Lisa Germano: Born 1958. Songwriter, singer and multi-instrumentalist
Germano was one of six children born into an Italian-American Catholic family in Mishawaka, Indiana. Her parents encouraged their children to learn instruments from an early age. Germano's first attempt at writing music was a 15-minute opera for the piano written at age seven. Later she took up the violin, the instrument that led her to a career in music.
She became a member of John Mellencamp's band during the recording of his 1987 album The Lonesome Jubilee, and continued to work and tour with him for the following seven years. During this time, she also toured and recorded with bands such as Simple Minds and the Indigo Girls, which prompted her to pursue her own music.
Germano issued her first solo album, the lo-fi On the Way Down From the Moon Palace, in 1991 on her own label, Major Bill Records. Without major distribution and promotion, sales were low, but the album helped bring Germano to the attention of Capitol Records. Source: Wikipedia
Discography:
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1. On the Way Down From the Moon Palace - Major Bill Records 1991
Tracks:
1. On the Way Down From the Moon Palace / 2. Game (Or the Music Business) /3. Blue Monday / 4. Calling / 5. Hangin' With a Dead Man / 6. Screaming Angels Dancing in Your Garden / 7. Riding My Bike / 8. Simply Tony / 9. Dig My Own Grave / 10. Cry Baby / 11. Bye Bye Little Doggie / 12. The Other One / 13. Dark irie
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2. Happiness - Capitol 1993
Tracks:
1. Around the World / 2. You Make Me Want to Wear Dresses / 2. Happiness / 3. Bad Attitude / 4. Sycophant / 5. Miamo-Tutti / 6. Energy / 7. Cowboy / 8. Puppet / 9. These Boots Are Made for Walkin' / 10. Breathe Across Texas / 11. Everyone's Victim / 12. The Darkest Night of All / 13. Destroy the Flower* / 14. The Earth*
Rating :7
3. Geek the Girl - 4AD 1994
Tracks:
1. My Secret Reason / 2. Trouble / 3. Geek the Girl / 4. Just Geek / 5. Cry Wolf / 6. A Psychopath / 7. Sexy Little Girl Princess / 8. Phantom Love / 9. Cancer of Everything / 10. A Guy Like You / 11. ...of Love and Colors / 12. Stars
Rating : 7
4. Excerpts From a Love Circus - 4AD 1996
Tracks:
1. Baby on the Plane / 2. A Beautiful Schizophrenic "Wheres Miamo-Tutti? / 3. Bruises / 4. I Love a Snot / 5. Forget It It's a Mystery / 6. Victorias 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
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5. Slush - (OP8) Thirsty Ear 1997
Tracks:
1. Sand / 2 Lost in Space / 3. If I Think of Love / 4. Leather / 5. It's a Rainbow / 6. OP8 / 7. Cracklin' Water / 8. Never See It Coming / 9. Tom, Dick & Harry / 10. The Devil Loves L.A. / 11. Round and Round
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6. Slide - 4AD 1998
Tracks:
1. Way Below the Radio / 2. No Color Here / 3. Tomorrowing / 4. Electrified / 5. Slide / 6. If I Think of Love / 7. Crash / 8. Wood Floors / 9. Turning Into Betty / 10. Guillotine
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7. Lullaby for Liquid Pig - Artists Direct 2003
Tracks:
1. Nobody's Playing / 2. Paper Doll / 3. Liquid Pig / 4. Pearls / 5. Candy / 6. Dream Glasses Off / 7. From a Shell / 8. It's Party Time / 9. All the Pretty Lies / 10. Lullaby for Liquid Pig / 11. Into the Night / 12. ..to Dream
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8. In the Maybe World - Young God Records 2006
Tracks:
1. The Day / 2. Too Much Space / 3. Moon in Hell / 4. Golden Cities / 5. Into Oblivion / 6. In the Land of Fairies / 7. Wire / 8. In the Maybe World / 9. Red Thread / 10. A Seed / 11. Except for the Ghosts / 12. After Monday
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9. Magic Neighbor - Young God Records 2009
Tracks:
1. Marypan / 2. To the Mighty One / 3. Simple / 4. Kitty Train / 5. The Prince of Plati / 6. A Million Times / 7. Magic Neighbor / 8. Suli-mon / 9. Snow / 10. Painting the Doors / 11. Cocoon
Rating : 6
10. No Elephants - Badman Recording Co 2013
Tracks:
1. Ruminants / 2. No Elephants / 3. Apathy and the Devil / 4. Back to Earth / 5. Haunted / 6. A Feast / 7. Up in the Air / 8. Dance of the Bees / 9. Diamonds / 10. …And so On / 11. Last Straws for Sale / 12. Strange Bird
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Essential Albums!
Original albums as listed and rated on “Rate Your Music” - November 28 - 2017
66 Geek the Girl - 1994
167 Slush - 1997
283 Excerpts From a Love Circus - 1996
327 Happiness - 1993
549 Slide - 1998
661 On the Way Down From the Moon Palace - 1991
790 Lullaby for Liquid Pig - 2003
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My Suggestion For a 80 minutes (app.) Best Of Compilation: ( More tracks will be added eventually!)
1. The Dresses Song ( Germano ) Happiness
2. Energy ( Germano ) Happiness
3. A Million Times ( Germano ) Magic Neighbor
4. Bad Attitude ( Germano ) Happiness
5. The Prince of Plati ( Germano ) Magic Neighbor
6. The Darkest Night of All ( Germano ) Happiness
7. Cocoon ( Germano ) Magic Neighbor
8. Around the World ( Germano ) Happiness
9. Stars ( Germano ) Geek the Girl
10. Puppet ( Germano ) Happiness
11. Trouble ( Germano ) Geek the Girl
12. Geek the Girl ( Germano ) Geek the Girl
13. Just Geek ( Germano/Burn ) Geek the Girl
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