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- The Violent Femmes were the final band to ever play at Auckland's His Majestys Theatre before its controversial 1988 demolition.
Gordon Gano played Mr. Zank, the first of many substitute math teachers in an episode of The Adventures of Pete & Pete ("X=Why?").
The band appeared on the early-1990s sitcom Clarissa Explains It All.
They have also been featured as themselves in one episode of the TV Show Sabrina, the Teenage Witch.
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I'm a black woman & no matter how many times I play this song my family & friends still gives me the funny looks like "how do you even know this song"😂🤦🏽♀️ but idc I absolutely love this song as I have come to like some of their others they are so underrated
Tell them "they dig the black girls" 😏😂
"I Like the Black Girls!" Mwa!!!
Funny, as I just listened again, I thought it'd sound great crossed over to hip hop.
Right on 😂
not everyone is willing to explore into genres like this so i commend you
Their debut album remains one of the greatest records ever made.
for sure
Facts
Does it?
Yes. He still sounds great today.
I believe it's the only album to be certified a million seller without charting on Billboards Top 200.
I am a 12 years old girl in 2024, none listen this music now, I can’t help but be thankful to my father that showed me this band and all their awesome songs.
I really appreciate the drummer, who to many people seems insignificant because to them he use, most of the time, only two toms, but as a drummer I can assure, he plays those toms perfectly and there is no drummer as special as him.
I've been listening to them for 30 years and I just realized watching this video that it's the first time I've seen what they look like.
same. I always thought they were some obscure punk band. Nope, just some dudes
Met Gordon Gano when I was in 11th grade, was in the high school journalism class got his autograph. He played at a tiny place in Detroit. Still got the autograph😊
That's a cool and interesting comment. I think I do the same. And I can read a novel and tell you the whole plot and every detail bar the characters names. Somehow, I stop seeing the word as a word and it becomes a cipher. Or something.
The Femmes were _that_ band that the cool kids in my school, the ones who thought The Clash were too bubblegum (this is 1984, mind you), listened to. They were the perfect band to get me away from Journey and Bryan Adams and all that merde. They came at my college a few years later and they played the hardest acoustic set I've ever heard up to that point. Greasy, sweaty and dirty. Just the way rock and roll was always meant to be.
They're still playing! Old geezers like us now. LOL! But they sound great!
As a Milwaukee teen in the Eighties, I can't even tell you what it meant to us that this punk-masterpiece album came out of our city.
I'm a Green Bay teen from the 90's with an older brother. This record was indispensable.
Summerfest was the highlight of many summers. I loved whenever they would headline a stage.
i am a thirteen year old girl in 2022 and I will never be more thankful to my dad for showing me this song
i don't think i'll ever find better one
This comment reads like p3d0-bait
The whole record is amazing.
Your dad is so very right yet also so very wrong. Kudos.
Good noise
I was probably a thirteen year old kid just outside Milwaukee digging this up n the mid-eighties. Everybody had this record in that area at that time. It holds up amazingly.
everyone who knows and likes this band can definitely sing alomg to every song on their first record.
My generation’s teenage angst music is far and away the best.
Stole that thought from my brain ty! 80s babies rule🤟🏼
My 16 year old came home from a party singing blister in the sun, can't believe kids are still listening. This album was a huge part of my childhood.
the kids are alright. this album will always be listened to. rock on!
35 here. Got to see them open up for Ben folds in 2019.
Knew a few of their songs before the show.
I went for Ben folds. I left a violent femmes fan. What a fucking show.
Right on I am .... Well I am older lol
That rules! I'm 17 and my dad got me into them a few years ago, this album is definitely one of my alltime favorites. Absolutely hooked.
Yeah i found my dad's album in highschool. By the time i was a senior i had a mohawk, a custom misfits jacket i made with an oil rag and a faded black jean jacket while playing guitar in a punk band called gonorrhea. Thats what got me laid for the first time was all that.
Thanks dad for all the violent femmes, black flag, dead kennedys, fugazi and meshuggah albums.
The Femmes knew how to stir up a frenzy that's for sure.
Yes they did
Indeed!
My dad showed me this band when I was really young and they came into town around father's day/his birthday so I bought us a couple tickets and he rocked out with me like he was back in the 80's. 10/10. Thank you Femmes for putting on a bitchin show, and giving me a memory i'll never forget.
