Violent Femmes Self Titled Vinyl Record — 1982 Slash Records
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Violent Femmes Self Titled Vinyl Record is the debut album by Violent Femmes. Mostly recorded in July 1982, the album was released by Slash Records on vinyl.
Violent Femmes is the band's most successful album to date. The Recording Industry Association of America (RIAA) certified the album gold four years after its release and platinum four years after that, despite it never having appeared on the Billboard 200 albums chart. After achieving platinum certification on February 1, 1991, the album finally charted on the Billboard 200 for the first time on August 3, 1991, and peaked at number 171. Since Nielsen Music began electronically tracking sales in 1991, the album has sold 1.8 million copies. Blending RIAA certifications and Nielsen Music sales data, the record's American sales were estimated at three million as of 2016.
Most of the songs on Violent Femmes and its follow-up were written when songwriter Gordon Gano was an 18-year-old high-school student in Milwaukee, Wisconsin.
The album was recorded at Castle Recording Studios in Lake Geneva, Wisconsin in July 1982.
