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{{Infobox album<br />
| name = Alien Boy<br />
| type = ep<br />
| longtype =<br />
| artist = [[Wipers (band)|Wipers]]<br />
| cover = Wipers alienboy.jpg<br />
| alt =<br />
| released = 1980<br />
| recorded = 1979<br />
| studio =<br />
| genre = [[Punk rock]]<br />
| length = 8:54<br />
| label = Park Avenue<br />
| producer = [[Greg Sage]]<ref>{{Cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=4WM6Cb1z-PwC&q=Alien+Boy+wipers&pg=PA364|title=Punk Diary: The Ultimate Trainspotter's Guide to Underground Rock, 1970-1982|first=George|last=Gimarc|date=October 12, 2005|publisher=Hal Leonard Corporation|isbn=9780879308483|via=Google Books}}</ref><br />
| prev_title = [[Is This Real?]]<br />
| prev_year = 1980<br />
| next_title = [[Youth of America]]<br />
| next_year = 1981<br />
| misc = {{Extra chronology<br />
| artist = [[Wipers (band)|Wipers]] singles<br />
| type = ep<br />
| prev_title = Better Off Dead<br />
| prev_year = 1979<br />
| title = Alien Boy<br />
| year = 1980<br />
| next_title = [[Romeo (Wipers song)|Romeo]]<br />
| next_year = 1981<br />
}}<br />
}}<br />
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"'''Alien Boy'''" is the seventh song on the first [[Wipers (band)|Wipers]] album, ''[[Is This Real?]]'' (Park Avenue Records), released in 1980.<br />
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'''''Alien Boy''''' is also the title of a 1980 Wipers EP, with "Alien Boy" on side A, and three outtakes from the ''Is This Real?'' album sessions on side B.<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://www.trouserpress.com/entry.php?a=wipers|title=TrouserPress.com :: Wipers|website=www.trouserpress.com}}</ref> In 1993, the tracks were added to the [[Sub Pop]] reissue of the album ''Is This Real?''.<br />
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The ''Alien Boy'' EP cover art featured on the back of the Sub Pop version of ''Is This Real?'' was not the original; instead, Sub Pop used 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.<br />
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According to frontman [[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 died after being arrested by police officers in [[Portland, Oregon]] in September 2006.{{citation needed|date=November 2020}} He is the subject of the documentary film ''[[Alien Boy: the Life and Death of James Chasse|Alien Boy: The Life and Death of James Chasse]].''<br />
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==Track listing==<br />
# "Alien Boy"&nbsp;– 3:28<br />
# "Image of Man"&nbsp;– 2:31<br />
# "Telepathic Love"&nbsp;– 1:32<br />
# "Voices in the Rain"&nbsp;– 1:23<br />
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==References==<br />
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==External links==<br />
*[http://www.mentalhealthportland.org/?tag=james-chasse What Happened to James Chasse]&nbsp;– a compendium of documents and articles about the killing of James Chasse<br />
*[https://web.archive.org/web/20071212032113/http://www.zenorecords.com/jimjim/jim.htm In Memory of Alien Boy]&nbsp;– by Greg Sage (Via Wayback Machine)<br />
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