RIP their bassist Bones Hillman. After a battle with cancer he died at the age of 62 in his home of Milwaukee, Wisconsin USA. He'll always be remembered. He sat in on this tune. Hill was with Midnight Oil
Yep, me too. I played their music all the time, in my late teens years. But, never saw a video. Love it. Thus music brings back so many memories from the good ole days.
One of the meanest mosh pits ive ever been in, and i was in a lot, was Violent Femmes Edgefest Omaha mid 90's. Outdoor. Huge dirt tornado. Everyone drunk. They came out and it was like slayer hit the stage.
One of the best concerts I've ever been to, and I've seen hundreds of bands, was the Violent Femmes at the outdoor Wolftrap in VA. Mojo Nixon... opening for the Pogues... who opened for the Femmes. They did every early song and most of the later ones, including a 10 minute version of "I Dig the Black Girls"... and a version of this song that turned the entire place, to the outer edges of the lawn, into pandemonium... amazing performance...
Two years ago, the itch got me and my two best friends again, all in our thirties, but we just bought boards and went for it. We sucked big time and our stamina was appalling, but we had so much fun!
This whole album is my teen theme album. There are just no albums like this anymore. All digitally remixed hollow lyrics. I will forever cherish the Violent Femmes. Where has music gone????
borned 4 years after this song :P now nearly 30 years old.. Listening this song more than 10 years :P Still lovin.. heheh. i may leave it to my grandsons one day..
The xylophone has a range between 2-1/2 and 4 octaves. The marimba has a range from 3 to 5 octaves or higher. The xylophone has shorter resonators, reaching to about half of the frame, and its mallets are either covered with or completely made of rubber or plastic.
I saw the Femmes about a thousand years ago at a dive bar in Nashviile, Tennessee called Cantrell's. We were slam dancing, and the band said they we going to quit playing until we quit, so we started waltzing and otherwise slow dancing. They loved it, and played until the wee hours of the morning. Good times.
Nope--makes one pine for a bygone era of genuinely creative art. Your generation doesn't seem to be creating anything fresh. You do remakes and Auto-Tune. That's like serving leftovers every night of the week, month after month, year after year. If the best you can do is hold up your low smoking rates, you have one helluva dreary future. Save yourselves, and go make something NEW!!!
Saw these guys at the first Lolapalooza in Enumclaw WA way on back. It was awesome that they had gotten back together and were just playing all their stuff, it was raining and awesome. At the end Gordon said: "Thanks for taking a shower with us" in that lilting voice. Good
Seeing these guys (Finally!) on Sunday - can't wait. I didn't even know they had a video for this song - for 1982, this is pretty incredible. There just aren't enough xylophones in rock (-;
this came in the punk era and yet it was poppy but it cradled a new sound oh yes all the parties or just listening to it as a teenager then the really hard music like cradle of filth ,puppy,frontline etc....
i remember me as 10-12 years old boy steeling my sisters walkman and listening Violent femmes over and over.......now 35 after more than 20 it feels like im 10 again:)
So very, very awesome! Thanks for sharing and for taking me back to someamazing days and nights. What an absolutely incredible album this was. Spent many a night in cherry fields getting bombed to this album and others like REM Murmur and Reckoning, and U2's early albums.
Hey, had a holiday in Lagos, PT, i was very young, gone to Vitaminas , brought a track, my cassette filled with violentfemme, never forget, never......Nobody knowing Violentfemme before in Pt greetings Nicola
This song was playing on my car's tape deck when my Mazda Protege got side swiped. Now I always associate this song with the sound of screaming brakes.
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 The love is gone Gone daddy gone The love is gone away 'Cause it's gone daddy gone Your love is gone Gone daddy gone The 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 The love is gone Gone daddy gone The love is gone away Yeah it's gone daddy gone Your love is gone Gone daddy gone The 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 Gone daddy gone The love is gone Gone daddy gone The love is gone Yeah it's gone daddy gone The love is gone 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 Gone daddy gone The love is gone Gone daddy gone The love is gone Yeah it's gone daddy gone The love is gone away
yeah sounds so retro vintage garage surf , way before White Stripes The Raveonettes, the kills, The hives and countless hypster bands of the last 15 years.
