Who wouldn’t remember when he or she first heard NEON CHRIST on the PEACE WAR Double LP comp? Although the comp is great from a to z, the NEON CHRIST song is one of those that really stick out. Fast, energetic, athletic and extremely catchy. It took me ’til 1988 until I finally was able to find me this EP – I remember when we arrived at the home of Dave from INFEST, I immediately went through his (very small but tasteful) record collection. One of the gemms I picked out was this EP here; he gave it to me for free. 10 minutes later, INFEST started to practice in the living room of the house, but that’s another story.
The fast thrashing songs are all great and über-catchy. But then you hear the final song, “After”, and you go just “what the hell?!” – what a masterpiece!
As a special bonus, I’m also including the 2nd 7″ from the double 7″ set released in 1990 (bloody hell, how did these 20 years pass me by just like that??). Whilst the first 7″ features most (but not all) songs of the original EP, the 2nd 7″ has the aforementioned track (“Ashes to ashes” – a song which has my back turn into one big goose bumps area) from the PEACE WAR comp, plus three more songs from this session. And these three songs keep astonishing me whenever I hear them! Incredibly well crafted, highly original smashers of their very own caliber. Hardcore never was more exciting than this and it’s a crying shame the band didn’t continue after this session! Imagine what an LP they could have recorded – one could cry over the loss!
This is the rare yellow cover version; only the first 200 of the batch had this cover. The double 7″ had a press run of 2000 copies.
NEON CHRIST- s/t 7″EP:
Parental Suppression.mp3
Draft Song.mp3
Winding.mp3 / Bad Influence.mp3
Neon Christ.mp3
We mean Business.mp3
Yoof.mp3
It’s mine.mp3
Doom.mp3
After.mp3
2nd 7″ from “A Seven Inch two Times” 2×7″EP:
The Knife that cuts so deep.mp3
Ashes to Ashes.mp3
Blind Patriot.mp3
The Death they’ll give you.mp3
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Thanks Erich, After is really a genius coup – like your blog.
kudos and greetings from the past and future!
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great album. i first heard this on KBD but i never heard the bonus 7″ before. thanks!
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Absolute genious. This band has inspired me in the past almost to the point where I could be sued.
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So true about the Peace comp and about where Neon Christ fits on it. Put the Neon Christ tune on many a comp tape I made for people back then. Thanx a lot for the extra 7″.
Still thumbnails that don’t enlarge…did you happen to update your WordPress…every time I do it fucks me up and I have to get support.
By the way, that’s the much rarer yellow cover version you have there.
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yeah, neon christ!!!! cmon, kicke my arse!!! seems i’m a bit overexcited….
oh, and what is wrong with the thumbnails?!?!
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And here’s the not so rare white version:
http://www.kbdrecords.com/2007/08/24/neon-christ-st-ep-7/
Is that really the rarer yellow version you got there???
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I heard the yellow sleeve is rarer, but maybe somebody from the band will clear this up sooner or later. You think I photoshopped my copy?
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Got the double 7 inch & have always loved it. Seriously great hardcore and one of the more under-rated bands of the time. Brilliant name, too!
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Ha ha:
http://www.kbdrecords.com/2009/11/27/buzzcocks-what-did-i-getoh-shit-7/
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A lot of labels have tried to do Neon Christ reissues over the years, but the band has always dropped the ball. So, NC keeps getting bootlegged. Neon Christ did a few reunion shows in 2008 but now they are done forever, they say. It is also worth mentioning that the guitarist is now the singer in Stone Temple Pilots.
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great post … living in ATL during 80′s I saw them play quite a bit round town … great band!
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me, too, i had that “peace war” experience with neon christ as a starter. what a song! so of course i had high hopes about their 7″, only to be a bit disappointed when i finally heard it. it’s good, of course, but quite rudimentary compared to “ashes to ashes”. how glad i was when the 2×7″ got released! it’s breath taking how much the band was able to improve within only a mere 6 months between those 2 recording sessions.
the guitarist is now the singer in alice in chains, not stone temple pilots. similar kind of horror, though. but there’s no denial about him being an outstanding musician from early on.
