Rapper FIRST time REACTION to VIOLENT FEMMES -Blister in the sun! W/

[@hollycook5046]

I guess I should suggest "Gone Daddy Gone" by them. That xylophone rocks

[@emerje0]

I really hope BP at least knows this one, everyone was into it when Gnarls Barkley (CeeLo Green and Danger Mouse) covered it.

[@Yowza78]

I saw them at a little club in the 80s and had never thought about the possibility of punk xylophone. Dude banged the hell out it!

[@CJ-Fischer]

@@Yowza78they still touring right? Love to see them. I’m from Wisconsin can’t believe I never seen them amazing band! 😅

[@RKOENT]

“Add It Up” and “Kiss Off” are a couple more classics.

[@susanmurray7654]

Haven't heard Add It Up in AGES.

[@eternallife9786]

Add it up was before its time😂😂

[@eurofritz4617]

their cover of "Children Of The Revolution" is also a good one

[@Rick_McKee]

Pegasus can’t handle Add It Up.

[@nobodyimportant1337]

@@Rick_McKeethis made me laugh

[@jennifermorris6848]

It was used in Grosse Pointe Blank with John Cusack. It was re-released because of the play it got in that movie.

[@stephaniegeer1691]

Oh yaaa!! That’s ANOTHER soundtrack they’re on too!! I usually think of the Crow soundtrack first, but that’s another good one!! Lol😂

[@bertalach]

Große point is classic!

[@dakken74]

If you were in a club during the 90s and this song came on, everyone was sing the lyrics at the top of their lungs!

[@mikewright256]

It kinda makes me feel old, knowing that Walmart plays it all the time, I hear it like 3 times a n8ght at work, lol

[@dakken74]

@@mikewright256 I've never heard it at my store lol

[@mikewright256]

@dakken74 really, I work at the Ft Wright Kentucky store, 10p to 7a, it gets played multiple times a night, but I love the Violent Femmes, jam them all the time, also Clutch Elephant Rider's

[@dakken74]

@@mikewright256 my stores in California, I don't think I've ever heard them play Violent Femmes before. They play mostly commercial friendly stuff.

[@smallgovisbest]

The entire album is great.

[@wompa70]

Violent Femmes was an underground band? I had no idea. They were big with my tiny, podunk, Florida home town skate punk friends in the 80s. Along with Black Flag, Dead Kennedys, Black Flag, Butthole Surfers, NOFX, and others. This song is about drug use, not masturbation.

[@KiltedHammer]

Dang, were you in my town skating with me? LOL (if you know who Maggot Sandwich is, then it might be likely) I was in NW Florida at that time.

[@RKOENT]

@@KiltedHammer funny, I lived in south Florida in the early/mid 70’s. I was only 5 or so but my teenage stepbrother had a friend who went by Maggot. Must be a Florida thing

[@rowanmayfair9249]

Central Florida. Grew up on it too.

[@Robsan40]

They were pretty big on MTV.

[@deechsea]

This. Love this song. Love this band, but yes, this song is about drug use.

[@callievires2382]

These guys are the soundtrack of my teen years !!!

[@amberrose8756]

Same!

[@ericwagner1824]

Violent Femmes really rocks on the dark classic Country Death Song.

[@MrRudeboy212]

This entire album is a banger

[@StevenTyree-sl2nx]

Thanks, now this damn song will be stuck in my head for hours. It is an ear worm.

[@EightPieceBox]

This is why Don needs to keep coming back.

[@JeffTiberend]

Definitely!

[@jacqueline4514]

This is one of the songs that I only play a couple of times a year, but when you are in the mood for it, it’s perfect ❤ GREAT response; “I don’t know..he’s just getting funky with it” 😂

[@Abri412]

I love the Violent Femmes!! I understand how people get an incel vibe from them, but when I first heard them I was a teenage girl with many options, some of which I accepted, and I still felt this music to my core. It just releases everything that's pent up inside of you. Do "Kiss Off" or "Add It Up"!

[@eternallife9786]

Add it up was ahead of its time if you really listen to the lyrics he's making fun of those type of people

[@ericcecil989]

@@eternallife9786 What type of people? Incels?

