The Breakdown: Violent Femmes' 'Blister in the Sun'

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In the latest installment of Rolling Stone's series "The Breakdown," Femmes frontman Gordan Gano and bassist Brian Ritchie discuss the making of their 1983 hit - and its long misinterpreted meaning.
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@atdotcom64 2 жыл бұрын

I hitch hiked to Alaska in spring 87 with a Walkman and one tape: violent femmes 1. I listened to it and shared it all summer in the Yukon where I eventually met my wife. Grandpa now and my grandchildren love listening to it with me when we get pancake happy meals together.

@christopherbyrns6134 2 жыл бұрын

That's pretty wholesome ,Wish I had a grandpa like you.

@datman3416 2 жыл бұрын

That’s so cool, I hope I can have a cool story like that one day

@MAGirlable Жыл бұрын

Well this was the most wonderful thing I read this week. What a beautiful life.

@AI-Consultant Жыл бұрын

was it a sony walkman or a cheapie knock off that is the real question

@haroldcheeseburger Жыл бұрын

Welp, maybe it was an Aiwa.. what percentage of people afforded a Sony Walkman in 1984? Not in context with the song release… but I just wonder. Big Plug Moments.

@mafiajams 4 жыл бұрын

Brian Ritchie is Such an underrated bassist

@tmlafrance 3 жыл бұрын

You have a gift for understatement. You should see them live (if you haven't).

@tcw8287 2 жыл бұрын

@@tmlafrance I would absolutley love to see them love so i can study Brian

@giraffepunx4484 2 жыл бұрын

Dude, the bass line to “Please Don’t Go” is burned into my brain. He’s SO GOOD!

@AV9000x 2 жыл бұрын

@@giraffepunx4484 Brian Ritchie didn't write the bass line, that was Gordon Gano

@jackdempsey9644 2 жыл бұрын

@@AV9000x So what I bet you Gano can’t play it like Richie

@trevcore86 2 ай бұрын

Just saw these guys Saturday in Detroit. What a great time to finally get to see them live

@kimmerso1 2 ай бұрын

I was there too, they were awesome..great performance

@michaelbanks2401 3 жыл бұрын

The most underrated group of all time !!!

@Christopher1889 3 жыл бұрын

One of the bands from my youth that I still rock to and plan to pass to my grandkids!

@snommelfsc 4 жыл бұрын

I was in high school working in a record store when the album came out and all of us there were amazed with it -- but i bet it took 2 years for the album to get really popular.

@mattsambrano3786 5 күн бұрын

It took 10 hrs for the album to catch on

@billykowalski4305 5 ай бұрын

As fan of this band for almost 35 yrs now, i can testify to the absolute joy that myself, and the whole crowd, feels seeing them play live. Home family. PLEASE keep getting Wild

@TheZGALa 2 жыл бұрын

As a woman with big hands, I always thought it was a shout out to how awesome I am.

@AV9000x 2 жыл бұрын

you're awesome

@etamommy 4 ай бұрын

This is weird but I also associate this song with Big Eyes by Cheap Trick and Sandy Allen by Split Enz. Big Eyes....due to the big hands reference in Blister and Sandy Allen because of the reference in the lyrics to the girls' being stronger or at least taller than him..."it still amazes me". If you have not listened to the other two songs they, like Blister are also fantastic songs in their own right. I think there is a Seinfeld episode about a woman with big hands but the storyline there is that it was a negative. I hereby say to you though, more power to ya Big Hands!

@labelmethis530 3 жыл бұрын

I got to see you guys back in the early 2000s. One of the best concert experiences. You guy are amazing! Thank you

@zblofu 4 жыл бұрын

Blister in the Sun is the only song (besides Jingle Bells and the Gilligan's Island theme song) to which I know all the lyrics While traveling abroad I would often sing Blister in the Sun for people when they asked me to sing a song from my homeland.

@apostleofazathoth7696 3 жыл бұрын

Amazing

@mbellovin 3 жыл бұрын

Me too! Plus a few other songs off that album.

@camus81 3 жыл бұрын

1:13 1983: - I wrote the song, initially thinking a women was going to be singing it .. 2021 TrixieMattel: Hold my redbull...

@cabeb508 3 жыл бұрын

But he’s a guy?

