago)

I had an old roommate who was a massive Wipers fan. We are talking compulsively-play-Is This Real-once-per-day type fan. So I heard that album quite a bit. And good on him! Because they are great. I'll pick "Up Front".

― Reed Moore (diamond), Friday, 3 September 2004 16:28 (twenty years ago)

all those chili dogs will not only harden your heart, but harden your areteries as well.

― gygax hamburger! (gygax!), Friday, 3 September 2004 16:30 (twenty years ago)

from the 3 songs I've heard, the Neo Boys were fantastic.

― Dan Selzer (Dan Selzer), Friday, 3 September 2004 16:42 (twenty years ago)

2 Corrections:

1. Corndogs, not chili dogs
2. Johnny Limbo and the Lugnuts, Oregon's Favorite Oldies Band

― jack cole (jackcole), Friday, 3 September 2004 17:08 (twenty years ago)

"Taking Too Long"
"Over The Edge"
"Youth Of America"

― manthony m1cc1o (Anthony Miccio), Friday, 3 September 2004 22:26 (twenty years ago)

one year passes...

Is that Jack Cole story true upthread?

― Steve Shasta (Steve Shasta), Thursday, 12 January 2006 18:01 (nineteen years ago)

i love "taking too long".
m.

― msp (mspa), Thursday, 12 January 2006 18:05 (nineteen years ago)

"tragedy"
"romeo"

I need to hear Mission of Burma's cover of "Youth of America"

― kingfish russian bigamist (kingfish 2.0), Thursday, 12 January 2006 18:07 (nineteen years ago)

no, it was actually the Jim Kweskin Jug Band but I quit after Joe Bussard made me cry.

― Jack Cole (jackcole), Thursday, 12 January 2006 18:14 (nineteen years ago)

the presence of Steve has made this place a million times better already

― Stormy Davis (diamond), Thursday, 12 January 2006 18:35 (nineteen years ago)

no love for "Return of the Rat"?

― autovac (autovac), Thursday, 12 January 2006 19:33 (nineteen years ago)

six months pass...

one of da best bands listen to at night while driving ever

"JULIEEEEEEEEEEEETTTTTT!"

― kingfish cyclopean ice cream (kingfish 2.0), Friday, 21 July 2006 15:36 (eighteen years ago)

"pushing the extreme"

i've been humming "tragedy" a lot lately. best band ever.

― latebloomer (latebloomer), Friday, 21 July 2006 15:44 (eighteen years ago)

mebbe doom town

― the eunuchs, Cassim and Mustafa, who guarded Abdur Ali's harem (orion), Friday, 21 July 2006 15:51 (eighteen years ago)

wipers are noize??? holy shit i might be noize!

over the edge

― sunny successor (katharine), Friday, 21 July 2006 15:55 (eighteen years ago)

over the edge
youth of america
can this be

wipers are the greatest

― FAN DEATH (teenagequiet), Friday, 21 July 2006 16:03 (eighteen years ago)

Mystery
Over the Edge
Youth of America

― xero (xero), Saturday, 22 July 2006 11:15 (eighteen years ago)

mystery

― S-L-U-G (plsmith), Thursday, 3 August 2006 15:49 (eighteen years ago)

Jack Cole is pretty fucking hilarious... This is a rich thread.

― Steve Shasta (Steve Shasta), Thursday, 3 August 2006 19:33 (eighteen years ago)

goddamn i love this band

― de latebloomer's 2015 youth crew revival (latebloomer), Thursday, 3 August 2006 19:55 (eighteen years ago)

my limited exposure tells me that i like is this real? way better than the other two albums in the box, at least so far.

― S-L-U-G (plsmith), Friday, 4 August 2006 14:39 (eighteen years ago)

Oh, come on! "Over The Edge," dude! "OVER THE MOTHERFUCKING EDGE!!!!!!!!"

― David R. (popshots75`), Friday, 4 August 2006 17:19 (eighteen years ago)

two weeks pass...

Song-wise, that's tough. Album-wise, gonna have to go with Over the Edge (which has got to be the genesis of Hot Snakes).

― paid in cigarettes (paid in cigarettes), Friday, 18 August 2006 22:29 (eighteen years ago)

OH MAN I FUCKIN' LOVE THE WIPERS WHY COME I DIDN'T SEE THIS THREAD BEFORE

OVER THE EDGE, WHEN ITS OVER, NO SOLUTION, UP FRONT, NOW IS THE TIME, DOOM TOWN, YOUTH OF AMERICA, MYSTERY, ROMEO, CAN THIS BE

they ruled harder and better then pretty much 94% of all other rock bands. i also really truly liked the hot snakes for being such a dedicated wipers cover band

― ath (ath), Saturday, 19 August 2006 02:46 (eighteen years ago)

Must be my FutureSex/LoveSound.

― Tim Ellison (Tim Ellison), Friday, 25 August 2006 17:32 (eighteen years ago)

two years pass...

NO SANCTUARYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYY

― Mr. Que, Monday, 23 March 2009 20:42 (sixteen years ago)

"Telepathic Love". Hands down.

― How can there be male ladybugs? (Laurel), Monday, 23 March 2009 20:55 (sixteen years ago)

<3 u Wipers

― i stole a metal dude's t-shirt in richmond just to watch him cry (latebloomer), Tuesday, 24 March 2009 02:19 (sixteen years ago)

They really do sound great while driving.
I'm gonna pick "The Search" from the not-as-popular Land of the Lost.

― Trip Maker, Tuesday, 24 March 2009 20:58 (sixteen years ago)

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