VIOLENT FEMMES
Hallowed Ground
2024 U.S. Ltd. Edition reissue
Orange Smoke #vinyl
40th Anniversary

Unequivocally the greatest record The Violent Femmes ever made, and I don’t think it’s particularly close.

It’s such an incredibly dark and fucked up record in comparison to their debut, trading catchy #folk #punk for #avantgarde and #gothic sounding #americana .

All of its ingredients; the #country , #goth and twisted religious underbelly makes for quite the unsettling musical experience.
In the BEST way possible.

For my money, there is no murder ballad in the history of popular music that is more wonderfully demented than “Country Death Song”.

Maybe Ween’s “Buenos Tardes Amigo”, but that one is way more tongue in cheek.

A near perfect fraying of the senses, this record.

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VIOLENT FEMMES
Add It Up (1981-1993)
2021 U.S. 2xLP pressing

Saturday night with the Femmes.

This is one of those absolutely perfect compilations of a band’s work. I talked about it when I posted Special View by The Only Ones a few weeks ago. You could argue that Add It Up might be the only thing you’d ever need to own by the Violent Femmes.

It covers all possible bases; signature songs of theirs like “Blister In The Sun”, “American Music”, “I Held Her In My Arms”, and “Gone Daddy Gone”, but also the deeper and weirder cuts like the frightening “Country Death Song”, as well as five killer live tracks.

Such a great, odd, completely singular band.

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With xylophone as the key word in this weeks #FortnightFridayMusic I have two songs I love that fit the bill by including xylophones

The first from the only Milwaukee folk-punk band I know

Song: Gone Daddy Gone
Band: The Violent Femmes
Album: The Violent Femmes
Released: 1983
Video: https://youtu.be/oHMJE0rcb8M?si=NhMJV6Lfw9TMAKmM

The second brings together Aussie artist Gotye with Kiwi Kimbra in a brilliant video clip

Song: Somebody That I Used to Know
Artist: Gotye featuring Kimbra
Album: Making Mirrors
Released: 2011
Video: https://youtu.be/8UVNT4wvIGY?si=7x6ndkQouvdd-MII

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