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The Quote Of The Day:

Don’t look this way
With your changing point of view
Just sit on a fence
And pretend to be you…
-From Love and Me Make Three
-Submitted by ddearry

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THIS WEEK’S AND **NEW** TOUR DATES (NEW TOUR DATES MARKED WITH **):

July 30- 8 p.m., Hampton Beach Casino Ballroom, Hampton Beach, NH
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Tickets available through ticketweb, or call 510-594-1400
see http://www.baitfish for lineup

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Serious inquiries only.

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In Today’s Issue:

Spoiler…Vancouver Show
A Boy and his Fiddle…
Compilation Sighting
RE: Beyond Records
RE: Freak Magnet
RE: Freak Magnet
Re: Cut Freak
RE: Freak Magnet Changes
Radio CD..RE: Change FM
RE: Meaning of Blister
RE: Meaning of Blister
Color on Audio?
Dream Concert

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Spoiler…Vancouver Show
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Greetings and salutations.

The name is Ray…just joined the list a few weeks ago…wanted to know
more about the Femmes before their show (of which I thank my wonderful
sister for buying me a ticket while I was on vacation) here in
Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada.

To be completely honest, I only own 2 VF CD’s (self-titled debut, Add
It Up greatest hits), but have listened at some point or another to
most of their other releases. I’m very excited about Freak Magnet and
it was truly unfortunate to read about all of the trials and
tribulations re: their old record co. in regards to this release.

The show last week in Vancouver was great. The band played, for the
most part, a greatest hits collection, and was, of course, augmented
by The Horns of Dilemma. Concert was played out in an 55 year old
theatre with poor ventilation and to a sold out crowd of approx. 1200.
Noticed the line-up outside started out with a bunch of younghans but
the further back you walked in the line, the older the crowd seemed to
get…me, I guess I would be part of the older crowd (29 years).

I did not recognize all of the songs and due to alcohol consumption,
do not recall what order the songs came out, but I’ll list the songs
that I did recognize at the bottom of this email. To those who will
be seeing VF this summer, you will be in for one hell of a good time.
Back to lurk mode…

Ray
raoki

PS: Saw a UK CD of VF titled “Kiss Off.” Very plain packaging.
Apparently contained a live performance in the UK from 1985. All 11
songs were from their first 2 albums. Is this a bootleg or would the
boys be collecting money from this purchase? Let me know privately or
publicly. Here’s the song list from the Vancouver show…

Country Death Song
Hey Nonny Nonny
Blister In The Sun
Gone, Daddy, Gone
Gimme The Car
Black Girls
Confessions
Jesus Walking On The Water
I Held Her In My Arms
Prove My Love
Old Mother Reagan
American Music
Out The Window
Add It Up
Color Me Once
I Swear It (I Can Change) – made me wanna buy the soundtrack
Don’t Talk About My Music (old NRBQ song – sung/screamed by Brian)
Kiss Off (one song encore)

They played at least 4 or 5 more songs as well.

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A Boy and his Fiddle…
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Yes Gordon does play still play violin onstage – occasionally. Check
out the picture right side – about halfway down the page. I was told
this was taken in April 1998.
http://www.geocities.com/SunsetStrip/Show/6806/Astory.html

In addition – doesn’t Brian also play xylophone on World We’re Living
In? I know he isn’t credited on the liner but that is a xylophone I
hear isn’t it?
Could be Sig on an electronic keyboard I guess.

Like someone else recently posted – I too had the immense pleasure of
witnessing a live performance of Machine once. Extreme VF!

TFK
thefemmeking

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Compilation Sighting
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Don’t know how nationally distributed the CD is, but 107.7 The End
(Seattle’s alterna-rock station) has put out a CD of songs from “End
Sessions” when bands come on and play short sets on the air. It’s got
our boys doing Fat. OH SO GOOD!

It’s also got a bunch of other cool stuff, but none of it is pertinent
to the list. (Well, there is a Cake song on there, and I will be seeing
both bands together in September, but we’ve already been through that.
🙂

M
stevens

-Pat. Says: Yes, and I can’t believe nobody called the venue to settle
once and for all who is opening!

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RE: Beyond Records
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It’s official! This is the spot! BMG/Beyond Records!
Come on guys drop the bug some email – let’s give ’em some extra
motivation to get those albums out NOW!

—–Original Message—–
<
>yes yes yes! The bugs are REALLY excited to start on a Violent
>Femmes site soon!
>The Bug>>
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ddearry

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RE: Freak Magnet
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I’ve noticed a bit of talk about the possible October release of Freak
Magnet so I thought I’d add this little quip that’s been bugging me.
During Gordon’s solo set at the Calgary Folk festival, he played
Rejoice and be Happy, but before playing he said (loose quote) – This
is a song from a new album that we’ve had a hard time releasing. If we
ever do get it released, it will be on it. –

My only concern is what did he mean by IF ?? I’d think that if the
album release is a sure thing, Gordon would have been a little more
optomistic.

