Talk:Violent Femmes

Pronunciation of “Femmes“

How do you pronounce “Femmes“? Judith Holofernes of “Wir sind Helden“ just claimed on Deutschlandfunk that the French pronunciation “Fam“ (my German phonetic spelling, maybe “Fum“ in English) is wrong and that it should be pronounced “Fems“. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 46.114.135.39 (talk) 09:44, 29 March 2014 (UTC)

Quite old comment, but maybe someone's still interested. In America, femmes is pronounced "fems," as in "femme fatale" (yes I know how that's actually pronounced, but look up an American saying it). I think this has only become more common over the last 10 years with its common use in LGBTQ+ circles, where it's used as the antonym of masc. LookOnMyEditsYeMighty (talk) 15:16, 25 December 2024 (UTC)

Stripey charts

These stripey charts obviously don't work. Really, I have to decode this puzzle to see what Brian Ritchie does? Does that stripe have three colors in it, or two? And the middle one is the dark tan not the light tan? And only two of the five colors are ever reused? And it's intuitive to have "lead vocals, violin, banjo" as a category? And why are some colors but not others duplicated in a person's stripe like a sandwich? And why are some stripes thinner than others? Does that signify something? How many problems does a graphic conceit have to have before we chuck it? Five? Ten? When the legend is almost as big as the chart it's a sign of trouble. Why not just say what they do, especially since it never changes, and the last four guys are all the same? This really is like an illustration in an Ed Tufte book of how not to make a chart. I'm not being snarky but just literal when I say that I filed a copy of this as an example for teaching cartography. (Sorry if I'm supposed to say this somewhere else.) — Preceding unsigned comment added by 68.117.48.13 (talk) 14:26, 27 March 2022 (UTC)

Blister in the Sun - melody

The melody of Blister in the Sun seems to me to be version/copy of old jazz song Collard Greens and Black-eyed Peas. 68.150.205.46 (talk) 05:25, 6 July 2024 (UTC)

Another origin story

On the radio program, Sound Opinions, aired May 15, 2026, I caught the author of the book I've added to the article under

Further reading

Brown, Nic (2026). Violent Femmes. Bloomsbury Academic. ISBN 9798765133514.

During the interview, the name Jonathan Richman was mentioned once or twice.

I wrote the author:

           In 1980, I saw Gordon Gano, solo, open for Jonathan in Milwaukee.
                      
           As I recall, Gordon played, wearing something like a hockey mask.

Author reply:

'Yes, that night when Gordon opened for Richman was the first time Brian ever saw him perform. It was basically the moment the band started to form. A few days later they ran into each other again and decided to perform together. I write about it in the book. You were there! Amazing.' M.mk (talk) 19:31, 17 May 2026 (UTC)