{"product_id":"a-mind-is-a-terrible-thing","title":"A Mind Is A Terrible Thing","description":"\u003cp\u003eChrist on Parade started in 1985, rising from the ashes of local bands Treason and Teenage Warning. Like much of the punk music at the time, they had an intensely political edge and very serious lyrical approach. The \"Peace Punk\" scene of the early ‘80s Bay Area - typified by local bands like PLH, Treason, Trial, Crucifix, and Atrocity, and heavily influenced by British anarcho-punk - had a formative influence on many bands in the scene including Christ on Parade. Christ on Parade coalesced into a unique hybrid of influences that could have only happened in the venue \/ living space that most of the members dwelled in, Emeryville's New Method warehouse. At that time, a lot of the Oakland punks were into the almost \"prog-punk\" stylings of bands like the Subhumans, Santa Rosa's Victim's Family, and the darkly paranoid spasms of England's Rudimentary Peni. Musicianship had become a virtue rather than a non-issue. Punk musicians around the Bay were beginning to put in the hours of practice. This confluence of sounds and ideas, and the fact that the East Bay was awash with LSD in those days, led to Christ on Parade's classic LP, \u003ci\u003eA Mind Is A Terrible Thing\u003c\/i\u003e. The emotional expression found in \u003ci\u003eA Mind Is A Terrible Thing\u003c\/i\u003e is not so much angry as agonized. The album is a demonology of the dark undercurrent beneath the relentlessly inane and superficial ‘80s. Noah Landis's feral vocals and grindstone guitar spearhead the LP with second guitarist Doug Kearney, bass player Malcolm Sherwood,and drummer Todd Kramer turning in an equal number of distinctive songs and performances . The result is brooding and angular, often catchy but never poppy. The production is raw, but this unvarnished quality serves the music rather than detracts from it. The songs feature more or less straight-ahead thrashers like \u003ci\u003eKill Your Landlord\u003c\/i\u003e, apocalyptic post-punk like \u003ci\u003eRiding The Flatland\u003c\/i\u003e, and many examples of Christ on Parade's trademark, genre-defying hellscapes like \u003ci\u003ePower\u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003eTeach Your Children Well\u003c\/i\u003e.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eLP - Standard black vinyl in standard jacket with insert with Download. The artwork for \u003ci\u003eA Mind Is A Terrible Thing\u003c\/i\u003e has been updated by Ross Sewage (Impale, Exhume) and remastered by Bob Weston at Chicago Mastering. \u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Neurot","offers":[{"title":"CD","offer_id":50471560642891,"sku":"1035331","price":14.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true},{"title":"LP","offer_id":50471560806731,"sku":"1035332","price":22.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0867\/1120\/6219\/files\/b927c73d-8b75-47d3-9b51-eae042171e37_thumbnail_4096.jpg?v=1727407860","url":"https:\/\/shop.roughtrade.com\/products\/a-mind-is-a-terrible-thing","provider":"Rough Trade","version":"1.0","type":"link"}