Lexicon Devil
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| EP by the Germs | ||||
| Released | May 1978 | |||
| Recorded | 1978 | |||
| Genre | Punk rock | |||
| Length | 5:48 | |||
| Language | English | |||
| Label | Slash | |||
| Producer | Geza X | |||
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Lexicon Devil is a three-song EP and the second release by the American punk rock band the Germs. It was also the debut output for Slash Records, and for Geza X as a producer and a recording engineer.
The record was named after its leadoff song.
Lexicon Devil found Bobby Pyn, the rather innocent "Sex Boy" from the band's debut single, reinvented as the much more darker Darby Crash, who sings his fascistic mission statement in the self-mythologizing "Circle One", the guitar frenzy which opens the side B:
I'm Darby Crash
A social blast
Chaotic master
The EP's title track is an apocalyptic manifesto full of fractured images, whose lyrics were written by Crash in the first person in the name of Adolf Hitler, who proclaims himself a "lexicon devil" in the song, which is featured here in its slower and tamer first version. "Lexicon Devil", however, might also fits Paul Beahm's new punk persona, since Crash was an aspiring cult leader obsessed with the idea of the mind control through the rhetoric, that is, using the power of words. In fact, Crash was one of the wordiest lyricists in the early Los Angeles punk scene, hence, while more musically developed than "Forming", the band's previous record, the Lexicon Devil EP is rather remarkable for its lyrics.
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