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Features Disc of the day
Wipers
Youth Of America
(Park Avenue, 1981; reissued on Jackpot Records, 2007)
Seed band of grunge have their day in the dark, courtesy MOJO messageboarder.
Few bands can have filled their songs with as much desperate fatalistic resignation and simmering anger as Portland, Oregon's Wipers, a fact that was not lost on Kurt Cobain (seen here covering D-7 from Wipers' debut album). Leader Greg Sage had a way with a minimalist repeato-riff-chuggin' melody, and even bent strings in a way that, at times, recalls Sonic Youth (I'm thinking When It's Over). Youth Of America, Wipers second full album, opens with one of Sage's catchiest songs, Taking Too Long, a tune full of little hypnotic repetitions, acoustic guitar, piano and a steady building tension. The rhythm section - drummer Brad Naish and bassist Brad Davison taking over from original members Sam Henry and Dave Koupal - is modestly mixed but offers effective support to Sage's dynamic fretwork, going into high gear for Pushing The Extreme and No Fair. It all ends with the nearly side-long anthemic title track, filled with heavily reverbed and delayed guitar and vocals. One can almost imagine an Alan Vega-fronted Hawkwind launching a call to arms to the disenchanted kids of the US. A fitting end to one of the best post-punk albums ever.
Scorpiomoon
Posted by Ross_Bennett at 6:00 AM GMT 22/07/2010
Further Listening
Wipers – Is This Real? (Park Avenue, 1980)
Killing Joke – Killing Joke (E.G., 1980)
The Saints – Prehistoric Sounds (Harvest, 1978)
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This album is fucking terrific.
This is up there with Daydream Nation. Only, this was released 7 years before that.
You suprise me sometimes Mojo. One moment you're all over shitty brittish spotted-faced pub-rockbands, and next you go and recommend music that actually is good.
Big up!
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This album is fucking terrific.
This is up there with Daydream Nation. Only, this was released 7 years before that.
You suprise me sometimes Mojo. One moment you're all over shitty brittish spotted-faced pub-rockbands, and next you go and recommend music that actually is good.
Big up!
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This album is fucking terrific.
This is up there with Daydream Nation. Only, this was released 7 years before that.
You suprise me sometimes Mojo. One moment you're all over shitty brittish spotted-faced pub-rockbands, and next you go and recommend music that actually is good.
Big up!
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