― murch, Sunday, 23 June 2002 00:00 (twenty-one years ago) link
― Tim DiGravina, Sunday, 23 June 2002 00:00 (twenty-one years ago) link
― Wyndham Earl, Sunday, 23 June 2002 00:00 (twenty-one years ago) link
― paul, Sunday, 23 June 2002 00:00 (twenty-one years ago) link
― john-paul, Sunday, 23 June 2002 00:00 (twenty-one years ago) link
― Douglas, Sunday, 23 June 2002 00:00 (twenty-one years ago) link
― Sean Carruthers, Sunday, 23 June 2002 00:00 (twenty-one years ago) link
Is it the Shagg's documentary??
― brg30, Sunday, 23 June 2002 00:00 (twenty-one years ago) link
― electric sound of jim, Sunday, 23 June 2002 00:00 (twenty-one years ago) link
― alex in mainhattan, Monday, 24 June 2002 00:00 (twenty-one years ago) link
― Chris Barrus, Monday, 24 June 2002 00:00 (twenty-one years ago) link
Yes yes yes, worth the price just for "It's a Rainbow," my favorite LG track. That part where she goes up an octave to sing "Blame me, blame me" - mmmm mmmm. "Alcoholic, alcoholic, that's a word my friends call it"...just beautiful.
― Ernest, Tuesday, 25 June 2002 00:00 (twenty-one years ago) link
― Honda (Honda), Thursday, 1 May 2003 09:56 (twenty years ago) link
My Germano collection is incomplete, but of what I have, Geek the Girl is my favorite.
― Catherine (Catherine), Thursday, 1 May 2003 21:34 (twenty years ago) link
― jody l'anti-vierge (Jody Beth Rosen), Monday, 20 June 2005 02:15 (eighteen years ago) link
― Ned Raggett (Ned), Monday, 20 June 2005 02:21 (eighteen years ago) link
― scott seward (scott seward), Monday, 20 June 2005 02:25 (eighteen years ago) link
― The Lex (The Lex), Monday, 20 June 2005 09:36 (eighteen years ago) link
― Ned Raggett (Ned), Monday, 20 June 2005 19:59 (eighteen years ago) link
― kyle (akmonday), Monday, 20 June 2005 20:01 (eighteen years ago) link
I keep daydreaming about billowy shoegaze renditions of "Baby On the Plane".
― MindInRewind (Barry Bruner), Monday, 20 June 2005 20:06 (eighteen years ago) link
― Curt (cgould), Monday, 27 June 2005 03:43 (eighteen years ago) link
― kyle (akmonday), Monday, 27 June 2005 03:49 (eighteen years ago) link
― Ned Raggett (Ned), Monday, 27 June 2005 03:55 (eighteen years ago) link
― fortunate hazel (f. hazel), Monday, 27 June 2005 16:44 (eighteen years ago) link
― kyle (akmonday), Sunday, 22 January 2006 03:29 (eighteen years ago) link
― Johnny Fever (johnny fever), Sunday, 22 January 2006 03:43 (eighteen years ago) link
― scott seward (scott seward), Sunday, 22 January 2006 04:02 (eighteen years ago) link
― Ned Raggett (Ned), Sunday, 22 January 2006 04:37 (eighteen years ago) link
― stockholm cindy (winter version) (Jody Beth Rosen), Sunday, 22 January 2006 04:39 (eighteen years ago) link
― Ned Raggett (Ned), Wednesday, 1 March 2006 17:53 (eighteen years ago) link
http://www.younggodrecords.com/images/artists/LisaGermano/sund_663_european.jpg
― Ned Raggett (Ned), Wednesday, 1 March 2006 17:54 (eighteen years ago) link
― kyle (akmonday), Wednesday, 21 June 2006 00:18 (seventeen years ago) link
― gypsy mothra (gypsy mothra), Wednesday, 21 June 2006 00:23 (seventeen years ago) link
― Ned Raggett (Ned), Wednesday, 21 June 2006 00:23 (seventeen years ago) link
― s1ocki (slutsky), Wednesday, 21 June 2006 01:34 (seventeen years ago) link
It is. Three quarters of the way through ("Red Thread") on my third listen, everything clicked.
― Johnny Fever (johnny fever), Saturday, 24 June 2006 11:53 (seventeen years ago) link
― Thomas Tallis (Tommy), Saturday, 24 June 2006 13:09 (seventeen years ago) link
"Magic Neighbor" out September 22.
http://younggodrecords.com/Releases/detail.asp?C=2246
Yes.