Awesome!
Saw them several times in the 90s. Still the best concerts I've ever been too
I saw them live in St Louis.. they jammed!!
omg dad talk
That's awesome. Nothing better than seeing shows with your parents
One of the greatest underappreciated bands ever.
That makes them better!
Yes
A volte essere sottovalutati è un privilegio, in una massa di persone deficienti!!!
Country Death Song brings me to tears every time I hear it.
Huh? They still get played on my local alternative stations all the time. Not bad for a band that peaked in 1983
I saw them once in Hollywood in the 80s at a small club. For the encore, they marched off the stage still playing their instruments (drummer had a snare hanging from his neck) and they walked out of the club down the sidewalk singing and playing their song with everyone following them.
@cluster foxtrot queer cptl
Fucking EPIC
that is so cool!
Then I recommend ViolentFemms Black Girls
Give their song Black Girls a listen
Just to let you youngins get a feel for life before cellphones and the internet ....so I was a huge Femmes fan in the mid eighties, had all their albums (cassette tapes) and knew the words to all their songs, yet the entire time never saw a single picture of the band! It's hard now to imagine following a group for years without ever knowing what they looked like but I kid you not, this vid is the first time I've been able to put a face with the songs if you can believe that!
Same!
Ditto. Everything I heard from these guys was bootleg cassettes that were passed around. Saw them at Summerfest in 1998 and it was awesome
Same same. Summerfest good gawd!
Ha! Same. Only a casual fan but never knew what they looked like. I always pictured them a looking more nerdy, kind of like the Weezer guys.
@@jimmyddddd I always figured they were goth like the cure but the fact that they don't have any pretense and just look like a college party band is actually quite satisfying to me.
Gordon told me once they opened up for the Ramones in some club in Florida in the 90's. After their set, backstage, Joey and Johnny told them "you know we don't like anybody. But we like you." Who needs the R & R Hall of Fame after that?
That’s fantastic!!
listened to these guys in the 80's when i was young. no internet then this is the first time i have seen them perform or what they even looked like, weird
Me 2
fk yeah
totally ditto. killed this album in high school but they were never on muchmusic. and this is also my first time seeing any of their videos. yay youtube.
IKR? Fucking far cry from seeing them open for the Dead.. I had no idea they ever looked younger than what I still believe I do XD
Abnormal Truth I totally clicked to see what they look like. I found a cassette tape of this on a charter bus a year before anyone heard if them. Listened to over and over.
The greatest album too few people know about.
And that's a good thing!
+Chris J You are so RIGHT. God bless YOU!
+Super Hans I don't know what that means, so I guess nice insult
+Chris J yeah, I just discovered it today, i knew blister in the sun but didn't look further. can definately here there influence in modern surf rock bands
+Chris J Trashy music that has made NO impact everlasting in the world of music.
Amazing band. Not many bands could capture the essence of angst and heartbreak like the Violent Femmes did.
🖤
Great comment. And to the point.
Spot on. And usually only needed two chords to do it
I think one of the best bass players ever multi talented in many instruments
There’s something so hypnotising about his eyes like he’s embodying sly innocence which makes the delivery of the lyrics so much better
Sly innocence? I see Ted Bundy. Related to Howard Hughes. I think the young Gordon could look handsome and like an axe murderer
It's the pupils. Probably mushrooms.
That’s not innocence. It’s drugs.
Grew up in the 80s. They defined underground music. Like they were from another planet. Unmistakable sound. Brilliant. See them if you can…
if you grew up in the 80"s this song is everything!
+David K Not everything, but it's kinda pretty cool.
Absolutely!
OMG YES!!! There's a whole list of 80 movies n music that if u don't know or hadn't seen u can't get ur 80s card stamped to move into the 90s. Please leave ur idea of a movie or music from 80s that would be required to clear ur 80s card. I'll start w this one for music of course but also Say Anything for movie... Anyone else think of any that includes y'all youngins even though it's kinda cheateng
@@rodup88 David K was right - in the 80's - this song was everything !!
No ITS EVERYTHING!!!❤
i saw them play 2 nights ago. i’m 58 now. the whole crowd were ppl our age and everyone sang along to each song just like in this vid.
we may not have as much energy as back then but fuck all we’re still kicking!
i got to see them with my mom and 2 of my friends, my mom is 54 and myself and my friends are teenagers. it was awesome to see her and basically everyone else there reliving a part of their life!!
