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Sometimes it takes a while for a band to find their audience. Maybe their sound isn’t quite refined. Perhaps their debut doesn’t quite connect. Could be their hometown crowd aren’t receptive. For Violent Femmes (https://victor-li.com/legal-career-killers-violent-femmes-and-wendys/), right out the gate their debut was a perfect encapsulation of who they were: snaking basslines, minimalist drums, scrappy acoustic guitar and frontman Gordon Gano’s snottily-yelped teenage desperation. But in 1983 it wasn’t a hit. They were a nineties band trapped in the wrong decade. Folk and punk in equal measure, this is the story of the Violent Femmes’ self-titled debut.
Fact-checking by Chad Van Wagner.
00:00 Introduction
00:39 The Origins of Violent Femmes
07:01 Violent Femmes' Self Titled Debut
15:25 The Follow-Up: Hallowed Ground
18:20 The Legacy of Violent Femmes
Sometimes it takes a while for a band to find their audience. Maybe their sound isn’t quite refined. Perhaps their debut doesn’t quite connect. Could be their hometown crowd aren’t receptive. For Violent Femmes (https://victor-li.com/legal-career-killers-violent-femmes-and-wendys/), right out the gate their debut was a perfect encapsulation of who they were: snaking basslines, minimalist drums, scrappy acoustic guitar and frontman Gordon Gano’s snottily-yelped teenage desperation. But in 1983 it wasn’t a hit. They were a nineties band trapped in the wrong decade. Folk and punk in equal measure, this is the story of the Violent Femmes’ self-titled debut.
Fact-checking by Chad Van Wagner.
00:00 Introduction
00:39 The Origins of Violent Femmes
07:01 Violent Femmes' Self Titled Debut
15:25 The Follow-Up: Hallowed Ground
18:20 The Legacy of Violent Femmes