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14-509: It contains the lyrics: Why can't I get just one screw Believe me I'd know what to do But something won't let me make love to you Why can't I get just one fuck Why can't I get just one fuck I guess it's got something to do with luck But I waited my whole life for just one Band member Gordon Gano commented: I was in my bedroom—that's where I wrote it—feeling frustrated. I had nowhere to go and nothing to do. It just happened to feel good lyrically ... and it still does. The song title

28-493: A major label. During the time of this arrangement, the label released albums by prominent Los Angeles punk and rock and roll bands, including Fear , The Blasters , L7 and Los Lobos , as well as comparable punk and garage rock bands such as Austin's Rank and File and Boston's Del Fuegos . The label flourished even after the magazine stopped in 1980. A subsidiary, Ruby Records , was started in 1981; Ruby released albums by Misfits , Dream Syndicate , and The Gun Club . By

42-457: A painter, initiated the label with a seven-inch single from the Germs in 1978. A full album from that band was released the next year, and X 's Los Angeles followed in 1980. The label was distributed through Jem until 1981 when that company went bankrupt. Slash then entered into a distribution deal with Warner Bros. , a move that was among the first collaborations between a self-started indie and

56-683: A self-titled album in 1987 on Warner Music Group's Slash Records . The album was re-released digitally in 2009 on Wounded Bird Records . Gano released his first solo album in 2002, titled Hitting the Ground . He shared vocal duties with Manuel Cruz, lead singer of the Portuguese rock band Ornatos Violeta in the song "Capitão Romance," with Gano singing in Portuguese . Gano also played violin on Ben Vaughn 's 1990 album Dressed in Black . Gano contributed to

70-707: A wide array of musical genres, including country and western , show tunes , and gospel . The liner notes to the Violent Femmes 's compilation album Permanent Record describe Gano as "a devout Baptist " . In 1979 the Ganos moved to nearby Hales Corners , where his father took over an existing American Baptist congregation. At this time Gordon began attending Milwaukee public school— Rufus King High School , from which he graduated in 1981. After graduating from high school, he worked briefly as an encyclopedia salesman. Older siblings from his parents' previous marriages living in

84-469: The 2004 multi-artist collaboration The Late Great Daniel Johnston: Discovered Covered (alongside artists including Beck , Eels , TV on the Radio and Death Cab for Cutie ), on which he provides a rendition of Daniel Johnston 's "Impossible Love". Gano wrote, recorded and performed with ex-members of The Bogmen , Billy and Brendan Ryan, under the name Gordon Gano & The Ryans . Their only album, Under

98-520: The NYC area exposed young Gordon to such influences as The Velvet Underground , Lou Reed , Brian Eno , Patti Smith , Jonathan Richman , and The B-52's . His garage band days began with covers of Bob Dylan and The Beatles and moved through the Grateful Dead songs to Lou Reed and Velvet Underground songs by 1979. He began writing his own songs in the mid '70s, influenced by the vocal stylings of Lou Reed,

112-530: The Sun , was released in September 2009 on Yep Roc Records . Slash Records Slash Records was an American record label originally specializing in local punk rock bands, active from 1978 to 2000. It was notable as one of the first and most successful independent record labels in alternative music , before its eventual acquisition by Warner Music Group . The label was formed in 1978 by Bob Biggs. Biggs,

126-633: The Sun ," "Kiss Off" and " Add It Up " (all included on their self-titled debut album ). The band has experimented with a variety of sounds over the course of its career, such as country and western ( Hallowed Ground ) and gospel ( The Blind Leading the Naked ). Gano plays guitar, sings and writes most of the band's songs. During a Violent Femmes hiatus in the late 1980s, Gano formed a gospel-punk group called The Mercy Seat with vocalist Zena Von Heppinstall, bassist Patrice Moran, and drummer Fernando Menendez. They toured internationally for two years and released

140-491: The merger of the MCA and PolyGram Records families, the latter of which owned London Records, in 2000 and closed Slash as an active label. When London Records president Roger Ames moved to Warner Music Group , he retained the rights to London and Slash, and the back catalogue of Slash was acquired by Warner (excluding Rammstein and Harvey Danger ). In 2003, Ames relicensed the use of the name Slash back to Bob Biggs, who then relaunched

154-466: The mid-1980s, Slash had branched out beyond Southern California, releasing albums by Robyn Hitchcock and Burning Spear . From 1982 until 1996, releases from Slash Records were distributed in North America by Warner Bros. Records and Reprise Records , and elsewhere by PolyGram . The label was sold to London Records in 1996. Universal Music Group (the owner of American Decca) was formed through

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168-456: The story-telling of Hank Williams, Sr. and the poetics of Patti Smith. Given his acting background, Gano wrote many of his songs for characters, whom he would portray while performing the associated song. Gano joined Violent Femmes in Milwaukee in 1981 with bassist Brian Ritchie and drummer Victor DeLorenzo . They soon developed an enthusiastic following thanks to songs such as " Blister in

182-678: Was born in New York City to actor parents Norman and Faye Gano, and grew up in Connecticut . The Ganos moved to Wisconsin in 1973, when Gordon's dad opened an American Baptist church in Oak Creek, Wisconsin , a suburb of Milwaukee . Rev. Gano, an accomplished actor, also formed a community theater group in Oak Creek, and Gordon appeared in many of its productions, notably "Sing Out, Sweet Land" in 1976. His father played guitar, and exposed his son to

196-458: Was used as the name for the compilation album by the group, Add It Up (1981–1993) . Some radio stations substitute a guitar note for the swear word for airplay. This 1980s rock song –related article is a stub . You can help Misplaced Pages by expanding it . Gordon Gano Gordon James Gano (born June 7, 1963) is an American musician who is the singer, guitarist and songwriter of American folk punk band Violent Femmes . Gano

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