Album: Violent Femmes
Artist: Violent Femmes
Release Year: 1982
Hails From: Milwaukee
Tracks:
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. Ugly
12. Gimme the Car
My Thoughts: The Violent Femmes are funny to me because they are so popular with alternative, hipster kids; yet the singer whine sings and alot of the songs are very dark. Which is probably why the alternative hipster kids love it. This album is such an influence on so many alternative rock groups through out the 80's & 90's. This album is the soundtrack to teenage angst. The lead singer Gordan Gano wrote most of the songs all in highschool, so that also makes sense.
Reminds me of: dancing your pants off. or wrecking cars and burning something down. or cutting myself. whatever comes first.
Random Fact:
They were discovered by The Pretenders when they found them busking outside of a theatre in Milwaukee and Chrissie Hynde invited them to do an acoustic set after their opening act. Femme at the time was slang for Wimp in Milwaukee. ~ (Wikipedia)
Kiss Off Live
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