Date: Mon, 12 Aug 1996 13:48:25 EDT 
            From: Dez (100702.123@COMPUSERVE.COM) 
            Subject: Gus Gus / Lisa Germano


      Lisa Germano - Small Heads
              A grower, I think. I'm still not 100% convinced, though I am much more s

      on second hearing than I was on first. By fourth or fifth I may be hailing it as
      a masterpiece. Of the three extra tracks, Fun Fun For Everyone, Tom, Dick And
      Harry and Messages From Sophia, the last is the best. It's an instrumental
      (vocal version on the album, anyone?) that reminds me a little of River from
      Joni Mitchell's Blue album, particularly the jingle-bells piano coda. Moody and
      moving.

                  Date: Tue, 20 Aug 1996 09:55:09 +0100 
                  From: Andrew Norman (nja@LEICESTER.AC.UK) 
                  Subject: Hot Burrito, Muses, Germano and other stuff 

             Lisa Germano - the "Small Heads" EP is fantastic, I have even grown to
             love the B-sides (perhaps the fact that I have been on a Frank Zappa
             binge recently makes me more kindly disposed towards songs about
             roadies breaking people's hearts).  On the evidence of "Happiness" I
             thought LG was going to be one of those mildly entertaining but not
             essential acts, but since "Geek the Girl" she's become one of the best
             things on 4AD.