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Rock!!!!! (CD)

By: The Violent Femmes (Artist)

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DISC 1 for Rock!!!!! (CD) Album By The Violent Femmes (Artist)
1   Living A Lie
2   Tonight
3   Bad Dream
4   I Danced
5   Thanksgiving (No Way Out)
6   Dahmer Is Dead
7   Life Is An Adventure
8   She Went To Germany
9   I Wanna See You Again
10   Didgeriblues
11   Death Drugs
12   Sweet Worlds Of Angels
 

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Review

Q (11/00, p.134) - 4 stars out of 5 - "...A bristling cornucopia of punk, rockabilly, geek rock and shiny pop. Mostly it works..."
Mojo (Publisher) (11/00, p.112) - "...Does it live up to the promise of its title? Yes..."

Title Note

Violent Femmes: Gordon Gano (vocals, guitar); Brian Ritchie (guitar, autoharp, didgeridoo, organ, acoustic bass, background vocals); Guy Hoffman (drums, background vocals).

Additional personnel: Pat Basler (alto saxophone); Bob Jennings (tenor & baritone saxophones); Ed Spangenberg (trombone); David Vartanian (electric piano); Sigmund Snopek III (Mellotron).

Recorded at DV's Perversion Room, Milwaukee, Wisconsin.

The Violent Femmes: Brian Ritchie (vocals, guitar, autoharp, didjeridu, organ, acoustic bass guitar); Gordon Gano (vocals, guitar); Guy Hoffman (vocals, drums).

Additional personnel: Pat Basler (alto saxophone); Bob Jennings (tenor saxophone, baritone saxophone, horns); Ed Spangenberg (trombone); David Vartanian (electric piano); Sigmund Snopek III (Mellotron).

The Violent Femmes have weathered both personnel changes and shifting musical trends since 1982. 2000's ROCK finds the Femmes remaining true to themselves--it's full of songs both expressing and slyly, ironically mocking adolescent (and post-adolescent) angst. The cover art features the band frolicking in decadent '70s/'80s glitter-glam poses, in the styles of the New York Dolls or Faster Pussycat, and there's a moderate influence of that period in this album's ambiance.

The snarling rockers "Bad Dream," "Death Drugs," and "Tonight" are charged with terse, crackling guitar, and snotty, defiant vocals. "She Went to Germany" is a great tribute to and parody of the Ramones in their "Sheena is a Punk Rocker" mode, and the jangly, mock-innocent love-and-lust song "I Wanna See You Again" recalls the slower tunes from that band's first album. With ROCK, the Violent Femmes greet the new millennium with their patented cheerfully ironic, awkward elan.

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