Why Do Birds Sing? (CD)

• Category:  Music  »  Rock & Pop  »  Alternative
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• Release Date: April 30, 1991
• Label: Reprise
• UPC: 075992647625
• WAPI (Tower ID): 106709282
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• Tower.com Sales Rank: #38512 in Music (See Top 100 Music Bestsellers)
• #12744 in Rock & Pop (See Top 100 Rock & Pop Bestsellers)
• #1295 in Alternative (See Top 100 Alternative Bestsellers)

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The Violent Femmes: Brian Ritchie (vocals, guitar, bouzouki, banjo, ukelele, jaw harp, didgeridoo, acoustic & 8-string slide wahwah basses, glockenspiel); Gordon Gano (vocals, guitar); Victor DeLorenzo (drums, percussion, background vocals).

Additional personnel: Ilene Novag, Suzie Katayama, Sid Page, Larry Corbett (strings); Michael Beinhorn (piano, Mellotron, harmonium, keyboards).

WHY DO BIRDS SING? (1991) features many of the elements that made the first pair of Violent Femmes records so great--and even includes several songs written at the same time as the songs on those albums. "American Music" opens, one of singer/guitarist Gordon Gano's best songs and an ode to, well, American music, it highlights call and response vocals punctuated by clapping. "Out the Window" is a showcase for Gano's archetypal choppy acoustic guitar playing, which in this case is grafted onto a bizarrely cheerful song about suicide.

One of the album's highpoints is "Do You Really Want to Hurt Me," the Femmes radical destruction and re-construction of Culture Club's hit single of the same name. Once again proving that the Femmes are the greatest geek-rock band in the alternative scene, WHY DO BIRDS is easily the band's best album since 1985's HALLOWED GROUND.

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