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Hallowed Ground [Import]

Violent Femmes Audio CD
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  • Audio CD (17 Oct 2000)
  • Number of Discs: 1
  • Format: Import
  • Label: Slash/Rhino
  • ASIN: B00004YLBA
  • Other Editions: Audio CD  |  Audio Cassette  |  Vinyl  |  MP3 Download
  • Average Customer Review: 5.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (4 customer reviews)
  • Amazon Bestsellers Rank: 72,823 in Music (See Top 100 in Music)

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Listen  1. Country Death Song 5:02£0.69  Buy MP3 
Listen  2. I Hear The Rain 1:31£0.69  Buy MP3 
Listen  3. Never Tell 7:09£0.69  Buy MP3 
Listen  4. Jesus Walking On The Water 3:09£0.69  Buy MP3 
Listen  5. I Know It's True But I'm Sorry To Say 5:03£0.69  Buy MP3 
Listen  6. Hallowed Ground 4:15£0.69  Buy MP3 
Listen  7. Sweet Misery Blues 2:46£0.69  Buy MP3 
Listen  8. Black Girls 5:40£0.69  Buy MP3 
Listen  9. It's Gonna Rain 4:11£0.69  Buy MP3 


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5.0 out of 5 stars Femmes at their finest! 16 April 2007
By 9ftneil VINE™ VOICE
Format:Audio CD
Released a year after the Femmes eponymously titled classic first album this 1984 offering ranks as their most difficult but ultimately most rewarding album. The Femmes trademark country-punk and savage wit is expanded on here with a more layered sound evoking a much darker heart and at times they sound genuinely sinister and unsettling as on the raging fury of 'Never Tell' and the apocalyptic 'Hallowed Ground'. Although this album finds the Femmes digging deep into such dark territory as the bizarre murder ballad 'Country Death Song' there are enough moments of sweet melodic beauty to colour this outstanding album with light and shade. The downhome gospel/folk of 'Jesus Walking' sounds like a joyous glimpse inside a Shaker's Revival hall and the swinging jazz of 'Sweet Misery Blues' is sublime as too the gospel simplicity of the infectious 'It's Gonna Rain' which closes this album on a high. Elsewhere the Femmes delve into art-jazz experimentalism on the fantastic 'Black Girls', which at first listen may be a bit hard to digest but makes a perfect foil to the bittersweet elegy of 'I Know It's True But I'm Sorry To Say' a truly heartrending ballad of exquisite beauty and one of Gordan Gano's finest songs.

Epic, dark, angst-fuelled, and sorrowful yet also sweet, uplifting humourous and soulful with some art-rock weirdness thrown in, few artists have made such a varied and challenging album as 'Hallowed Ground' and it ranks as a milestone in alternative-rock. Yes at times it's a difficult listen but it's a real grower and given time you will come to love the Femmes and their incredible ability to frighten you, disturb you, make you cry and then laugh and finally have you singing aloud at the goofy wonderfulness of life in all it's many colours. Truly a monumental album I can't think of many others I can listen to 20 years on that can so exhilerate and still move me in so many ways. The Femmes would change again for the marvellously upbeat 'Blind Leading the Naked' another superb album well worth checking out, but 'Hallowed Ground' is truly their finest hour.
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8 of 9 people found the following review helpful
5.0 out of 5 stars It grows on you 2 Jan 2001
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This CD may sound a bit strange if you have only heard the first album (as I had). If you give it a chance though you will come to love it as much as I do, lovely country sounds combined with the rock guitar, Jews harp, and the first sounds of the Horns of Dilemma on a Femmes record I believe.
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5.0 out of 5 stars One of the two must-buy Violent Femmes album 7 Jun 2008
By Danny
Format:Audio CD
The other one is their first one. Their later albums have some good bits but their early years were definately their best.

Just buy it and listen. Stop reading this drivel.
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