The Violent Femmes' Golden Era: Pop Culture Graveyard Ep 69

The Violent Femmes Golden Era...

First thing's first, DO NOT miss out on the upcoming vinyl reissue of Why Do Birds Sing, which is being released on October 8:
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The Femmes music jumps to another level in performance, so I'm gonna mix in some classic live performances of the songs in this episode...

Here is a gloriously sloppy performance of Prove My Love from 1983, on the band's hometown TV show At Twelve, (formerly known as Dialing For Dollars), which was hosted by the Milwaukee husband-and-wife team Howard & Rosemary. Howard even gets two shoutouts during the song! This catches the band during Gordon's "bathrobe phase," when he wouldn't perform without one:
https://youtu.be/4Nzq3jyZHAU

This is one of the greatest live versions of Kiss Off ever, live in 1983 at the Hacienda nightclub in Manchester. Check out how young and beautiful Gordon is:
https://youtu.be/NJUtlnn4KDg

This is one of my favorite full concerts from the Femmes, catching them live in London at the Lyceum in 1984. The band are out on the second-album tour, and they look so young, vibrant and full of fire:
https://youtu.be/JJXDEynfgR0

This is Good Feeling, which I still think is the most beautiful song Gordon ever wrote:
https://youtu.be/_yZDSguBypU

Here's the band's wonderfully weird video for American Music:
https://youtu.be/Ag0XRlEvap8

Here's my beloved Special, my jam off the third album:
https://youtu.be/LTfCIikTFg4

And here is a brilliant, live version of Special, slowed down quite a bit, but just as methodical as ever--simply to double down on how...special the song is:
https://youtu.be/MbZiDNRpm_M

This is a raucous performance of Blister in the Sun live again at the Lyceum in 1984:
https://youtu.be/VqaDrFizEts

Here is a blistering live performance of my favorite song off the debut album, Promise, live in Madrid in 1985.:
https://youtu.be/H-Hg83mTm-s

00:00 Intro
01:07 Violent Femmes
06:30 Hallowed Ground
10:09 The Blind Leading The Naked
13:15 3
16:00 Why Do Birds Sing?
19:48 Outro
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