Germs were a punk rock band from Los Angeles, California, United States, originally active from 1976 to 1980.
They released only one album, 1979's (GI), produced by Joan Jett and were featured the following year in Penelope Spheeris' documentary film The Decline Of Western Civilization, which chronicled the Los Angeles punk movement. Germs disbanded following Darby Crash's suicide on 7 December 1980.
Band members:
Jan Paul Beahm (Darby Crash) - vocals
Georg Ruthenberg (Pat Smear) - guitar
Teresa Ryan (Lorna Doom) - bass
Jimmy Michael Giorsetti (Don Bolles) -drums.
"Germicide" by Germs is a live album, released in 1981 on Mohawk Records and reissued in 1998 on BOMP!.
The album was recorded live at The Whisky in their first ever performance in June 1977.
Tracklisting:
1. Introduction
2. Forming
3. Sex Boy
4. Victim
5. Sweet Dreams
6. Let's Pretend
7. Get A Grip
8. Suicide Machine
9. Sugar Sugar
10. Teenage Clone (Wild Baby)
11. Grand Old Flag
VBR ~256K/s 44100Hz Joint Stereo
"(MIA) The Complete Anthology" by Germs is a compilation album, released in 1993 on Slash Records.
Tracks:
1-2 7" Forming, released in 1977
3-5 7" Lexicon Devil, released in 1978
6-21 LP (GI), released in 1979
22-23 taken from 12" What We Do Is Secret, released in 1981
24-28 taken from the Lorimar Pictures soundtrack recording sessions for Cruising, recorded in 1979
29 taken from the Lorimar Pictures soundtrack Cruising, released in 1980
30 taken from LP What Is It?, released in 1982.
Tracklisting:
1. Forming
2. Sex Boy
3. Lexicon Devil
4. Circle One
5. No God
6. What We Do Is Secret
7. Communist Eyes
8. Land Of Treason
9. Richie Dagger's Crime
10. Strange Notes
11. American Leather
12. Lexicon Devil
13. Manimal
14. Our Way
15. We Must Bleed
16. Media Blitz
17. The Other Newest One
18. Let's Pretend
19. Dragon Lady
20. The Slave
21. Shut Down (Annihilation Man)
22. Caught In My Eye
23. Round And Round
24. My Tunnel
25. Throw It Away
26. Not All Right
27. Now I Hear The Laughter
28. Going Down
29. Lions Share
30. Forming 2
VBR ~269K/s 44100Hz Joint Stereo
Crucifix were a hardcore punk band from Berkeley, California. The band was formed in 1980, fronted by Sothira Pheng, whose family had fled Cambodia, when the Khmer Rouge took power. The band broke up in 1985.
San Fransico Bay Area's answer to Discharge. It was fitting that, after a couple of locally-released 7" EPs, and appearances on Not So Quiet On The Western Front and Rat Music For Rat People they ended up on the British anarcho label that also released the first LPs by Conflict and Antisect. Housed in a fold-out black-and-white poster sleeve, it's plain that Crass were also a major influence. The music itself is nothing original: just very, very fast hardcore with screamed vocals that leave the lyrics unintelligible. It's considered a classic by fans of the D-Beat genre.
Band members:
Sothira Pheng - vocals
Jimmy Crucifix - guitar
Jake Smith - guitar
Drew Bernstein - guitar
Matt Borruso - guitar, bass
Bryce Knights - bass
Christopher Douglas - drums.
"Dehumanization" by Crucifix is their only studio album, released in 1983 on Corpus Christi and reissued in 1994 on Southern Records.
Tracklisting:
1. Annihilation
2. How When Where
3. Skinned Alive
4. Prejudice
5. No Limbs
6. Another Mouth To Feed
7. Search For The Sun
8. Indo China
9. Three Miles To Oblivion
10. See Through Their Lies
11. Death Toll
12. Blind Destruction
13. Rise And Fall
14. Stop Torture
VBR ~267K/s 44100Hz Joint Stereo
"Exhibit A." by Crucifix is a compilation album, released in 1997 on Kustomized Records.
Tracks:
1-5 12" Crucifix, originally released in 1981
6-8 7" Nineteen Eighty-Four, originally released in 1982
9 1982 LP Not So Quiet On The Western Front
10 1982 LP Rat Music For Rat People
11-15 recorded live on 7 January 1984 at CBGB's, NYC.
Tracklisting:
1. Capitulation
2. You're Too Old
3. Religion Kills
4. Permanently Damaged
5. Brazen Hell
6. Prejudice
7. Steel Case Enclosure
8. Rise And Fall
9. Annihilation
10. Steel Case Enclosure
11. How When And Where
12. No Limbs
13. Search For The Sun
14. Rise And Fall
15. Stop Torture
16. See Through Their Lies
VBR ~269K/s 44100Hz Joint Stereo
