Video: VIOLENT FEMMES-Kiss Off

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Every Friday night at 12 it's the "Midnight Album Feature," where I bring you a favorite album from my personal collection. Tonight it's the Violent Femmes and their self-titled debut. Recorded in 1982 and released in 1983, this one-of-a-kind album went platinum 10 years after it was released. It's the only album to ever go platinum without making the Billboard Top 200. The Violent Femmes are from Milwaukee, Wisconsin. The trio is Brian Ritchie, Victor Delorenzo and Gordan Gano. Ritchie and Delorenzo started the band in 1980, teamed up with Gano the following year [...]