{"product_id":"211006904","title":"Violent Femmes: Why Do Birds Sing? 12\"","description":"Craft Recordings celebrates the 30th anniversary of the Violent Femmes' Why Do Birds Sing? with a new vinyl LP reissue of the bestselling album from the folk-punk pioneers featuring freshly remastered favorites like \"American Music\" and the band's inspired cover of Culture Club's \"Do You Really Want to Hurt Me.\"\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eAs the band recorded Why Do Birds Sing? with producer Michael Beinhorn – a former member of the pioneering group Material who went on to helm albums by the Red Hot Chili Peppers, Soundgarden, and Soul Asylum - they found themselves returning to their classic Violent Femmes-era sound, particularly with songs like \"Out The Window\" and \"Look Like That.\" They also revisited several compositions from their earliest days, including \"Girl Trouble,\" \"Life is a Scream,\" and \"Flamingo Baby.\" Additionally, upon Beinhorn's urging, the band chose to record an unlikely cover: Culture Club's 1982 hit, \"Do You Really Want to Hurt Me.\" \"We took it as a challenge,\" says Gordon Gano, who reworked the majority of the lyrics, making the song sound like a Violent Femmes original. Brian Ritchie adds, \"It was an experiment that turned out really well...in fact, we bumped into Boy George once in a hotel bar and he told us, ‘That is the best cover of any of our songs anyone's ever done.'\"\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eWhy Do Birds Sing? also included one of the group's most commercially successful singles, \"American Music,\" which hit No. 2 on Billboard's Modern Rock chart and has since become an essential song at shows. Based on a vintage-inspired shuffle, the track stands out in the Violent Femmes' catalog. \"‘American Music' communicates a lot,\" notes Ritchie. \"But the arrangement has a lot of very interesting touches, and we thought it was a good production of a great song that encapsulated a lot of music history in one track, so that's why it led off the album.\"\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eReleased in the spring of 1991, Why Do Birds Sing? pushed the Violent Femmes into their highest level of mainstream success – nearly a decade into their career. It also marks the trio's final album to feature their original line-up, before drummer Victor DeLorenzo departed the group.\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e","brand":"Craft Recordings","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":41238817734841,"sku":"211006904","price":28.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0255\/7539\/products\/ImagefromiOS_19_copy_3681f3b9-165a-430f-abbf-3c2ae129dd40.jpg?v=1633643778","url":"https:\/\/www.sorrystaterecords.com\/products\/211006904","provider":"Sorry State Records","version":"1.0","type":"link"}