That’s just my observation (I’m sure things will work out fine)

Ever the Optomist
Paul
pdoughty

-Pat. Says: Well, it seemed a sure thing when Interscope had it oh so
long ago. I wouldn’t be surprised if the band is beginning
to think of this album as cursed, and afraid that to say
for sure that it will be released will jinx it further.

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RE: Freak Magnet
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I say keep it as is.
Short and sweet, huh?

rob=)
coons

ps- anyone here going to the Blue Note show in Columbia in Sept? i’m
thinking about it…?

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Re: Cut Freak
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They should definitely cut out the new I’m Nothing and I Wanna See You
Again. Those should be put on a single off of FM, and nothing more.
Definitely on the new FM should be a spirited version of Don’t Talk
About My Music. . . possibly one of the great VF “hard” songs. There
should also be another new song which they have yet to play live.
Reggies Right would fit in real nice after Reckless Stones. If I were
the rep from Beyond, I’d make sure this cd was packed, and not a lame o’
45 minutes or whatever it is right now.

john #3
DidacticCP

-Pat. Says: It seems odd to me that I’m Nothing would be included, as
that song was on their last American release. I can
somewhat understand I Wanna See You Again, since ROCK is
not as easily obtained, and many people have not heard it
yet. I do however prefer the ROCK version. If a live CD is
released, that would be an ideal place to put reworkings
of these two songs.

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RE: Freak Magnet Changes
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If I had the decision of making changes to FM, i for sure would. First
of all I would like to see Reggie’s Right put onto the cd, although I
don’t see that as a likely thing. I would also like to see the order
of the songs changed so that the last song on the cd was something
really up beat and knock your socks off, i think maybe if they put one
last catchy upbeat song at the end it would be great. just my opinion
and contribution to the can of worms.

-beky
Extatika

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Radio CD..RE: Change FM
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I recently acquired a copy of a radio broadcast in 94 and it includes
all live versions of the following songs, as well as commentary:
4 seasons, blister in the sun, american music, don’t start me on the
liquor, breakin up, key of 2, kiss off, color me once, and add it up.
The quality is excellent and on the original cd.

You inquired about how to change Freak Magnet. My only dissapointment
with this release is the poor recording quality. Most early albums were
very crisp and tight and easy on the ears but this album seems of lower
recording quality. I hope that improves. I also liked Posiitively 4th
Street a lot. There are some excellent songs on this album. My personal
favorite is Yes Oh Yes but I also enjoy I’m Bad, Freak Magnet, Rejoice
and Be Happy, Positively 4 th Street, Mosh Pit (shows how strong their
feelings are against the mosh pit. Also quite a change of style), and
When You Died………I would also like to include some of the other
songs you hear in concert but are not recorded.

Glenn
pwnordic

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RE: Meaning of Blister
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hey i would like to comment on the meaning of the song blister in the
sun, i think that it is right on what you said, i have never really
thought that much about the meaning of the song but when i did it was
always beyond me, now it makes sense…good call on that one.

Adam~
IMAGECUST

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RE: Meaning of Blister
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<< -Pat. Says: I believe the concensus is that it is about a guy who is
so sexually deprived he must take matters into his own
hands, so to speak. >>

Pat, I don’t think it’s that he’s sexually deprived–I mean, he says he
has a girlfriend who seems upset by his habit. I think he’s just
obsessed with, er, pleasing himself. He says “I stain my sheets, I
don’t even know why,” which suggests it’s some sort of teenage male
compulsion. But then no one does it better than yourself. 😉

Claire
Lottelita

-Pat. Says: Right. On both counts, I suppose.

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Color on Audio?
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hey, i love the song “color me once” by the femmes, i was wondering if
anybody has a good full length audio clip of this song, it doesn’t
matter what file type ie. MP3,Au,Wav anything will do.
thanks

adam
IMAGECUST

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Dream Concert
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This idea for a new topic sprung to mind recently (no pun intended with
the “sprung” thing–you guys have been listening to BITS too much!).
You see, I’m going to the Tori and Alanis Irvine Meadows concert in
September (knock on wood a hundred times), and a thought came to me:
what would be my ideal concert? Cause let’s face it, Alanis is cool,
but I can think of a dozen other bands/performers I’d rather shell out
forty bucks to see with Tori, not the least of which is the Femmes
(hey, it could happen). Actually, I don’t care if it could happen, but
I’d like to hear everyone’s realistic or unrealistic fantasies for
getting your money’s worth out of TicketMasterBater. I’ll think about
mine some more and send it in in a few days.

Claire
Lottelita

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