Zonkers
(Cornfieldville, IL) | | Posted: May 17, 2013 - 08:53 | |
Will always, always remind me of a girl I dated at ISU so many years ago. Instant flashback to those great times.  |
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hippiechick
(topsy turvy land) | | Posted: Mar 15, 2013 - 14:50 | |
I dig these guys! His voice has just the right amount of whiney creepy. Plus the bones...OY!
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Peace0fmind
(somewhere in time...) | | Posted: Feb 08, 2013 - 00:41 | |
I'm lovin' the Violent retro  |
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ziakut
(Slightly North of Obvlivion) | | Posted: Jan 11, 2013 - 21:20 | |
Where else can you play an partially off key marimba solo and pull it off? The Femmes...that's where!
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DrLex
(Belgium) | | Posted: Dec 07, 2012 - 07:40 | |
I was almost certain this was the Gnarls Barkley remake until I looked at the playlist. Seems like GB could have spent some more effort on giving it a twist of their own…
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SanchoPancho
(Santa Fe, NM) | | Posted: Oct 09, 2012 - 18:41 | |
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zepher
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Wanted: One Xylophone Player 4 Violent Femmes Cover Band - experience with Frank Zappa is a plus. Also, Must look good in Go Go Boots.  and be willing to travel....  I know the Femmes were an 80's band, but so were the B-52s....  |
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Proclivities
(Carrboro, NC) | | Posted: Oct 05, 2012 - 13:09 | |
aelfheld wrote:
Yeah, it was. Just because too many were whacked out of their gourds to realise it at the time doesn't change the fact it's dreck.
Were people less "whacked out of their gourds" in the 1960s? |
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aelfheld
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blackjackshellac wrote:Sure as hell wasn't school band slacker noise, whatever that is, in 1982. Yeah, it was. Just because too many were whacked out of their gourds to realise it at the time doesn't change the fact it's dreck. |
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Lakeview
(Great White North) | | Posted: Aug 03, 2012 - 12:48 | |
Aud wrote:Those aren't go-go boots...in the true sense of the fashion statement
zepher wrote:Something about the xylophone makes me think of gogo boots?  Up here in the north we call them "CFM" boots! |
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Xstar
(Florence, Kentucky) | | Posted: Jul 03, 2012 - 02:10 | |
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Aud
(lost in lakecity) | | Posted: Jun 16, 2012 - 20:52 | |
Those aren't go-go boots...in the true sense of the fashion statement
zepher wrote:Something about the xylophone makes me think of gogo boots? |
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zepher
| | Posted: Jun 05, 2012 - 12:53 | |
Something about the xylophone makes me think of gogo boots? |
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dw
(PHill, CA) | | Posted: Jun 05, 2012 - 12:43 | |
Turn up the volume!!!!  |
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blackjackshellac
(Montreal) | | Posted: Apr 30, 2012 - 11:34 | |
Xing wrote:Raddledaddle school band slacker noise. Annoyingly boring, Sure as hell wasn't school band slacker noise, whatever that is, in 1982. |
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Xing
| | Posted: Apr 03, 2012 - 01:55 | |
Raddledaddle school band slacker noise. Annoyingly boring,
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dw
(PHill, CA) | | Posted: Mar 13, 2012 - 17:04 | |
 Nice! |
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BowTieDad
(Stockholm, Sweden) | | Posted: Mar 02, 2012 - 09:20 | |
Friday night in Stockholm, this is just right, solid 8+ here
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Elroweho
(Cheesehead in Paradise) | | Posted: Jan 26, 2012 - 08:35 | |
Ah the Femmes! From my home town Milwaukee!
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iTuner
| | Posted: Dec 29, 2011 - 22:42 | |
This song gets an 8 because it is all high school and college. Cranking the song in the car windows down in the summer. Drinking in the dorms in the winter and acting like kids. Love it.
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Cynaera
(In a hammock under my own vine and fig tree.) | | Posted: Oct 27, 2011 - 15:00 | |
MJdub wrote: Woohoo! Bringing this up top in hopes Bill sees it and DOES add it to the icon library!  |
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Netto
(Khimki, Russia) | | Posted: Sep 05, 2011 - 17:46 | |
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ziggytrix
(Dallas, TX) | | Posted: Aug 25, 2011 - 13:49 | |
Deadwing wrote:Seriously? What does Country Death Song have in common with Planet Claire? The Femmes talk about throwing their unwanted children down wells and the 52s sing about purple dogs. Those bands are nothing alike. Well, I guess they are white people playing music There is that.  I hear a smidgen of the B-52s in the tone of the guitar in the bridge. It's sounds surfy. There could be some Ricky Wilson influence there. Maybe. *shrug* But "maybe some influence" is only as far as it goes, IMO. Probably more of a general new wave influence. |
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cc_rider
(Austin Texas. Y'all.) | | Posted: Aug 25, 2011 - 13:40 | |
Deadwing wrote:Seriously? What does Country Death Song have in common with Planet Claire? The Femmes talk about throwing their unwanted children down wells and the 52s sing about purple dogs. Those bands are nothing alike. Well, I guess they are white people playing music There is that. I'm with you, 'wing. The only thing I can figure, it's that sorta twangy guitar, and the somewhat fractious sound of the whole affair. Other than that, I don't see any connection either. |
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Sloggydog
(UK) | | Posted: Aug 25, 2011 - 13:39 | |
What an awesome drinking album
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Deadwing
(Cincinnati OH) | | Posted: Aug 21, 2011 - 06:32 | |
kingart wrote:Emulating the B-52s, who weren't exactly an epiphany. People like this, but in their comments rail quite nastily against other tunes that are less gimmicky, more musical. Go figure.
Seriously? What does Country Death Song have in common with Planet Claire? The Femmes talk about throwing their unwanted children down wells and the 52s sing about purple dogs. Those bands are nothing alike. Well, I guess they are white people playing music There is that. |
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Deadwing
(Cincinnati OH) | | Posted: Aug 21, 2011 - 06:24 | |
I saw these guys years ago at 688 in Atlanta (Hallowed Ground tour) and when it was time for the encore Gordon and the bass player acted like they were running back out onto the stage but stopped in the wings and the drummer ran out by himself cheering, smiling, and jumping up and down. Then he realized he was alone.
It was f*ckin hilarious
I love these guys
Good times
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kingart
(Brooklyn NY) | | Posted: Aug 05, 2011 - 08:25 | |
Emulating the B-52s, who weren't exactly an epiphany. People like this, but in their comments rail quite nastily against other tunes that are less gimmicky, more musical. Go figure.
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jenovella70
(Willows, CA) | | Posted: Jul 25, 2011 - 04:37 | |
chadlymn wrote:I hear that!!
tkay73 wrote:Brings back memories of being a teen driving around w/ my teen friends and yelling this song as we drove around town.
What fun!
I was JUST telling my boyfriend how this reminds me of my teenage years. Walking, Driving, Dancing, Singing around my little town, stars in my eyes & a dream in my heart. |
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That_SOB
(In as least 2 places at once) | | Posted: Jun 23, 2011 - 15:59 | |
 and don't come back until your gone !! |
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