@leoprg5330 3 жыл бұрын

@@cabeb508 how dare you, Trixie is a 100% natural woman

@azz_hole7255 3 жыл бұрын

@@leoprg5330 hahahhaha

@Ok_Boomer_ 3 жыл бұрын

@@leoprg5330 lmao

@worldsendtimes 3 жыл бұрын

Whats the crack with the little girl?

@ndx2k 3 жыл бұрын

i always thought the song was just about being addicted to drugs and ur girlfriend breaking up with you because of it

@joseestrada992 2 ай бұрын

Right? I thought it was about heroin.

@AnonymousEnt01 4 жыл бұрын

Nice to see these guys still play & like to play this for this fans after all this time

@glitching6002 6 ай бұрын

First time I listened to this song, me and my mates went camping, and we walked up to this place called the chanctonbury ring, my mate made a playlist, we got high and he put it on shuffle and blister in the sun came on, and I absolutely fell in love with it

@fruitypeebils 3 жыл бұрын

i couldnt fucking believe it when i found out this song came out in 1983

@aisforapple2494 3 ай бұрын

Incredible people. Incredible band.

@stuffbenlikes 2 жыл бұрын

We listened to this on a kid's boombox on the bus every day in back in 1985 or so.

@reuireuiop0 3 жыл бұрын

Blister is every inch as great as You really got me, Louie Louie, any Lou Reed or Iggy & Stooges tune.

@invisiblekid7374 2 жыл бұрын

My sister introduced me to this group when I was between 7 and 10 years old. I’m actually from their hometown of Milwaukee WI. I’ve seen them a few times at this festival they used to have there back in the 90s called Maritime Days. I’ve seen them there and what used to be the Marcus Amphitheater right by the Summer Fest grounds. I’d definitely see them again if they came through WI!! The 1st album (literally a vinyl album) I had of them was The Blind Leading the Naked. I still probably have not heard all their songs they’ve ever made yet!

@eboethrasher Жыл бұрын

Rolling Stone, AWESOME job at 1:48 of, when Brian Ritchie is talking about how Victor DeLorenzo initiated the drum lick spontaneously, showing us a live clip of SECOND DRUMMER Guy Hoffman. Nice job, editors.

@sugarsore 8 ай бұрын

lol

@hardtohandle740 2 жыл бұрын

I would recognize the first three seconds of that song 🎶 anywhere anytime and it automatically makes me smile 😃. 😂 It reminds me of this guy I dated in the 90’s. He introduced me to the song. 😂

@dave5309 8 ай бұрын

Since the very first time I heard this song it always filled me with joy and energy and still now I love it e it like the first time!!!!

@thorgren1316 3 жыл бұрын

So I remember growing up, I was like 14 years old and I was huge into BMX. I found this BMX video and I believe it was Animal: Can I eat. Atleast one of the Animal Videos anyways and there was Steven Hamilton’s part to Gone Out the Window. I fucking fell in love with that song searched every Graywhale my sister would drag me to high and low for that CD. And I found it. I played that CD right up until nobody had or used CD players anymore and that was the connection I started to make with this band. Blister in the Sun was cousins and Is favorite song all the time but we didn’t know what it was, we were to young it’s our parents that played it and giggled or got drunk and sung along. Now looking back I see what you guys did to influence my life for the better. And I’m stoked to see you guys in SLC this year. I’m sorry and grateful you gotta come to SLC though.

@kernsfamily1343 3 жыл бұрын

My jam from back in the day. Loved them.

@wood8715 3 жыл бұрын

Love you!!!!!!!! 47 and still in love!!!

@tmlafrance 3 жыл бұрын

FANTASTIC! Thank you RS.

@benliss1591 2 жыл бұрын

Met these guys at a show, absolutely awesome dudes

@goodall18 3 жыл бұрын

surprised to see gano and ritchie sitting together after ritchie sued over this song specifically.

@ttbean70 2 жыл бұрын

I love Rock and Roll and this is why!

@derrikferguson3219 2 жыл бұрын

I love these guys. ❤️

@astolatpere11 3 жыл бұрын

Nice album, too. Thanks.

@branevans3705 2 жыл бұрын

Unique music yet easily absorbed. Awesome band.

@louisgosselin226 4 ай бұрын

Tellement content de vous redecouvrir

@garethwinter1501 3 жыл бұрын

Eternally awesome

@kevinmills7067 2 жыл бұрын

I learned to play guitar because of these guys.

