Is This Real? (studio album) by Wipers

Is This Real? by Wipers
Year: 1980
Overall rank: 2,511th   Overall chart historyOverall chart history
Average Rating: 
77/100 (from 139 votes)
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Accolades:
Award Top albums of 1980 (50th)
Award Top albums of the 1980s (386th)
Award Best albums of all time (2,511th)
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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 938 in the list of all-time albums with a total rank score of 1,915.

Wipers album bestography « Higher ranked (938th) This album (2,511th) Lower ranked (2,691st) »
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Is This Real? track list

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Average Rating: 
77/100 (from 139 votes)
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02/09/2024 01:02 JoaoMoreira  Ratings distributionRatings distribution 41574/100
 
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01/08/2024 14:45 Jboy56  Ratings distributionRatings distribution 4,09378/100
 
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09/29/2023 15:45 dougcummings  Ratings distributionRatings distribution 1,70572/100

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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 77.1/100, a mean average of 76.7/100, and a trimmed mean (excluding outliers) of 77.4/100. The standard deviation for this album is 14.4.

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65/100
From 02/09/2024 01:03
As interesting as boring 🙃
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From 01/08/2024 14:47
Postpunky speed and roughness, okay for underwear drunk night
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From 04/12/2022 19:06
Great blend of punk energy and classic pop-rock melody albiet Greg Sage hasnt perfect his sound yet.
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90/100
From 02/07/2021 00:29
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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80/100
From 04/17/2020 22:14
Cool record. “Up Front” and “D-7” stand out to me.
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From 02/13/2020 18:27
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 12/10/2018 02:33
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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From 12/18/2010 08:08
Yes, this is Real and this is Excellent ! simply one of the best albums of the 80s
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Best Albums of 1980
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2. Closer by Joy Division
3. Back In Black by AC/DC
4. Scary Monsters... And Super Creeps by David Bowie
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