Wow i didnt know the Gnarles Barkley version was a cover. I'm not sure which version i like the best. Its pretty hard to make a Xylophone sound cool but they pulled it off.
Ras TreeTree Crossroads Its a music duo composed of and CeeLo Green and Danger Mouse. The genre of music they fall under isn't easy to describe, they have influences from alot of places. Sort of a R&B, funk, Neo soul, alt-rock mix I guess. Anyway the cover is pretty good, its worth your time to give them a listen.
What’s up with the Clowns with the thumbs down!!?? Seen this band a few times in Cleveland, before this album was even released! Drummer was playing the sticks on everything, floor, tables, the bar ... oh yeah, a trash can! Awesome live to this day! (yep, saw ‘em again, last summer.
easy......back then they picked up real intrusments...nowadays anybody with a drum machine and synthisizers and ignorant poetry is an artist? dont make me vomit
+Jonathan Rivers there is still good music. For gods sake, the Violent Femmes came back in 2013. There were people in the 30s like you who thought music sucked. You don't like electronic music. It's a new type of music. There is still music like this being made, it just isn't mainstream.
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Great way to start the morning when you're still drunk and have to be at work
i hope nobody that shouldnt notice it, noticed it
beamerball666 ha ha! You're rad
beamerball666 perfect description
Me and two friends used to blast this album out of the car going to work on our crap production line job many years ago
i second that
RIP their bassist Bones Hillman. After a battle with cancer he died at the age of 62 in his home of Milwaukee, Wisconsin USA. He'll always be remembered. He sat in on this tune. Hill was with Midnight Oil
🙏🏾🙏🏾🙏🏾
I loved their music when I was a young teen, but tonight is the first night that I've ever seen any of their videos.
Patriot Sons of Liberty same here. Never seen their videoa
Same. You know come to think of it I've never seen a pixies video either... guess what I'm searching next.
Hillary Marek #metoo. First vid just now. Great!
Yep, me too. I played their music all the time, in my late teens years. But, never saw a video. Love it. Thus music brings back so many memories from the good ole days.
So what did you think?
Oh my goodness. I am almost 43. I used to rock out to this music, in my late teen years. Those were the good ole days!!!!!
Om 58 SAw them in petaluma CA ! SUN, DRUNK AN WILD SEX!
This song inspired my divorce. Thank you Violent Femmes💙💙🙏🙏
you will get over it.
takes time. time, more time- more and more!
Sabrina are you over it?
@@kristasweetleaf5695 💯 over it.
You'll move on and have a better life.
Have faith
@@Sabrina-oh5ophell yeah, I hope you have a good life! ♡
Best song ever in this freaking world! Xylophone solo blows my mind ever time.
Xylophone Metal Keyes. Marimba Wood Keys you Mo Mo. Get it Right.
When this song ends, I start playing 'Good Feeling' in my head.
Me too
lol, I just typed it into the search bar and then scrolled down to see this comment
Same
i have a fever.....and the only prescription is more xylophone!
Lol
Vitamin XYLOPHONE!
I GOTTA HAVE MY XYLOPHONE!!!
Hell Ya Punk n Roll Xylophone!
Guess you can never escape the cowbell jokes
One of the meanest mosh pits ive ever been in, and i was in a lot, was Violent Femmes Edgefest Omaha mid 90's. Outdoor. Huge dirt tornado. Everyone drunk. They came out and it was like slayer hit the stage.
One of the best concerts I've ever been to, and I've seen hundreds of bands, was the Violent Femmes at the outdoor Wolftrap in VA. Mojo Nixon... opening for the Pogues... who opened for the Femmes. They did every early song and most of the later ones, including a 10 minute version of "I Dig the Black Girls"... and a version of this song that turned the entire place, to the outer edges of the lawn, into pandemonium... amazing performance...
Omaha sucks.
And some of us just LISTENED to the music. :)
Fuck the whole state of Nebraska! ;)
This comment made me erect. Hell yes.
‘83? Damn, I hadn’t realized this was THAT old! 😩Fun song! Alternative until I die!!
I've had this on vinyl since 83 and it sounds just as good today as it did then. Love it man
Best xylophone in a punky rock song EVER!!
psychedelic furs
Oingo Boingo
Hong Kong garden- siouxsie and the banshees
Oingo Boingo "Grey Matter" has some jammin Xylophones
What song by them?
