Window Shop for Love

[konfuzerkat]

This song is bloody great - killer guitar riff.

I’ve put it on the playlist on my Internet Radio Station.

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Cheers for sharing.

[mradamcooley]

Besides HOT SNAKES, one of the few perfect bands (on the first 3 albums anyway).

[P0wD3]

"Window shop for love, want it so much, look but don't touch!"

[ffejgib]

This is better than eating food and drinking water.

[angwish3]

how awesome! i dont have to play the cd anymore i can leave it for my kids if i ever have any

[LoudProudNPunk1]

This song still trips me out. Reminds me of when I was really depressed 3 years ago. I get the feeling Portland wasn't such a great place to live 30 years ago every time I listen to Wipers.

[Frenzyczczcz]

Guys, please, does anyone have a tab for this song?

[LoudProudNPunk1]

@Frenzyczczcz Good luck finding any, I tried figuring out how to play some Wipers songs... the tabulature is really weird but it's not too hard to figure out.

[Satyagrahaha]

@Frenzyczczcz Wouldn't it be better in the long run to learn to figure it out with your own ears instead of relying on some stranger's tabs that 99 out of 100 times are just wrong?

[sugarveins]

sad to see people can't tell the difference between portland punk from seattle grunge.

[paranormalmindattack]

lick but don`t touch ... just good sex !

[thesesails]

this was the inspiration for Wiz Khalifa's "Black and Yellow"

[aCitizenJOSerased]

Look but don't touch...

[thearmpitlover1]

the best!!!

[aCitizenJOSerased]

Want it so much, Look but don't touch...

[coppertopshway]

this song is so about Portland! Back in the day me and my friend would see Greg anywhere we went. "Dude, is Greg Sage stalking us?"

[LutherStorms]

who likes the circle and the power in one?

[ZOZE729]

i can believe my eyes i can see so clear thank god i saw them live !!!!!!!!!!!

[Polyfusia]

One of the few American Underground bands who's members were musically competent. Greg Sage is a great guitarist. Almost like a thrashier, virtuoso Neil Young attack.

[anarchie30]

what a sound !!! i like this sound !!

[feldi71]

Yes,take a wank!

[AUSROTTENY2K]

Nobody invented grunge. Grunge was a term given from the mainstream media who didn't know what punk/underground music was and took the name from the type of clothing bands like Nirvana and Pearl Jam wore. Its fucking stupid. I hate the fucking mainstream.

[crumpetfuzz]

kind of sounds a little bit like gordan gano from the violent femmes but more punkish, great!! his voice i meant. btw

[999deauville999]

this is my favorite song from this album

[999deauville999]

hell yes ... those guitars at 1:08 are great folk!!!!! fucking Greg Sage was great.

[edwardpenishandz]

Stop arguing about genres! This band can't be labeled with any genre, their just awesome.

[wetterfee41]

Wow people call this grunge? What? This is like straight up rock. Great stuff. But how could it be grunge if you call this grunge you most have never heard grunge.

[xreddragonx]

@wetterfee41 "Straight up Rock"? If that kind of thing exists I would think of it being along the lines of AC/DC, Aerosmith, Guns N Roses or even Bruce Springsteen.

This is Punk, some form of it at least.

[wetterfee41]

@xreddragonx I can see and agree with punk. I guess it's just my view that this is "straight up rock" cause I don't/haven't listen to any of those you mentioned and so it's just be my view on their music.

[blaa757]

@xreddragonx its like seattle sound grunge punk hard rock stuff. when you hear this it obviously came from that area

[LoudProudNPunk1]

@blaa757 Wipers were from Portland Oregon

[Telefonverzeichnis]

this is real fuck'n'roll



[Satyagrahaha]

"Grunge" is a marketing word propogated by mainstream media to categorize a decades-old underground rock movement they didn't understand. Greg Sage and The Wipers didn't invent this movement, but were among its early pioneers. It was regional. Wipers in Pacific NW, Black Flag in LA, Dead Kennedy's in SF, Big Black/Naked Raygun in Chicago, Husker Du/Replacements in Minn, Zero Boys in Indianapolis, Ramones and later Sonic Youth in NYC.

[dcmackin1]

@Satyagrahaha

don't forget all the bands from australia.

also the gun club from los angeles, circa 1981

[LoudProudNPunk1]

@Satyagrahaha as was the term "punk rock." When punk came about in the 70's everyone called it "new wave" until media and magazines gave it the label "punk rock." But whatever, it works...

[Satyagrahaha]

@LoudProudNPunk1 Don't tell that to Roderick Edward "Legs" McNeil, publisher of the 1974 fanzine "PUNK". Let's credit Legs McNeil's DIY inspiration instead of that Rolling Stone magazine hippy critic who wrote the review on the Stooges first album in 1969 that said: "This is the sound of punks crossing the street for hamburgers."

[Satyagrahaha]

The Wipers didn't just influence what later was called 'grunge.' It was the local DIY music grunge stars grew up on. Wipers were well-loved in Pacific Northwest underground of the 70s and 80s. Most know them now because of the almost evangelistic support of people like Kurt Cobain or Mike Johnson from Dinosaur Jr.

[MrChattyO]

Nobody could imitate the Wipers, to this day no one has even come close!!! One of my favorite bands of all time. First band I listen to when I feel like shit.

[everblackberlin]

GREAT SONG! Thanks for sharing it!

