Violent Femmes have introduced a brand new fortieth anniversary reissue of their 1983 self-titled debut that includes greater than a dozen demos, B-sides, and dwell performances. They’ve additionally shared the only “Gone Daddy Gone/I Simply Need to Make Like to You (Stay),” recorded in January 1983 at Folks Metropolis in New York Metropolis. Beforehand unavailable in digital codecs, the recording features a verse from Willie Dixon’s 1954 track “I Simply Need to Make Like to You,” initially recorded by Muddy Waters). Try the only and the complete monitor record for the digital version under.

2xCD and digital codecs of Violent Femmes (Deluxe Version) are due out December 1 by way of Craft, whereas a restricted version (5,000 copies) vinyl field set arrives February 9, 2024. The vinyl set includes three 180-gram LPs—the newly remastered authentic album, the demos, and dwell materials—and a “duplicate” 7-inch single of “Ugly”/“Gimme the Automobile.” The unique album and single discs are minimize from the unique analog tapes. Each the CD and LP variations include a booklet with new liner notes by Rolling Stone editor David Fricke and with interviews with Violent Femmes members Gordon Gano, Brian Ritchie, and Victor DeLorenzo.  

In a press release, Ritchie mentioned of the reissue: 

“I’m ceaselessly stopped on the road by individuals who inform me, ‘Your album modified my life,’ or some variant. I don’t must ask, ‘Which album?’ as a result of it’s implied that they’re speaking in regards to the first one. The uncanny factor is that these folks vary from early teenagers to septuagenarians, and so they all have the identical testimony. Generally music is greater than only a pleasing sound that entertains. It takes on better which means. A number of generations have discovered the songs to be related of their life conditions. Some folks say they’d intercourse for the primary time listening to it (which I discover appalling however no matter) and somebody even mentioned, ‘I used to be conceived to your music.’ Wow.”