“The urgency of youth is not something to be trifled with. The Violent Femmes knew this, and with their 1983 self-titled debut, they tapped into that brutal life-or-death urgency that surrounds all the frantic milestones of teendom-- cars, peers, and the anatomic wonders of biodiversity. Maybe it all seems trivial (or at least somewhat diminished) in hindsight, but to someone just finding his or he”
