Violent Femmes - Gone Daddy Gone

Taken from the self-titled album, VIOLENT FEMMES.
The popular Violent Femmes’ retrospective compilation ADD IT UP (1981-1993) makes it return to streaming services, as well as being reissued on vinyl on May 21st, 2021. Pre-save or pre-order here: found.ee/addit...
The long out-of-print 23-track compilation features the bands biggest hits, including “Blister in the Sun,” “American Music,” and “Gone Daddy Gone,” plus live recordings of favorites like “Add It Up,” and “Kiss Off,” alongside a trove of demos, B-sides, interstitial voice recordings, and rarities. Housed in a gatefold jacket, the 2-LP set was pressed at Memphis Records Pressing, with lacquers cut by George Horn at Fantasy Studios. In addition to the standard black 2-LP, a special “Blister Red Marble” edition is available exclusively via the Violent Femmes and Craft Recordings webstores (limited 500 worldwide). Meanwhile, Indie Retailers will offer an exclusive “Aqua” pressing, and Urban Outfitters will offer a “Violet” variant.

[@charlenemack7040]

My favorite radio station is playing this song right now April 2024. Thank you DJ Mark! 😊❤

[@gbvideos9228]

What’s your fav radio station

[@etherashe5164]

That's a helluva DJ!

[@tenenieldjoandthenightsist5109]

Best xylophone solo in a top 40 song ever

[@Docktime]

Moonlight Feels Right by Starbuck is a wicked top 40 song with a solo if you like marimba.

[@StephaneVorstellung]

Not top-40 (single didn't chart), but yeah it's perfect.

[@scottfraser7118]

Got to be 😘

[@nightwi1dernessbrianjohnso803]

​@@StephaneVorstellung i remember when it was new it was Top 40 ... on🏫college📻stations 😂 in Rochester, New York 🏫University of Rochester📻 & 🏫Rochester institute of Technology📻

[@Mels925]

@@nightwi1dernessbrianjohnso803very cool! My 90s bff and I discovered them for ourselves in like 1995. We were babies in the early 80s so we didn’t get them for a while of course I enjoy them so to this day.😊

[@geoffreypiltz271]

We need more rock and roll xylophone!

[@yuhgftp7925]

Yes!

[@mk6595]

The Psychedelic Furs - Love My Way

[@_meepmorp]

not that it particularly matters but this is actually a marimba

[@robertwhite7071]

Yes!. And more cowbell.

[@xedgelord75x65]

Much more

[@freedo333]

As i got older, the Violent Femmes tunes were less relatable- most of their songs are about problems of youth. But now that ive gotten old & lonely with no one to love, the Violent Femmes songs resonate with me again

[@johngrossi166]

me three.solitude is teenage angst redux for this 65 y/o

[@ricardoybarra5056]

High school flashback to the 80 s hell yea best days ever !

[@carmencaamano9434]

@@johngrossi166 I think you're into the Alan Turing thing! Do not?

[@Fern635]

Yeah, middle age sometimes feels like adolescence 2.0, doesn't it? Glad our angsty music is still around to help us through it.

[@Typical.Anomaly]

Dude, you ain't alone.

[@TheSchuyler75]

can not believe this is 40…. well hell yeah cheers to those who are still with us 🎉❤

[@julesmasseffectmusic]

Thanks for making me feel old

[@marcsnow1888]

Thanks for making me feel special ❤​@@julesmasseffectmusic

[@denise41071]

I was introduced to the Violent Femmes when I was 14 or 15. I still love their music at 51. (Still trying to figure out how I got this old though.)

[@t.c.bramblett617]

Same! 10th grade study hall, 1985, someone brought in a cassette and played it. Changed my life

[@tonyrubin7180]

Lol same yeah

[@Fern635]

The music never gets old... too bad the same principle doesn't hold true for us 😆

[@rediryou]

Same. It does creep up on ya doesn't it :)

[@Mark-xs4uv]

I am 51. Feeling old as well

[@krablord]

Wow, they should put this in crash bandicoot.

[@Melcavic42]

dork

[@garethmarshall125]

@@Melcavic42 🤣

[@dydreemblvr]

@@Melcavic42 Someone doesn't listen to Face Jam!