― J. Sam, Friday, 14 August 2009 15:13 (fourteen years ago) link
http://www.indie-eye.it/recensore/wp-content/uploads/2009/07/magin_neighbor.jpg
― J. Sam, Friday, 14 August 2009 15:14 (fourteen years ago) link
sry
― J. Sam, Friday, 14 August 2009 15:15 (fourteen years ago) link
Good album, that new one. Been back in a phase -- listening to the two versions of Happiness is weirdly fascinating, as both are so clearly of their time/particular aesthetic. But the original has an advantage in that it starts out as almost far too mannered of-its-time 'adult album alternative' (you can sense the 'okay we're gently shifting from Suzanne Vega to Sheryl Crow on our playlists' dynamic) but gets increasingly unsettled. Especially by the time it hits "Sycophant," which pretty much predicts she was going to end up on a label run by a Swans member at some point! In comparison the remixed version, while lovely, is a little too much of a piece that she presumably hadn't intentionally wanted that way, where the following albums aimed for that directly.
― Ned Raggett, Tuesday, 24 November 2009 17:24 (fourteen years ago) link
"Magic Neighbour" is the best things she's ever done. "Snow" completely slays me, and I think she was aiming for (and achieved) the same sort of tension and build as in Kate Bush's "This Woman's Work". If you play the two songs back-to-back then I think the similarities are obvious.
― NoTimeBeforeTime, Tuesday, 24 November 2009 17:36 (fourteen years ago) link
that should read: "Magic Neighbor" is the best thing she's ever done
(also corrected for American spelling)
― NoTimeBeforeTime, Tuesday, 24 November 2009 17:37 (fourteen years ago) link
happiness, it's like TVon or off, it's up to me
amazing how such chicken-soup-for-somebody's-soul drivel can be so affecting in a Lisa Germano song...
― henry s, Wednesday, 25 November 2009 01:07 (fourteen years ago) link
New Lisa Germano streaming at the Pitchfork:
http://pitchfork.com/advance/24-no-elephants/
― Loud guitars shit all over "Bette Davis Eyes" (NYCNative), Tuesday, 5 February 2013 14:44 (eleven years ago) link
I wonder why the review kept holding aloft Fiona Apple as some sort of "you can do it, too!" example? I have a feeling one reason Germano got sick of all this shit is because she's just about a full two decades older than Apple. Hell, she's a decade older than Liz Phair. Also, Apple had a bunch of hits (which is to say, money) that provided more than enough "fuck you" fuel; she could afford to be flighty and independent and still have that constitute a high profile career. I think Germano probably found the record/tour grind a much less lucrative hustle, especially since she frequently goes so much darker than even Apple generally dares.
― Josh in Chicago, Wednesday, 13 February 2013 23:30 (eleven years ago) link
I remembered that Chris Ott had written a really positive and well-written review of "Lullaby for Liquid Pig" on the Pitchfork, and I clicked through this morning to read it again, cause that record rules, but it seems that the site has revised their opinion and assigned a new writer and rating four years later, ah well. This woman is all-time classic full-stop, kick rocks if you disagree
― flamboyant goon tie included, Thursday, 14 February 2013 01:47 (eleven years ago) link
I thought the PF review was fair, but I don't think Germano really cares about evolving her music anymore, or striving for a Fiona Apple-like revival, she's happy to keep putting out nearly the exact same album every three or four years and her extremely devoted fans are perfectly happy with that too.
― NoTimeBeforeTime, Thursday, 14 February 2013 11:31 (eleven years ago) link
Like I said, kick rocks
― flamboyant goon tie included, Thursday, 14 February 2013 14:14 (eleven years ago) link
I'm with NTBT on this. I loved Happiness and Geek the Girl, played them to death back in the day. But none of the later ones came close to emulating their appeal.
― my father will guide me up the stairs to bed (anagram), Thursday, 14 February 2013 14:49 (eleven years ago) link
Love that mobile phone interference on 'Dance Of The Bees'!
― The Jupiter 8 (Turrican), Friday, 10 May 2013 00:52 (ten years ago) link
Revisiting 'Lullaby For Liquid Pig' these last few days, Pearls is unbearably sad and beautiful, there's a little afterthought of a melody that comes in right before the end that breaks my heart it's so amazing.
― MaresNest, Monday, 22 April 2019 13:58 (four years ago) link
Several years since I've listened to 'Happiness' (the 4AD version, far longer since I've heard the original version). Damn, so good.
― Johnny Fever, Monday, 12 April 2021 04:04 (two years ago) link