Excerpts From a Love Circus

Excerpts From a Love Circus Artist: Lisa Germano
Label: 4ad / Ada
Category: Music


Average customer rating: 5 out of 5 stars
Format: Original recording reissued
Media: Audio CD
Number Of Discs: 1


UPC: 652637601220
EAN: 0652637601220
ASIN: B00000IAHD


Release Date: 1999-06-08

Excerpts From a Love Circus


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Tracks:

  1. Baby on the Plane
  2. Beautiful Schizophrenic "Where's Miamo-Tutti?" [By Dorothy]
  3. Bruises
  4. I Love a Snot
  5. Forget It, It's a Mystery
  6. Victoria's Secret "Just a Bad Dream" [By Miamo-Tutti]
  7. Small Heads
  8. We Suck
  9. Lovesick
  10. Singing to the Birds
  11. Messages from Sophia "There's More Kitties in the World Than Just ..."
  12. Big Big World
  13. Fun, Fun for Everyone
  14. Tom, Dick and Harry
  15. Messages from Sophia [Instrumental]

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Customer Reviews:

5 out of 5 stars More of the fine miss Lisa G.!.......2006-06-03

Lisa Germano never relased a predictable record; with this, she actually recorded some catchy pop music - in true Lisa Germano style, of course. Small Heads, I love A Snot and Victoria's Secret get stuck in your head like any Kylie Minogue song - love it! Of course, dark and dreamy music is still present, for instance Forget it, It's a Mystery, We Suck and Love Sick. Sheer brilliance! Her new release, In The Maybe World, is out soon - so be sure to order that as well as this one!

5 out of 5 stars Everything else is boring boring.......2005-07-01

It's hard to register artistic growth for someone who was as much of a sales blip as Lisa Germano was, but at the point she arrived at Excerpts From a Love Circus, fans could begin to notice an overwhelming growth in artistry. Her first two records - On The Way Down From the Moon Palace and Happiness - were interesting enough girl-hates-herself takes on the woman-hates-herself first two records of PJ Harvey - which is to say, less challenging. Then came Geek the Girl, a concept album of such intensity, it could be loved by only those willing to commit to it (which is recommended). Such an accomplishment is hard to top, but Excerpts finds strange territory for Germano - something like adulthood! In deadpan lyrics of "Coffee in the morning, and wine in the evening/ and everything else is boring boring" or "The world revolves around you, but it revolves around me too," Germano seems to wink at her wounded girl persona and stake out more interesting terrain. That climaxes in "Singing To The Birds" a song that finds the little girl of self-loathing really meaning a line of "It's kinda funny, when the rainfalls/ you could learn to love yourself." Such growth fits her well, without a doubt - the production and composition of each song is confident, and attended by a great revolving door of musicians, and her trademark fiddle is now a lovely accessory to her whimsical voice. The album closes on the great "Big Big World," a song that, in its tremulousness, admits its fear of her demons but seems to walk on anyway. Such an admission is the pinnacle of adulthood for our girl.

5 out of 5 stars big, big heart...great big love...in the big big world.......2005-02-01

Germano's warmest, lightest, most musically ornate album, and a nice breather after the dark intensity of Geek The Girl. Not to say she isn't looking at things with any less of a sharp, brutally honest focus, but musically it is very rich and has a more diffuse, soothing feel. And where Geek dealt with the scars of adolescence, Circus seems to fuse a sense of childlike wonder to the more sober self-forgivings of that stage where we've somehow grown up. This has some of her finest songs ever, from the percussive "I Love A Snot" to the sparse "We Suck", and the indescribable deep-end dives into contradictions of "Baby On The Plane", "Messages From Sophia" and "Big Big World". It took a little longer to get into than some of her other albums, but I can't see myself ever being without this disc now.

5 out of 5 stars Great album, great lyrics...........2003-03-28

This 1996 release was the first Lisa Germano album I bought, and I must say, it took some getting used to. But after a while, I got addicted to her music, and now I own all of her stuff. "Geek the Girl" is still my favourite album by her, but this one is brilliant as well. This album includes various "styles", and sounds "happier" than her previous work, and what she has done since. Her lyrics, though, still sound as depressed as ever. My favourite Lisa song, "Small Heads" is included on this album, plus the ultimate love song for the cynical, "I Love A Snot". Other stand-out tracks are "Forget It It's A Mystery", "Victoria's Secret", "We Suck" and "Baby On A Plane", which all make this a Cd worth buying.

3 out of 5 stars

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