CIVIC MINDED FIVE - e=cm5 (LP)

"i've seen the civic minded 5 play on the side of warehouse in freezing winds. And they were fucking great. lazer reminded me of the intensity of greg ginn. then someone tripped over the lamp chord and everything went black and we drank more and people bumped into one another. i've seen the CM5 in a vegas dive bar and got threatened i could'nt take pictures unless i faxed in a request. that night,they sucked balls. they played a fucking twenty minute medley that they'd restart over and over again. they were just very bad drunks. i've seen the CM5 smash a guitar in NYC and i was joyous. the crowd got rowdy. fun,punch your friends rowdy. in other words,live is a mixed bag,depending on their sobriety and their we-hate-one-another levels of irritation. Enter this cd. fuck your first song. if anything,put it after ten minutes of blank space at the end. it's a parody of aerosmtihs "sweet emotion". jesus its painful and it's shitty/ Things pick up mightily right after that. then they do thing