[@zorlab]

WHOA

[@roquetinsixtysix]

This tune is timeless! Still as captivating as it was when it was released way back in 1983.

[@surferbri5346]

Remembering how underground this was, with husker du, smith's, early REM,

[@vladraduandrei5227]

yeah it's awesome, I was very far from being born in 83 but still love this

[@salubrious]

Could not agree more.

[@finallylearnthow]

Saw it live in '95. It's probably my fav. Was introduced to The Femmes in 1990, it was summer ✌🏼♥️🇦🇺

[@davidkitson635]

The song and it’s video are a combined masterpiece.

[@buzzawuzza3743]

One of the few times when a video lives up to the coolness of the song itself.

[@AK-74K]

Violent Femmes are one of the coolest bands ever full stop

[@raflucas8386]

Best video ever made

[@JamesHawkeYouTube]

I lived and breathed this music. Take me back to the eighties please God.

[@JP_IN_TX]

If you figure a way to go back to the 80's PLEASE take me with you!!

[@eugenaakatruth-seeker1174]

Honestly compared to today it was the best life!! No cares, fun, good music, festivals!

[@markcandela792]

I hear you James I feel you James I really really do

[@marcushudson1749]

Some of the best, James \m/

[@brendonconklin1342]

90's

[@quicklynamed]

“I’m telling ya-you’re gonna want more xylophone.” -Bruce Dickinson, 1983

[@beedoof]

Michael: WHOA

[@zorlab]

Man they weren't kidding

[@galaga16]

Face Jam crew nice

[@MasterXiggy]

Damn I never made that connection. But I can hear it clear as day now haha.

[@LS1056]

I wasn't ready but it's so true

[@jamiewick1653]

I hate how well it fits

[@taco6n13]

Crash Bandicoot was my favorite game as a kid and I was always so happy when this song played during the Boulder level.

[@siskavard]

you what now

[@zorlab]

WHOA

[@unapprovedtruth7116]

Fits in well with the xylophone theme of the game

[@MalibuMarlie]

Crash and Donkey Kong Country 4 Life

[@nicoleshelly1225]

That’s cool I never knew this

[@TheNervousnation]

I forgot how fucking good this is.

[@rebeccawalter645]

Love how you stated this! So direct!

[@the2ndcoming135]

Love how confused the guy at the table is. Like, damn is she interested in having sex with me or is this some kind of trap?🤔

[@frankrizzo739]

I never fucking forgot! 😄

[@stephanieknight9404]

Me too I just turned 50 to this song

[@violetraven9440]

I know right they played it multiple times at work today and every time I couldn’t help singing a bit

[@simondavis750]

I was walking through the mall in Brisbane in 1990 with my ticket to the East Leagues club concert and heard this song playing. I looked around to see who was playing it and ... HOLY SHIT THE ITS VIOLENT FEMMES!! They were tucked away in an alcove busking. This is one of the greatest memories I will ever have.

[@goudagirl6095]

omg, that's the coolest (they're from my home down of Milwaukee, a looong way from Oz)

[@edp3202]

Busking? Weren't they bigger than that?

[@simondavis750]

@@edp3202 That was the beauty and appeal of the Femmes. They were still who they were in the beginning at the end. They WERE bigger than that, and thats why they did it. You don't see a lot of bands like that anymore. Brisbane around that time had an amazing scene. You could walk into some bohemian cafe in the city and some band would be set up in the corner and then you would go to ZZZ market day or Big Day Out (before it got "Big") and see the same band on the main stage. It was a good time for artists and musicians. Then the council decided to push the alternative scene out for the normie club scene because they could make more money and all the good stuff went to Melbourne and died from heroin.

[@TheReReRetard]

@@edp3202 Made up BS.

[@Jack-r2v9b]

I think I was there that night, definitely saw them at easts and at the spit with nirvana

[@bobbybobo6499]

Two things all songs need more of: cowbell and xylophone.

[@tonyrubin7180]

Lol

[@wutangisforever2798]

Say it baby!

[@richardgraham6836]

And kazoo

[@plechaim]

Its a marimba

[@rra7490]

@@plechaimNah someone else in another comment explained it.

[@stirfrybry1]

I really wish I had appreciated your music back in the day. I didn't understand enough to get it.

