Youth of America (song)

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Youth of America is a song written by the punk rock band The Wipers. It is the title track on their second album released in 1981.

Youth of America is a punk rock song over 10 minutes in length, implementing a number of guitar solos, drawn-out bridges and choruses, and pointed lyrics. The song defines the type of structure The Wipers would continue to craft over the following years.

Wiper's front man Greg Sage remarked that the band wished to break away from the short and simple punk song structure that had then so far dominated both the band's previous work and the punk genre as a whole.

As the title would suggest, the song serves as a protest anthem for America's youth as the lyrics describe a fight for a bleak future in an apparent paranoid dystopia.

In tribute to Sage and the Wipers, the song was covered by the The Melvins on their 2001 release, Electroretard.

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