These guys are great. In college, they were on my heavy rotation playlist. Knew the album by heart in '84
I want my 80's back!!!!
Daddy gone!!!!!
The Femmes were the first concert I attended .I was 14 and had so much fun.Love these guys as much now as I did 18 years ago.
I bet if you know the words to this song you know the words to the whole album.
I HAVE the whole album, son.
Yep
Yep. And love every song too !
How about if I saw them on the tour for this album? 😁
Probably
Not enuff xylophone solos in today's music..... :-)
damn right that sounds great :-)
Isn't that a marimbaphone? :P It's great either way.
+Sinister But Happy open.spotify.com/track/1WWgMk8nD79p8VeKFGYrOw open.spotify.com/track/1WWgMk8nD79p8VeKFGYrOw open.spotify.com/track/1WWgMk8nD79p8VeKFGYrOw
yep its a marimbaphone. (:
Anthony Cohen need more cowbell.
I listen to the femmes and it reminds me of how hyped I once was on skating and it brings back my four wheeled fever
Two years ago, the itch got me and my two best friends again, all in our thirties, but we just bought boards and went for it. We sucked big time and our stamina was appalling, but we had so much fun!
Jack Coy I'm 52 and still hitting the park once a week
THIS IS GOOD SHIT GENTS.
Saw them live about this time. No strobes, no pyro, just great music. Amazing how it still sounds great today.
Milwaukee must have kicked ass in the early 80's.
I t did
Until Dahmer arrived
This whole album is my teen theme album. There are just no albums like this anymore. All digitally remixed hollow lyrics. I will forever cherish the Violent Femmes. Where has music gone????
borned 4 years after this song :P now nearly 30 years old.. Listening this song more than 10 years :P Still lovin.. heheh. i may leave it to my grandsons one day..
+Beadwindow07 wtf??
I was borned a gas station mechanics not a daughter, When Monkees were Pre-Fab.
Just saw these guys in concert with Barenaked Ladies and they were INCREDIBLE!!
Beverly Close Woah dude I was there too
+It's Friggin' McGurkleroy! Me too
+Beverly Close An unlikely punk/post-punk coupling there. Though they both have misogynistic band names, I suppose. :-)
That was a fab concert but then every time I've seen the Femmes they remind me why they're in my top ten fave bands ever.
Superb, delicious textures, playfulness with an edge - LOVE IT.
Evergreen banger. Just came into my head today out of nowhere ♥️♥️♥️
I love metal, classic rock, and punk rock, but this, possibly the simplest rock ever made, can still blow me away.
last time a xylophone was ever used in punk music...
Oingo Boingo rocked some xylophone on a few songs
It’s a marimba
Filthy Phil the Philanthropist came after this song.
The xylophone has a range between 2-1/2 and 4 octaves. The marimba has a range from 3 to 5 octaves or higher. The xylophone has shorter resonators, reaching to about half of the frame, and its mallets are either covered with or completely made of rubber or plastic.
Fayez Mansour nah marimbas are more ringy and bigger
This band kicks ass.
My sister loved this band in the late 1970's-early 1980's as a student at Marquette!
They were the best thing to ever come out of Milwaukee
Awesome , sound of that xylophone . Going off , great music for 1983.
these guys know whats rock n roll is all about
\m/
Yeah 😎😎😎😎🤘🤘🤘🤘🤘🤘
Back when MTV was cool, only a whole lot of music videos with cool concepts and a lot less bullshit reality shows.
+Kyle Da Vid MTV was NEVER cool...
Phil Surtees were you around in 1982 to make that claim? Because if not then we do not have an argument.
Face it MTV was never cool in the first place
It is nice when you make a song that is so good that people copy it, not just re-mix it, but nearly an exact copy, 20+ years later.
In some sort or fashion, I’ve had a copy of this album since 1987 or so. My kids grew up hearing this….
Pure class.
I saw the Femmes about a thousand years ago at a dive bar in Nashviile, Tennessee called Cantrell's. We were slam dancing, and the band said they we going to quit playing until we quit, so we started waltzing and otherwise slow dancing. They loved it, and played until the wee hours of the morning. Good times.