[FranklinCoverup]

Wipers..AWESOME!Greg Sage=THE genius of rock.Saw 'em in 1987 up the East Coast,DC,Philly,New Jersey,NYC,Boston,Portland,Mai­ne.Fantastic.Way too many great songs to have a favorite.Window Shop,Just a Dream Away,Straight Ahead,Dont Know What I Am,Nothing Left to Lose,on and on...Check out my cover of D-7 gimme a rating,lemme know how ya like it.

[platanis]

Wipers?Devo?Grunge????

Who stupid mixed all these?????

[WIPPPPPER3]

Well. I guess I did! And since it's just for MY private pleasure, i suggest you just leave me alone, shut the heck up and bang your mom, or whatever you do in your spare time!

Got me?

[spruceshark]

@WIPPPPPER3 didnt think a wipers listener would reply like that. love plz no hate, if it's one thing that the wipers bring to us is everything is not as it seems even if people comment something seemingly off. no one needs to bang there mom

[TallFastLoud]

hey i got a great idea!!!

What if we talked about the Wipers instead of grunge, since this is a Wipers video?????

[alexfanx]

Just because it influenced Nirvana or Pearl Jam doesn't make it Grunge, Devo influenced Grunge just as much a Young or Sage did.

[Awesomo4003]

I don't think devo is the best example of grunge influence because they influenced alot of things, also i never said the wipers were grunge.

[alexfanx]

Influenced a lot of things? So did Neil Young and Greg Sage. Not even the Melvins influenced only Grunge.

[Awesomo4003]

yeah but its much broader and its very loosely tied to grunge

[alexfanx]

Maybe, but I still think it would be hard to find a Grunge band that wasn't formed by Devo fans.

[brttt13652012]

i dont under stand greg do you know dave

[Batcave1177]

...a big dark cloud is hanging above me...

[diegoambrosio]

Greg Sage invented the Grunge. Neil Young did that too a few years before. Heheheh.

[RickyWagons]

Neither Neil Young OR Greg Sage invented grunge...grunge was a mixture of punk rock,heavy metal,and small elements of glam. You can't say Young or Sage's music fits that description in any way.

[Awesomo4003]

either way it the wipers had a huge impact on nirvana which was the biggest grunge band of all

[alexfanx]

Only thing was Nevermind wasn't really Grunge, neither was In Utero as a matter of fact.

[madeyes4u]

@alexfanx

I'm so very very happy to see that somebody else notices this besides me!! omg thanks for even saying that.

[feldi71]

kaban!

[itchyswellingbrain]

heard this song recently over headphones while strolling through a whorehouse in frankfurt looking in the faces of all the whores. the effect was overwhelming...

[DrThannos]

What a great song...Heard it first time 20 years ago...The sound is still amazing.....

[nIndianerin]

Dieser Kracher darf auf keiner Fete fehlen.

[AndaleyAndaley]

uf jedenss

[trza27]

Just a great song.

[SonicYouthXXX]

the vive is simply amazing

[Tomynoggers]

so so fucking great!

[Awesomo4003]

is it just me or do a few the cure songs have a similar sound to some wipers songs

[jimmymuppet]

No. Fuck the cure

[Awesomo4003]

well if you actually to listened some of the cure albums you would realize they weren't always shit, don't be an asshole and open your mouth without good reason.

[alexfanx]

Well they're both kind of Post-Punk-ish at times.

[kbeathappening]

great song

[tjulen7]

What I like in Wipers is that they always seemed to stay "backstage" or in the "garage" scene, this, ladies and gentlemen is only for the chosen :) ... Great band!

[aeoko2]

truth

[KW7T5HI]

@tjulen7 yeah you're right. Perhaps one can say they're an absolutely great local band, which is not pejorative cause they're universal. Today too many bands consider themselves universal. when they're just poorly local.

[wipers75]

maestros d nirvana

sofocame, sofocame

mira y no toques

[negativecreep90]

could there be a better voice for this band i mean really? this is fucking cool!

[koutsoth]

i remeber my youth!!! i have cover this song in a concert at 1984.very great song and Greg is the best rocker in garage punk at West Coast.

Wipers and Sage for ever!!!!!!!!!!!!

[Dumphi]

Einfach genial!!! Das BOOT in Nürnberg mitte der 80iger - geile Zeit!!!

[StarFireG3]

Boot, Kitsch, Lakritz, Ruhestörung ....

[Dumphi]

*schmunzel! genau das Kitsch war doch Donnerstags immer

[StarFireG3]

yay - und ich war der DJ der Euch gequält hat *g*

[criscolove]

yes fucking great song :d

[sweepiewasthebest]

Class!!!! Fockn great song.. I always loved it, still think wohaaaa thats what mah ears wanna hear

[Tardvos]

thx for putting this on yout yube.. ;}

[panpagan]

One of the greatest songs I know. Played it for years, when I was DJ in a little club in germany. Still love the Wipers.

[WIPPPPPER3]

I actually just knew the name of this band. I heard it in the 90ies and now that i got all of their stuff on CD, i'm also listening to them over and over again...

...no question, a great band.

[Cicely72]

I haven't heart that song in AGES - I used to have in on tape a long time ago and used to listen to it over and over again in the beginning of the 90ies in Germany :) - Thanks for uploading it!!!!

[gnosticwarrior70]

I can say the exact same thing.. first time hearing them was in Germany myself (1990-1). you need to upload 'wait a minute' if you have not already.. love that song..