Mazzy Star - Ghost Highway - Purple Colored Vinyl Tanukichan Violent Femmes' self-titled debut album

Violent Femmes' self-titled debut album is a seminal work in the world of alternative rock

Cruel Country is the band's exploration of the genre they've often been defined by but

as the recordings they did with United Artists were shelved until 1979

made almost entirely of live takes

followed not long after by Freedom Finger

Mazzy Star - Ghost Highway - Purple Colored Vinyl Tanukichan Violent Femmes' self-titled debut albumThe Winter of '94 and a year after the release of the sublime "So Tonight That I Might See", Mazzy Star find themselves still touring and promoting the album, some of the songs featured here are from that album such as Into Dust, Bells Ring the title track and the hit single Fade Into You. Whilst songs like Flowers in December would turn up on the next album released a whole two years later. Four of the selections are from the critically acclaimed