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FEMMES FIND A WAY TO SPREAD THEIR MESSAGE
The first gig that the Violent Femmes’ Gordon Gano ever played with bassist Brian Ritchie had the air of history in the making, even though the band’s bizarre moniker hadn’t been picked yet.
It was a morning assembly at Rufus King High School in Milwaukee to present awards for the National Honor Society. Gano--a Homecoming King, son of a Baptist minister and NHS honoree that day--asked Ritchie, whom he’d met the night before at a punk club, to accompany him on a song called “Give Me the Car.”
Even though Gano left blanks where some of the tune’s most profane sentiments should’ve been, not even the worst English student in the school needed to consult a rhyming dictionary to figure out just what Gano was talking about.
His involuntary departure from the Honor Society was swift.
You’d think a smart kid like Gano would’ve learned from experience, but noooooo .
Formed not long after the assembly concert, the Violent Femmes, with drummer Victor DeLorenzo, managed to have themselves ostracized from virtually every significant club in Milwaukee.
The trio was literally playing on the street one day when Chrissie Hynde and the late James Honeyman-Scott of the Pretenders happened upon the scene and asked the Femmes to open their show t
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Hallowed Ground (Violent Femmes album)
studio album by Violent Femmes
Hallowed Ground is the second studio album by Violent Femmes, released on May 14, [4] Like the band's first album, the songs were mostly written by singer/guitarist/lyricist Gordon Gano when he was in high school. "Country Death Song", for example, written by Gano during his high school classes, was inspired by the tradition of folk songs about "terrible, horrific stories".[5] A stark and experimental departure from the relatively straightforward folk-rock style of their debut, Hallowed Ground was considerably divisive amongst fans and critics,[6][7] with many at the time incorrectly thinking Gano's sincere Christian lyrics were ironic.[1]
Background
[edit]The songs were written before their first album. With multiple albums' worth of songs ready, the band decided to focus on more pop songs for their debut album and 'confuse people' with the more experimental songs that ended up as Hallowed Ground.[8] They also stated a goal of "being unpredictable."[9] "Country Death Song" was the first song Gano played to Brian Ritchie after meeting in high school.[10]
The Christian-related lyrics on Hallowed Ground were
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