Tag: violent-femmes

Add It Up, by Violent Femmes.

This song is longer than I remember it? I was creepily accurate with the length though, within 10 seconds of the album version, I think. It’s only two chords, so, like, what could go wrong? Plenty, apparently. Kinda dripping sweat when it was over, a little bit.

Still a little confused about why Kiss Off has the countdown if this one’s called Add It Up, but let’s just pretend the “G” on my shirt is for Gordon.

I know smashing out two-chord songs as fast as I can with no editing is not exactly improving any of my skills other than spending the mental and physical energy to do it, but it still feels good to get loud once a day when I can.

Kiss Off by Violent Femmes.

What’s your summer camp music? The music you heard for the first time on a scratchy cassette in a college dorm basement with cheap tile floor and worn out couches that served as dance hall, laundry room flirt space, and cloistered music space away from the noise and chaos of the main lobby with the TV?

OK, so my summer camp experience may have been different from yours, but my early teenage years were filled with the imported angst of kids from the Carolinas — or maybe I was the import from Miami — and this song (and every other song on this album) was part of it.

If you’re not counting along, are we even friends?

A couple guitars and vocals, too loud and raw and sounding appropriately lo-fi, but not on purpose, but appropriate.