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These are some excellent songs, however, as the outside packaging fails to infrom you, 13 of the 18 tracks are live recordings. The recordings of the live tracks are quite poor...you can barely hear most of Darby Crash's vocals. The aggression of the band comes through great, but Darby's vocals really make the Germs, and that is lacking here. I suggest you get the anthology where you get the whole thing. The Germs were definitely an excellent aggressive band.

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raw punk at its greatest this album is live at the whisky and live at the hong kong cafe and thers some studio tracks too i own the album and its great!!! if u havent heard the germs before you should listen to MIA complete anthology. then this one. you'll gain more respect for the germs. maybay another band will come to the same point and create punk jsut as great as this.
A Great ALBum start 2 finish

The germs were a great band.Most of their best songs are on this cd so buy it.Darby Crash rules!

The Germs career was,sadly cut short when vocalist Darby Crash (1959-80)died of a heroin overdose. Crash (birth name: Jan Paul Breahm) has been said by some to have actually out do Sid Vicious as for living the life of a 'real punk'. Either way, The Germs were a good full-throttled all American punk band, ANY way you slice it. Tracks here that had me sit up and take some notice were "Round 'N Round", the in-your-face "Sex Boy", "Manimal", "Shut Down" and "Throw It Away". Should appeal to fans of Dead Kennedys, The Zeros, Social Distortion, Black Flag and Circle Jerks. A worthy pick of old school punk.

DARBY CRASH LIVED HIS LIFE IN THE BLINK OF AN EYE.JOINED BY OTHER L.A. PUNK ROCKERS SUCH PAT SMEAR, WHO LATER PLAYED WITH THE FOO FIGHTERS,THE BAND DEFINED THE PHRASE "LIVE FAST ,DIE YOUNG".THIS GERMS ALBUM SHOWS THE MISGUIDED POETRY OF DARBY THROUGH HIS LYRICS IN SUCH SONGS AS LEXICON DEVIL AND MANIMAL.PAY CLOSE ATTENTION TO HIS WORDS AND HEAR WHAT IT WAS LIKE TO BE IN THE MAYHEM OF THE FORMATIVE YEARS OF THE PUNK MOVEMENT.A MUST FOR ALL "TRUE" PUNKERS MIXED UP IN THIS WORLD OF OURS.DARBY CRASH RIDES AGAIN!!

Darby Crash is a god. The germs music is the original punk, this is the kind of music that insites you to hit things. I think anyone who likes punk rock should buy this cd, or they will face death. The germs are the absoloute best punk rockers, and they should still be around today (unfortunately they aren't).

This disc wasn't worth what i paid for it when I had it ordered for me in a music store. I had to settle for this since the M.I.A. anthology is no longer in stock , and I was very disappointed. "Forming" was the only song worth listening to , the others were muddy and poorly recorded with the bass and drums blocking out the guitar and vocals. Wait for the anthology to be rereleased , don't get this.

I have an vintage (vintage in a bad way) tape player/radio that can make better recordings that what this cd has on it. But The Germs are a really good band so by all means get their other albums just not this.

Darby Crash is a genious, unfortunatley you cant here most of his lyrics in this mostly live CD. It is still a must have for me and will always be on my record player.