| Product Summary | | Label: Wea/rhino | | UPC: 00081227995126 | | Release Date: 10/17/2000 | | Buy.com Sku: 60437227 | | Item#: MRMR5Y | Format:  CD |
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Disc 1
| | Song Title | Sample | | 1. Blister In The Sun ~ The Violent Femmes |  | | 2. Kiss Off ~ The Violent Femmes | | | 3. Please Do Not Go ~ The Violent Femmes | | | 4. Add It Up ~ The Violent Femmes | | | 5. Confessions ~ The Violent Femmes | | | 6. Prove My Love ~ The Violent Femmes | | | 7. Promise ~ The Violent Femmes | | | 8. To The Kill ~ The Violent Femmes | | | 9. Gone Daddy Gone ~ The Violent Femmes | | | 10. Good Feeling ~ The Violent Femmes | | | 11. Ugly - (bonus track) ~ The Violent Femmes | | | 12. Gimme The Car - (bonus track) ~ The Violent Femmes | |
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| | Album Notes and Credits |
Notes & Personnel Info |  | 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. | | The Violent Femmes: Gordan Gano (vocals, guitar, violin); Brian Ritchie (vocals, nose flute, xylophone, acoustic & electric bass); Victor DeLorenzo (vocals, drums, trancephone) | | Producers include: Mark Van Hecke, Violent Femmes. | | Reissue producers: Victor DeLorenzo, Brian Ritchie | | Recorded between 1981 & 1983. Includes liner notes by Michael Azerrad. | | All tracks have been digitally remastered. | | 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. This two-disc deluxe edition includes rarities and live tracks, 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. | | 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. |
Producer: Mark Van Hecke |
Engineer: Glen L. Lorbeicki; John Tanner |
| | Artist Overview | | 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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| | Technical Info | | Release Date : 10/17/2000 | | Original Release Date : 1983 | | Catalog ID : 79951 | | Label : Slash | | Number of Discs : 2 | | Runtime : 43m : 21s | | Studio/Live : Mixed | | Mono/Stereo : Stereo | | SPAR Code : AAD | | UPC : 00081227995126 |
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| | Professional Reviews | | Q (9/02, p.130)
- 4 stars out of 5 - "...This debut still sounds remarkably fresh today....An object lesson in reissue science."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". CMJ (1/5/04, p.12)
- Ranked #13 in CMJ's "Top 20 Most-Played Albums of 1983". |
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