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Violent Femmes are an American FolkPunk band from UsefulNotes/{{Milwaukee}}. The band consisted of singer/guitarist [[FaceoftheBand Gordon Gano]], bassist Brian Ritchie, and drummer, Victor Lorenzo, who was replaced with Guy Hoffman in 1993. The current drummer is Brian Viglione. Along with acts like Music/{{REM}} and Music/HuskerDu, the Femmes were one of the first commercially successful alt rock bands. Their debut album, ''[[SelfTitledAlbum Violent Femmes]]'', released in 1983, containing their most successful song, "Blister in the Sun", among other notable tracks, went platinum.

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Violent Femmes are an American FolkPunk band from UsefulNotes/{{Milwaukee}}. The band consisted of singer/guitarist [[FaceoftheBand Gordon Gano]], Gano, bassist Brian Ritchie, and drummer, Victor Lorenzo, who was replaced with Guy Hoffman in 1993. The current drummer is Brian Viglione. Along with acts like Music/{{REM}} and Music/HuskerDu, the Femmes were one of the first commercially successful alt rock bands. Their debut album, ''[[SelfTitledAlbum Violent Femmes]]'', released in 1983, containing their most successful song, "Blister in the Sun", among other notable tracks, went platinum.
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Violent Femmes are an American [[FolkMusic folk]] [[PunkRock punk]] from UsefulNotes/{{Milwaukee}}. The band consisted of singer/guitarist [[FaceoftheBand Gordon Gano]], bassist Brian Ritchie, and drummer, Victor Lorenzo, who was replaced with Guy Hoffman in 1993. The current drummer is Brian Viglione. Along with acts like Music/{{REM}} and Music/HuskerDu, the Femmes were one of the first commercially successful alt rock bands. Their debut album, ''[[SelfTitledAlbum Violent Femmes]]'', released in 1983, containing their most successful song, "Blister in the Sun", among other notable tracks, went platinum.

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Violent Femmes are an American [[FolkMusic folk]] [[PunkRock punk]] FolkPunk band from UsefulNotes/{{Milwaukee}}. The band consisted of singer/guitarist [[FaceoftheBand Gordon Gano]], bassist Brian Ritchie, and drummer, Victor Lorenzo, who was replaced with Guy Hoffman in 1993. The current drummer is Brian Viglione. Along with acts like Music/{{REM}} and Music/HuskerDu, the Femmes were one of the first commercially successful alt rock bands. Their debut album, ''[[SelfTitledAlbum Violent Femmes]]'', released in 1983, containing their most successful song, "Blister in the Sun", among other notable tracks, went platinum.

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** The track, "Good Feeling", from the debut album, is a slow and calming song, which is a contrast to the generally spastic sound of the rest of the album; This is especially true of the US CD version of the album that ends in two bonus tracks, since instead of being the last song on the album, it gets sandwiched between two much more manic songs ("Gone Daddy Gone" and "Ugly"). To a lesser extent, the reggae inspired "Please Do Not Go" which was from the same album.

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** The track, "Good Feeling", from the debut album, is a slow and calming song, which is a contrast to the generally spastic sound of the rest of the album; This is especially true of the US CD version of the album that ends in two bonus tracks, since instead of being the last song on the album, it gets sandwiched between two much more manic songs ("Gone Daddy Gone" and "Ugly"). To a lesser extent, the reggae inspired "Please Do Not Go" which was from the same album.



* NotChristianRock: Gano, a Baptist, occasionally includes Christian themes in the lyrics, though they are definitely not considered a Christian band. Indeed, some listeners initially assumed that some of their religiously-themed songs were tongue-in-cheek.
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* ShoutOut: "Gone Daddy Gone" borrows a whole verse of Willie Dixon's "I Just Want to Make Love to You". The marimba part in the same song is meant as a {{pastiche}} of "Under My Thumb" by Music/TheRollingStones.

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* ShoutOut: "Gone Daddy Gone" borrows a whole verse of Willie Dixon's "I Just Want to Make Love to You". The marimba part in the same song is meant as a {{pastiche}} of "Under My Thumb" by Music/TheRollingStones.Music/{{The Rolling Stones|Band}}.
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* {{Alternative Rock}}
* {{Angst}}: Definitely, especially their debut album.

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* DateRape: Implied in "Gimme the Car".

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* ADateWithRosiePalms: The most common interpretation of the lyrics to "Blister in the Sun."

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* ADateWithRosiePalms: DrugsAreBad: The most common interpretation protagonist of the lyrics to "Blister in the Sun."Sun" is in the middle of a debilitating heroin addiction.



* LyricalDissonance: "Blister in the Sun" is a cheerful ditty about a guy whose life is being wrecked by heroin.



* MoodWhiplash: The track, "Good Feeling", from the debut album, is a slow and calming song, which is a contrast to the generally spastic sound of the rest of the album; This is especially true of the US CD version of the album that ends in two bonus tracks, since instead of being the last song on the album, it gets sandwiched between two much more manic songs ("Gone Daddy Gone" and "Ugly"). To a lesser extent, the reggae inspired "Please Do Not Go" which was from the same album.

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The track, "Good Feeling", from the debut album, is a slow and calming song, which is a contrast to the generally spastic sound of the rest of the album; This is especially true of the US CD version of the album that ends in two bonus tracks, since instead of being the last song on the album, it gets sandwiched between two much more manic songs ("Gone Daddy Gone" and "Ugly"). To a lesser extent, the reggae inspired "Please Do Not Go" which was from the same album.
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* GoMadFromTheIsolation: Implied in "Country Death Song"
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* SesameStreetCred: The band did a 30 second long cover of the ''WesternAnimation/SpongebobSquarepants'' theme song for a DVD extra.

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* SesameStreetCred: [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CkAepA69maI The band did a 30 second long cover cover]] of the ''WesternAnimation/SpongebobSquarepants'' theme song for a DVD extra.
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* LyricalColdOpen: "Add It Up"
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*{{Alternative Rock}}
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* LarynxDissonance: New listeners might easily mistake Gano's voice for that of a low-voiced woman.

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