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Dierk(the king of smelly feet) I lost your email in a crash. I knew it was you ha ha. Shot me a line if you feel like it.
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Hey Peter, I’m concerned about the environment, so that’s why I tend to recycle some of my comments!
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GREAT GREAT GREAT!!!! Ultrafast, raging, desperate yet melodic and tuneful. this is all you need by a reagan-era HC band.
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Did u know that the guitar player of Neon Christ is currently the singer for Alice in Chains?
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ah.a band i have heard a lot about from my friends but never heard it until now. this is great! i’m more in the mood for metal today but hey it’s still good.
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Drummer is now the singer for Soundgarden and the pink cover with the red polka dots is the rare one. I’ve always liked ashes to ashes but was never a fan of the other stuff. Through the miracle of the internets I’m going to give this one more try to see if I have a quasi-religious experience.
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hey there! and thanks for posting this…Malfeitor, i think it’s actually the guitar player who’s singing now for Alice In Chains! I may be wrong but almost sure that’s the case.
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My question would be: Is there a dutch sleeve variation of this EP?
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No, the bass player is now the sax player for Bruce Springsteen and the drummer is a famous ventriloquist in Portugal.
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The Dutch sleeve variation is made entirely of cheese and wooden shoes. Only 5 copies made.
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cheesus! if i had known i wood not have traded it to the admin back then…
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this 7″ kick ass!!!!!!
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Dierk, do your feet really stink? I never noticed. My girlfriend kicked my shoes out of our bedroom ’cause they stink. What next?
It’s a cold world.
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we stayed at peter’s parents place after a gig at RT’s rehearsal space during an extrem tour and after 2 days of sleeping in trains taking your socks off at last can be hazardous to anyone’s health.
peter, are you checking your mails regularily or are you just posing around in 2.0?
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8 days since your last post, you lazy bastard.
Take a break from sexing up the ladies, I’m going through withdrawls here.
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I think Erich is sexing up Peter in Oslo. May we please have some more tunes please??
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Friends of mine.
Danny (Bassist) and Jimmy (Drummer) now play in a band called The Accidents. Those two still live in Atlanta, Georgia. Randy lives in Augusta, Georgia, it’s a college town. William “Kip” moved out to Cali to play guitar in B’last! for a spell. He played guitar on the last LP but was not credited over some personal issues so it is told. The other guys did Gardens Of… Danny later was in a band called the Go Devils also to name a few. William returned and formed Final Offering with Mike Dean of C.O.C. and Greg Psomas from DDT. William later went back out to Cali and has his own band Comes With The Fall as well as fronts Alice In Chains.
About the yellow sleeve yes it is rarer and was in smaller production. Maybe 100-200. Same pressing as white covers, just different card stock.
About reissues its not that the band doesn’t care. It’s just a matter of will people really buy it? The Fuking Records double 45 was initially put out by Jimmy as a response to someone bootlegging the original 45. “Saviour” later showed up on a cassette only compilation “The View An Atlanta Compilation 1984-1990″ which Lunchbox Records put out in 1990.
http://lunchboxrecords.com/lr01.html
It is possible that Jimmy is still sitting on more tapes. I particularly would love to hear the entire last show set from 1985 which I only have two tracks from.
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Thanks for the info, Elvis!
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Thanks for the awesome write up! I came across this site looking for links to post to the new Neon Christ facebook page… cool site.
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It’s funny how many of us had similar reactions upon hearing NC on the Peace comp. I snatched up
that double repress too when it hit.
Kip Duvall gets a writing credit
on one of the songs from the second
Bl’ast! LP. I was unaware that he
played on the album. Did they scrap
his tracks or is he actually on that
record? Hhmmmm
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NEON CHRIST RULES!!! WOOOO!!!
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