You're old.
@@TheFredmacYou're clever
@@johnjr757 not clever, l'm a subject matter expert. I am performing a decades long study of old.
Well theres always cocaine
I once had the dilemma of having to choose between Violent Femmes and Tool. I was a huge fan of both. I chose Femmes. I danced in the rain with complete strangers with a huge smile on my face..a memory I shall never forget. Without question I made the right decision.
Like there would even be a question. These guys are so much better so much more influential ahead of their time they make tool seem completely unimportant. Why would you hesitate for an instant?
tool suck
@@patricklink8527 you must be trolling. Tools influence is undeniable. I have also seen both bands live multiple times and tool is BY FAR the better act. It isn't even a comparison.
@@TheThe13used tool overrated.. saw them with Primus as opener. Primus was amazing as to be expected.
Tool was meh.
Feck tool.
The feems be wasy better
How can this song, which was played for 4 years nonstop in the 80's only have 3.8 Million views? This was an amazing time in life.
if you like this you might like my brothers music. His name is Stu Morris.
Gordon's pupils - Dilated
Brians mullet - Majestic
Every shot of Victor - We have _no idea_ what he's frantically doing with his hands
it's perfect
Hahahaha yeah he really looks so intense banging on that snare
That's Victor De Lorenzo on the drums.
@@johncall7532 Cheerfully updated, thanks
I dont care who you are no mullet is majestic.
Aside from a majestic mullet he also happens to be one of the greatest bass players I've ever seen live. I would definitely put him up with Mike Watt. He plays like a guitarist covering Melodies and leads. Leaving Gordon open to just tear it up on vocals. More proof that the 3 piece bands are the best. Minuteman firehose. Always lets the bass player shine if he's able. This is a great. Thanks thanks for posting!
They were a GREAT time. I'm a Wisconsin girl who was in high school/college during the 80s and I cannot even tell you how many times I saw them. They were AWESOME...especially at the Oriental.
“I’ve given you a decision to make - things to lose, things to take.” Oh, it’s just so raw and honest.
I just came from watching their recent gig on KEXP. First time I'd seen what they looked like and wanted to see them in their youth. I'm the same age as the guys in the band and my brother who was into alternative music introduced them to me 40 years ago. I really only knew Add it Up and Blister in the Sun. Seeing in Rhoda's info that they were the last band to play Auckland's His Majestys Theatre brought back memories. I'm Canadian but was living in Auckland in the mid 90s when a local radio station had a 'guess this song' contest, playing the first few notes. I knew immediately it was VF but only ever heard the contest on the car radio and this was before cell phones so I never called in. The contest ran for several days and NO ONE COULD GUESS THE SONG! The DJ who chose the song must have been a fan and at that concert. Guess the other concert goers listened to different radio stations!
My older stepbrother introduced us youngins to these guys back in the day.
So underappreciated. They were a decade ahead of their times.
im 52, white and working class, English. This album had such an impact on me for many years and still made my top 3 albums of all time.
Do you also like turtles?
These guys are from Milwaukee and I grew up about an hour north in Green Bay in the 80s. This record was huge in the punk rock/college rock world. I ended up in Minneapolis (about 300 miles away) and when they would come to town it was still a pretty small venue, small enough that you could still probably hang out and shoot the shit with them after the show.
Probably the most underrated band
The use of vocals as an instrument by these guys is just so amazing. It adds so many layers that SFX cannot
was just thinking that. got one of those voices that carries its own alone
I was an 80's club kid and this band and song takes me back.
Imano' disabled Veteran. Never heard this tune....so glad I did!@@;)))*
bless you
Whenever I'm feeling down I like to blast the Violent Femmes and it always puts me in a better mood.
Even in the video , you can feel that raw power and electric energy. Amazing performance.
Music is the bond. Always. No color, no age, no politics. Just music.
I was in my 20s in the 90’s and we loved these guys. I still listen to
Them and I’m almost 50!!!
53 still listening
me too
One of the best songs ever!
And "say goodnight."
PRETE;NDERS gave them the 1st chance, They heard V. FEMMESplaying on The STREET and invited them as a opening band. A true rock&roll story
The way you type is so chaotic
It took 38 years to close the loop and finally see them live. The. Best. Damn. Show. Ever!
