Alien Boy

Alien Boy
EP by Wipers
Released 1980
Recorded 1979
Genre Punk rock
Post-punk
Length 8:54
Label Park Avenue
Producer Greg Sage
Wipers chronology

Is This Real?
(1980)		 Alien Boy
(1980)		 Youth of America
(1981)

"Alien Boy" was the seventh song on the Wipers first album, Is This Real? (Park Ave Records), released in 1979.

Alien Boy is also the title of a 1980 EP with this track on side A, and three outtakes from the Is This Real? album sessions on side B. The EP was originally released without the band's authority or knowledge. In 1993 the tracks were added to the Sub Pop reissue of the album Is This Real?. The Alien Boy EP cover art featured on the back of the Sub Pop version of Is This Real? is not the original, but the cover art of the German version of the Alien Boy EP released in 1987 on the label Weird System, a special limited edition of 2,000 numbered copies on green vinyl.

According to Greg Sage's statement on the Zeno Records website, James Chasse, also called "Jim Jim", was the subject of "Alien Boy". Sage noted, "Jim Jim's conversations with me and his powerful sense of vision painted uncanny, powerful visions in my head that became a huge influence for a few songs that were later recorded for the Is This Real? LP." Chasse was murdered by police officers in Portland, Oregon in September 2006, and he is the subject of the documentary film Alien Boy: The Life and Death of James Chasse.

Track listing

  1. "Alien Boy" – 3:28
  2. "Image of Man" – 2:31
  3. "Telepathic Love" – 1:32
  4. "Voices in the Rain" – 1:23

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