Top 102 Albums. No 69
Violent Femmes - Violent Femmes
I was inspired to select this by its selection over at The Vinyl Villain's as part of his Top 50. This was a huge album in the circles I moved in. It seemed that everybody had it and the songs were huge crowd pleasers at student discos.
The band were a kind of skeletal country folk punk, so danceable as to be an inspiration for Gnarls Barkley - who cover Gone Daddy Gone from this album. Think the Velvet Underground playing Hank Williams Ramblin' Man, on the viagra of puberty. But the icing on the cake of this musical stew (Who the f*** puts icing on a stew? Listen, just listen and you'll hear) were the anguished vocals of Gordon Gano, son of an evangelical preacher. It was illegal for a long time to talk about Gano without mentioning this fact.