In epic style they opened with this song. The first few notes drove the crowd wild!
I can't wait. Going to see them in October
Memories of cruising around with my old boyfriend and playing this album over and over in the car about 1985.
While you were listening to FM commercial radio. You missed the good stuff. They are great!!!
Never forget going to a rave at my philosophy/symbolic logic professor's house my last year of college. Everyone lost their minds on the dance floor and sang along ecstatically to every single Violent Femmes song played. Those were the days....
F yeah!! Still good 25 years later
More like 35
I agree it's still great.
@@finnmcginn9931 it was 1983 so 41...man i'm getting old😁
Saw these guys a few summers ago. They sounded great. You wouldn’t expect someone with such a unique voice to be able to belt it out 40 years later, but it was spot on…
Who else was there? I was front row keeping some random girl from getting smashed.. fucking epic concert! Norfolk va. The best place to watch a band! I miss the boathouse so much.. 😢
Beastie boys, violent femmes, concrete blonde, Jesus jones, and so many more..
I'm from California.. but loved my time in the navy because of the now burnt down venue..
Please rebuild it!
It wasn't until the end of the video I suddenly realized THAT'S THE BOATHOUSE! I was at this show. The Boathouse was so awesome.
My Dad was in the Navy and got to go to the 1969 World's Fair - the one in the song "Anna Ng" by They Might Be Giants. All he remembers is sawdust on bar floors. Drinking was involved in his " seeing the World in the Navy."
I'm so thankful my detailer sent me to Norfolk out of A school in the early 90s. Boathouse, Insect Club, the Vampire Room... even bigger shows up at the Hampton coliseum (Pantera, Anthrax and Coal Chamber in '99, I was there 🤘🏻)
@@jacks6423 peppermint Beach club..
Clubs Rouge..
They are straight up awesome live. ABSOLUTELY THE BEST CONCERT I HAVE EVER BEEN TO! ♥️💕
when i was 8 years old this song made me giggle.
I'm now 38 years old and it still makes me giggle
I'm here because I like the Violent Femmes, hope that's cool. Great live version, thanks.
The way this song gives the feeling of frustration and building tension is genius!!!!
As a quiet girl who could not get a date and didn't get kissed until college - this song summed up my frustrations well.
I was a DJ at a college radio station in the mid 1980’s, and the Femmes were always in my playlist. ❤
If you are from Milwaukee and there was never a time in your life without the violent femmes thumbs up!
Katelyn Palbicki summerfest. 1994 maybe. Best. Concert. Ever.
Saw them in MKE bars many times 81-84 before they hit the cover of Rolling Stone. EPIC then and still !
Heard the song 1,000 times but this is the 1st time seeing a video
I never thought to look for one, now I'm looking for other bands that have videos I didn't know about.
I was there.....one of the hottest nights at The Boathouse. I will never forget it!
Oh my goodness I can't even imagine how AMAZING this concert must have been. Violent Femmes are just so damned unique and nothing like this will happen again. What a fabulous shooting star.
One of the greatest debut albums of all time
I saw them in Cincinnati in 88 or so and then i saw them open for...The Grateful Dead at Buckeye Lake in 91. Holy crap that was a show!
This takes me back to my college years! Great times! Great band!
What a great performance. Perfect execution. They used to play this song on my school bus when I was in junior high on boomboxes... Yeah, I said boomboxes.
Saw them in San Diegi as a freshman at UCSD. The vocals were amazing and the talent was phenomenal. Best show ever!
I can still remember every word. And am forced to sing along every single time.
Just sang this at karaoke no one knew it 🤣🤣😅 still big ups!!!
I'm waited my whole life for just one 🎉
VIOLENT FEMMES !!!!!!!
One of the greatest band / concert experience I've had !!!
So far ahead of their time and the most under rated band in music, period !
I was 16 when this album came out. I wore out atleast 1 cassette tape listening to it. The songs from the Femmes hold up 3 decades later. Saw them live in 1990 in DC at the Warner.
My husband and I were just talking about the tapes that were so good that we wore them out. Pink Floyd's "The Wall" was one I wore out like this one.
I've seen them twice. I'm 76. It's a brilliant debut and meaningful album
Chrissie Hynde discovered them busk outside a venue in Wisconsin. Love them!!!
Bought this album when it first came out. One of the best investments of my life.
