Bonus Song Thursday - Violent Femmes "Memory"

The Great Albums

Bill Lambusta

Music, Music Commentary

4.3 • 760 Ratings

🗓️ 3 March 2016

⏱️ 21 minutes

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Summary

It's Bonus Song Thursday! Bill and Brian continue talking about the Violent Femmes and analyze their newest release, "Memory" from the forthcoming album We Can Do Anything. The gentlemen discuss how the music is a continuation of their early sound and contrast it with their mid-career sound. We also read a listener email that helps us address why we on't always cover hidden tracks at the end of some of the great albums we've covered. Imogen Poots.

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0:00.0	I don't remember anything you said.
0:07.0	I don't remember anything you said.
0:12.0	I don't remember any books that you ever had read.
0:18.0	I don't remember the sound of your voice.
0:23.7	I don't remember, but it's not by choice, so I wish I could remember.
0:33.0	Hello, I'm Bill.
0:35.0	And I'm Brian.
0:35.8	And this is the Great Albums podcast, Bonus Song Thursday.
0:40.6	Welcome to it.
0:42.1	And what were we just listening to right there, Brian?
0:44.7	Listening to a song called Memory by Violent Femmes.
0:48.7	And that's on their forthcoming album, We Can Do Anything.
0:53.1	Comes out tomorrow, actually.
0:55.1	Yeah?
0:55.7	Yeah, I don't think we've ever been this timely before.
0:59.2	You're welcome, Violent Fems.
1:01.5	You're welcome.
1:02.5	So if you've never listened to the podcast before,
1:05.0	what we do here every week is we take an album and talk about what makes it great.
1:10.3	And then we follow it up with bonus song Thursday and kind of take a single song
1:16.6	that is tangentially related to the previous episode and talk about a single song.
1:22.3	In the same way, we kind of talk about an entire album.
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