Re: The Gun Club vs. The Wipers
3I love the Wipers, but love Fire of Love and Miami more than ITR?
We're headed for social anarchy when people start pissing on bookstores.
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4I love love love The Gun Club but--it's the Wipers, not even close.
Re: The Gun Club vs. The Wipers
5The Wipers are the better band by quite some distance but my heart says the Gun Club. 'Yellow Eyes' makes me melt every time.
Re: The Gun Club vs. The Wipers
6mrcancelled wrote: Wed Aug 11, 2021 11:37 pm I love love love The Gun Club but--it's the Wipers, not even close.
Re: The Gun Club vs. The Wipers
7I've never heard any The Gun Club that I thought was better than just OK. Like.. the Cramps already did this but I dunno maybe that's not fair.
The brilliance of the Wipers is that it has elements of psychedelic, surf, rockabilly, and punk, without really sounding like any of those things.
The brilliance of the Wipers is that it has elements of psychedelic, surf, rockabilly, and punk, without really sounding like any of those things.
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8I would take The Cramps over The Gun Club any day. They aren't close in style to me.penningtron wrote: Thu Aug 12, 2021 8:27 am I've never heard any The Gun Club that I thought was better than just OK. Like.. the Cramps already did this but I dunno maybe that's not fair.
The brilliance of the Wipers is that it has elements of psychedelic, surf, rockabilly, and punk, without really sounding like any of those things.
What you call the brilliance of The Wipers is part of why they don't appeal to me. You ever meet a person and kind of get to know them over a time and then you realize, fuck, this person doesn't really have a personality. That's what I get from The Wipers. It's like a musical expression of personality disorder.
Re: The Gun Club vs. The Wipers
9Well, they have enough of a personality to be blatantly imitated by several bands (most notably, anything John Reis has done since the late '90s) but those bands tend to latch on to the downstroke-y driving part of their sound and not the other stuff. By 'personality disorder' I kind of agree in that they can be hard to pin down, and each of those early records are pretty different from each other.