My Top 1000 Songs #931: Add It Up

[I've been writing up my Top 1000 songs on a daily basis--you can see them all in descending order by hitting the All My Favorite Songs tag.]

I've talked ad nauseum about the impact the Violent Femmes' 1983 debut had on teenage me, an album that seemed to break every rule of rock music right around the time I was enmeshed in exploring music well beyond the classic rock tropes I'd been absorbing on my bedroom stereo for the past five years. But if album-opening "Blister In The Sun" (and its follow-up "Kiss Off") were remarkable for their jubilant acoustic-punk transgressiveness, it was "Add It Up" which had me wondering, are you even allowed to do this? As a high school kid with a fresh driver's license in hand, just emerging from the deepest throes of adolescent angst, what could possibly be better than driving around, shouting along with "Why can't I get just one f*ck? Guess it's got something to do with luck, but I waited my whole life for just one..." 

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