Eight Songs for Greg Sage and The Wipers | |
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Studio album by Various Artists | |
Released | 1992 |
Genre | Punk rock |
Label | Tim/Kerr |
Producer | Slayer Hippy |
Eight Songs for Greg Sage and the Wipers is a Wipers tribute album released on Tim/Kerr in 1992. [1] [2] The album was first released as a box set of 4 colored 7-inch records in a run of 10,000. [3] [4] It helped to raise the profile of the independent label. [5]
Nirvana recorded their cover of " Return of the Rat" after Geffen had reservations about including the band's cover of "D-7". [6] Hole recorded a cover of "Over the Edge". [7]
Fourteen Songs for Greg Sage and the Wipers is the CD re-release of the album, expanded to include additional artist covers. [8] [9]
Review scores | |
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Source | Rating |
AllMusic | [10] |
Phoenix New Times praised "Up Front", calling it a "killer cut ... and a real firebomb of pure punk." [3] Vulture listed "Return of the Rat" as Nirvana's 55th best song (out of 72), writing: "Furious and loose, this is an incredibly faithful take on Sage’s version with just a little bit of its desperate, quivering edge lost in the process." [11]
Eight Songs for Greg Sage and The Wipers | |
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Studio album by Various Artists | |
Released | 1992 |
Genre | Punk rock |
Label | Tim/Kerr |
Producer | Slayer Hippy |
Eight Songs for Greg Sage and the Wipers is a Wipers tribute album released on Tim/Kerr in 1992. [1] [2] The album was first released as a box set of 4 colored 7-inch records in a run of 10,000. [3] [4] It helped to raise the profile of the independent label. [5]
Nirvana recorded their cover of " Return of the Rat" after Geffen had reservations about including the band's cover of "D-7". [6] Hole recorded a cover of "Over the Edge". [7]
Fourteen Songs for Greg Sage and the Wipers is the CD re-release of the album, expanded to include additional artist covers. [8] [9]
Review scores | |
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Source | Rating |
AllMusic | [10] |
Phoenix New Times praised "Up Front", calling it a "killer cut ... and a real firebomb of pure punk." [3] Vulture listed "Return of the Rat" as Nirvana's 55th best song (out of 72), writing: "Furious and loose, this is an incredibly faithful take on Sage’s version with just a little bit of its desperate, quivering edge lost in the process." [11]