Saw these guys for like $7 at edinboro university in 1990 or 1991. I would go back and do those days all over again.
This is not a rock song, this is heaven!
One of the best albums ever! So underrated
I'll never tire of hearing this song. Still ranks high as one of the best things to come out of alternative music in over 30 years and still gets new fans to the band generation on generation. Timeless and justifiably so, ounce to ounce :-)
I saw them at the Fillmore in SF in 1989. This was the last song of the night. Pitch black, every one screaming Add it up. Then a solo spotlight shines and he goes "Dayyyyy...." We all just lost our minds. Amazing concert experience.
In my mind I’m driving to high school and picking up my two friends on the way. It’s springtime, the windows are down and the radio is on full blast.
absolute musical genius. idk how you write some craziness like that and have it come out so good. its talent
The lyrics are Unreadable alone but they come out person
For a live performance, the sound quality is amazing. Thanks for sharing.
I totally agree my sister turned me on to this group because they're from Milwaukee Wisconsin actually born in Kenosha I used to go to bed with this album in my ears. 40 years later and still my favorite album.
It's crazy I also loved a street over from 3 doors down as an adult in Gautier Mississippi. They say they are from escatawpa but they practiced in Gautier Mississippi.
I've been around great music my whole life and I'm grateful for it. Great music is all anyone really has. F the drugs and alcohol is music you really get addicted too.
Like others here, I was introduced to this song as a teenager by an adult. I had cool teachers at a private high school. Sometimes they just offered to take us from our cow town to New York City or Boston in a van. They didn't get parental permission😊 . On a van trip our female art teacher played this album over and over full blast on the way to the Thai section of NYC and back. I was surprised that a teacher would blare songs with lyrics like this to us. But, hey it was a secret trip to an underground restaurant where we danced and ate stuff like baby octopus ( put a plastic toy optopus in your mouth if you want to know what that feels and tastes like.) ...... totally cool memories of learning to love this album.
Great music never gets old !!!!
this bands been around for what seems forever. I remember hearing them in the early 80s, bought an album and my parents threw it away. add it up
Simply one of the greatest songs by one of the greatest bands of all time.
I can get behind this 110%.
62 next month and still like these guys.
Might I just say that these guys are so understated and underrated. They are amazing musicians. They change it up so much in their concerts that people can't keep singing. They'll break into another song right in the middle of one song, then bridge to another. Amazing improvising! They keep things fresh, never lose their edge. Kudos to these guys.
San Diego...interesting....missed it💀
Seriously
First time I seen these fellas 😂😮😂😎😅😂
this song is a life saver, you can count on it when you're down, seriously.
They opened up for the Grateful Dead...Without stating why, I was SO confused... they started playing-and I melted into the moment...so RAD
AMAZING band from my high school daze we listened to this constantly
I saw them not that long ago at Union Transfer in Philly (2022)... they're still as great as ever! And the gigantic contrabass saxophone was cool!
THIS band is an American original, I have yet to meet anyone upon hearing the Femmes who isn't a Femmes fan for life.
I first heard this band in 83. Bought the album and I still have it today. Great fucking band that still has the fresh sound after all this time.
I love Country Death Song.
So much truth in their lyrics.
Gen x .Wish i can go back in time
I had a very cool college roommate who was a little older than me and turned me on to The Violent Femmes. This album, he said, was written as one long suicide note. That's why the last song, "Good Feeling" has a happy mood, because the tormented singer finally decided when he would die. One could argue that it's cathartic to realize that a lot of us did live to see the age of 21, even though we lost some friends along the way. And, by the way, "Good Feeling," in the context that it's about enjoying the last bit of life, rings true to those who have survived suicide attempts. They usually seem much more cheerful to their friends and family before they end it all.
Only wish I was on Okauche lake in Oconomowoc Wisconsin when the fems played the boat tie up. That tie is legendary to this day
Jesus, thanks for uploading this, I went to see them play in Newcastle at the students union shithole, probably the best band I have ever seen, 3 blokes playing this music was amazing and the drummer was playing a Weber Barbeque! Memories,,,,,you won't find bands like these guys anymore!
First time I've heard them and I'm impressed. Great energy. They were really melding as one with their fans. Fun to watch.
Such an underrated band. Just started appreciating them
what a great show this is... cannot keep my eyes off them , they are nuts
I have been listening to this since the 6th grade. I well past that.