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Other Songs 12 Steps 3 36-24-36 4 Seasons A Story Adam Was A Man Add It Up Agamemnon All I Want Amercia Is America Is American Music Another Chorus At Your Feet Bad Dream Black Girls Blister in the Sun Breakin Hearts Breakin Up Candlelight Song Children Of The Revolution Chinese Rock Cold Canyon Color Me Once Confessions Country Death Song Dahmer Is Dead Dance M.F Dance Dance Motherf*cker Dance! Dating Days Daydream Believer Death Drugs Degradation Didgeriblues Do You Really Want To Hurt Me Dont Start Me On The Liquor Eep Opp Ork Ah - Ah Eep Opp Ork Ah-Ah Everlasting You Faith Fat Flamingo Baby Fool In The Full Moon Foothills Forbidden Freak Magnet Gimme The Car Girl Trouble God Bless America Gone Daddy Gone Gone Daddy Gone/I Just Want to Make Love to You Good Feeling Good Friend Gordons Message Hallowed Ground Happiness Is He Likes Me Heartache Hey Nonny Nonny Hollywood Is High Hotel Last Resort I Can Change I Danced I Get What I Want I Hate The TV I Hear the Rain I Held Her In My Arms I Know Its True But Im Sorry To Say I Saw You In The Crowd I Swear It (I Can Change) I Wanna See You Again Im Bad Im Free I'm Not Gonna Cry Im Nothing In The Dark Intro Issues It's All Or Nothing Its Gonna Rain Jesus Of Rio Jesus Walking on the Water Johnny Just Like My Father Key Of 2 Kiss Off Lack Of Knowledge Lies Life Is A Scream Life Is An Adventure Living a Lie Look Like That Love And Me Make Three Love Love Love Love Love Love Me Make Three Machine Mirror Mirror Mirror Mirror (I See a Damsel) More Money Tonight Mosh Pit Mother Of A Girl My Way Never Tell New Generation New Times Nightmares No Killing No More Heroes Not Ok Nothing Worth Living For Old Mother Reagan Out The Window Outside The Palace Paris To Sleep Please Do Not Go Promise Prove My Love Raquel Rejoice And Be Happy See My Ships She Went To Germany Sleepin' At The Meetin' Sleepwalkin Somethings Wrong Special Sweet Misery Blues Sweet World Of Angels Sweet Worlds of Angels Telephone Book Thanksgiving Thanksgiving (No Way Out) The Blind Leading The Naked This Free Ride This Island Life To The Kill Tonight Two People Ugly Used To Be Vancouver Waiting For The Bus When Everybodys Happy When You Died World Were Living In World Without Mercy Yes Oh Yes

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Violent Femmes Info:

Violent Femmes are an American alternative rock band from Milwaukee, Wisconsin, initially active from 1980 to 1987 and again from 1988 to 2009. As of 2013, they are active again.

Violent Femmes was founded by bassist Brian Ritchie and percussionist Victor DeLorenzo following the demise of the initial wave of American punk rock, and became a full-fledged band upon the arrival of lead vocalist and guitarist Gordon Gano. -Wikipedia

Members:
Gordon Gano (1980-present)
Brian Ritchie (1980-present)
Brian Viglione (2013-present)

Name Origin:
According to Ritchie, he came up with the name of the group as a fake band name when one of his bandmates questioned his assertion that his brother was also in a bandhe and DeLorenzo liked the name, so they used it for the rhythm duo they played in prior to Gano joining the group

Another source states someone said they sounded like violent femmes as an oxymoronic joke. In Milwaukee, femme is slang for feminine.

Genre(s): Alternative rock, post-punk, folk punk
Active From: 1980-1987, 1988-2009, 2013-present
Quotes:
I probably have over a hundred instuments including acoustic basses, bouzouki, didgeridoo, soprano sax, xylophone, nose flute, shakuhachi, and a spate of percussion, keyboards and guitar. All of which I've used on Femmes recordings.
Brian Ritchie

Our main influences are Velvet Underground, Gene Vincent and the Blue Caps, Ramones, Sun Ra, Johnny Cash, Pink Floyd, Television, Hank Williams Sr., John Coltrane and about two million other people.
Brian Ritchie

Nickelodeon wanted us to do a commercial for them because they are moving "Spongebob Squarepants" to prime time and they needed a fun campaign. So basically we did a couple of 30 second spots for them which you can see on Nick. It was very easy.
Brian Ritchie

"We were signed to a record label that wouldn't release anything we were recording,"
Gordon Gano

"It is possible that this is the first record that doesn't have a song on it written in the '70s."
Gordon Gano

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