http://www.vfemmes.com/ Slash records 1982. This is the Rhino Reissue 2002. 2 CD In 2002, Rhino Records remastered the album, filled out the disc's length with demos, and added another disc of live tracks and a radio interview for a 20th anniversary special edition, with liner notes by Michael Azerrad. Disc: 1 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. Girl Trouble (Demo) [36:23] 12. Breakin' Up (Demo) 13. Waiting For The Bus (Demo) 14. Blister In The Sun (Demo) 15. Kiss Off (Demo) 16. Please Do Not Go (Demo) 17. Add It Up (Demo) 18. Confessions (Demo) 19. Prove My Love (Demo) 20. Ugly (UK Single) [1:09:21] 21. Gimme The Car (UK Single) Disc: 2 1. Special (Live) 2. Country Death Song (Live) 3. To The Kill (Live) 4. Never Tell (Live) 5. Break Song (Live) 6. Her Television (Live) 7. How Do You Say Goodbye (Live) 8. Theme And Variations (Live) 9. Prove My Love (Live) 10. Gone Daddy Gone (Live) 11. Promise (Live) 12. In Style (Live) 13. Add It Up (Live) 14. Michael Feldman Interview 15. Kiss Off (Live) Get The Original 10 Tracks on Green Marbled Vinyl! https://www.newburycomics.com/products/violent-femmes-violent-femmes-lp-vinyl?variant=4629289027 *Violent Femmes is the debut album by Violent Femmes. Mostly recorded in July 1982, the album was released by Slash Records on vinyl and on cassette in April 1983, and on CD in 1987 with two extra tracks "Ugly" and "Gimme the Car". Violent Femmes is the band's most successful album to date and went platinum eight years after its release. The album achieved what is believed to be a unique feat by going gold, four years after its release, without having yet made an appearance on Billboard's Top 200 album chart. Slant Magazine listed the album at #21 on its list of "Best Albums of the 1980s". Most of the songs on both this album and its follow-up were written when the songwriter, Gordon Gano, was still in high school in Milwaukee, Wisconsin. Violent Femmes peaked at #171 on Billboard's Top 200 album chart in 1991. *Violent Femmes were founded in 1980 by bassist/multi-instrumentalist Brian Ritchie and drummer Victor De Lorenzo. The name is a contradiction in terms, ”Violent” being self-explanatory and ”Femmes” being Milwaukee slang for wimp. The rhythm section added high school singer/songwriter Gordon Gano in 1981. Gano and Ritchie had previously performed together at Gano’s National Honor Society induction ceremony, where they caused a near riot. Gano was expelled from the Society and suspended from high school for this outrage. One of the only stable aspects of the band is their aversion to rehearsal. Due to this they would take the music to the streets in an attempt to hone it and earn some spare change. It was on one of these occasions that they were spotted by the Pretenders. Chrissie Hynde and the gang were so amused by the Violent Femmes antics that they invited the band to open the show for them. The hometown Milwaukee audience received the Femmes with unanimous booing. However by the end of the set the Femmes had converted approximately 50% of the audience to their cause. Many years later Brian Ritchie encountered Hynde when the Femmes and Pretenders shared the bill at a radio concert. She said, ”Oh, you’re still around.” The Femmes borrowed $10,000 from Victor De Lorenzo’s dad to record their legendary first album in 1982. Slash Records in Los Angeles was the only label to offer them a deal with the amazing advance of $0. The band accepted the deal and started on the predictable round of world tours, recording, more world tours, nervous breakdowns, band members quitting, solo albums, regrouping, more touring, divorces, more crackups, dropped from record deals, new deals, more touring, record company going bankrupt, lawsuits, etc. etc. etc. ad infinitum. Fast forward to the present. Many things have changed. One thing that hasn’t is the sound of the band. Their loose, improvisational, acoustic sound is timeless. Mouthpiece Gordon Gano has been called ”the elder statesman of teen angst” in the New York Times. Such Gano lyrical pearls as ”Why can’t I get just one f@#k?”, ”When I’m out walking I strut my stuff, I am so strung out”, ”I used too many drugs!” and ”C’mon dad gimme the car, I’ve got a girl I wanna f@#k!” have become philosophical touchstones for generations of rock listeners. His distinctive whiny voice, derided by Rolling Stone magazine in ’84 for its ”ability to clear out a room faster than a methane explosion” is now one of the most influential in pop music. Those following on his path include Kurt Cobain, Billy Corgan, Ben Kweller, the Barenaked Ladies and Lou Reed to mention just a few. Gano released his first solo album in 2002.

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