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THE BLIND LEADING THE NAKED (1986) is a much looser affair than the Femmes previous outings. Still a three-piece, the band augments their sound with a number of additional musicians, a variety of instruments, and a mixed bag of studio effects. The album's mood swings from assertions like "I know that bad things are going down, I know that loneliness is all around" (from "No Killing") to "Bump and grind, have a good time" (from their cover of Marc Bolan's "Children of the Revolution"), and covers much of the ground between.
"Special" features the fret-climbing bass of Brian Ritchie accompanying Gordon Gano's song about being an outsider--cribbing a line from the classic song "Sixteen Tons" in the process. The album's highlight is "Faith," another in Gano's growing list of oddball religious tracts, featuring a call-and-response chorus and a wiggly harmonica breakdown. With a brief stop in fairly straightforward country ("Breakin' Hearts"), and a couple of studies in dementia ("Candlelight Song" and "Cold Canyon"), BLIND LEADING shows the Femmes experimenting a bit more freely, and coming up winners, as usual.
Recorded at DV's Perversion Room, Milwaukee, Wisconsin from July to September 1985.
The Violent Femmes: Brian Richie (vocals, guitar, bass); Gordon Gano (vocals, guitar); Victor De Lorenzo (drums, percussion).
Additional personnel: Jim Liban (harmonica); Peter Balestrieri, Steve MacKay (saxophone); Bill Schaefgen (trombone); Sigmund Snopek III, Junior Brantley (keyboards); Abdulhameed Alwan (tabla, deff); Steve Scales (percussion); Drake Scott (background vocals).
CMJ (1/5/04, p.18) - Ranked #10 in CMJ's "Top 20 Most-Played Albums of 1986" Blind Leading The Naked Music | Category | Rock Albums, Alternative CDs, Rock/Pop | | Label | Warner Bros. (Record Label) | | Orig Year | 1986 | | All Time Sales Rank |  22500  | | CD Universe Part number | 1100057 | | Catalog number | 25340 | | Discs | 1 | | Release Date | Feb 24, 1987 | | Studio/Live | Studio | | Mono/Stereo | Stereo | | Producer | Jerry Harrison | | Engineer | David Vartanian | | Personnel | Gordon Gano - vocals, guitar
Brian Ritchie - vocals, guitar, bass
Victor De Lorenzo - drums, percussion
Also: Steve Scales, Abdulhameed Alwan, Bill Schaefgen, Drake Scott, Peter Balestrieri, Steve Mackay, Junior Brantley, Sigmund Snopek, III, Jim Liban, Jerry Harrison, Leo Kottke, Fred Frith |
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Recorded between 1981 & 1983. Includes liner notes by Michael Azerrad.
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