Alien Boy (EP)

Infobox Album
Name = Alien Boy
Type = EP
Artist = The Wipers


Released = 1980
Recorded = 1979
Genre = Punk rock
Length = 8:54
Label = Park Avenue
Producer = Greg Sage
Reviews =
Last album = "Is This Real?" (1979)
This album = "Alien Boy" (1980)
Next album = "Youth of America" (1981)

"Alien Boy" was the 7th song on The Wipers first album, Is This Real? Park Ave records, released in 1979.

"Alien Boy" is also a 1980 EP with this track on side A, and 3 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 re-issue 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, writing on the Zeno Records web site, James Chasse, also called Jim Jim was the subject of "Alien Boy." "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 beaten to death by police officers in Portland, Oregon in September 2006.

Track listing

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

External links

* [http://jameschasse.blogspot.com/ What Happened to James Chasse] - a compendium of documents and articles about the killing of James Chasse
* [http://www.zenorecords.com/jimjim/jim.htm In Memory of Alien Boy] - by Greg Sage