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Excerpts from a Love Circus is the fourth album by Lisa Germano. It was released in 1996 by the 4AD label.
In the United Kingdom, "Small Heads" was released as a single in August 1996, just prior to the album. Around this same time, Germano recorded an album with the members of Giant Sand under the name OP8; although originally commissioned by 4AD, the label passed on the album (Slush), which led to its release on Thirsty Ear Recordings in February 1997. In North America, a remix of "I Love a Snot" by Tchad Blake was serviced to radio and retail in April 1997. Another Germano collaboration of sorts was released later that year, when another Excerpts track, "Lovesick", was remixed by drum & bass producer The Underdog (aka Trevor Jackson, later of Playgroup), and released as a single on his Output Recordings label.
Track listing
- "Baby on the Plane"
- "A Beautiful Schizophrenic/"Where's Miamo-Tutti?" by Dorothy"
- "Bruises"
- "I Love a Snot"
- "Forget It, It's a Mystery"
- "Victoria's Secret/"Just a Bad Dream" by Miamo-Tutti"
- "Small Heads"
- "We Suck"
- "Lovesick"
- "Singing to the Birds"
- "Messages from Sophia/"There's More Kitties in the World than Just Miamo-Tutti" by Lisa and Dorothy"
- "Big, Big World"
- "Fun Fun Fun for Everyone (Acoustic)" *
- "Tom, Dick and Harry" *
- "Messages from Sophia (Instrumental)" *
All songs were written by Lisa Germano.
Three of the album's tracks also contain interludes which feature home recordings of two of Germano's cats, Dorothy and Miamo-Tutti. Contrary to the track listing shown on the album's packaging, "Where's Miamo-Tutti?" actually appears during the first seventeen seconds of track 3. "Just a Bad Dream" begins at the 4:19 mark of track 6, and "There's More Kitties in the World than Just Miamo-Tutti" takes up roughly the last minute of track 11.
A later edition of Excerpts, re-released by 4AD in 1999, contained tracks 2-4 from the "Small Heads" single added to the end as bonus tracks (denoted above with *), but have since been removed for subsequent editions. The song "Tom, Dick and Harry" was also performed by Germano on the OP8 album Slush.
"Small Heads", "I Love A Snot" and "Lovesick" all received considerate airplay on College & Alternative radio in America as well as the UK.
Personnel
Kenny Aronoff, Bill Bottrell, Dane Clark, Dorothy, Emily Goethals, Glenn Hicks, John Hicks, Demian Hostetter, Mark Maher, Paul Mahern, Miamo-Tutti, Allana Redecki, Craig Ross, Josh Silbert, Jake Smith, John Strohm, Thor, Wyndham Wallace. (Individual credits were not listed.)
Credits
- Produced by Paul Mahern and Lisa Germano, except track 6 produced by Bill Bottrell with assistant engineer Mark Cross.
- Recorded and mixed at Echo Park Studio in Bloomington, IN, except track 6 recorded at Toad Hall Studio in Pasadena, CA.
- Mastered by Greg Calbi at Masterdisk.
- Art direction by Paul McMenamin at v23.
- Photography by Matthew Welch.
- Portrait by Michael Wilson.