Body Electric (single)

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This is the second single ever by The Sisters of Mercy.

Body Electric 7" - common red cover
Body Electric 7" with light red (pink) cover


Release Notes

  • Label: Merciful Release
    CNT Productions
  • Catalogue#: CNT 002
  • Format: 7" vinyl single
  • Release Date: April 1982



Band/Recording Personnel

Andrew Eldritch -   Vocals
Gary Marx -   Guitars
Craig Adams -   Bass
Doktor Avalanche    -   Drums



Tracks

Side A Duration             Side AA Duration
Body Electric          4:20 Adrenochrome          2:57


Remarks

  • Released on a label called CNT, located in York, since the band didn't have the money to release the single themselves on Merciful Release.
  • The covers are either made of thin paper, or they are thick and glossy. Some copies have a lighter almost pink or orange red on the cover than others.
  • All of the original releases come with a thumb cut on the upper side of the cover back.


Body Electric 7" - Label Side AA
  • Label notes on the AA-side:
     rise and reverberate
        SISTERS
   CNT PRODUCTIONS - CNT002 AA
  Hijos del pueblo a las barricadas
 (Children of the people, to the barricades)
  • Hand-etched run-outs:
Side A: CNT2 A1 MPO BILBO. TAPE ONE
Side AA: CNT2 AA1 MPO RISE AND REVERBERATE BILBO TAPE ONE FOR SPIGGY


Broadcast

played Body Electric on BBC Radio One during his John Peel Show on 16th January 1984.
See also this thread @The Heartland Forums and John Peel Shows 1980-85.



NOTE
Meanwhile some bootlegs (and also some flexis) of varying quality have surfaced, which should not be mistaken for the present original release, see:


Body Electric - Adrenochrome - a 7" bootleg-single released in 1987 Body Electric (Greek demo bootleg) - alledgedly some "untitled demo version"
Body Electric (flexi) Body Electric - Sister Ray (Greek live bootleg) - Live at Deinze 1984
Body Electric - Torch (double-sided flexi) Body Electric - Floorshow (Greek live bootleg) - Live in Bologna 1985
Body Electric (acetate) - a bootleg, not the original Body Electric (picture disc) - another Greek produce
Body Electric (Australian 2009 Reissue) - red vinyl, mainly available as part of a set     



Additional Pictures

´- Please click into the images for larger views -

Body Electric - 7" Cover (back)
Body Electric - 7" Cover (back) in more orange tone
Body Electric - 7" Cover (back) in more pinkish tone
Body Electric 7" vinyl (Side A)
Body Electric 7" - Label Side A

Body Electric 7" vinyl (Side AA)