Is This Real?
by Wipers

Album
Is This Real? by Wipers
Year: 1980
Release date: 1980-01-00
Overall rank: 2,941st   Overall chart history
Average Rating: 
76/100 (from 160 votes)
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Accolades:
Award Top albums of 1980 (56th)
Award Top albums of of the 1980s (435th)
Award Best albums of all time (2,941st)

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Wipers bestography

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 1026 in the list of all-time albums with a total rank score of 1,697.

Wipers album bestography « Higher ranked (1,026th)
Youth Of America This album (2,941st)
Is This Real? Lower ranked (2,957th) »
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Is This Real? rankings summary
Overall rank: 2,941st | 1980s rank: 435th | 1980 rank: 56th  Overall chart history
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Average Rating: 
76/100 (from 160 votes)
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 !		08/12/2026 10:53 RasmV  Ratings distribution  2,61473/100
 
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 !		06/30/2026 20:33 Graeme2  Ratings distribution  4,92080/100

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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 15.7.


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From matterhornrider 05/09/2026 17:45 in What album are you listening to? (cont.)
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From dihansse 08/13/2024 20:09 in My discoveries per year
“And here is 1980 with an exclamation and a question mark: First with an album I already know/own: An album with 36 tracks like this profits a bit from my scoring system (I only score the 13 best tracks) but in general this is a good and consistent album although it has its week points. The two best…”
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From 12/18/2010 08:08 | #17054 | TOP COMMENT Help Vote up your preferred comments and the comments with the most votes will be flagged.
Yes, this is Real and this is Excellent ! simply one of the best albums of the 80s
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From 04/12/2022 19:06 | #284111 | TOP COMMENT Help Vote up your preferred comments and the comments with the most votes will be flagged.
Great blend of punk energy and classic pop-rock melody albiet Greg Sage hasnt perfect his sound yet.
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From 02/13/2020 18:27 | #247755 | TOP COMMENT Help Vote up your preferred comments and the comments with the most votes will be flagged.
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.
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From 02/07/2021 00:29 | #265937 | TOP COMMENT Help Vote up your preferred comments and the comments with the most votes will be flagged.
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.
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From 12/10/2018 02:33 | #226666 | TOP COMMENT Help Vote up your preferred comments and the comments with the most votes will be flagged.
Not enough to set it apart from a lot of the other post-punk being made at the time. Fun but not great.
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Best Albums of  1980
1. Remain In Light by Talking Heads
2. Closer by Joy Division
3. Back In Black by AC/DC
4. Scary Monsters by David Bowie
5. Fresh Fruit For Rotting Vegetables by Dead Kennedys
6. Peter Gabriel (1980) by Peter Gabriel
7. The River by Bruce Springsteen
8. Permanent Waves by Rush
9. Pretenders by Pretenders
10. Seventeen Seconds by The Cure