You all learned to appreciate country music too! It helps!
I’m not even sure if I’ve ever seen this vid. I was listening to the Femmes in high school in 83’
Makes one pine for a bygone era of uneaten bad food, dive bars, and indoor smoking.
Nope--makes one pine for a bygone era of genuinely creative art. Your generation doesn't seem to be creating anything fresh. You do remakes and Auto-Tune. That's like serving leftovers every night of the week, month after month, year after year. If the best you can do is hold up your low smoking rates, you have one helluva dreary future. Save yourselves, and go make something NEW!!!
There is plenty of good music being created and you're alive at a time when searching for new music is the easiest it's been in human history.
You have got to be kidding me right?
@@anne-droid7739 OK BOOMER
@@tomclom5769 See? Even your disses lack originality.
One if the best bands ever. Song takes me back being a kid my dad would jam to violent femmes i loved them then and still do
Στην λευκη με αγαπη αλεξανδρος 1991 🥰🥰🥰🥰🥰🥰🥰🥰🥰🥰🥰
I used to love this song when I was really little lol
Surprisingly I still like it
Saw these guys at the first Lolapalooza in Enumclaw WA way on back. It was awesome that they had gotten back together and were just playing all their stuff, it was raining and awesome. At the end Gordon said: "Thanks for taking a shower with us" in that lilting voice. Good
Seeing these guys (Finally!) on Sunday - can't wait. I didn't even know they had a video for this song - for 1982, this is pretty incredible. There just aren't enough xylophones in rock (-;
Beautiful. Okay this at my funeral ❤
I'm about to go see them in 2 days 🎉🎉 performing my favorite songs!!!
this came in the punk era and yet it was poppy but it cradled a new sound oh yes all the parties or just listening to it as a teenager then the really hard music like cradle of filth ,puppy,frontline etc....
This song always makes me cry... Even though it's so fast paced. What a strange unsettling feeling.
This song and band scream my teenage years growing up on Long Island.
I love the apathy
me too
Darren Lard i don't care
such a 90s sort of apathy from an early 80s song
Still listening to it on November 2018!!!
This is fucking sick! Had it on cassette back in the day! Getting it on Vinyl soon! Loved the whole album!
This is most definitely one of my favourite music videos. The avant-garde aesthetic is gorgeous.
Happy Birthday Gordon! You're my favorite singer/songwriter and I think one of the most creative lyricists!
i remember me as 10-12 years old boy steeling my sisters walkman and listening Violent femmes over and over.......now 35 after more than 20 it feels like im 10 again:)
God, can't listen to this song with some shaking and a big smile on my face. Great, great stuff!!
One of the great wristyslashy albums of all time
So very, very awesome! Thanks for sharing and for taking me back to someamazing days and nights. What an absolutely incredible album this was. Spent many a night in cherry fields getting bombed to this album and others like REM Murmur and Reckoning, and U2's early albums.
Saw them in Ventura, California - one of the best live acts ever. So much fun.
One of my best concert experiences was getting to see the femmes play the milwaukee zoo, it was such an amazing show.
I saw them in Nashville in 91 I think. Great Concert! Whole place went CRAZY!
Hey, had a holiday in Lagos, PT, i was very young, gone to Vitaminas , brought a track, my cassette filled with violentfemme, never forget, never......Nobody knowing Violentfemme before in Pt greetings Nicola
My love will never go away! There is no other teenage angst for me than the Violent Femmes! :)
On the list for best intro ever.
Not to mention best video.
Such a classic from my old punk and new wave days!
great nostalgic track 'When I see you eyes will turn blue..' cause it's gone daddy gone love is gone.. 🎶
This song makes me so happy and sad at the same time.. Miss you dad 12/16/2015
OMFG IM BORN 1990 ... JUSS FOUND THIS.. IN 28 NOW... HIT HOME HARD!!!!!!!!
What! I thought this was a Gnarls Barkley original....fantastic- a new artist to explore!
✨🎶🤔...I knew I heard this when I was little in the 80's, so when I heard the cover I knew I knew it, but couldn't place who did the original.
So cool to have seen them play a bar in Chicago this time (1983)
My very fave by The Violent Femmes! ❤️❤️❤️
Awesome! I especially like the xylophone bit.
