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Violent Femmes was an underground band? I had no idea. They were big with my tiny, podunk, Florida home town skate punk friends in the 80s. Along with Black Flag, Dead Kennedys, Black Flag, Butthole Surfers, NOFX, and others. This song is about drug use, not masturbation.
@@KiltedHammer funny, I lived in south Florida in the early/mid 70’s. I was only 5 or so but my teenage stepbrother had a friend who went by Maggot. Must be a Florida thing
In the 80s I had a Chevrolet Chevette, no reverse, no a/c…. But my younger brother put surf board racks on the top and it was the SURF BUGGY ( until he got a car). I heard Violet Femmes over and over and over. It is a happy summer song to me. Yep there are times Don is needed on these videos. Thank you Don. He is like a gentle Dad trying to explain birds and bees. 😂
To be honest, I NEVER thought I would hear this song on this channel, but I am here for it, lol. This takes me on a trip in the WAY back machine to the mid-80s.
I love the Violent Femmes!! I understand how people get an incel vibe from them, but when I first heard them I was a teenage girl with many options, some of which I accepted, and I still felt this music to my core. It just releases everything that's pent up inside of you. Do "Kiss Off" or "Add It Up"!
Back in the day when the singer kept getting quieter and quieter, at sock hops you'd dance lower and lower, and when he went louder everyone would jump up.
Wikipedia-The lyrics to "Blister in the Sun" reference drug use. After the song was released, a misinterpretation arose that the lyrics were about masturbation. In a 2013 interview with The Village Voice, Gano said: I don’t think there’s a whole lot to understand with the lyrics. In fact, it was maybe 10 or 15 years later, when somebody was asking me about that song and said something like, “Well, you know… You know what that song’s about.” I’m like, “No. What are you talking about?” “Well everybody knows. You wrote it.” I’m like, “What?” And they told me the song was about masturbation. I had never thought of that.
My take on the song has always been that it's about being too shy to approach a girl, but when he's high he might get the courage to strut and ask her out.
This is one of the songs that I only play a couple of times a year, but when you are in the mood for it, it’s perfect ❤ GREAT response; “I don’t know..he’s just getting funky with it” 😂
Oh snap! My so called Life was a fun show!! I had forgotten all about how much I loved that show when it was on,lol. The song and band are a lot older , but it was a great show!!😂
I remember listening to this album in '86 when I was 16. I was a teen metal head, but my best friend was into punk/new wave. "And somehow we were still best friends" - Gen X
FYI, these guys were discovered by a record executive who was attending a Greatful Dead concert & found them jamming in the parking lot. Some other "weird", or strange kinds of acts from back then include The Dead Milkmen, They Might be Giants, Ween, Flaming Lips...
The song is about drug abuse. And the girlfriend in the song is at the end of her ropes and is going to end the relationship and starting to cry because she still loves him but can't take his addiction any longer. The frontman, Gordon Gano, didn't even think of the self love speculation until a fan asked him about it 10-15 years after the song released.
this was huge in 80s dance clubs... everyone would sing along with the whole song, and when he was doing the verse getting quiter and quiter you would dance lower and lower to the ground, then when they hit with the chorus we would all jump. this was just one of those things if you weren't on the dance floor when this song came on... you stopped and ran out to join the herd.
The Femmes are the bomb! Don't let blister scare you off. They have so many great songs, country death song, Jesus walking on the water, add it up, kiss off....
This song really grows on you bigtime the more you hear it. P.S. You mentioned Sublime, that reminded me of a great band that used to tour with Sublime, called 311. You would absolutely love their song "Down" (100% going on your playlists)
We didn’t care about the lyrics as much as the beat. It was just too much fun to dance to. The whole dance floor would vogue and vibe in the quiet part and then go full mosh pit mode when the beat returns.
@@eternallife9786 LOL - I understand what you mean 😂. It’s so twisted and end of the ropish. Yet - the story telling is so awfully captivating. You think - come on bro, you can’t really mean to do that. Pure tragedy. And then the gnawing thought - ‘will I ever end up like this’… crazy song, but I love it.
@@Birdienamnam07 oddly the album that was released on was the album that Gordon got the show some of his Baptist Roots a little bit did you ever hear his pseudo-religious tune Jesus walking on water?
