My favourite Violent Femmes album has slowly but surely become their self-titled effort from 1983. I don't know if it's just the overall lovely melancholy of the album and the always-infectious classics that are a part of it, but something about it had just reeled me in for more. First "Please Do Not Go," and now "Good Feeling." What's next? Well, we'll have to see, but today, let's stay on track. "Good Feeling" has that lovely-yet-desperate yearning to it, mixed with soft acoustic guitars and a little keyboard here and there. It's a delicate little thing, but one that will warm up to you in no time at all. Besides, Gordon Gano is just as awesome when he's soft and vulnerable as when he's quirky and exciting, like in "Blister In The Sun," for example. This another one those less-is-more instances, though Violent Femmes are never doing too much. More is less, for them, and "Good Feeling" is a classic that I won't be moving on from any time soon.
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