[@kenneth2875]

Wikipedia-The lyrics to "Blister in the Sun" reference drug use. After the song was released, a misinterpretation arose that the lyrics were about masturbation. In a 2013 interview with The Village Voice, Gano said: I don’t think there’s a whole lot to understand with the lyrics. In fact, it was maybe 10 or 15 years later, when somebody was asking me about that song and said something like, “Well, you know… You know what that song’s about.” I’m like, “No. What are you talking about?” “Well everybody knows. You wrote it.” I’m like, “What?” And they told me the song was about masturbation. I had never thought of that.

[@eternallife9786]

There's been a few really popular songs that have been attributed to masturbation like that tune I think I'm turning Japanese

[@Robsan40]

My take on the song has always been that it's about being too shy to approach a girl, but when he's high he might get the courage to strut and ask her out.

[@KiltedHammer]

To be honest, I NEVER thought I would hear this song on this channel, but I am here for it, lol. This takes me on a trip in the WAY back machine to the mid-80s.

[@callievires2382]

The look on BP's face is the same look my friend's mom had when a circle of us 14yo kids just started singing this out of nowhere one time lmao😅😅😅😅

[@toddylu6869]

In the 80s I had a Chevrolet Chevette, no reverse, no a/c…. But my younger brother put surf board racks on the top and it was the SURF BUGGY ( until he got a car). I heard Violet Femmes over and over and over. It is a happy summer song to me. Yep there are times Don is needed on these videos. Thank you Don. He is like a gentle Dad trying to explain birds and bees. 😂

[@selfrealeyes]

FYI, these guys were discovered by a record executive who was attending a Greatful Dead concert & found them jamming in the parking lot. Some other "weird", or strange kinds of acts from back then include The Dead Milkmen, They Might be Giants, Ween, Flaming Lips...

[@dorirobertson4539]

This album was the culmination of all my teenage angst! I know these songs like I know Mother Goose rhymes!

[@goldenageofdinosaurs7192]

Lol, same!

[@oktober-vh6gl]

this was huge in 80s dance clubs... everyone would sing along with the whole song, and when he was doing the verse getting quiter and quiter you would dance lower and lower to the ground, then when they hit with the chorus we would all jump. this was just one of those things if you weren't on the dance floor when this song came on... you stopped and ran out to join the herd.

[@nosliwec]

The song is about drug abuse. And the girlfriend in the song is at the end of her ropes and is going to end the relationship and starting to cry because she still loves him but can't take his addiction any longer. The frontman, Gordon Gano, didn't even think of the self love speculation until a fan asked him about it 10-15 years after the song released.

[@cimarronwm9329]

First time I heard it was on "My So-Called Life", Angela dancing around her room to this song. I loved it.

[@stephaniegeer1691]

Oh snap! My so called Life was a fun show!! I had forgotten all about how much I loved that show when it was on,lol. The song and band are a lot older , but it was a great show!!😂

[@MandiRay0192]

My-So-Called Life is on Hulu right now. Me and my 17 yr old just finished it. She loved it!

[@jennifermorris6848]

The 80s were banging!!

[@rightoftheline6521]

in the mid 80's you couldn't go to a party without hearing this album. We all knew every word to every song on this album.

[@amberrose8756]

True!

[@mikepiccione886]

3 piece busking legends❤ love these men. Check out their story😮 context helps with this music! 😊

[@badbadleroybrown]

I remember doing a hip hop set at a house party back in the early 90s and I dropped this track near the end of my set and it went off!

[@yankeesmegw]

Ohhh I fucking love them!!!!

[@erikaronska1096]

I remember listening to this album in '86 when I was 16. I was a teen metal head, but my best friend was into punk/new wave. "And somehow we were still best friends" - Gen X

[@jamesclark8289]

Love this band! Add it Up is one of my fav albums ever!

[@mikepiccione886]

This is punk at his origins a 3 piece band no-frills ,raw

[@79mib]

This album slaps.

[@isabeljimenez6067]

The whole masterbation thing is one of those rock n roll rumors that went around for years. It's really about drug addiction.

[@pedrolopez8057]

it's obvious. i caught it on first hearing.

[@sunshyne0111]

They're actually originally an American Busking band!

