Neurotica is the fourth record from the band Redd Kross

Redd Kross

Redd Kross, a rock band from Hawthorne, California had their roots in 1978 in a band called The Tourists begun by Jeff and Steve McDonald while the brothers were still in middle school...

. It was released on Big Time Records (an RCA Records

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 subsidiary) in 1987.

Track listing

All songs written by Jeff McDonald

Jeff McDonald

Jeff McDonald is a rock and roll singer and guitarist who co-founded the alternative rock, power pop band Redd Kross with his younger brother Steven Shane McDonald and remains in the band. In the early 2000s he played in Ze Malibu Kids, with his wife, Charlotte Caffey, of The Go-Go's, his brother,...

, except where noted.

1. "Neurotica" (Steven Shane McDonald
   Steven Shane McDonald
   Steven Shane McDonald is the bass player in the Los Angeles alternative rock/power pop band Redd Kross. He is also a member of the hardcore punk band OFF!, which formed in late 2009. Other projects included The SMG and Green and Yellow TV - both were Los Angeles-based groups from the 2000s...
   
   , Robert Hecker
   Robert Hecker
   Robert Hecker , is the lead guitarist of the current 2006-2011 line-up of Redd Kross.Hecker was born in Hermosa Beach, California. He played lead guitar and sang with Redd Kross from 1984 to 1991, in addition to occasional on-stage reunions throughout the 1990s...
   
   , J. McDonald) - 2:57
2. "Play My Song" - 3:37
3. "Frosted Flake" (S. McDonald, J. McDonald) - 2:05
4. "Janus, Jeanie, and George Harrison" - 3:13
5. "Love is You" (Hecker) - 2:31
6. "Peach Kelli Pop" - 3:36
7. "McKenzie" - 4:28
8. "Tatum O' Tot and the Fried Vegetables" - 1:27
9. "Ballad of a Love Doll" - 1:55
10. "What They Say" (Hecker) - 3:59
11. "Ghandi Is Dead (I'm the Cartoon Man)" - 3:25
12. "Beautiful Bye-Byes" (Hecker, J. McDonald, S. McDonald) - 1:48

Related Information

• Recorded at American Recorders, Los Angeles, California

• The album was produced by ex-Ramones
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   drummer Tommy Erdelyi.

• To promote the album Big Time Records issued the promotional-only double album
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   Dinner With Redd Kross.

Disk one featured an interview with the band conducted by Albert O of WBCN-FM and the album versions of the songs "Peach Kelli Pop", "Love Is You", "Neurotica", "Janus Jeanie and George Harrison", "McKenzie" and "Play My Song".
Disk two contained "Play My Song" (remix) on red vinyl.

• "McKenzie" is about Mackenzie Phillips
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  .

• "Love Is You" appeared in the 1987 film The Allnighter
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  .

Members

• Roy McDonald - Drums
• Steven Shane McDonald
  Steven Shane McDonald
  Steven Shane McDonald is the bass player in the Los Angeles alternative rock/power pop band Redd Kross. He is also a member of the hardcore punk band OFF!, which formed in late 2009. Other projects included The SMG and Green and Yellow TV - both were Los Angeles-based groups from the 2000s...
  
   - Bass, vocals
• Robert Hecker
  Robert Hecker
  Robert Hecker , is the lead guitarist of the current 2006-2011 line-up of Redd Kross.Hecker was born in Hermosa Beach, California. He played lead guitar and sang with Redd Kross from 1984 to 1991, in addition to occasional on-stage reunions throughout the 1990s...
  
   - Guitar, vocals
• Jeff McDonald
  Jeff McDonald
  Jeff McDonald is a rock and roll singer and guitarist who co-founded the alternative rock, power pop band Redd Kross with his younger brother Steven Shane McDonald and remains in the band. In the early 2000s he played in Ze Malibu Kids, with his wife, Charlotte Caffey, of The Go-Go's, his brother,...
  
  - Vocals, guitar