Is This Real?
by Wipers
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Is This Real? is ranked 2nd best out of 11 albums by Wipers on BestEverAlbums.com.
The best album by Wipers is Youth Of America which is ranked number 1015 in the list of all-time albums with a total rank score of 1,717.
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Is This Real? track list
The tracks on this album have an average rating of 78 out of 100 (all tracks have been rated).
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| ! | 07/22/2026 23:44 | xhitmanx | 1,453 | 79/100 |
| ! | 06/30/2026 20:33 |  Graeme2 | 4,905 | 80/100 |
| ! | 05/09/2026 17:55 | matterhornrider | 5,110 | 81/100 |
| ! | 01/31/2026 03:55 |  imacgill | 2,791 | 79/100 |
| ! | 12/07/2025 17:35 | willtoshower | 1,545 | 72/100 |
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This album is rated in the top 4% of all albums on BestEverAlbums.com. This album has a Bayesian average rating of 76.3/100, a mean average of 75.7/100, and a trimmed mean (excluding outliers) of 76.6/100. The standard deviation for this album is 15.8.
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JoaoMoreira 02/09/2024 01:03 | #301838
As interesting as boring ?
Jboy56 01/08/2024 14:47 | #300989
Postpunky speed and roughness, okay for underwear drunk night
Great blend of punk energy and classic pop-rock melody albiet Greg Sage hasnt perfect his sound yet.
teague 02/07/2021 00:29 | #265937 | TOP COMMENT
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Now I see why Kurt Cobain loved this band. Is This Real? takes from both punk rock and hardcore punk, putting them in this weird in between world. And also every song stands out to me; catchy yet aggressive, snide yet charming.
Cool record. “Up Front” and “D-7” stand out to me.
Extremely underrated. Wipers debut album is a gem with killer punk anthems. A bit darker and definitely more sentimental than the rest of the punk tradition at the time of its release. Greg Sage shows his first skills as composer and guitarist and presents the sketches of a sound that he will later developed with Youth of America.
Not enough to set it apart from a lot of the other post-punk being made at the time. Fun but not great.
cartoken 12/18/2010 08:08 | #17054 | TOP COMMENT
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Yes, this is Real and this is Excellent ! simply one of the best albums of the 80s
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