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Jump to navigationJump to search Violent Femmes Studio album by  Violent Femmes Released April 13, 1983 Recorded July 1982; August 31–September 1, 1983 (Tracks 11–12) Studio Castle Studios in Lake Geneva, Wisconsin; Music Works Studios in London (Tracks 11–12) Genre

• Folk punk
• post-punk

Violent Femmes is the debut album by Violent Femmes. Mostly recorded in July 1982, the album was released by Slash Records on vinyl and on cassette in April 13, 1983.

Violent Femmes is the band's most successful album to date and achieved a rare feat by going gold, four years after its release, and later platinum, four years after that, without having yet made an appearance on the Billboard 200 album chart. After achieving platinum certification on February 1, 1991, the album finally entered the Billboard album chart for the first time on August 3, 1991. Since Nielsen Music began electronically tracking sales in 1991, the album has sold 1.8 million copies. (Blending RIAA certifications and Nielsen Music sales data, one could estimate the album has sold about 3 million in the U.S.) 

Slant Magazine listed the album at #21 on its list of "Best Albums of the 1980s". and was ranked number 974 in All-Time Top 1000 Albums (3rd. edition, 2000) .

Content

Most of the songs on both this album and its follow-up were written when the songwriter, Gordon Gano, was 18 years old and still in high school in Milwaukee, Wisconsin. Violent Femmes peaked at #171 on Billboard's Top 200 album chart in 1991.  The cover model was Billie Jo Campbell, a 3-year-old who was walking down a street in California when she and her mother were approached and offered $100 for the photograph which became the album cover.

Reception

In a contemporary review for Rolling Stone, J. D. Considine wrote that Violent Femmes was precocious yet dynamic, with a good balance between Gano's direct lyrics and the full sound of the music. Robert Christgau of The Village Voice compared Gano and the album as a whole to Jonathan Richman of The Modern Lovers. Gano himself grew tired of comparisons to Richman, as by his own account he was actually trying to sound like Steve Wynn of The Dream Syndicate.

In a retrospective write-up for AllMusic, Steve Huey called Violent Femmes "one of the most distinctive records of the early alternative movement and an enduring cult classic", noting that "the music also owes something to the Modern Lovers' minimalism, but powered by Brian Ritchie's busy acoustic bass riffing and the urgency and wild abandon of punk rock, the Femmes forged a sound all their own", while crediting Gano for keeping "the music engaging and compelling without overindulging in his seemingly willful naiveté".

The album was also included in the book 1001 Albums You Must Hear Before You Die.

Track listing

All tracks written by Gordon Gano, except where noted.