SWEATIN' TO THE OLDIES

Well, oh well, I just ran into a cover of "You're A Grand Old Flag" by the Germs, and thought it might be of interest to you passive Germs folks. You know who you are, the ones who don't have to hear everything they ever recorded but still get a ping of nostalgia when you hear them butcher a song (and butcher it they do). I was going to just leave it at that, but thinking that it might give first time listeners the impression that they sucked (which they often did), I thought it might be prudent to include some of their studio releases. There's also songs from the sessions that produced "Lion's Share" from the soundtrack to the film Cruising. Those recordings are somewhat muddy, coming from a bootleg before they saw an official release years later. One thing that is notable is that they were produced by Jack Nitzsche, who had worked with Phil Spector, recorded some wicked solo stuff and was responsible for putting Miles Davis and John Lee Hooker together on a couple cuts. Get out the peanut butter, this shit is messy.

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Listen:
Germs - Richie Dagger's Crime at The Adios Lounge
Germs - Communist Eyes mp3 at Punk Sounds
Germs - Lexicon Devil mp3 at 7 Inch Punk
Germs - Lexicon Devil (45 version) mp3 at KBD Records
Germs - No God mp3 at Good Bad Music For Bad Bad People
From the Cruising soundtrack studio sessions:
Germs - Throw It Away.mp3 at KBD Records
Germs - Not All Right.mp3 at KBD Records
Germs - Now I Hear The Laughter.mp3 at KBD Records
Germs - Going Down.mp3 at KBD Records
Germs - Entire Cruising session zip at Good Bad Music For Bad Bad People Five songs, includes "Lion's Share"
Oddballs and live:
Germs - Sugar Sugar (live) mp3 at Kid America Club
Germs - You're A Grand Old Flag mp3 at Cover Freak
Germs - Lexicon Devil (live) mp3 (via Box.net) at Pogo Goes The Radio At Box.net, click on the "download" button in the to right to download.
Visit:
The Germs at Wikipedia