[@attwxlv5966]

Road Trips - Lake Powell - Violent Femmes - there you have it!!! I always said the Violent Femmes guitar parts sounded like they were just tangling their fingers in the guitar strings. This was one of my most favorite bands of all time. Gotta hear "Add It Up" and "Gimme The Car". Nothing like Don going off the deep end like he does though😐

[@pumpkinhead34]

If you grew up in the 80's and didn't know or sing every lyric to this song then something was wrong with you!

[@nadineerickson-lo3gx]

It's actually one of my favorite songs. I'm 66 years young. I think it's a very creative song.

[@jesrush]

Oh hell yeah! Let’s go!!✌️😊🔥

[@wintermoonomen]

One of the iconic alternative songs of the 80s!

[@katjawege6886]

"Gone Daddy gone" and "Kiss off" are also great 👍

[@ruanniemann2604]

Country Death Song ftw

[@Everything_is_Fine217]

I came to say just this!

[@sandrafazackerley9526]

Haa a flashback for this Aussie gal's ears. What a tune, it was huge here is Aus. Peace Out ✌️

[@Everything_is_Fine217]

The Femmes are the bomb! Don't let blister scare you off. They have so many great songs, country death song, Jesus walking on the water, add it up, kiss off....

[@Robsan40]

This song really grows on you bigtime the more you hear it. P.S. You mentioned Sublime, that reminded me of a great band that used to tour with Sublime, called 311. You would absolutely love their song "Down" (100% going on your playlists)

[@brandonjones1349]

HAPPY FATHERS DAY TO US ALL . Lemme go ooooffffffffff....nice pick Don. VF! ☘️🚬

[@jeanieologist4456]

I love the violent fems try listening to the whole album

[@KS-303]

We didn’t care about the lyrics as much as the beat. It was just too much fun to dance to. The whole dance floor would vogue and vibe in the quiet part and then go full mosh pit mode when the beat returns.

[@markdrechsler5660]

I live in Milwaukee, where the Femmes are from. In 1981 I was a high school freshman, and was taking the city bus downtown to go to Radio Doctors, a great record store. I saw the Femmes busking around the Oriental Theater. I didn’t know who they were until I picked up their 1983 debut album a few years later. The Oriental was where the Pretenders later discovered them. I went to a great 20th anniversary show that the Femmes put on at the Oriental in 2003.

[@debjorgo]

The more you listen to the Femmes, the more you get them. Everything on their first album was great. I like their cover of T Rex's Children of the Universe and Freak Magnet too.

[@Birdienamnam07]

For a creepy touch: Country Death Song! …a somewhat unorthodox song for Fathers’ Day…

[@eternallife9786]

That song fucked me up as a kid😂

[@Birdienamnam07]

@@eternallife9786 LOL - I understand what you mean 😂. It’s so twisted and end of the ropish. Yet - the story telling is so awfully captivating. You think - come on bro, you can’t really mean to do that. Pure tragedy. And then the gnawing thought - ‘will I ever end up like this’… crazy song, but I love it.

[@eternallife9786]

@@Birdienamnam07 oddly the album that was released on was the album that Gordon got the show some of his Baptist Roots a little bit did you ever hear his pseudo-religious tune Jesus walking on water?

[@fayesouthall6604]

One of the best Indie songs of all time. 😊

[@SuperPaddyMac]

I'm 57 years old and Violent Femmes are one of my all-time favorite bands! Their first 3 albums were brilliant, especially the self-titled debut. I saw them live in 2007 with the Horns of Dilemma at Big Day Out in Perth. In the early 80s, terms were thrown around back then, like "cow punk", "country punk" or "roots rock" to describe bands like Violent Femmes, The Long Ryders, Jason & the Scorchers, Green on Red etc. These bands were "alternative" before the term came up and were championed by College Radio in America.

[@audmiketx]

You should really do Kiss Off and Add It Up.

[@davidpowell2356]

This song is a banger.

[@pogmahongobshite]

lol..I don’t think BP is a fan …oh well. This reminds me of skating in the mid eighties.

[@nim4464]

absolutely

[@Goth_Raven]

I was introduced to Violent Femmes in the show My So Called Life. It immediately went on my Playlist and has been there since. That show introduced me to so much great music.

