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Violent Femmes is an alternative rock artist from Milwaukee, USA formed in 1980. 30 releases are catalogued on Riffiter.
Alternative Rock · Milwaukee, USA · Best alternative rock albums
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Violent Femmes
1982 · 10 tracks
We Can Do Anything
2016
Why Do Birds Sing?
1991
Add It Up: 1981–1993
1993
Hallowed Ground
1984
New Times
1994
The Blind Leading the Naked
1986
No Place To Hide (Live Chicago '84)
2024
3 (US Version)
2021
Permanent Record: The Very Best Of The Violent Femmes
2021
2 Mics & the Truth: Unplugged & Unhinged in America
2017
Live - Riviera Theater, Chicago, Il 16 Mar 89 (Remastered)
2016
Permanent Record: The Very Best of Violent Femmes
2005
Something's Wrong
2001
Freak Magnet
1998
Rock!!!!!
1995
3
1988
Hotel Last Resort
Single · 2019
Country Death Song (Live At Beneath-It-All Cafè / 1981)
Single · 2023
Please Do Not Go (Demo)
Single · 2023
Gone Daddy Gone / I Just Want To Make Love To You (Live At Folk City / 1983)
Single · 2023
Blister In The Sun (Demo)
Single · 2023
Believe Me (Live 1993)
EP · 2022
Waiting For The Bus
Single · 2021
Add It Up (Live)
Single · 2021
I'm Nothing
Single · 2019
Another Chorus
Single · 2019
Memory
Single · 2016
Happy New Year
EP · 2015
Crazy
Single · 2008
Violent Femmes were an American alternative rock band from Milwaukee, Wisconsin, initially active between 1980 and 1987 and again from 1988 to 2009. The band performed as a trio, including: singer, guitarist and songwriter Gordon Gano, bassist Brian Ritchie, and two drummers, Victor DeLorenzo (1980-1993 and 2002-2009) and Guy Hoffman (1993-2002). The Violent Femmes released eight studio albums and fifteen singles during the course of their career. The band found immediate success with the release of their self-titled debut album in early 1983. Featuring many of their well-known songs, including "Blister in the Sun", "Kiss Off", "Add It Up" and "Gone Daddy Gone", Violent Femmes became the band's biggest-selling album and was eventually certified platinum by the RIAA. Violent Femmes went on to become one of the most commercially successful rock bands of the 1980s and 1990s, selling over 9 million albums by 2005. After the release of their third album The Blind Leading the Naked (1986), the band's future was uncertain and they split up in 1987, when Gano and Ritchie went solo. However, they regrouped a year later, releasing the album 3 (1989). Since then, Violent Femmes' popularity c…