Geek the Girl

Geek the Girl
Studio album by Lisa Germano
Released	October 25, 1994
Genre	Alternative rock, dream pop, folk rock
Length	43:38
Label	4AD
Producer	Lisa Germano and Malcolm Burn
Lisa Germano chronology
Happiness (1993/1994) Geek the Girl (1994) Excerpts from a Love Circus (1996)

Professional ratings
Review scores
Source	Rating
Allmusic	[1]
Entertainment Weekly	A+ [2]
Rolling Stone	[3]
Stylus Magazine	[4]

Geek the Girl is the third album by Lisa Germano. A breakthrough of sorts for her, it was released in 1994 on 4AD, just six months after the re-release of her previous album, Happiness. The album earned Germano the most praise she'd yet received from the press, becoming a critical favorite, including being featured as a top album of the 1990s by the music magazine Spin. Much attention was given to the track "...A Psychopath", which contains audio taken from an actual 9-1-1 emergency phone call placed by a woman who was being terrorized by an intruder in her home.^{[citation needed]}

Track listing

1. "My Secret Reason"
2. "Trouble"
3. "Geek the Girl"
4. "Just Geek"
5. "Cry Wolf"
6. "...A Psychopath"
7. "Sexy Little Girl Princess"
8. "Phantom Love"
9. "Cancer of Everything"
10. "A Guy Like You"
11. "...Of Love and Colors"
12. "Stars"

All songs were written by Lisa Germano, except tracks 4 and 7 written by Germano/Burn, and track 5 written by Germano/Jay Joyce.

A music video for "Cry Wolf" was produced, the video helped the songs become one of Germano's more popular compositions and was featured in the movie and soundtrack "Rain", years later. The video can be viewed on the MUZU TV website.

Personnel

• Kenny Aronoff – drums (tracks 3, 9, 12)
• Malcolm Burn – drums (4, 7), dulcimer (7), guitar (4, 9), piano (7)

Credits

• Produced by Lisa Germano and Malcolm Burn at an uncredited studio.
• Tracks 3, 5, 9, and 12 were mixed by Malcolm Burn at Echo Park Studio in Bloomington, IN, and Kenny Aronoff's drum performances were also recorded there. Assistant engineers were Mark Hood, Pat Keating, and Ron Black.
• Mastered by Greg Calbi at Masterdisk.
• Art direction by Paul McMenamin at v23.
• Photography by Dominic Davies.

References

1. ^ Geek the Girl at Allmusic
2. ^ Entertainment Weekly review
3. ^ Rolling Stone review
4. ^ Stylus Magazine review

External links

• Geek the Girl at 4AD