[@benjaminwells6445]

"Woah!" - Crash Bandicoot

[@Despondencymusic]

😂

[@Esselo]

Hey sports fans, welcome to Space Jam

[@raphaelamiranda5811]

😂😂😂😂😂

[@perrywinklefartsniffer6630]

Budda bah caw

[@josejones7025]

Crash Worship a great band who used to play San Diego back in the 80s

[@MsChuckroast]

I saw them in Seattle in the 90s and everyone knew every word to every song - total blast

[@bk-..24]

Greets from Greece. As a big fan of kexp following a request for a sonic youth song my next request to john (the morning dj) will be this song . Let's see if he will play it.

[@etherashe5164]

Go ahead girl!

[@cardigansarecool]

Violent Femmes were the first punk band that really grabbed me, I was about 12 years old and it changed my life. So thanks guys

[@zephyrune]

Same

[@nuc1f3raa]

This isn’t a punk band?

[@VinnytotheK]

@@nuc1f3raa Folk punk among a lot of other genres, while being genreless.

[@toddpacker4683]

@@nuc1f3raa yes they are

[@garethedwards1926]

@@toddpacker4683 Breathtaking argumentation. I'm sold.😉

[@scottculli7851]

Dig this people because it’s not gonna be around for much longer. This is classic great music.

[@Bob-op3wg]

Thanks for bringing me here, Face Jam

[@charlenemack7040]

My favorite radio station in the whole world is playing this song right now January 2, 2024… thank you DJ Mark! 😊❤

[@bk-..24]

Which is this station?

[@BenBrosowski]

Please share the name call letters and location of the aforementioned kick ass radio station.

[@obyram]

SAW these guys in Brisbane Australia in 92 heading with Nirvana supporting. FEMMES blew Nirvana out of the park. Drenched in sweat from moshing.

[@yangstaproductions2478]

WOW WOULD HAVE BEEN A DREAM SHOW

[@JeffVader39]

I’m jealous 😮

[@finallylearnthow]

'95 Adelaide, but no Nervana I have never seen another band play an entire gig like The Femmes do, they just don't stop, stage is empty and you can still hear them playing from the wings✌🏼

[@simondavis750]

Saw them in Brisbane at East Leagues around the same time. Nirvana played at Festival Hall around then too. Played with RHCP and a local band called the Hardons. Hardons came on and wrecked. RHCP came on and we hated every second of it because they were shitty they couldn't wear the socks on their junk in BRisbane so they did a bad show. Nirvana came out and was booo'd off stage within two songs. We wanted the hardons back. Nirvana just sucked at nearly every show.

[@raflucas8386]

Hard ons r not from Brisbane champ

[@vdubjunkie]

How many bands absolutely ROCK a xylophone? I remember clearly being introduced to the Violent Femmes by my older brother's friend. Every time I listen to one of their songs, it puts me back in that time.

[@SL-vi4tk]

Other than The Flesheaters, not many others

[@suzi8277]

These guys are so damn cool!

[@asuka8160]

my dad introduced me to violent femmes when i was a kid, and ive never stopped listening to them

[@zakkeith1508]

Listen to Face Jam or Crash Bandicoot doesn't get to eat

[@georgefoster1421]

Finally, a remastered post of the song. It looks and sounds great, befitting to a classic.

[@SPLENDIDZEN]

Gone Daddy Gone (Lyrics) Violent Femmes Beautiful girl, lovely dress. High school smiles, oh yes. Beautiful girl, lovely dress. Where she is now I can only guess, 'Cause it's gone, daddy, gone, Your love is gone. Yeah, it's gone, daddy, gone Your love is gone. Yeah, it's gone, daddy, gone Your love is gone. Yeah, it's gone, daddy, gone Your love is gone away. When I see you, eyes will turn blue. When I see you, thousand eyes turnin' blue, 'Cause it's gone, daddy, gone Your love is gone. Yeah, it's gone, daddy, gone Your love is gone. Yeah, it's gone, daddy, gone Your love is gone. Yeah, it's gone, daddy, gone Your love is gone away. Tell by the way you that you switch and walk, I can see by the way that you baby-talk, I can know by the way you treat your man, I can love you, baby, 'til it's a-cryin... 'Cause it's gone, daddy, gone Your love is gone. Yeah, it's gone, daddy, gone Your love is gone. Yeah, it's gone, daddy, gone Your love is gone. Yeah, it's gone, daddy, gone Your love is gone away. Beautiful girl, lovely dress. Fifteen smiles, oh, yes. Beautiful girl, lovely dress, Where she is now, I can only guess 'Cause it's gone, daddy, gone Your love is gone. Yeah, it's gone, daddy, gone Your love is gone. Yeah, it's gone, daddy, gone Your love is gone. Yeah, it's gone, daddy, gone Your love is gone away Gone away Gone away Gone away Compositor: Dixon Willie, Gano Gordon James

