Wipers Box Set

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Wipers Box Set
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Released2001 [1]
Recorded1979–1983
Genre Punk rock
Label Zeno Records [2]
Producer Greg Sage [3]
Wipers chronology
Power in One
(1999)
Wipers Box Set
(2001)
Out Takes
(2010)
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Wipers Box Set is a compilation box set, comprising remastered reissues of the first three albums by punk rock band Wipers: Is This Real? , Youth of America and Over the Edge . [5] The collection includes 23 bonus tracks, including six previously unreleased songs, as well as liner notes by leader Greg Sage.

Contents

Track listing

Disc 1: Is This Real?

  1. "Return of the Rat" - 2:38
  2. "Mystery" - 1:47
  3. "Up Front" - 3:04
  4. "Let's Go Away" - 1:48
  5. "Is This Real?" - 2:39
  6. "Tragedy" - 2:00
  7. "D-7" - 4:04
  8. "Potential Suicide" - 3:34
  9. "Don't Know What I Am" - 2:56
  10. "Window Shop for Love" - 2:59
  11. "Wait a Minute" - 3:04
  12. "Born with a Curse" (previously unreleased) - 1:48
  13. "Rebel with a Cause" ( Is This Real? outtake) - 2:11
  14. "Misfit" (previously unreleased) - 1:35
  15. "Mystery" (original 4-track version) - 1:46
  16. "Tragedy" (original 4-track version) - 2:11
  17. "Let's Go Away" (original 4-track version) - 1:52
  18. "Is This Real?" (original 4-track version) - 2:40
  19. "Alien Boy" - 3:23
  20. "Image of Man" - 2:29
  21. "Telepathic Love" - 1:32
  22. "Voices in the Rain" - 1:24

Disc 2: Youth of America

  1. "No Fair" - 4:25
  2. "Youth of America" - 10:27
  3. "Taking Too Long" - 3:07
  4. "Can This Be" - 2:54
  5. "Pushing the Extreme" - 3:13
  6. "When It's Over" - 6:36
  7. "Scared Stiff" (previously unreleased) - 2:52
  8. "Pushing the Extreme" (alternate mix) - 3:11
  9. "No Fair" (alternate mix) - 4:34
  10. "When It's Over" (early version) - 6:26
  11. "Youth of America" (alternate mix) - 10:27

Disc 3: Over the Edge

  1. "Over the Edge" - 3:49
  2. "Doom Town" - 3:56
  3. "So Young" - 4:17
  4. "Messenger" - 1:54
  5. "Romeo" - 4:05
  6. "Now Is the Time" - 3:02
  7. "What Is" - 2:19
  8. "No One Wants an Alien" - 3:23
  9. "The Lonely One" - 3:38
  10. "No Generation Gap" - 3:09
  11. "This Time" - 2:54
  12. "Mistaken ID" (live) - 3:05
  13. "No Solution" ("Romeo" B-side) - 2:30
  14. "Doom Town" (alternate mix) - 3:56
  15. "The Lonely One" (alternate mix) - 3:37
  16. "Now Is the Time" (alternate mix) - 3:04
  17. "Romeo" (alternate vocal mix) - 4:05
  18. "Our Past Life" (demo) - 1:29

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