Violent Femmes (7 results)

paperback. Condition: New. Brand New.

CD. Condition: Near Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Near Fine. A Good Read ships from Toronto and Niagara Falls, NY - customers outside of North America please allow two to three weeks for delivery. ; CD.

CD. Condition: Very Good. Number of discs: Catalog number:

CD-Hülle. Condition: Gut. Versand im Luftpolsterumschlag! CD/DVD-Hülle etwas berieben, Disc ist in einem guten Zustand; Case shows some wear, disc in good condition. H240208cdh106 ISBN: 685738195824 Sprache: Englisch Gewicht in Gramm: 80.

Condition: Gut. 1 CD Geringe Gebrauchsspuren J67M-F1CD24 Sprache: Deutsch Gewicht in Gramm: 808 134620263743488,0 x 124460241780736,0 x 12700025356288,0 cm, Audio CD.

Condition: Sehr gut. 1 CD Hülle mit minimalen Lagerspuren, CD / CDs wie neu H542F12CD8 Sprache: Deutsch Gewicht in Gramm: 505 140900277682176,0 x 126300249391104,0 x 13700027121664,0 cm, Audio CD AUDIO CD.

Condition: Near Fine. Unique. Unique. "Violent Femmes" was the debut album by Violent Femmes and one of the defining albums of the era. Recorded in July 1982, the album was released by Slash Records on vinyl in April 1983. Gordon Gano wrote most of the songs for the album while still in high school in Milwaukee Wisconsin. It was the band's most successful album going platinum eight years after its release. The album achieved what is believed to be a unique fee buy going gold, four years after release, without having made an appearance on Billboard's top 200 album chart. Rolling Stone ranked the album Number 22 on its list of the 100 Greatest Albums of All Time. [They were discovered by James Honeyman-Scott (of The Pretenders) on August 23, 1981, when the band was busking on a street corner in front of the Oriental Theatre, the Milwaukee venue that The Pretenders would be playing later that night. Chrissie Hynde invited them to play a brief acoustic set after the opening act.] The letter and lyrics sheet, dated 2/23/83 and all in Gano's hand, addresses a handful of major issues to be resolved before the album release a couple months later. Notably, it includes the densely written sheet of all the song lyrics that was printed on the LP sleeve included with the debut album. The letter goes into detail regard reproduction of the sheet and addresses several other issues (e.g. the quoting of a Muddy Water's song in Gone Daddy Gone). This is the original mss which launched over a million copies and helped shape a genre. Minor toning, else bright and clean. 8.5x11" notebook paper; mss in black ink. Signed by the author.