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{{Infobox album
| name       = Eight Step Rail
| type       = EP
| artist     = [[The Superjesus]]
| cover      = Sjeightsteprail.jpg
| alt        =
| released   = May 1996
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| genre      = [[Post-grunge]], [[alternative rock]]
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| next_title = [[Sumo (album)|Sumo]]
| next_year  = 1998
}}
'''''Eight Step Rail''''' is the debut [[Extended play|EP]] by Australian [[Rock music|rock]] band [[The Superjesus]]. The EP was released in May 1996.

The track "I'm Stained" was later re-recorded for their debut album, ''[[Sumo (album)|Sumo]]''.  A re-recorded version of "Shut My Eyes" was also later included as a [[hidden track]] on ''Sumo''.

The big guitar sounds are yet another use of the infamous [[Sansamp]] from [[Tech 21]]. After the engineer ([[Mick Wordley]] of Mixmasters Studios in Adelaide, Australia) spent a day trying to get a big sound out of Marshall stacks, he could not go past the sound the band had achieved by direct injecting a Sansamp into their Fostex recorder{{Citation needed|date=December 2008}}.

At the [[ARIA Music Awards of 1997]], the EP won two [[ARIA Awards]], "Best New Talent" and "Breakthrough Artist – Single".<ref name=aria97>{{cite web|url=http://www.ariaawards.com.au/history/year/1997 |title=ARIA Awards – History: Winners by Year 1997 |publisher=[[Australian Recording Industry Association]] (ARIA) |access-date=21 March 2012 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20071222011152/http://www.ariaawards.com.au/history-by-year.php?year=1997 |archive-date=22 December 2007 }}</ref>

==Track listing==
{{Track listing
| total_length =

| title1 = Ground
| writer1 = {{hlist|Chris Tennent|Sarah McLeod}}
| length1 = 3:42

| title2 = Shut My Eyes
| writer2 = {{hlist|Tennent|McLeod}}
| length2 = 3:28

| title3 = I'm Stained
| writer3 = {{hlist|Tennent|McLeod}}
| length3 = 4:40

| title4 = Glazed
| writer4 = {{hlist|Tennent|McLeod}}
| length4 = 4:28

| title5 = Strips of You
| writer5 = {{hlist|Tennent|McLeod}}
| length5 = 4:34
}}

==Charts==
{| class="wikitable plainrowheaders sortable"
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! Chart (1997)
! Peak<br>position
|-
{{singlechart|Australia|47|artist=The Superjesus|song=EIGHT STEP RAIL (EP) (SONG)|access-date=24 March 2016|rowheader=true}}
|-
|}

==References==
{{Reflist}}
{{The Superjesus}}
{{ARIA Award for Breakthrough Artist}}
{{Authority control}}

[[Category:ARIA Award-winning songs]]
[[Category:The Superjesus albums]]
[[Category:1996 debut EPs]]


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