Violent Femmes – Violent Femmes (New Vinyl)

NEW LP

New sealed copy. 2023 reissue.

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 1983, and on CD in 1987, with two extra tracks, "Ugly" and "Gimme the Car".

In 2002, Rhino Records remastered the album, filled out the disc's length with demos and added another disc of live tracks and a radio interview for a 20th anniversary special edition, with liner notes by Michael Azerrad.

Violent Femmes is the band's most successful album to date. The Recording Industry Association of America (RIAA) certified the album gold four years after its release and platinum four years after that, despite it never having appeared on the Billboard 200 albums chart. After achieving platinum certification on February 1, 1991, the album finally charted on the Billboard 200 for the first time on August 3, 1991, and peaked at number 171. 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, the record's American sales were estimated at three million as of 2016.

TRACKLIST:

A1        Blister In The Sun   
A2        Kiss Off   
A3        Please Do Not Go   
A4        Add It Up   
A5        Confessions   
B1        Prove My Love   
B2        Promise   
B3        To The Kill   
B4        Gone Daddy Gone/I Just Want To Make Love To You   
B5        Good Feeling