[@cadleo]

So many fire tracks on this LP

[@Timsinkovitz2.0]

lead singer was 18 when recorded as far as I know. One of my fav debut albums of all time. So much funk thru the album. Let's also not forget this came out in 1983 or 84. I could listen from start to stop and day

[@lightlantern]

I Used To Dance To This In The Club!! It Was In Grosse Pointe Blank!!

[@usa4freedom1]

I thought it was in a movie! I was thinking Reality Bites, but that was Add it Up.

[@Goodtide]

When I was 16 I got a senior to loan her ID once a week to go 80s dancing in Hollywood. It was a blast of good clean fun. When this song came on and he did that weird singing, we'd all pull the drama moves to go with it 😂💃🎶

[@redddo1]

I saw Violent Femmes in Australia at the big day out in 1991. They had a newly emerging support band playing before them ....called Nirvana!

[@stevenrandall-ss9ty]

"Gone Daddy Gone" "Country Death Song" "Freak Magnet" This band is probably one of the biggest "underground bands". They were discovered by The Pretenders when they were busking outside one on their concerts.

[@kpunktbpunkt]

Wie schön, meine Jugend, ein Knaller, wenn das Lied in der Disco lief. Bin voller Begeisterung und tollen Erinnerungen

[@MagooTheHappyHustler]

Not sure if true but the story was they were busking outside a Pretenders show and Chrissie Hynde liked them and had them open. The rest is college radio history.

[@markdrechsler5660]

Very true. I live in Milwaukee, where it happened. In 1981 I was a high school freshman, and was taking the city bus downtown to go to Radio Doctors, a great record store. I saw the Femmes busking around the Oriental Theater. I didn’t know who they were until I picked up this debut album a few years later. The Oriental was where the Pretenders later discovered them. I went to a great 20th anniversary show that the Femmes put on at the Oriental in 2003.

[@christinahilt2978]

Songs from this band were used a lot in the TV show The 100. You do know when a girl is close to completion she can be brought to an emotional response. If it’s that good, she might just cry.

[@ronpotts6385]

When the Violent Femmes wrote this song and the rest of their debut album, they were in high school in Wisconsin, so that album is very much written from the mindset of three seggsually frustrated geeks living in the Midwest in the early 80s with nothing to do. They got discovered while street busking. Their music is written specifically for the outcasts, freaks, and geeks. They're still performing shows 40 years later. I learned about them in seventh grade when some girls at school played a few songs in the lunch area on a little boom box. My little sheltered ass was shocked and intrigued by the words they were singing, since there's a little bit of swearing. They're not one of my favorite groups ever, but they're good, and I would go see them live, if I get a chance.

[@dawnyoung8]

I sang this song with a group of girls Full blast in a pub in London ! Good times were had by all !

[@carriemichelle322]

Happy Father's Day!🎉 This song brings back memories!! Love the 80's!

[@VideosbyLisaLisa]

Folk punk. They were so different to what was on FM radio (Madonna, MJ, Def Leppard, etc.), and my first concert at 15. They were definitely weird, and we were all-in for it. Their shows are so fun, and Woodstock '94 was a highlight in my young life. Try "Add It Up" or "Kiss Off" next time Don's around (or on your own 😉). Violent Femmes ruled college radio in the late 80s early 90s. Pre-internet meant you likely heard them first on a friend's mix tape. No autotune, just 3 guys playing like they're in their parents' garage. Love it.

[@stephaniegeer1691]

This is one of my all time favorite jams!! The Violent Femmes are freaking sooo much fun!! Don is right, they are a complete vibe!! They were for sure on the Crow soundtrack.🙂🎶❤️✌🏻

[@eternallife9786]

The riff in the song is played with one string I really recommend country Death song off their second album or his pseudo-religious tune Jesus walking on water

[@Searles007]

Hah, my jam from back in the day! 💚🤙🏼

[@msmrsro]

As a student in the 80s, this was huge in high school and college. I think I saw them in concert back in the day. I had a t-shirt at least.

