Violent Femmes
Studio album by Violent Femmes
Released	November 30, 1982
Recorded	All songs: July 1982 at Castle Studios in Lake Geneva, Wisconsin Track 11 & 12: Music Works Studios in London on August 31-September 1, 1983
Genre	Alternative rock
Length	43:21
Label	Slash Records
Producer	Mark Van Hecke
Professional reviews
All Music Guide link Robert Christgau (B+) link Rolling Stone link
Violent Femmes chronology
Violent Femmes (1982) Hallowed Ground (1984)

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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. Rhino Entertainment is a specialty record label originally known for releasing retrospectives of famous comedy performers, including Stan Freberg, Tom Lehrer, and Spike Jones. ... For other uses, see demo. ... Michael Azerrad is an American author, journalist and musician. ...

Album

Most of the songs on the album 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. Gano in concert with the Violent Femmes, 2006. ... For other places with the same name, see Milwaukee (disambiguation). ... Billboard is a weekly American magazine devoted to the music industry. ...

The cover photograph is by Ron Hugo.

Track listing

All songs written by Gordon Gano, except as noted. Gano in concert with the Violent Femmes, 2006. ...

Original LP

1. "Blister in the Sun" – 2:25
2. "Kiss Off" – 2:56
3. "Please Do Not Go" – 4:15
4. "Add It Up" – 4:44
5. "Confessions" – 5:32
6. "Prove My Love" – 2:39
7. "Promise" – 2:49
8. "To the Kill" – 4:01
9. "Gone Daddy Gone" – 3:06 (Gano, Willie Dixon)
10. "Good Feeling" – 3:52

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11. "Ugly" – 2:21
12. "Gimme the Car" – 5:04

20th Anniversary Edition bonus tracks

11. "Girl Trouble" (demo) - 3:07
12. "Breakin' Up" (demo) - 5:17
13. "Waiting for the Bus" (demo) - 2:08
14. "Blister in the Sun" (demo) - 2:35
15. "Kiss Off" (demo) - 2:49
16. "Please Do Not Go" (demo) - 4:18
17. "Add It Up" (demo) - 4:35
18. "Confessions" (demo) - 5:20
19. "Prove My Love" (demo) - 2:50
20. "Ugly" (UK single) - 2:22
21. "Gimme the Car" (UK single) - 5:07

20th Anniversary Edition bonus live disc

1. "Special" (live) - 4:27
2. "Country Death Song" (live) - 5:25
3. "To the Kill" (live) - 4:19
4. "Never Tell" (live) - 7:17
5. "Break Song" (live) - 0:41
6. "Her Television" (live) - 2:28
7. "How Do You Say Goodbye" (live) - 2:43
8. "Theme and Variations" (live) - 0:54
9. "Prove My Love" (live) - 3:19
10. "Gone Daddy Gone" (live) - 3:32 (Gano, Willie Dixon)
11. "Promise" (live) - 3:09
12. "In Style" (live) - 3:43
13. "Add It Up" (live) - 6:15
14. Michael Feldman Interview from WHA-FM - 4:09
15. "Kiss Off" (live on WHA-FM) - 3:31

Personnel

• Gordon Gano - guitar, violin, lead vocals
• Brian Ritchie - acoustic bass guitar, electric bass guitar, xylophone, vocals
• Victor DeLorenzo - drum set, Scotch marching bass drum, snare drum and tranceaphone, vocals
• Mark Van Hecke - piano on 'Good Feeling'

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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 a high 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 a cover version of "Gone Daddy Gone."
• "Add It Up" was used as a track in the video 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 a Lounge style on their 2005 album "Aperitif for Destruction".
• "Gone Daddy Gone" borrows a complete verse from Willie 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 the USA 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 film Jack Frusciante è uscito dal gruppo.
• Songs from this album were covered by Guster (with some assistance from its creators) on an episode of MTV2'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.

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Charts

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