Germs - MIA: The Complete Anthology
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Artist: GermsBrand: GERMS
Edition: Music CD
Format: Original recording reissued
CD Release Date: 2000-10-17
Music Label: Rhino
Soundtracks:
- Forming
- Sex Boy [Live]
- Lexicon Devil
- Circle One
- No God
- What We Do Is Secret
- Communist Eyes
- Land of Treason
- Richie Dagger's Crime
- Strange Notes
- American Leather
- Lexicon Devil
- Manimal
- Our Way
- We Must Bleed
- Media Blitz
- The Other Newest One
- Let's Pretend
- Dragon Lady
- The Slave
- Shut Down (Annihilation Man)
- Caught in My Eye
- Round and Round
- My Tunnel
- Throw It Away
- Not All Right
- Now I Hear the Laughter
- Going Down
- Lion's Share
- Forming [2]
Music reviews of MIA: The Complete Anthology
Music Review: Will The Circle Be Unbroken?
Rating: 4 Stars
While browsing this website, Amazon informed me that I should rate this album and that I would probably give it four stars. That sounded about right, so in the words of Darby Crash, "Here goes..." This CD of the Germs is an enhanced compilation of the original GI album along with songs from an early EP, some stray singles and five songs produced with the intention of possibly being used in William Friedkin's movie, "Cruising" (They weren't). This L.A. band came from a small group of disaffected, delinquent kids who decided to form a group and perform before knowing how to play their instruments, yet managed to evolve into a high-powered punk/metal/whatever unit. Their initial single "Forming" sounds like a chugging, barely competent garage band, appropriately recorded in the guitarist's garage on a two-track recorder. "Sex Boy", the next cut and original flip side of "Forming", is an early live cut from The Roxy, but could have been recorded in the Le Brea Tar Pits across town. The band was drunk, rotten food was apparently thrown about, and there are sounds of glass breaking. As with most venues they played in, the management asked them not to return. With the third song, "Lexicon Devil", from their initial EP, the band's sound started to come together. Unlike many garage punk bands that bludgeoned like a high-speed industrial press in 4/4 time, the Germs, at their best sounded more like a fusillade of firecrackers. Pat Smear's rudimentary guitar and simple staccato riffs intertwined with problem child poster boy Darby Crash's crazed vocals had an effect similar to live high voltage cables snaking and snapping wildly. The lyrics came from reams of notebooks Crash had filled during his middle-high school days and they're a manic mix of adolescent angst, Nietsche narcissistic philosophy, and supposedly include inspiration from Oswald Spengler's Decline of the West (Never read it myself). Darby Crash doesn't sing, of course, he snarls. His preferred mode of verbal attack vacillates between a stretched out guttural sneer (barely comprehensible) to an attempt to cram as many words as possible into a short span of time (barely comprehensible). Lyrics are included in the booklet for your convenience (Cool photos, too). The vocals usually fly past at high speed but when phrases or words are discernable, flying out like sonic shrapnel, they sound, well... just swell. The timing of the inspired amateurism of the Los Angeles punk scene provided a perfect entrance for Darby Crash, though his exit was less well timed. Possibly inflated with his own importance, but probably more deflated from excessive B & D (booze and drugs), he committed suicide with a lethal dose of heroin only to have any notoriety eclipsed by the media blitz of the news of John Lennon's murder the following day. The collection is a mixed bag of course, but the standouts (i.e. personal faves) are: Lexicon Devil (single version), Circle One, Ritchie Dagger's Crime, Manimal, We Must Bleed, Media Blitz, Throw It Away, Not All Right. Enjoy.
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Media Format: Compact Disk
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Release Date: 17-OCT-2000
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