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Track Listings
| 1. Baby On The Plane |
| 2. A 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 Miamo-Tutti'... |
| 12. Big Big World |
| 13. Fun, Fun For Everyone |
| 14. Tom, Dick And Harry |
| 15. Messages From Sophia (Instrumental) |
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4 of 4 people found the following review helpful
5.0 out of 5 stars
The Operatic Psychodrama of Love
31 Mar 2001
By "waldglyde"
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Format:Audio CD
The second of Germano's brilliant song cycles, 'Excerpts From a Love Circus' is a moving, if disturbing, meditation on love and pain that is, by turns, Sylvia Plath and Sylvie Vartan. It is the tension between such polarities that makes Germano's music so haunting. A self-indulgent adolescent sense of teen-weltschmerz mixed with a brilliant gift for morbid tunefulness, mordant turns-of-phrase, and a voice that is one part wounded child, three parts arch-ironist. Just as no other contemporary artist combines the pop-form and confessional lyric quite as scathingly and - and this adds to her strength - wilfully selfindulgently, no one else manages her unnerving combination of gypsy rhythms, tacky pop, muted-thrash, and folk-tinged melodicism. Comparisons are unreliable, though useful, but for complexity of rhythms, and sheer herky-jerky dynamism in juxtaposing ideas, this is somewhere between the first Throwing Muses album and Lydia Lunch's Queen of Siam'. Vocally, the voice has enough wounded innocence to it to remind of Anita Lane, Nick Cave's ex, while, lyrically, the comparison to Plath is apposite. There is a strong degree of theatricalising of the self here, projecting a persona of pained, but bored, selfconsciousness, though enlivened by a nice line in self-deprecation.
My favourite aspect of this album, and of 'Geek the Girl' that preceded it, is the wilfull determination to turn what could have been quite catchy little commercial tunes into something perversely other. The wonderful 'Lovesick', and the charming, if nasty, 'I Love A Snot', are deliberately rescued from the threat of serious unit-shifting by alienating instrumentation and, in the case of the former, a wonderful middle-eight tribute to Yoko Ono. The loveliest song on the album is catchily titled 'We Suck' and extols the utter suckiness of true love. This album is perhaps not as disturbing as 'Geek the Girl', lacking the tape of domestic violence playing under a meditation on her own psychotic stalker, but, part-soap opera, part operatic psychodrama, it is still the perfect distillate of the society that produced, or poisoned, her.
4 of 4 people found the following review helpful
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All her albums deserve 5 stars
28 Nov 2000
By Rick Hellman
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Format:Audio CD
As a fan of Ms. Germano's for several years I decided to write a review of this album since reviews here were so scarce. While not my overall favorite album of hers, this one contains my favorite two songs (back to back no less) of hers to date. To say that her work is self-deprecating is an understatement. A self proclaimed alcoholic and repeat relationship failure Lisa is able to vocalize so much pain and suffering in the most candy coated way. Her music may drag a bit, but the melodies are so haunting and perfect. The two times I've seen her live were pure joy. She is so open and earnest, and while she may be nervous at each performance she gives, the audience she draws is more than forgiving. Listen to Singing to the Birds and Messages from Sophia, they are my faves.
"So what if your heroes changed their minds? And all you thought was right flew out the window? And all you based your life on wasn't real?" -Lisa Germano on Singing to the Birds
2 of 2 people found the following review helpful
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big, big heart...great big love...in the big big world
31 Jan 2005
By opentuned
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Format:Audio CD
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.
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