[@Robert-op7oc]

BIG HIT IN IT'S TIME

[@thegothfolk]

This was folk punk. Written while they were in their mid teenage years. The album is all acoustic. I saw them on their 40th anniversary tour of this album and they still rock the Fuq out of all of these songs.

[@lisafolmar5321]

Kiss Off and Gone Daddy Gone. As a teen this was one of the bands we'd listen to ... sometimes jumping on a trampoline. Fun memories.

[@Rick_McKee]

Femmes!!!!

[@heathhoughtling5926]

One of the great bassists

[@SleepingTiger-vlog]

I got into Violent Femmes in 8th grade, one of my sons discovered them when he was in 8th grade and then my daughter did when she was in 8th grade. Each without influence by each other. My son went to see them live multiple times after becoming an adult.

[@JS-TexanJeff]

This song was used in at least one commercial, I just can't remember for what. When I bought a cheap bass I learned by ear to play the main guitar riff on bass...because it was easy! I still suck at bass. 30 years later.

[@melanieheathbeasley133]

In Southwest VA and this was played cover to cover back in the day and can still sing every word. It was such a low key vibe. It was not for everyone though, my sister hated it. Add it up & Kiss Off…. Chef’s kiss music!

[@billwheeler1213]

He's singing like that to represent being high. It's the way you talk in your head.

[@angelmcgraw683]

This is a great partying song! In my 20s, I'd dance to this song everytime. Im 52. Jane's Addiction too. Caught stealing is the best!!

[@lt.spears1889]

This whole album is a banger, these guys were HUGE in the 80’’s at least in my neck of the country

[@ericcecil989]

This song features in the opening scene from My So Called Life episode 17 "Betrayal" (I've literally just finished rewatching the series.) It is a great scene where Clare Danes dance to the whole song More or less. One of my favourite scenes. Worth a watch.

[@DRAGON_FAN_TIM]

The song was featured in the 17th episode of teen drama series My So-Called Life.[8] In 1997, the song was featured prominently in the film Grosse Pointe Blank. The lyrics to "Blister in the Sun" reference drug use.

[@ChrissyRaeofsunshine]

American music is my fave song of theirs can’t believe you playing violent femmes !!!!!!! Awesome

[@rexhorning7228]

Life was awesome in the days of this album. A person could do anything they set their mind to. We are now controlled by a system that didn’t exist at that time. People were trustworthy. A persons word meant something. People helped each other because they could and it was the right thing to do. What comes around goes around! Happy Father’s Day!

[@bryanforis1839]

One song that makes you timeless goes many years

[@lazarusblack9995]

And all the instruments are playing themselves.

[@wwe666q]

They made an appearance on Sabrina the teenage witch, and this song is about drugs not adult fun time.

[@pirateylass]

Love this song So Much! I can always cheer myself up by listening to this song lol 😝 Violent Femmes was constantly on my favorite radio station in Portland. 😁😁😁

[@shanegooding4839]

This was one of the first Folk Punk bands in the US. The first in the UK was the Pogues. Most bands in the genre since then either sound American folksy like the Femmes or ethno/Celtic like the Pogues.

[@robjay3850]

I'm shocked. Thank you.

[@hud6543]

No Killing! Great song!

[@LSMSusan]

Brilliant choice

[@jemxs]

Loved this band. Had this album as a 12yo. You're right, a cult underground classic. I got it off an older guy at scouts and passed it on to 3 of my friends at primary school. The breathy quiet sInging i take that as he was in the act of patting the monkey 🐒

[@freefalldance]

They had me in 4 measures back in 79. Fan ever since. Before I get roasted, it was 83. I graduated HS in 79, college in 83. Getting old and confused as to which spring of my sr year I first heard them. Saw them live at Medusa’s in Chicago. BANGING!

[@Sog8045]

Oh hell nah.................. I can't beleive you did this. I used to love Violent Femmes. It's been years since I heard this.

[@DaveB-hg7el]

I just saw the Violent Femmes play with the Columbus symphony orchestra. I guess I'm a member of their cult. Been listening to them for decades. Lol 🙃

[@payleighsteele1540]

This album was the soundtrack to 7th grade, and it was a glorious time!

[@MikeOstrowski-iq8wf]

Violent Femmes were a big College cult band….. this track could be heard from all the dorm room parties ❤️