The band consists of singer, guitarist and songwriter Gordon Gano, bassist Brian Ritchie, saxophonist and keyboardist Blaise Garza, and current drummer John Sparrow. Violent Femmes have released ten studio albums and 15 singles during the course of their career. The band found immediate success with the release of their self-titled debut album in early Violent Femmes went on to become one of the most successful alternative rock bands of the s, selling more than 9 million albums by After the release of their third album The Blind Leading the Naked , the band's future was uncertain and they split up in , when Gano and Ritchie went solo.
However, they regrouped a year later, releasing the album 3 Since then, Violent Femmes' maintained steady popularity, especially in the United States, where the songs "Nightmares" and "American Music" cracked the top five on the Modern Rock Tracks chart Read more at Wikipedia.
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These cookies do not store any personal information. Some of his songs were straight-up expressions of his faith, while others conveyed the raging hormonal riot of your average American teen. Ritchie and DeLorenzo saw him play and heard something that sounded like their destiny in his songs. Not only did it help develop their sound, it gave their career a huge boost. The band heard them and invited them to play an ad hoc opening set. By the next year, the Femmes had a deal with punk-savvy tastemakers Slash Records.
Besides, none of the clubs wanted to book us at the beginning. It received no mainstream airplay and barely snuck into the lower rungs of the album charts.
It became a dorm room staple for years to come, alongside The Smiths, R. Ironically, not only did the song never crack the charts, it was never even released as a single.
But I waited my whole life for just one. Feminists today fight the notion that women owe men sex, and here, Gano seems to believe that this woman owes him a kiss, a screw, or a fuck. Want to keep up with breaking news? Subscribe to our email newsletter. This union was punctured in when Ritchie filed a lawsuit against Gano , seeking proper accounting of royalties while also claiming he was denied credit for songwriting; additionally, he stated Gano licensed "Blister in the Sun" for use in a Wendy's commercial without permission.
During the lawsuit, the Violent Femmes managed to release a single -- a cover of Gnarls Barkley 's "Crazy," appearing in June of -- but the tensions caused the group to split in Ritchie and Gano settled out of court in and the Violent Femmes reunited in , playing a number of shows, including a slot at that year's Coachella festival, in celebration of the 30th anniversary of their landmark debut. Following these shows, drummer Victor DeLorenzo departed acrimoniously -- in a statement, he claimed "In regards to my history with the Violent Femmes , the dream never quite got there" -- and was swiftly replaced by Brian Viglione , a drummer with the Dresden Dolls.
Over the next couple of years, this lineup played frequently and released a four-song EP for Record Store Day in , a teaser for the full-length We Can Do Anything in By the time that album appeared in March , Viglione had resigned from the band. In the band returned with their tenth studio album Hotel Last Resort. The album's punchy sound and direct songwriting was reminiscent of their earliest work, but they expanded their palette to include multi-instrumentalist Blaise Garza as well as opening up a few songs for guest spots by both skateboarding celebrity Stefan Janoski and guitar legend Tom Verlaine.
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