@BearfootBob 2 жыл бұрын

I thought it was about shenanigans at a festival, and then going onstage with the Sun in your face, and the bassist has big hands.

@FilipeBrasAlmeida 4 жыл бұрын

Legends.

@csjpokey 4 ай бұрын

Hallowed Ground was another great album they put out.

@cynthiaaiken2424 2 жыл бұрын

i don't know what it is about this song, but absolutely everyone knows all the words, the whole thing!

@brittkolar1952 4 жыл бұрын

I adore the Violent Femmes

@qotsashfifty4 3 жыл бұрын

:13 looks like the Rolling Stone video editor really wanted the song title to have an “A” in it.

@jenniferblue1387 2 ай бұрын

Just saw you in Eugene !! Fun !! Got soaked!

@melomane 7 ай бұрын

That album changed my life.

@wev7196 2 жыл бұрын

I didn’t think acoustic basses were made that long ago

@freemandiaz5123 3 жыл бұрын

That part where they say what it means

@sensequest 14 күн бұрын

this song is perfect

@JH-yk5se 2 ай бұрын

No joke. I thought this was from the late 80's. I was blown away finding it's from 1983. They could come out right this second in 2024 and be a hit. 🤯

@dijjidog Жыл бұрын

Everything I rewind the video to see how they play it slowly I have to listen to Gordon Gano say "wet dream"

@CenTexMex101 4 жыл бұрын

Dope

@fourthwallbreak 11 күн бұрын

Add it up is one of the greatest albums of all time.

@morganghetti 2 ай бұрын

Crazy how unique they were / are. No ome soulds like them to this day.

@jackchn23 2 жыл бұрын

I think I saw these guys at Woodstock 94, they played at like 3am.

@alanr4263 10 ай бұрын

Wood stock 94 after I seen em I picked up greatest hits C.D amazing.

@JZMe2 2 жыл бұрын

❤️🍀♾🌻🙏DANCE

@chemoboy-dannypheleps9234 4 жыл бұрын

I have a hankering for some Wendy’s

@mikasanchez273 2 жыл бұрын

1:16 Alex Chen

@userhome3601 2 жыл бұрын

Always love it when the authorities (mainly teachers) don't understand the material. Unless Billy comes back and explains "Romeo and Juliet", I'm still claiming my interpretation is correct.

@capslockbusted 3 жыл бұрын

It's a great song, but "Kiss Off" is better.

@alexandrebelair4360 2 жыл бұрын

Of course!

@bRad-ns6iy 4 ай бұрын

I always thought it was a cautionary tale about wearing sun screen.

@mgreene300 4 жыл бұрын

Back in the day Brian looked like Keef from Righteous Gemstones

@xtraflo 5 ай бұрын

Forever I thought these guys were British until I saw this inteview.

@DJ-FIGO 3 жыл бұрын

1:51 looks like Ted bundy

@sherrydixon4852 2 жыл бұрын

loved you in the hovels... love you in your niches..since the Milestone

@kenweis2291 2 жыл бұрын

Can anyone just say what it means

@nomdeplume2213 3 жыл бұрын

Big hands makes sense now lol

@mitch5856 3 жыл бұрын

I thought he was crushing on a woman characterized by having large hands everything I know was just shattered

@I_do.not_fearyou 3 жыл бұрын

1:50 ace Ventura be like

@seanmayoaguirre1316 Жыл бұрын

L E G E N D S ⚡

@WorldCupWillie 14 сағат бұрын

I've only ever had 1 wet dream & it happened a few days after detoxing off heroin.

@victordemarco01 2 жыл бұрын

I love this band. So angsty

@68rufus 3 жыл бұрын

blister in the sun..well having a blister in the sun is painful....a bit like life and nothun is going right and why do i have these bodily functions and what it all about..its like a blister in the sun...thnats what i alwazys thought

@AnonymousEnt01 4 жыл бұрын

Too bad them & Victor could not agree to business and stay as the drummer for “ this era “ of their performances .....

@BillDraheim 4 жыл бұрын

Dance motherfuckers dance.

@ADGreen-es6hm 4 жыл бұрын

First

@melaniecotterell8263 3 жыл бұрын

The song is about tweaking, and if not it should be.

@AussieDarMok Жыл бұрын

i had a copy on cd of their debut album with the lyrics inside the cover...lyrics read "because i know you're the one" lol not big hands i know you're the one. not sure if it were a misprint or gordon just started singing big hands i know you're the one.