Violent Femmes

Not in the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame

Eligible since: 2008

First Recording: 1982

Previously Considered? No  what's this?

Violent Femmes
HALL OF FAME INDICATORS
🔲Rolling Stone 500 Albums
🔲Rolling Stone 500 Songs
🔲Rolling Stone Cover
🔲Saturday Night Live
🔲Major Festival Headliner
🔲Songwriters Hall of Fame
🔲“Big Four” Grammys

Essential Albums (?)WikipediaYouTube
Violent Femmes (1983)

Essential Songs (?)WikipediaYouTube
Blister In The Sun (1983)
Gone Daddy Gone (1983)

Violent Femmes @ Wikipedia

Will Violent Femmes be inducted into the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame?
"Musical excellence is the essential qualification for induction."
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"The Violent Femmes, they play all of their instruments....and you can't ***k with the Violent Femmes!!!"

Do they deserve to get in? Absolutely. Not sure how soon though even if its been years since they've been eligible. What's really hopeful is now they are nominating 80s alternative groups so this could mean something for the Femmes. I'm still shocked (even 10 years later) that their self-titled debut album wasn't on Rolling Stone's Top 500 list. Not only was it influential but to me its one of those records I could listen to over and over again and not get sick of it.

Also, they were discovered by Chrissie Hynde while on a tour stop in Milwaukee. They could use some props from her.

Posted by Jason Voigt on Tuesday, 10/22/2013 @ 23:06pm


Great band and all, but not enough hits or albums tbh, not too infuential on rock on the whole. Maybe with folk rock but thats it

Posted by Yes6604 on Wednesday, 04/14/2021 @ 18:59pm


Violent Femmes are in my pained heart category. 1983: look at what else we were settling for in the pop-rock market… hair bands and MJ. Their

Posted by Michael Hoyt on Monday, 02/13/2023 @ 10:51am


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