It strikes me listening to this album now, some 22 years since I first heard it, that it has aged incredibly well. It sounds just as fresh and distinctive now as it did then. These guys hit on a formula that worked perfectly. Read the review on allmusic, I think this review gets it pretty right.
Violent Femmes - Violent Femmes (1983)
1. Blister in the Sun
2. Kiss Off
3. Please Do Not Go
4. Add It Up
5. Confessions
6. Prove My Love
7. Promise
8. To the Kill
9. Gone Daddy Gone
10. Good Feeling
