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New Times by Violent Femmes
New Times is an album by Violent Femmes, released in 1994. 1 song from it has charted on rock radio countdowns, with 3 countdown appearances in total. The biggest is “Breakin' Up”, on 3 lists with a best position of #73.
New Times, the sixth studio album from Milwaukee's Violent Femmes, came out on Elektra in 1994, and it was the first without founding drummer Victor DeLorenzo, who had given way to Guy Hoffman. Gordon Gano's guitar and yelping voice and Brian Ritchie's bass are still at the center, but the band sounds more ambitious than ever, twisting its folk punk into knottier shapes.
"Breakin' Up", a song Gano had written years earlier, led the way as the single, and its video caught a little MTV airplay. The album didn't sell well, but it holds some of the Femmes' most intricate music and cleverest writing, among them "4 Seasons" and "I'm Nothing", which became a concert staple and later turned up in the film Bickford Shmeckler's Cool Ideas. Rock!!!!! followed with the same lineup.
Written with AI assistance from RockLists chart data, MusicBrainz and Wikipedia.
Songs from New Times on radio countdowns
| # | Song | Strength | Lists | Best | #1s | Years |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Breakin' Up | 3 | #73 | – | 1994–2003 |
Only songs that appear on at least one countdown are listed. Release data from MusicBrainz.