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Hallowed Ground [Import]

~ Violent Femmes
5.0 out of 5 stars See all reviews (4 customer reviews)

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  • Audio CD (15 Nov 1996)
  • Number of Discs: 1
  • Format: Import
  • Label: Uni/Slash Records
  • ASIN: B0000057BG
  • Other Editions: Audio CD  |  Audio Cassette  |  Vinyl  |  MP3 Download
  • Average Customer Review: 5.0 out of 5 stars See all reviews (4 customer reviews)
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Track Listings

1. Country Death Song
2. I Hear the Rain
3. Never Tell
4. Jesus Walking on the Water
5. I Know It's True But I'm Sorry to Say
6. Hallowed Ground
7. Sweet Misery Blues
8. Black Girls
9. It's Gonna Rain

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5.0 out of 5 stars Femmes at their finest!, 16 April 2007
By 9ftneil "9ftneil" (UK) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Hallowed Ground (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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7 of 8 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars It grows on you, 3 Jan 2001
This review is from: Hallowed Ground (Audio CD)
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 of 6 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars Doesn't get much better than this., 20 Jun 2009
By Kirk St Moritz "Kirk" (UK) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Hallowed Ground (Audio CD)
Well then, what do we have here? Probably the Femme's best album, at least in my opinion. "Country Death Song" is s delightly dark tale of cabin fever. If you search for it on youtube you will see somebody has done an animated video for it which is well worth checking out. "I Hear The Rain" is a short song that is more or less a chant with a funky backing. "Never Tell" is a marmite song, in that sometimes I like it, sometimes I hate it. However, it builds up the ideal atmosphere for the next song which is an absolute corker.

If churches up and down the land sang songs like "Jesus Walking On The Water", they would be packed to the rafters. Unashamedly as religeous in theme as the title suggests, it will have even the most hardened athiest tapping their feet in time to the number. Gordon Gano's Dad was apparantly a preacher. I imagine he was proud of his son for this song.

"Its Gonna Rain" is another religeously themed song, all about Noah, in case you hadn't guessed. Other than that, the rest of the album is a delightful mix of folk, punk and blues. With one exception:

"Black Girls" as got to be one of the ultimate marmite songs of all time. When you first hear it, you may want to throw your player through a window, as its just a cacophony of dischordant wails once it gets going. But, within the chaos, there is a definate and distinct rhythm, which will get you on repeated listenings. I used to skip this track when I first got the album. It was only through laziness that I ended up listening, and it eventually grew on me. The noise in question is produced by The Horns of Dilemna. This is a band of random musicians whose membership is dictated by whoever turns up at their gigs with an instrument. Apparantly their only remit is to make as much noise as possible. If you google it you will see that a fair amount of respected musicians have participated over the years, though you may not think so when you first hear it! This song is immense fun, free-form jazz or whatever you want to call it. If it grows on you you will see each listening as a special pleasure. Even my little girl loves it, and requests it all the time.

This album is streets ahead of most ot the current pap out there, and it hasn't aged a bit since its release in the Eighties.
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