[@SPLENDIDZEN]

The first Violent Femmes album changed my life... I loved each of the songs... The way of playing... singing... composing... And to this day... I follow them loving... almost like family!

[@michaelnagle5482]

Amazing how much this sounds like it’s from Crash Bandicoot.

[@CMZIEBARTH]

It is.

[@LS1056]

Just go "Woah" occasionally

[@zorlab]

WHOA

[@bobbizzle77]

Killin it on that xylophone solo 🤘🤘

[@wendyrudokas]

Oh they’re just babies!! Have loved this song & band since this album came out. I’m 51 now but this album will never get old!!

[@nunyabusinessllc]

Never knew this song had a video and it’s so good

[@Lee-qq8uy]

Just like everything from the 80's this song is timeless and priceless !!

[@SofaKingShit]

I grew up in the 90's. Every damn girlfriend played this. About time l started to like all by myself now I'm single and drunk all the time.

[@barrywilliamsmb]

Lucky bastard.

[@ColtraneTaylor]

Not surprised, this sounds like crappy white girl music to me.

[@luckiestunluckypersonever4278]

You sound so lonely. You could use a friend right about now. Do you have any?

[@jeremydubeck4439]

​@@luckiestunluckypersonever4278🙂

[@Misty_Haze]

I hope he is a friend of Bill.​@@luckiestunluckypersonever4278

[@KristinNason]

I love the little show within the show and our frustrated dude. Too funny!

[@sherritanner6237]

I still love the Violent Femes. Forever!

[@demonmandvon]

This song will never not be awesome.

[@DairyAir]

You couldn’t have a party in Wisconsin in the 90’s, without the violent femmes…

[@jonathanlewis3199]

WMSE 90 ,1

[@DairyAir]

@@jonathanlewis3199 I’m up in Green Bay. They didn’t get much air time up here, but 1 of 5 ppl had the “add I up” album…

[@jonathanlewis3199]

@@DairyAir I grew up in Milwaukee in the 80s and wmse was the college radio station for Milwaukee school of engineering. Never heard it in pop radio just college radio. Man those were the days....

[@DairyAir]

@@jonathanlewis3199 I know they played it in Madison all the time too. I had family and friends go to both schools…

[@conorkennedy3304]

Green Bay here. It was this, later on the Gear Daddies were a thing.

[@patrik-vw4ek]

Just heard this for the first time ever...love it... brilliant!!

[@leohorishny9561]

WHAAAAAT?!😮

[@patrik-vw4ek]

@@leohorishny9561 yip...don't know how this got past me lol...there's bits of echo & the bunny men in there laced with a bit of b52s...great song!

[@etherashe5164]

Welcome to manhood!

[@shannonnonnahs6943]

When I was in Jr. High in the early 90's this was the sound my misfit friends and I would listen too at Lunch break as we tried to sneak a toke or two. Haa great music😁🎶🎵

[@bjamesW32]

They provided me my very own "I saw them when..." moment in 1982 at a small Greek festival downtown Omaha right across the street from UNO. At first I thought they had to be some local high school wedding band on a lark. Well, they basically weren't far from that I guess. But it was a small pavilion and they were this high energy acoustic trio. I stood there alone marvelling at how much I loved genuine music in such small intimate settings. Their name stuck in my head. In a few years they really took off and had gifted me with my own I-saw-them-when memory.

[@oldechick2252]

I remember when these guys would busk around the East Side of Milwaukee - in front of The Coffee Trader & Downer Theater & Oriental Theater. People don't realize what an incredible music scene Milwaukee had for a few glorious years. Find myself longing for those days quite a bit now.

