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Violent Femmes (CD)

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The Violent Femmes Artist Snapshot:

What do you do when your first album is the CITIZEN KANE of alternative rock? Spend the next two decades living in its shadow. Inspired by the Modern Lovers and the Velvet Underground, the Violent Femmes pioneered the use of acoustic instruments in post-punk/new wave, with great success straight out of the gate. The band continued to record and perform into the 1990s, releasing albums with a consistent and familar sound.

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DISC 1 for Violent Femmes (CD) Album By The Violent Femmes (Artist)
1   Blister In The Sun
2   Kiss Off
3   Please Do Not Go
4   Add It Up
5   Confessions
6   Prove My Love
7   Promise
8   To The Kill
9   Gone Daddy Gone
10   Good Feeling
11   Ugly - (bonus track)
12   Gimme The Car - (bonus track)
 

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Review

Uncut (9/02, pp.122-123) - 4 stars out of 5 - "Innocent fun from an overlooked era."
CMJ (1/5/04, p.12) - Ranked #13 in CMJ's "Top 20 Most-Played Albums of 1983".

Title Note

The Violent Femmes: Gordon Gano (vocals, guitar, violin); Brian Ritchie (acoustic & electric basses, xylophone, background vocals); Victor DeLorenzo (drums, tranceaphone, background vocals).



Recorded at Castle Studios, Lake Geneva, Wisconsin in July 1982 and Music Works Studios, London, England on August 31 & September 1, 1983.

An undisputed classic of the American rock underground, the Violent Femmes' 1982 self-titled debut still shines with its original luster. Quirky, catchy, innovative, and explosive, the Femmes made what was probably the first acoustic punk-folk-rockabilly-New Wave document for the dispossessed. The formula is as ingenious as it is simple--a trio playing guitar, bass, and drums runs through songs of adolescent angst, vulnerability, and social/sexual frustration.

In addition to their distinctive, minimal sound--guitarist Gordon Gano's rhythmic chord progressions filled out by Brian Ritchie's fluid bass and Victor De Lorenzo's aggressive brushwork on the drums--it is Gano's singing and superb songwriting that earmarks VIOLENT FEMMES. For the most part, Gano sounds like a psychotic, self-pitying, hormonally crazed teenager as he whines, stutters, and yowls his way through these remarkable songs. The CD includes two tracks not on the original album, in addition to the paranoid "Kiss Off," the slinky "Gone Daddy Gone," and the lusty "Add It Up." And, of course, anyone who was a teenager in the '80s knows the glorious "Blister in the Sun," a seemingly permanent staple of dance venues across the United States.

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