Any guess who the band was or may have been??

Yeah, at first I thought R.E.M. too, cause he mentions college radio but by that time "The One I Love" was huge so college radio was bye-bye. So who else?

Violent Femmes:


Violent Femmes
"Add It Up"

The few of you who quickly recognized the name of this band probably did so because of their 1983 hit "Blister in the Sun." This unconventional track went unknown when it was first released, but somehow found its way into the mainstream years later, partly thanks to being put in multiple movie soundtracks.
If you don't recognize the song by name, the lyrics "when I'm walkin' I strut my stuff, yeah I'm so strung out," should jog your memory. If that doesn't work, all you need to hear is the first few cords before you'll be saying "oh yeah! I know this song."
"Blister in the Sun" may be the only song from this Milwaukee trio that you've ever heard, but that first self-titled album was solid from beginning to end. It also introduced Lead singer Gordon Gano and his distinctive vocals to the world.
The band's nerdy, rompy style could be seen from the very beginning at their first show. Performing in high school for their National Honor Society peers, they caused a riot and were expelled from the society and suspended from school for their performance.
The Violent Femmes continued to make high school and college kids rock with their youthful yet wise lyrics, causing the New York Times to label Gano as "the elder statesman of teen angst" in an interview in 1984. The band's minimalist sound may not have captured overwhelming success stateside, but they were a top act of the 80's across the Atlantic and remain college radio mainstays to this day.
Kurt Cobain of Nirvana, Billy Corgan of the Smashing Pumpkins and musical legend Lou Reed (formerly of Velvet Underground) all consider the Violent Femmes to be hugely influential to their music.
Thirteen years after the band's self-titled debut (which has the dubious distinction of being the only platinum album not to appear on the Billboard Top 200 list), the band released 1993's "Add It Up." It only takes a minute of listening to realize that you've hit a musical gold mine.
Highlights include the album's title track, with the growling "why can't I get just one kiss? there may be something's that I wouldn't miss/ but I look at your pants and I need a kiss" that show a playful yet entirely serious tone.
"American Music," is a toned down and simplistic tune that is half "Blister in the Sun" and half something so much more.
Singer Gano starts the track out sounding like the band is trying the song out for the first time and the unpolished sound makes it all the more genuine. Lines like "You were born too late/ I was born too soon/ but every time I look at that ugly moon/ it reminds me of you" are typical of the tone; always trying to express some kind of feeling with a whiny voice and words that sound shallow but are actually profoundly deep.
Other key tracks are the aforementioned "Blister in the Sun" and "Gone Daddy Gone," with its crazy instrumental arrangement.
"Kiss Off" is another song which received college and some major radio play and can easily be recognized with its famous countdown "I take one, one, one `cause you left me and two, two, two for my family, and three three, three for my heartache

We have talked about doing this to some degree with a band who we are really good friends with...we kind of chickened out and started playing one of the songs they don't do any more.

I saw them in like 94 or 95, and I really enjoyed the show, but that might have been because I was a sophomore in high school and was spending the weekend away at college.

In related news, I got drunk for the first time that night, and then I danced with some guy who had no belly button to Montell Jordan's "This is how we do it."