[@unzulaessig]

awesome!

[@bennyadler5882]

Still sounds fresh today as it did in 83'ish.

[@Gale4ce1]

Has a beatnik sound!

[@gradybird3336]

As an old coot growing up on the great '60's and '70's rock classics, I had a hard time adjusting to '80's New Wave. Now I miss that music terribly. So inventive and creative..

[@jonathancoyne8034]

I loved this song on Crash Bandicoot.

[@grumulongames]

Don't try and act like you came up with this yourself and didn't just hear it on today's Face Jam

[@blkmike1818]

Probably spiked the views like crazy from face jam this week lol

[@CommissionerManu]

@@grumulongames bruh, the fact that it’s from Face Jam IS THE JOKE 🤦🏽

[@grumulongames]

@@CommissionerManu As if. This guy totally was trying to play the joke off like it was his joke

[@SorenWinslow]

I loved this song when the album came out in 1983.

[@ohiyotrippole6645]

Got to watch these guys in 1996. The act that came on stage right after them... The Ramones. What a night.

[@Gale4ce1]

Xylophone rock!

[@toewoe]

It was nice of them to let both the crash bandicoot team and banjo & kazooie team use this song for their soundtracks. WHOA

[@Dhakadice]

They actually did that? I never played Banjo but A LOT of Crash. Which level(s)?

[@lotar8478]

Desde México siguiendo a los Violent Femmes, Una de mis bandas favoritas.

[@stapleremover]

I saw them live in Cincinnati around 1987, one of the most memorable shows ever.

[@Joker-ig8im]

So awesome. I saw them in Louisville 1986. Fake ID. I was only 16.

[@etherashe5164]

@@Joker-ig8im "Fake ID. I was only 16." Classic!

[@ava.artemis]

This album was sheer perfection. 🙏🏽🙏🏽 It’s fun to see videos of songs that were the soundtrack of my youth. I’ve never had tv, but I waste time on KZbin when I’m sick or injured. 😂

[@andrewgordon2795]

I'm 60 and love it

[@heahikaaotearoa3048]

66 here. This was the shit in the day (early 80's) Great to drive too.

[@GW-kl2cb]

just like crash bandicoot

[@_AnneGerald_]

Violent Femmes is best at expressing pain.

[@etherashe5164]

This reminds me of being at a frat party (that me and my dirt-ball homies crashed) and being around a bunch of hot sorority girls, knowing you ain't gonna get laid. 😌😔😪🤤

[@MelchizedeckPriest]

Just wanna thank God for such cool musicians bros didnt choose to be here but they made the best of it ❤

[@GregR2023]

Listen to Face Jam.

[@mayhembunz8888]

Me and my high school boyfriend used to blast this song on our way to school… makes me feel so nostalgic… a absolute classic……also..hope he’s doing well even tho he ripped my heart out haha 🤷🏼‍♀️whatta ya gonna do

[@etherashe5164]

"hope he’s doing well even tho he ripped my heart out haha" He must have been a dumbass, cause you're a hott-eee!

[@RepaidSassycat]

My favourite Crash Bandicoot track

[@byou6359]

I can recall meeting these acouple very cool cats in lower Michigan near my sister's when I was about seventeen....they had an old van and whoa when the cute tall blond brings out this huge double handle axe of a guitar, which I never really seen before ever....after that the music just began flowing...The GREAT I AM is GOOD INDEED...I got to catch them live last at the Royal Oak Music Hall... Amazing how time flies...I AM still singing yall ...peace and love ...

[@indigojones8]

Saw them in New Orleanns at Tipitina's in the early '90s. They did a show on Monday night that I recorded from Tulane University's (my alma mater) radio that was broadcast live and I taped, and then I went to the second live show on Tuesday. Awesome shows!

[@etherashe5164]

Aww man that's classic! I used to busk on the streets of NOLA. Back in the old days.

[@thequickthepointless695]

God I love this song! I also love this band and Feel like they are criminally underrated!!

[@carriesagel]

Mad crazy xylophone skills!!

[@dalelerette206]

Oh my God, I had not heard this song since the 80's!!

[@thewenik6876]

Great song by a good group. Thanks, Violent Femmes.

[@palmwaytech]

Video is hilarious , funny , entertaining , the music is excellent. What more can you ask for.

