Germs - MIA: The Complete Anthology
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Free Music Review: The Germs Will Never Die!
Hit: 5 Stars
I absolutely love the Germs. They are one of my most favorite punk bands, in the top 5 range. I love their music because it is purely original, has amazing lyrics (get this album and look through the booklet at Darby Crash's lyrics -- they will blow your mind) and is just wonderful to listen to. Some of this album may be hit or miss, but if you have a taste for raw, messy, fast and loud punk rock from it's glory days, pick up a copy of MIA! I would recommend it if you like Black Flag, Circle Jerks, X, Adolescents, T.S.O.L, Weirdos or FEAR, other fantastic original LA punk bands. True punk these days may not be dead, but c'mon -- nothing can sound as wonderful as the original stuff -- and Darby Crash is one of the best frontmen in ANY band. The Germs are all about the rawness, the passion, the chaos -- isn't that what punk rock is all about? If you like *incredibly horrible* "pop-punk" which plays on your local radio stations and MTV, look elsewhere, because I doubt that you'd appreciate this music. If you are interested in reading up about the intriguing life of Darby Crash, who sadly overdosed on heroin at age 22, be sure to get Lexicon Devil, a very interesting book about his short life (and he certainly made his mark!). It's such a shame that the Germs and Darby Crash are no more. The highlight songs on this album would be - Forming (probably my favorite even though some consider it to be the worst), What We Do Is Secret, Lexicon Devil, Richie Dagger's Crime, Media Blitz, Let's Pretend, My Tunnel, Not All Right. Of course, all the songs are pure punk rock goodness. And if your just getting into punk rock be sure to check out the other LA bands I mentioned.
RIP DARBY CRASH, THE GERMS WILL NEVER DIE!
Free Music Review: The band that REALLY started it all.
Hit: 5 Stars
This classic album gives a complete look into the musical minds of the original and most controversial punk band out of LA, The Germs. This excellent album gives their most important tracks recorded from 1977 to 1980. It's a raunchy, angry, and extremely unpleasent album that sounds like it was recorded in a basement, which makes it much cooler. They band uses a mixture of Sex Pistols and late sixties psychedelica to give a sound years ahead of it's time. If people say that the Sex Pistols started punk rock, The Germs brought it out.
Even though not very talented at times, the Germs gave a very sinister and vulgar, even creepy, look into a f**ked-up society as they saw it. With songs about sex, god, satan, communism, fascism, anarchy, death, suicide, comformity, and religion, these guys started up punk rock's most evil and angry times. Said to be the original hardcore band, these guys had influence on such bands as Black Flag, Adolescents (almost sounds exactally like the first Adol. album), Dead Kennedys, and even NOFX.
What makes this album bitter-sweet is the contreversy behind the death of lead singer and songwriter Darby Crash, who commited suicide in 1980, two years after the suicide of his role model Sid Vicious. This album gives a look into the truely demented person's mind. His vocals show agony, chaos, betrayl, and abandonment. The death gives an even more eery and disturbing side to the album.
R.I.P.
Darby Crash
(195?-1980)
Free Music Review: What do you want?...Its the Germs!
Hit: 5 Stars
Your either a Germs fan or not a Germs fan. I like the Germs and am happy to have only one Germs album..."MIA: The Complete Anthology. The quality is a little rough for the first two songs (Forming and Sex Boy), but give me a break, it is what it is...recorded in a garage. What, my favorite songs? Sure, Richie Dagger's Crime, Lexicon Devil, Manimal, Shut Down, My Tunnel, Lion's Share, We Must Bleed, and No God.
Darby was an interesting character and not the mindless monster he was portrayed as. Don't forget Pat Smear was also in the band...How old is that guy now?
I don't want to make claims or tags..."the real punk rock" "How we did it in the old days" "old school punk" blah blah blah....BUT, This is the real deal and not the radio crap pseudo punk of today, whining and crying about girls or relationships or....WTF. "Kid" panned the Germs in his review and called them "nassally" and I suppose it is a fair opinion, but be smart, throw out the low and the high scores. The Germs (Darby) was a scary, entertaining and dangerous (to himself) train wreck of a person.
Your Grandma loved the Germs.
Since my original review I read 'Lexicon Devil'...check it out, it is an interesting read. One of the books about the "punk scene" written in a format of multiple authors...basically anyone that knew him adds there two cents..but still worth the read.
Free Music Review: One Of the Best PUNK Albums
Hit: 5 Stars
Punk Rock owes these guys big! The Germs were one of the most important bands in the early days of Punk. Were it not for the untimely death of Mr. Darby Crash, the bands tragic lead singer, this band would prolly be one of those on-again, off-again touring bands that the little kiddies in their store-bought "punk" garb would pay $20 to see, just because they heard they're favorite band (be it Gay-182, New Found Gay, Fag-41, or Gay Charlotte) mention them in an interview somewhere. The Germs WERE punk! Not just Punk Rock, some cute lil form of music where kids got to jump around and be someone else for a few hours--no! They were PUNK! The passion, the violence, the rawness, the realness, and most importantly, the intensity! It still existed then, and meant something more than a hair dye treatment, or a few piercings. Mall-punk needs to die, real quick! Then, we can weed out the wannabes (and now they are more apparent then ever!) and see who's really in it for the long haul! Listen the Germs as one way to begin your genesis into understanding what punk really is! Keep your MTV inspired faux-rebellion at the door. We don't need it in our scene!Free Music Review: LA's most underrated punk band..
Hit: 5 Stars
The Germs had a relatively short life span, gaining notoriety on the underground classic "The Decline of Western Civilization" and, as a result, turning many people off to their music thanks to the bands often horrible live performances (caused by a wide variety of "self-medication" before and during the show). For those who are willing to actually give the band a chance, they'll find the Germs wrote catchy punk songs with some of the most interesting, if not best, lyrics in music in the last thirty or so years. From the raw recording of "Sex Boy" to the polish of "Lion's Share", this anthology is full of some of the best punk to come out of LA at the time, and afterwards as well. The album is book ended with recordings of "Forming": the first being an early live recording and the last one a clean studio cut. With the musical talent harbored between Darby Crash and Pat Smear, the Germs could have gone on to do amazing things if it wasn't for Darby's untimely death. If you don't own this, pick it up despite what you've heard from everyone else; it's a collection of some of the finest punk to come out of LA. ever.