Neat Neat Neat
Song by The Damned
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Single by The Damned | ||||
from the album Damned Damned Damned | ||||
B-side |
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Released | 18 February 1977 (1977-02-18) | |||
Recorded | January 1977 | |||
Studio | Pathway, London | |||
Genre | Punk rock | |||
Length | 2:44 | |||
Label | Stiff | |||
Songwriter(s) | Brian James | |||
Producer(s) | Nick Lowe | |||
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"Neat Neat Neat"
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"Neat Neat Neat" is the second single by English punk rock band the Damned,[1][2] released on 18 February 1977 by Stiff Records, simultaneously with their debut studio album Damned Damned Damned.
The single was reissued in Stiff's Damned 4 Pack mail-order set. A CD version was issued in the Stiff Singles 1976-1977 box set by Castle Music in 2003.
The single was also issued in Australia, Ireland, Japan (on Island Records) and New Zealand.
In 2005, Stylus Magazine ranked the song's bassline at No. 33 in their list of the "Top 50 Basslines of All Time".[3]
Track listing
- "Neat Neat Neat" (James) - 2:44
- "Stab Yor Back" (Scabies) - 1:01
- "Singalonga Scabies" (Scabies) - 1:00
In other media
- This song was featured in the video game True Crime: New York City.
- The song can be heard playing on the jukebox in the Simpsons episode, "Love, Springfieldian Style", in the third segment, "Sid and Nancy" (a re-imagining of the film of the same name), just before a character played by Martin Prince changes it to the Bay City Rollers' "Saturday Night".
- The song appeared in the 2017 film Baby Driver as the soundtrack to a heist and chase.
- The song appeared in an episode of Amazon Prime's The Boys.
Covers
- Elvis Costello and the Attractions covered the song. Their version originally appeared as the B-side on a 7" single included with early pressings of This Year's Model, and was later included as a bonus track on Rhino's 2002 CD reissue of that album.
- Melt-Banana covered the song in the pregap before the first track on the CD version of Charlie.
- For 5 shows during their World Contamination Tour, My Chemical Romance covered the song.
Production credits
- Producers:
- Musicians:
- Dave Vanian − vocals
- Brian James − guitar
- Captain Sensible − bass
- Rat Scabies − drums
References
- ^ Bradley, Michael (15 March 2016). "The 10 best punk rock singles, by The Undertones' Michael Bradley". TeamRock. Retrieved 12 February 2017.
- ^ Raggett, Ned. The Damned - Neat Neat Neat at AllMusic. Retrieved December 9, 2015.
- ^ "Stylus Magazine's Top 50 Basslines Of All Time - Article". Stylus Magazine. 2008-10-04. Retrieved 2016-10-12.
External links
- "Neat Neat Neat" at Discogs (list of releases)
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- Dave Vanian
- Captain Sensible
- Monty Oxymoron
- Rat Scabies
- Paul Gray
- Brian James
- Lu Edmonds
- Algy Ward
- Roman Jugg
- Bryn Merrick
- Moose Harris
- Patricia Morrison
- Stu West
- Henry Badowski
- Jon Moss
- Lemmy
- Gary Holton
- Garrie Dreadful
- Spike Smith
- Pinch
- William Granville-Taylor
- Damned Damned Damned
- Music for Pleasure
- Machine Gun Etiquette
- The Black Album
- Strawberries
- Phantasmagoria
- Anything
- Not of This Earth
- Grave Disorder
- So, Who's Paranoid?
- Evil Spirits
- Darkadelic
- Light at the End of the Tunnel
- The Radio One Sessions
- Smash It Up: The Anthology 1976–1987
- Black Is the Night: The Definitive Anthology
- Friday 13th
- Testify
- The Rockfield Files
- "New Rose"
- "Neat Neat Neat"
- "Stretcher Case Baby"
- "Problem Child"
- "Don't Cry Wolf"
- "Love Song"
- "Smash It Up"
- "I Just Can't Be Happy Today"
- "White Rabbit"
- "The History of the World (Part 1)"
- "There Ain't No Sanity Clause"
- "Wait for the Blackout"
- "Lovely Money"
- "Dozen Girls"
- "Lively Arts"
- "Generals"
- "Thanks for the Night"
- "Grimly Fiendish"
- "The Shadow of Love"
- "Is It a Dream?"
- "Eloise"
- "Anything"
- "Gigolo"
- "Alone Again Or"
- "In Dulce Decorum"
- "Fun Factory"
- "Prokofiev"
- "Shut It"
- "Little Miss Disaster"
- "Standing On the Edge of Tomorrow"
- "Devil in Disguise"
- "Look Left"
- "Procrastination"
- Band members
- Discography
- "Nasty"
- The Damned: Don't You Wish That We Were Dead
- Stiff Records
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