- Violent Femmes (album)
Infobox Album
Name = Violent Femmes
Type = Studio album
Artist =Violent Femmes
Released =November 30 1982
Recorded = All songs: July 1982 at Castle Studios inLake Geneva, Wisconsin
Track 11 & 12: Music Works Studios inLondon onAugust 31 -September 1 ,1983
Genre =Alternative rock
Length = 43:21
Label =Slash Records
Producer =Mark Van Hecke
Reviews =
*Allmusic Rating|5|5 [http://www.allmusic.com/cg/amg.dll?p=amg&sql=10:o9vyxdkbjolg link]
*Robert Christgau (B+) [http://www.robertchristgau.com/get_artist.php?name=violent+femmes link]
*"Rolling Stone Rating|4|5 [http://www.rollingstone.com/artists/violentfemmes/albums/album/99584/review/6068109/violent_femmes link]
Last album =
This album = "Violent Femmes" (1982)
Next album = "Hallowed Ground" (1984)"Violent Femmes" is the debut album by
Violent Femmes , released in 1982. The album has gone on to become one of the most acclaimed cult albums, in spite of having never achieved massive fame, and went platinum about ten years after it was released.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 byMichael Azerrad .Album
Most of the songs on the album were written when the songwriter,
Gordon Gano , was still in high school inMilwaukee, Wisconsin . "Violent Femmes" peaked at #171 on Billboard's Top 200 album chart.The cover photograph is by
Ron Hugo .Track listing
All songs written by
Gordon Gano , except as noted.Original LP
# "Blister in the Sun " – 2:25
# "Kiss Off" – 2:56
# "Please Do Not Go" – 4:15
# "Add It Up " – 4:44
# "Confessions" – 5:32
# "Prove My Love" – 2:39
# "Promise" – 2:49
# "To the Kill" – 4:01
# "Gone Daddy Gone " – 3:06 (Gano,Willie Dixon )
# "Good Feeling" – 3:521984 CD bonus tracks
#- "Ugly" – 2:21
#- "Gimme the Car" – 5:04
20th Anniversary Edition bonus tracks
#
- "Girl Trouble" (demo) - 3:07
#- "Breakin' Up" (demo) - 5:17
#- "Waiting for the Bus" (demo) - 2:08
#- "Blister in the Sun" (demo) - 2:35
#- "Kiss Off" (demo) - 2:49
#- "Please Do Not Go" (demo) - 4:18
#- "Add It Up" (demo) - 4:35
#- "Confessions" (demo) - 5:20
#- "Prove My Love" (demo) - 2:50
#- "Ugly" (UK single) - 2:22
#- "Gimme the Car" (UK single) - 5:07
20th Anniversary Edition bonus live disc
#
- "Special" (live) - 4:27
#- "Country Death Song" (live) - 5:25
#- "To the Kill" (live) - 4:19
#- "Never Tell" (live) - 7:17
#- "Break Song" (live) - 0:41
#- "Her Television" (live) - 2:28
#- "How Do You Say Goodbye" (live) - 2:43
#- "Theme and Variations" (live) - 0:54
#- "Prove My Love" (live) - 3:19
#- "Gone Daddy Gone" (live) - 3:32 (Gano, Willie Dixon)
#- "Promise" (live) - 3:09
#- "In Style" (live) - 3:43
#- "Add It Up" (live) - 6:15
#- Michael Feldman Interview from WHA-FM - 4:09
#- "Kiss Off" (live on WHA-FM) - 3:31
Personnel
*
Gordon Gano - guitar,violin , lead vocals
*Brian Ritchie - acousticbass guitar , electric bass guitar,xylophone , vocals
*Victor DeLorenzo - drum set, Scotch marchingbass drum ,snare drum andtranceaphone , vocals
*Mark Van Hecke -piano on 'Good Feeling'Influence
*
Ethan Hawke 's character in the 1994 film "Reality Bites ", plays a cover of "Add It Up" with his band Hey That's My Bike.
* A May 2005 episode of the television series "How I Met Your Mother " featured engaged couple, Marshall and Lily, trying to sneak into ahigh school prom to see if the band,The 88 , who Marshall had tentatively booked for the wedding, could play the couple's song, which was "Good Feeling."
*Gnarls Barkley 's 2006 debut album "St. Elsewhere" featured acover version of "Gone Daddy Gone."
* "Add It Up" was used as a track in thevideo game Tony Hawk's Underground 2 .
* The film, "Lost and Delirious " features "Add It Up" in a scene.
*Richard Cheese and Lounge Against the Machine covered the song "Add It Up " into aLounge style on their2005 album "Aperitif for Destruction ".
* "Gone Daddy Gone" borrows a complete verse fromWillie Dixon 's 1954 song "I Just Want to Make Love to You ." The Femmes give proper credit for this in the liner notes of their debut album.
* The song "Blister in the Sun" is the song on the previews for the show "Psych" on theUSA Network .
* The song "Blister in the Sun" plays at the beginning of the "My So-Called Life " episode entitled "Betrayal," originally aired January 12, 1995.
* "Blister in the Sun" appears in the movie "Grosse Pointe Blank " as part of a radio retrospective on the '80s.
* "Gone Daddy Gone" also features in the seminal '90's Italian filmJack Frusciante è uscito dal gruppo .
* Songs from this album were covered byGuster (with some assistance from its creators) on an episode ofMTV2 's short-lived Album Covers series in 2004.
* The song "Blister in the Sun" is played as the background music in a 2007 "Wendy's " commercial. This was seen as a point of contention by bassist Brian Ritchie, who filed suit against Gordon Gano in August 2007.
* "Kiss off" appears in the 2007 movie "Rocket Science".Charts
Album
- "Ugly" – 2:21
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