NEOS- End all discrimination 7″EP (Alanandhiscar, Canada, 1982
Sometimes, you just have to live far off of the rest of the world to make good bad music. NEOS were 3 youngsters living in Victoria, B.C., which indeed isn’t exactly the center of the world. Formed in late 1979, the band released only 2 7″s in its lifetime, this being the first, released in early 1982.
Very rough, fast and noisy for the time, this 7″ just amazes me whenever I put it on. Although the band isn’t as focussed as on its followup, the power and freshness is overwhelming. There’s so much enthusiasm engrooved in this piece of vinyl, that the sparks still fly. The songs (or, as they call it on the insert: “noise”) were all composed between December 1979 and 1981 and indeed the newer the songs get, the faster and wilder they are and “I hate U / Don’t need U” could have been on the 2nd 7″. Wonderful!
The back cover states Rob Wright as producer and sound engineer and I tend to believe it’s Rob of NOMEANSNO. As you can see, the rhythm tracks were recorded in 1981 already, making this one of the earliest rough HC records ever made.
500 made. Besides this copy with the green sleeve, I’ve also seen a white sleeve. There seems to be an orange sleeve version as well (like the first Skrewdriver 12″, haha), but I’ve never seen it.
As always, I tried to reproduce the original recording as exactly as possible, only cutting out obvious blank recording space. On some songs, it was hard to decide where to seprate though. It sounds like the majority of this songs were recorded live in one take and they just kept the tape rolling.
Illiterates.mp3
Fascist Rule.mp3
E’s.mp3
No Tyme 4 Romance.mp3
School Punks.mp3
Kill the Burnouts.mp3
Churchgoers Motive.mp3
Goodbye 4 Life / Scared to die.mp3
Racist Act.mp3
Life Sentence.mp3
Don’t want to be.mp3
Simon wrote:
Victoria’s really not that isolated– it’s a decent-sized city (about 350 000) only about 100 K from Vancouver and not much further from Seattle in the other direction, so these guys were getting steady live exposure to DOA, Subhumans, Dead Kennedys, Black Flag etc from really early on, just as much as anyone in any other sizeable city in North America at the time and probably more than most. My ex-girlfriend grew up there and showed me the community centre by her house where the Neos would play with DKs, 7 Seconds, DOA and the like, and Victoria has always had a very fertile punk scene, producing bands as well known as Dishrags, Nomeansno (yes, you’re right about that credit), Red Tide, Day-Glo Abortions, House of Commons and the Hanson Brothers as well as the Neos.
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Posted on 14-Jul-07 at 10:59 pm | Permalink
edu wrote:
amazing record! for me this is what hardcore is all about: teenagers playing crazy and uncontrolled noise with urgency and desperation… i also like them because their lyrics were great and they didn’t wear punk clothes at all…. and of course because they were playing so fast around 1980/81….
by the way, do you know about a church police ep? it would be great if you could post it! their song in the “not so quiet in the western front” is sooo great….
and hey, it also would be great to post the vast majority ep as well…. for me it is one of the best records ever….
and last but not least, congratulations for the blog! it is absolutely amazing and so inspiring….
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Posted on 15-Jul-07 at 1:46 am | Permalink
Sean wrote:
Erich, wouldn’t happen to have the S.A.S. (pre Satanic Malfunctions) ep would you? Can’t find it anywhere!!!
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Posted on 15-Jul-07 at 2:24 am | Permalink
Peter - KBD Records wrote:
Hey Eric!
. And now you can ban the assholes too ha ha 
!!!
This is looking bloody nice
to edu the Vast Majority 7inch can be found here:
http://www.kbdrecords.com/2006/10/24/vast-majority-i-wanna-be-7/
Church Police did a record? I love them on the “Not so…” comp. too and would love to hear it!!
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Posted on 15-Jul-07 at 11:10 am | Permalink
edu wrote:
hi again!
since the 80s their singer scott plays bass in the psiychedelic/space rock band st37 (different music but also great)
thanks to peter for the info and also a great blog for sure! i didn’t know you already posted it, cool…. it is always so great to listen to this record! years ago i got the cd compilation from chuck of h2d and all the songs werre amazing as well…. and the radio show is funny
about church police: it was supposed subterranean records from sf did an ep. in fact, in a early cometbus issue it seems they were going to put it out…. but i also saw on collectors scum that it was released by mellow shit records. so to be honest, i have no idea…. the only thing for sure is that it would be nice to listen to those songs
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Posted on 15-Jul-07 at 11:44 am | Permalink
ph wrote:
can’t get “Goodbye 4 Life / Scared to die.mp3″
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Posted on 15-Jul-07 at 4:48 pm | Permalink
adamski wrote:
Hey Erich, like “PH” I can’t get the “goodbye 4 Life/Scared To Die” link to work.
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Posted on 16-Jul-07 at 4:35 am | Permalink
admin wrote:
Link fixed!
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Posted on 16-Jul-07 at 5:15 am | Permalink
stinky82 wrote:
yeah, when I was younger, NEOS used to be my favourite band, especially their 2nd EP. My first contact with them was, when Jan AG sent me tape with both NEOS EPs and a lot of obscure 80´s HardCore bands. My last meeting was, when I bought NEOS bootleg LP with both EPs on FRAMTID show in Czech, couple weeks ago.
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Posted on 16-Jul-07 at 6:31 am | Permalink
Niels wrote:
Thanks Erich! The “Hassibah” EP was/is one of my all-time faves, but I never got hold of (recordings of) this one, apart from 1 or 2 tracks on comp tapes.
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Posted on 17-Jul-07 at 2:39 am | Permalink
Slobodan Burgher wrote:
yes. thank you Sir.
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Posted on 25-Jul-07 at 11:44 am | Permalink
Simon wrote:
Was just in Victoria this past weekend, buying Tysondog and Beat LPs, drinking local microbrews and watching the Sadies. Anyways, saw flyers for a show next month featuring a bunch of reunited Victoria punk bands, including post-Neos thrashers Jerk Ward, marking the release of a book/double CD set documenting the history of Victoria punk circa ‘77-’85.
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Posted on 26-Jul-07 at 3:23 pm | Permalink
clayton s. wrote:
any idea how many inserts are supposed to come with this one? Is it anything like the 2nd one?
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Posted on 09-Mar-09 at 11:47 pm | Permalink