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{{Infobox album
| name       = Excerpts from a Love Circus
| type       = [[Album]]
| artist     = [[Lisa Germano]]
| cover      = germanolovecircus.jpg
| alt        =
| released   = September 9, 1996
| recorded   =
| venue      =
| studio     =
| genre      = [[Alternative rock]], [[dream pop]], [[folk rock]]
| length     = 51:52
| label      = [[4AD]]
| producer   = Paul Mahern, Lisa Germano, [[Bill Bottrell]]
| prev_title = [[Geek the Girl]]
| prev_year  = 1994
| next_title = [[Slide (Lisa Germano album)|Slide]]
| next_year  = 1998
}}
{{Album ratings
| rev1      = [[AllMusic]]
| rev1Score = {{rating|4|5}}<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.allmusic.com/album/excerpts-from-a-love-circus-mw0000073216|title=Excerpts from a Love Circus - Lisa Germano &#124; Songs, Reviews, Credits &#124; AllMusic|via=www.allmusic.com}}</ref>
|rev2 = ''[[Entertainment Weekly]]''
|rev2score = B+<ref name="auto">{{Cite web|url=https://ew.com/article/1996/09/20/excerpts-love-circus/|title=Excerpts From a Love Circus|website=EW.com}}</ref>
|rev3=''[[Los Angeles Times]]''
|rev3Score={{rating|2.5|4}}<ref name="LA">{{cite news |last1=Rosenbluth |first1=Jean |title=LISA GERMANO 'Excerpts From a Love Circus' |work=Los Angeles Times |date=22 Sep 1996 |location=Calendar |page=65}}</ref>
}}
'''''Excerpts from a Love Circus''''' is an album by the American musician [[Lisa Germano]].<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.allmusic.com/artist/lisa-germano-mn0000299500/biography|title=Lisa Germano Biography, Songs, & Albums|website=AllMusic}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web|url=http://chicagoreader.com/music/lisa-germano/|title=Lisa Germano|first=Peter|last=Margasak|date=March 27, 1997|website=Chicago Reader}}</ref> It was released in 1996 by [[4AD]].<ref>{{cite web |title=Lisa Germano |url=https://trouserpress.com/reviews/lisa-germano/ |website=Trouser Press |access-date=23 April 2022}}</ref>
In the [[United Kingdom]], "Small Heads" was released as a single in August 1996, just prior to the album.  Around this same time, Germano recorded an album with the members of [[Giant Sand]] under the name [[OP8]]; although originally commissioned by 4AD, the label passed on the album (''[[Slush (album)|Slush]]''), which led to its release on [[Thirsty Ear Recordings]] in February 1997.  In [[North America]], a [[remix]] of "I Love a Snot" by [[Tchad Blake]] was serviced to radio and retail in April 1997.  Another Germano collaboration of sorts was released later that year, when another ''Excerpts'' track, "Lovesick", was remixed by [[Drum and bass|drum & bass]] producer The Underdog (aka Trevor Jackson, later of [[Playgroup (band)|Playgroup]]), and released as a single on his Output Recordings label.
==Critical reception==
''[[Entertainment Weekly]]'' wrote that "Germano adds trembling violins to other aural oddities, like the plinking of a toy piano and the purring of her cat ... Those quirky elements help lighten the troubled lullabies."<ref name="auto"/> The ''[[Tucson Weekly]]'' thought that "Germano's music is dreamy, with her haunting violin and keyboards coloring the drifty, mercurial arrangements."<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.tucsonweekly.com/tw/11-28-96/qscans.htm|title=Quick Scans (November 28 - December 4, 1996)|website=www.tucsonweekly.com}}</ref>
==Track listing==
# "Baby on the Plane"
# "A Beautiful Schizophrenic/"Where's Miamo-Tutti?" by Dorothy"
# "Bruises"
# "I Love a Snot"
# "Forget It, It's a Mystery"
# "Victoria's Secret/"Just a Bad Dream" by Miamo-Tutti"
# "Small Heads"
# "We Suck"
# "Lovesick"
# "Singing to the Birds"
# "Messages from Sophia/"There's More Kitties in the World than Just Miamo-Tutti" by Lisa and Dorothy"
# "Big, Big World"
# "Fun Fun Fun for Everyone (Acoustic)" *
# "Tom, Dick and Harry" *
# "Messages from Sophia (Instrumental)" *
All songs were written by Lisa Germano.
Three of the album's tracks also contain interludes which feature home recordings of two of Germano's cats, Dorothy and Miamo-Tutti.  Contrary to the track listing shown on the album's packaging, "Where's Miamo-Tutti?" actually appears during the first seventeen seconds of track 3.  "Just a Bad Dream" begins at the 4:19 mark of track 6, and "There's More Kitties in the World than Just Miamo-Tutti" takes up roughly the last minute of track 11.
A later edition of ''Excerpts'', re-released by 4AD in 1999, contained tracks 2-4 from the "Small Heads" single added to the end as bonus tracks (denoted above with *), but have since been removed for subsequent editions.  The song "Tom, Dick and Harry" was also performed by Germano on the OP8 album ''Slush''.
"Small Heads", "I Love A Snot" and "Lovesick" all received considerate airplay on College & Alternative radio in America as well as the UK.
==Personnel==
[[Kenny Aronoff]], [[Bill Bottrell]], Dane Clark, Dorothy, Emily Goethals, Glenn Hicks, John Hicks, Demian Hostetter, Mark Maher, Paul Mahern, Miamo-Tutti, Allana Redecki, Craig Ross, Josh Silbert, Jake Smith, [[John Strohm (musician)|John Strohm]], Thor, Wyndham Wallace.  (Individual credits were not listed.)
==Credits==
* Produced by Paul Mahern and Lisa Germano, except track 6 produced by Bill Bottrell with assistant engineer Mark Cross.
* Recorded and mixed at Echo Park Studio in [[Bloomington, Indiana|Bloomington, IN]], except track 6 recorded at Toad Hall Studio in [[Pasadena, California|Pasadena, CA]].
* Mastered by Greg Calbi at [[Masterdisk]].
* Art direction by Paul McMenamin at [[23 Envelope|v23]].
* Photography by Matthew Welch.
* Portrait by Michael Wilson.
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