Road Trips - Lake Powell - Violent Femmes - there you have it!!! I always said the Violent Femmes guitar parts sounded like they were just tangling their fingers in the guitar strings. This was one of my most favorite bands of all time. Gotta hear "Add It Up" and "Gimme The Car". Nothing like Don going off the deep end like he does though😐
I'm 57 years old and Violent Femmes are one of my all-time favorite bands! Their first 3 albums were brilliant, especially the self-titled debut. I saw them live in 2007 with the Horns of Dilemma at Big Day Out in Perth. In the early 80s, terms were thrown around back then, like "cow punk", "country punk" or "roots rock" to describe bands like Violent Femmes, The Long Ryders, Jason & the Scorchers, Green on Red etc. These bands were "alternative" before the term came up and were championed by College Radio in America.
When I was 16 I got a senior to loan her ID once a week to go 80s dancing in Hollywood. It was a blast of good clean fun. When this song came on and he did that weird singing, we'd all pull the drama moves to go with it 😂💃🎶
The more you listen to the Femmes, the more you get them. Everything on their first album was great. I like their cover of T Rex's Children of the Universe and Freak Magnet too.
I was introduced to Violent Femmes in the show My So Called Life. It immediately went on my Playlist and has been there since. That show introduced me to so much great music.
I live in Milwaukee, where the Femmes are from. In 1981 I was a high school freshman, and was taking the city bus downtown to go to Radio Doctors, a great record store. I saw the Femmes busking around the Oriental Theater. I didn’t know who they were until I picked up their 1983 debut album a few years later. The Oriental was where the Pretenders later discovered them. I went to a great 20th anniversary show that the Femmes put on at the Oriental in 2003.
"Gone Daddy Gone" "Country Death Song" "Freak Magnet" This band is probably one of the biggest "underground bands". They were discovered by The Pretenders when they were busking outside one on their concerts.
When the Violent Femmes wrote this song and the rest of their debut album, they were in high school in Wisconsin, so that album is very much written from the mindset of three seggsually frustrated geeks living in the Midwest in the early 80s with nothing to do. They got discovered while street busking. Their music is written specifically for the outcasts, freaks, and geeks. They're still performing shows 40 years later. I learned about them in seventh grade when some girls at school played a few songs in the lunch area on a little boom box. My little sheltered ass was shocked and intrigued by the words they were singing, since there's a little bit of swearing. They're not one of my favorite groups ever, but they're good, and I would go see them live, if I get a chance.
Folk punk. They were so different to what was on FM radio (Madonna, MJ, Def Leppard, etc.), and my first concert at 15. They were definitely weird, and we were all-in for it. Their shows are so fun, and Woodstock '94 was a highlight in my young life. Try "Add It Up" or "Kiss Off" next time Don's around (or on your own 😉). Violent Femmes ruled college radio in the late 80s early 90s. Pre-internet meant you likely heard them first on a friend's mix tape. No autotune, just 3 guys playing like they're in their parents' garage. Love it.
This is one of my all time favorite jams!! The Violent Femmes are freaking sooo much fun!! Don is right, they are a complete vibe!! They were for sure on the Crow soundtrack.🙂🎶❤️✌🏻
Songs from this band were used a lot in the TV show The 100. You do know when a girl is close to completion she can be brought to an emotional response. If it’s that good, she might just cry.
I got into Violent Femmes in 8th grade, one of my sons discovered them when he was in 8th grade and then my daughter did when she was in 8th grade. Each without influence by each other. My son went to see them live multiple times after becoming an adult.
The riff in the song is played with one string I really recommend country Death song off their second album or his pseudo-religious tune Jesus walking on water
This was folk punk. Written while they were in their mid teenage years. The album is all acoustic. I saw them on their 40th anniversary tour of this album and they still rock the Fuq out of all of these songs.
Life was awesome in the days of this album. A person could do anything they set their mind to. We are now controlled by a system that didn’t exist at that time. People were trustworthy. A persons word meant something. People helped each other because they could and it was the right thing to do. What comes around goes around! Happy Father’s Day!
Not sure if true but the story was they were busking outside a Pretenders show and Chrissie Hynde liked them and had them open. The rest is college radio history.
Very true. I live in Milwaukee, where it happened. In 1981 I was a high school freshman, and was taking the city bus downtown to go to Radio Doctors, a great record store. I saw the Femmes busking around the Oriental Theater. I didn’t know who they were until I picked up this debut album a few years later. The Oriental was where the Pretenders later discovered them. I went to a great 20th anniversary show that the Femmes put on at the Oriental in 2003.
In Southwest VA and this was played cover to cover back in the day and can still sing every word. It was such a low key vibe. It was not for everyone though, my sister hated it. Add it up & Kiss Off…. Chef’s kiss music!
This song was used in at least one commercial, I just can't remember for what. When I bought a cheap bass I learned by ear to play the main guitar riff on bass...because it was easy! I still suck at bass. 30 years later.