I saw them in concert on Halloween 1984 ( I think) at the Blue Note in Columbia, MO
This song was playing on my car's tape deck when my Mazda Protege got side swiped. Now I always associate this song with the sound of screaming brakes.
Saw them in 2005 (I think) in Columbus. Best show I've ever been to
Being an 80s kid was the best experience ever!!!
Such a feelgood band to see live. the place was jumping and the vibe was happy. What more could you ask for?
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
The love is gone
Gone daddy gone
The love is gone away
'Cause it's gone daddy gone
Your love is gone
Gone daddy gone
The 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
The love is gone
Gone daddy gone
The love is gone away
Yeah it's gone daddy gone
Your love is gone
Gone daddy gone
The 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
Gone daddy gone
The love is gone
Gone daddy gone
The love is gone
Yeah it's gone daddy gone
The love is gone
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
Gone daddy gone
The love is gone
Gone daddy gone
The love is gone
Yeah it's gone daddy gone
The love is gone away
I saw these guys...outside, playing. Awesome!
one of my favourite videos. Ahead of it's time.
Not enough videos like this... Cheers!!! Tyrone Powerchord!!!
always loved this one
I cannot fucking believe this is from 1982
Believe it
yeah sounds so retro vintage garage surf , way before White Stripes The Raveonettes, the kills, The hives and countless hypster bands of the last 15 years.
probably cause it's timeless ;-)
ide just left school brilliant band
Karolina Actually 1983.
True punk of the 80 s. Fun fun fun fun days. Couldn't do it now. Gone daddy gone, fo sho.
When something can be simple, and compelling in its simplicity, its the real deal.
Wow i didnt know the Gnarles Barkley version was a cover. I'm not sure which version i like the best. Its pretty hard to make a Xylophone sound cool but they pulled it off.
+undetestable1 who is Gnarls Barkley? e don't sound very punk?
Ras TreeTree Crossroads
Its a music duo composed of and CeeLo Green and Danger Mouse. The genre of music they fall under isn't easy to describe, they have influences from alot of places. Sort of a R&B, funk, Neo soul, alt-rock mix I guess. Anyway the cover is pretty good, its worth your time to give them a listen.
Ryan Dikeos
Yea a while back I realized he was a common thread in alot of the music I loved. He stays busy.
Yeah me too I didnt know it was a cover.
really..
Just found some of my mum’s old tapes and this one of the bands so I figured I’d check them out
The sound is very organic. Old school is still indispensable.
Best use of a xylophone in the history of music.
Heard this on Fargo NPR the other day, wow, what a gem
This and Blister in the Sun were the soundtrack of a 1000 high school parties.
What’s up with the Clowns with the thumbs down!!??
Seen this band a few times in Cleveland, before this album was even released! Drummer was playing the sticks on everything, floor, tables, the bar ... oh yeah, a trash can! Awesome live to this day! (yep, saw ‘em again, last summer.
you cant compare talent like these cats to any new age TRASH nowadays! Good music was back then.....now adays good music is GONE DADDY GONE!
+Jonathan Rivers what makes you even want to say that?
easy......back then they picked up real intrusments...nowadays anybody with a drum machine and synthisizers and ignorant poetry is an artist? dont make me vomit
lazy? I got over 1500 albums of GOOD music, none of which was made after 1992! Stop being a troll idiot, everyone is entitled to their own opinions.
ahahhahha
+Jonathan Rivers there is still good music. For gods sake, the Violent Femmes came back in 2013. There were people in the 30s like you who thought music sucked. You don't like electronic music. It's a new type of music. There is still music like this being made, it just isn't mainstream.
Brilliant video along with the eternal music!
Brilliant! Saw them back in 92 at Lycabetus Athens Greece Great gig
Dude that’s by my house
Prospect & Hollywood
Amazing footage
Wow so dope
LOVE EM...,and Grand Funk.,,Mark Don n Mel😊
GEEZ used to see these guys a lot when I was in Milwaukee and they REALLY CLEANED UP for this video! didn't even recognize them...
Wow! ain't seen this shit in years and years...awesome
this is so so so so so so so so so awesome
awesome tune I love to wake up and get down dancing to it