Violent Femmes | 
 enlarge | Artist: Violent Femmes
Label: Rhino / Wea
Category: Music
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Rating:  67 reviews
Sales Rank: 1928
Format: Original Recording Reissued
Media: Audio CD
Discs: 1
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.2
Dimensions (in): 5.6 x 4.9 x 0.4
MPN: 79951
UPC: 081227995126
EAN: 0081227995126
ASIN: B00004YLBC
Release Date: October 17, 2000
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| Tracks:
| • | Blister in the Sun | | • | Kiss Off | | • | Please Do Not Go | | • | Add It Up | | • | Confessions | | • | Prove My Love | | • | Promise | | • | To the Kill | | • | Gone Daddy Gone | | • | Good Feeling | | • | Ugly | | • | Gimme the Car |
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| Editorial Reviews:
Amazon.com
Emerging, literally, from the streets of Milwaukee, Wisconsin, where they gained notoriety through busking, this strange trio led by guitarist-vocalist Gordon Gano became a cult favorite with their self-titled debut album in 1983. Influenced greatly by Jonathan Richman's Modern Lovers, the Femmes' minimalist sound pitted Gano's low-volume electric guitar against Brian Ritchie's acoustic bass guitar and Victor De Lorenzo's ashcanlike homemade drum kit--all of which only served to make Gano's angst-ridden adolescent tirades more arresting. Highlights here are the rockabillyish "Gone Daddy Gone," the snotty "Kiss Off," and the emblematically nervous "Blister in the Sun." All in all, a fond reminder of the innocent days of alt-rock. (Note: The 20th anniversary deluxe version of the album includes an additional 26 demos and live tunes, 22 of them never before released.) --Billy Altman
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| Customer Reviews:
 Great album, somewhat disappointed September 11, 2008
C. Melton (DFW)
This is a good album, but I was expecting the two bonus tracks and it came rather late so I gave a 4 star. I really wanted Gimme The Car but IT IS NOT ON THE LP release. You should be aware if you are purchasing this on vinyl! This does not have Ugly and Gimme The Car.
All in all, this is probably the best album of the 80s. Gano's angsty lyrics are the teenage soundtrack but he expresses his frustration so much better than the screamo bands of today. Fall Out Boy, Paramore, HIM you know I'm talking about you!
What can I do? I fall down dead. She'll never see the tears I cry. July 21, 2008
Tom (Grand Marais, Minnesota)
Growing up in the Minneapolis bar and music scene in the 1980s, I thought the only good thing that could come out of Wisconsin was Interstate 94. How wrong I was.
The Violent Femmes hit the Prince-saturated live music scene here like a plate of steaming-hot cheese nachos and a Pabst Blue Ribbon. Gordon Gano came from a place and a time where if your girlfriend dumped you, you could get drunk, get high, have a neurotic fit, and not hurt anybody but yourself. Actually, their music is the soundtrack for that kind of activity.
Other reviews complain that the Femmes could never top this album. Then, again, I think few bands could. Remember, the Femmes have put up four genuine rock and roll anthems like "Add it Up", "Blister in the sun", "Gone Daddy Gone", and "American Music".
Let's not criticize the perfection of the first album in light of the imperfections of the following works.
This is a must-buy collection of indigenous American folk-punk. I am pleased to see from all the reviews that it has found it's rightful place in American music history. Even if it did come from Wisconsin.
An 80's Classic December 21, 2007
Manuel D. Benitez (Ft. Lauderdale, FL)
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I don't know of anyone who grew up in the 80's and hasn't heard this CD - it's a classic, pure and simple.
Good Feeling December 3, 2007
B. Hinton (Richardson, TX United States)
Once again, another great record that I was turned on to in the mid 80's by a great college radio station. Easily the best of their records this quirky little oddity was one of the best albums of the 80's and is a classic example of what alternative used to mean - under produced and unique. The tacked on CD songs don't add much - Good Feeling is where this record really ends and rightly so. Listening to this record in the years since high school always briefly takes me back to that place but the catchy greatness of this album imprints it in the present as well. I have no other way of defining the qualities of a great recording.
What makes this album great. . . December 1, 2007
John Gerdes (Fort Worth, TX United States)
. . .is the fact that these guys are amazing songwriters and instrumentalists. At a glance, I didn't see anyone talking about that here so I felt compelled to bring it up.
To some, the tone of this album is a turn-off. But it's just not overproduced. What I love about it is that you can HEAR the instruments as if the band was in the room with you. There are no dramatic arrangements to cloud the water. It is pure music, served without garnish for your enjoyment.
This collection of songs will remain in the High Canon of American music for generations to come.
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