WIPERS Over The Edge LP BRAIN EATER 1983 US 1st pres EATER2 GREG SAGE RARE PUNK
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WIPERSRevered 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."OVER THE EDGE"
Produced and Recorded by Greg Sage
1983 LP BRAIN EATER RECORDS EATER 2
PRINTED IN U.S.A. ORIGINAL 1ST PRESSING
[First American pressing on Brain Eater Records (black or red labels);
1986 American repressing on Restless Records and different back cover]
HEAVY DUTY CARDBOARD COVER
SINGLE SLEEVE
Barcode and Other Identifiers
Barcode: none
LABEL: BRAIN EATER - BLACK LABEL - WHITE TEXT & LOGO
Catalog on cover: (spine & rear) EATER 2
Catalog on labels: EATER 2A / EATER 2B
Matrix / Runout (Side A, Etched): EATER 2A FW CS "EXPLOIT"
Matrix / Runout (Side B, Etched): EATER - 2B FW CS "IS THERE LIFE AFTER FAULTY?"
On labels: rim text reads "All Rights.........Prohibited"
? 1983 Brain Eater Ltd.
© 1983 Trap Records
Part Music/BMI
Made in USA
All titles by Greg Sage
On Back Cover: Produced and Recorded by Greg Sage
Recorded at Mead St. PDX
Licensed under agreement with TRAP Records © 1983 Trap Records
Brain Eater Records are manufactured with ultra high quality pure virgin
vinyl and are pressed to classical standards.
Jackets made in Canada.
WIPERS P.O. Box 42465, Portland, Or.
? 1983 Brain Eater Ltd.
Manufactured and distributed by Brain Eater Box J, Island Park, N.Y. 11558
Printed in USA
from my records collection
tracklisting
Side A: OVER THE EDGE - DOOM TOWN
SO YOUNG - MESSENGER - ROMEO
Side B: NOW IS THE TIME - WHAT IS - NO ONE WANTS AN ALIEN
THE LONELY ONE - NO GENERAATION GAP - THIS TIME
grading
RECORD EX but (please, read above description)
SLEEVE NEAR EX but (please, see pictures and read above description)
A distant cousin of the preceding Youth of America but undoubtedly no less excellent
and no less venomous, Over the Edge is a return to the easily digestible song lengths
of Is This Real?; however, it all but leaves that debut in its wake.
On the strength of some brave/smart radio stations
that decided to play this album's "Romeo" (a propulsive horn-flecked slammer
in the vein of "Youth of America"), Wipers solidified their status as a certifiable force
in the American underground of the early '80s. Songs like "Messenger" and "What Is"
show Greg Sage's increasing skill as a pop songwriter. Despite the fusion of punk and pop,
the record hardly mirrors the bands that would later be called punk-pop.
In fact, this collision of the two elements makes what followed decades later seem twee.
There's just too much blood and sweat, and there's too much tightly wound tension released.
The overload is tempered somewhat on the album's second side. The arrangements
are sparse (and there are less guitar fireworks) when compared to their first-side
counterparts, but the level of intensity is hardly sacrificed.
Over the Edge is a kind of classic; it might have been created with guitars
and drums, and it might have verse-chorus-verse song structures, but it's doubtful
that Wipers were allowing any influences to creep into the record...(AllMusic)
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