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Violent Femmes Debacle The First Decade Album Cover
TitleDebacle The First Decade
Year1990
LabelsLiberation, Slash
Format12″, Cassette, CD
Length47:43
VariantsN/A

Track Listing

  • Gimmie the Car
  • Nightmares
  • Black Girls
  • Add It Up
  • Children Of The Revolution
  • Good Feeling
  • Gone Daddy Gone
  • Fat
  • Old Mother Reagan
  • Blister In The Sun
  • Country Death Song
  • Ugly
  • World We’re Living In

Gordon Gano: lead vocals, guitar, violin 6
Brian Ritchie: bass, vocals, xylophone 7, jew’s harp 3, guitar 5
Victor DeLorenzo: drums, percussion, vocals

Guests:
Peter Balestrieri tenor & baritone sax 3, 13
Drake Scott cornetto 3
John Zorn alto sax, game calls 3
Jerry Harrison keyboads, guitar 5
Fred Frith guitar solo 5
Steve Scales percussion 5
Junior Brantley keyboards 5
Shirley Simms, Lovelace Redmond, Connie Blomberg & Arlene Holmes vocals 5
Mark Van Hecke piano 6
Tony Trischka banjo 11
Sigmond Snopek III keyboards 13

Producers:
Mark Van Hecke 1,3,4,6,7,10,11,12
Jerry Harrison 5,9
Violent Femmes & Warren Bruleigh 2,8,13

Engineers:
Glenn Lorriccki 4,6,7,10
John Tanner 3,4,6,7,10,11
Warren Bruleigh 2,3,8,11,13
David Vartanian 5,9
Eric ‘E.T.’ Thorngren 5

All songs written by Gordon Gano (Control) except* written by Marc Bolan
(Penjane)

Management: Linda Clark/Rick Bates-Linda Clark & Associates
Colour photography: Rocky Schenek
B & W photography: Mary Jones 1981 & Paul Natken 1984
Design: Pierre Baroni/Mushroom Art

Thanks:
Barry “The Rock N’ Roll Dentist,” Mary Baumann, Neville Kitchen, Sterling Ball, Ivo Baldoni, Jim Eannelli, Jerome Brisch, Bill Faust, Mike Denmark, Uncle Bob’s, Frank Riley, Rob “Mr. Fuckwave” Munger, Caleb Lentzer, Darren Brown, Peter Wozniak, Willie MacInnes, Catharine Masteru, Robert Kane, John Henderson, Peter Mackay, Ken West, Vivian Lees, Bob Dublon, ‘Valdez’, Bryan King, Danny Kahn, Thor Christenson, Milwaukee Journal

THIS COMPILATION (P) (C) 1990 LIBERATION RECORDS
MADE IN AUSTRALIA

Liberation Records
Slash TM
D24515

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