Lost Somewhere Between the Earth and My Home

Geraldine Fibbers

Product Details

• Audio CD (July 18, 1995)
• Original Release Date: July 18, 1995
• Number of Discs: 1
• Label: Virgin Records Us
• ASIN: B000000W9J
• Also Available in: Audio Cassette
• Average Customer Review: 5.0 out of 5 stars See all reviews (9 customer reviews)
• Amazon.com Sales Rank: #17,137 in Music (See Bestsellers in Music)

Editorial Reviews

Amazon.com
Rawer and bolder than fellow L.A. hardcore folkies X, the Geraldine Fibbers have lashed out with a frighteningly successful debut album. Lost Somewhere Between the Earth and My Home is an oppressively heavy record, both musically and emotionally, that brings punk rock as close as it has ever come to sounding rootsy. Ferocious and painfully beautiful, singer Carla Bozulich can't seem to decide if she's Patti Smith or Patsy Cline. Similarly numbing and relentless, Daniel Keenan's bleeding guitar and Jessy Greene's weeping violin grind and moan like the Velvet Underground reinterpreting Creedence Clearwater Revival tunes. In other words, the Fibbers growl resembles 10,000 Maniacs--that is, if they really sounded like ten thousand maniacs. Throughout Lost Between, Bozulich wails over broken and destructive relationships--that common lyrical bond between classic country and gothic gloom-rock--as if she'd met the devil at the crossroads, pierced his tongue, and then given him a ride with her to hell. She sings about sinking to a point so low that pitiful hate is the only place to turn--and where half that hate is violently thrust at those who've abused her, while the other half gets nursed inside. Sometimes she tells stories, like the grotesque tales in "A Song About Walls" and "Richard." Other times she just spews narcotized hallucinations like "Lillybelle" and "Marmalade." But always the imagery teeters nervously between goodnight prayer and bad nightmare. --Roni Sarig

Customer Reviews

Most Helpful Customer Reviews

13 of 14 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars The world was robbed of this band..., January 20, 2001

By	"ntrop" (Foster City, CA United States) - See all my reviews

As someone who over the last 18 years has owned at one time or another well over 3,000 CDs, tapes, and albums, I have to say that this record is in the top 10 of all I have ever heard. To quote Frank Sinatra (via Staurday Night Live) Carla Bozulich, the lead singer, has chunks of Courtney Love in her stool! This is the fiercest, most fully-conceived female-led punk rock record of all time. Hands down... How to describe the sound without putting people off-- it's punck-rock country-blues, played at blazing volumes. The musicianship is outstanding-- this is a band captured at its absolute PEAK. This record captures that rare magic of hearing a group of dedicated musicians playing together with a sense of purpose. It is inconceivable that this record did not lead to the break-out of this band. One suspects that the ....... (and relatively undeserved) success of Hole and Courtney Love led to this record getting overlooked. Does the world only have room for one strong female rock singer at a time? Even if that were true, one listen to this record will confirm that Carla was robbed! Everything you hate about Courney Love, Carla does NOT have! We were robbed of the experience of watching music this good succeed.

The subsequent Fibbers album, Butch, has its moments for sure, but this one sets the standard.

Lately, Carla has done an album with guitarist Nels Cline (a later member of the Fibbers) under the name Scarnella, that is very raw, rough and unrehearsed. It's a distant echo of this album, though.

If you love music, it is your DUTY to buy this album. It is in a class all by itself.

6 of 6 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars 5 stars doesn't do it justice, August 28, 1998

By	Andy Paciocco (Padova, Pd Italy) - See all my reviews

the fibbers' first full length album was universally hailed by critics as one of the year's best, but failed to sell many records. that few people have heard them is a tragedy. this is an amazing album, one that stabs at your heart just in the violin intro, and keeps you in its grip through to the end. Singer Carla Bozulich is the focal point of the music, with her deep and unconventional vocals, which are the most beautiful and emotionally expressive vocals i have ever heard in rock. Lyrically strong as well as vocally, this album mainly deal's with Bozulich's past struggles with heroin. Not that the rest of the band is overshadowed on this record. Lead guitarist Daniel Keenan plays several wonderful riffs on this album, and violinist Jessy Greene and bassist Bill Tutton do wonders with their bows. No cd collection can be complete without the Geraldine Fibbers intense, haunting, yet beautiful songs.

5 of 5 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars The Geraldine Fibbers, October 10, 2000

By A Customer

When Carla sings she sends chills up my spine. You music lovers know the chill I am talking about. The only way I know how to describe this woman is shes sings with the experience and pain of Billy Holiday and the passion of Wendy O Willams(maybe more apparant on the album Butch). The music all together is fantastic! You can hear her influences of punk,country,blues and whatever else they wanted to throw in the mix. This band should have made it big. Some of the lame bands out there that made it big can't even hold a candle to the Geraldine Fibbers!