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[csberry]

I can't understand how any person can enter their teen years and not own...



the Violent Femmes' debut album.

I am a bit of a purist and rarely listen to the bonus tracks on my CD (which I only purchased a few years ago because I was introduced and always known it in cassette form). But how can you stretch your personality and not experience the songs on this album? Life without "Blister in the Sun" isn't worth living. Feel "Good Feeling" feed your melancholy. This album both celebrates and mourns our excesses. What emotion isn't tugged on by these songs?

I should start a group dedicated to placing the Violent Femmes album in the locker of each freshman throughout the United States!

Comments

[dudeitsawesome.livejournal.com]

I bought that cassette in 1993 when I was 15 years old.
Granted, the album was 10 years old by then, but I can still listen to it (albeit in mp3 format now) and love it just as much as I did then.
GREAT album.

[auronsgirl.livejournal.com]

"Bitch took my money and she went to Chicaaaaagooooowwww!"

Good times.

[chris21718.livejournal.com]

Good one! I heard it for the first time when a guy I dated in spring 1993 played the cassette of it in his car when we were riding around. Later, in 1996, it was played on cassette at a party I attended and everyone loved it. I've had the CD a long time -- the one with 2 bonus tracks. There have been a ton of versions of that release on CD.