Is This Real?

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Is This Real?
Studio album by The Wipers
Released	1979
Recorded	1979
Genre	Punk Rock
Length	34:53
Label	Park Ave
Producer	Greg Sage
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The Wipers chronology
Is This Real? (1979) Alien Boy (EP) (1980)

Is This Real? is the 1979 debut album of the punk rock band The Wipers.

[edit] Track listing

1. "Return of the Rat"
2. "Mystery"
3. "Up Front"
4. "Let's Go Let's Go Away"
5. "Is This Real?"
6. "Tragedy"
7. "Alien Boy"
8. "D-7"
9. "Potential Suicide"
10. "Don't Know What I Am"
11. "Window Shop for Love"
12. "Wait a Minute"

Originally released on Park Ave. The band was cheated on the rights to the recording^{[citation needed]}, and didn't get any royalties for it until 22 years later^{[citation needed]} when it was re-issued in 2001, then digitally remastered by Greg Sage and with the songs in a slightly different order along with some previously unreleased tracks.

The album was later re-issued on Sub Pop in 1993 with 3 bonus tracks from the Alien Boy EP. In 2001 it was re-issued on Greg Sage's own Zeno Records as part of a digitally remastered 3-CD set, with the track list altered so that the song "Alien Boy" appears together with the other 3 tracks of the Alien Boy EP after "Wait a Minute".

The songs Return of the Rat & D-7 have both been covered by Nirvana.

The DJ John Peel stated in a 1993 interview that it was one of his top 20 favourite albums, commenting 'It is one of punks great albums by perhaps the most unappreciated band of all time'.