[@FishHeadSalad]

Lead xylophone, marimba, or sperimba, how can one not love this song? 40 years later, which I find hard to believe, it still holds up!

[@kbtube8125]

that sloppy solo made me go get tacos.

[@FishHeadSalad]

@@kbtube8125 I wouldn't call it sloppy, but tacos are always good!

[@kbtube8125]

@@FishHeadSalad 1:15 to 1:25sec. it's pretty sloppy, but i think they wanted it that way. it's loose and fun. that sharp note at 1:48sec.! this was a one take solo.

[@FishHeadSalad]

@@kbtube8125 I do not think that shifts in minor keys are sloppy by any means. Unexpected notes are different than flat out wrong notes that leave your ears saying WTF was that?

[@johnwibbels4678]

I’m insanely for this music

[@Mtv-get-off-thee-air]

This is way better than the music video I always imagined in my head

[@tort3958]

Add it up VIOLET FEMMES 2023!. The violet femmes bring ALL their equipment on the bus.

[@catgaming9791]

Wish I had seen this band live.

[@indigojones8]

AWESOME LIVE!

[@Joker-ig8im]

I got to see them play June 1st 1986, fake ID my Junior Year of High School. Red Barn, Louisville KY.

[@albuquerqueturkey1567]

I remember seeing Violent Femmes at the Greek Theater back in 1989.. MOJO Nixon opened up for them ..Violent Femmes opened the Curtain and a record player with a record of Julio Iglesias was playing..Great Show!!!!

[@sofiametitanidou3104]

I just found them and i loveeee them

[@noneya8973]

Welcome to greatness

[@gburcaw]

Loved the Femmes back in the day but never saw the video. This is brilliant.

[@MetalHeadAZ]

Reminds me of high school

[@josetelle7634]

This album is one of the most influential records in the 80s and 90s

[@cf2796]

Thanks for sharing this! Haven't heard this is ages..

[@ookland81]

After all these years, still loving them.

[@BartleyTroyan]

The xylophone is indeed quite beautifully arranged in this song.

[@honiideslysses12]

I have soooo much respect for these guys, but I just could never really get into them, yet they are still an important chapter in the history of American music.

[@alangoetsch8437]

Do you like American Music

[@Na11y]

@@alangoetsch8437 I like American music

[@floryboonda]

@@Na11y baby...

[@kallekas8551]

Way better than most American music…❤

[@cheyennecazares3830]

Wow! I totally forgot about this bada$$ song

[@deanhunter1753]

Great band and so many memories from Australia 🏆🏆

[@bartonted]

still a great song, ha, I love post-punk music. ha, I am an old c>nt but still love beautiful pop, new wave, songs.

[@frederickhaaken456]

Dude rocked the xylophone

[@DD-ev2dt]

Saw the Great VIOlEnt FeMmeS back in Europe back in early 90s .... saw them @ Savoy Cork Ireland 2006 classic gig 😎 .... Back in 80s saw a classic gig on Channel 4 UK circa 1984 .... such a classic band in same ballpark as Wall of Voodoo 😎✌️.

[@SpikeSeagull]

WHOA

[@GoblinmasterYT]

WHOA

[@danielwalsh7538]

Fantastic album

[@kdnye]

i love this song

[@michelelorenzini2730]

The sound of growing up, high school, good times! Good times😊😊❤

[@merikschneider4678]

100% song

[@redtaileddolphin1875]

100% hear

[@percival1137]

"Groovy, Baby."-Bruce Campbell

[@kenwood3392]

Very inventive. Like something from the early 70s. Pretty cool.

[@BroForce426]

Strange, because most people thought they were a 90’s band

[@hoover728]

@@BroForce426 This album came out in 1983 so not sure who these 'most people' are lol.

[@hoover728]

Big time Velvet Underground/Modern lovers vibes.

[@coyotejoe80]

It's been 20 years and this song still gets me

[@St.Maliki]

Greatest xylophone solo in the history of music!

[@Thunder_Bear_mg]

marimba in wide stereo is on point.

[@ladym1991]

Got me all nostalgic now! Great memories entwined with their music and scalping tickets to see their concert at GW in DC! ❤

[@bullscott12]

Whoa!