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Originally Posted by Engine
It's the same with Kim Deal. Average bassist for a great band - and female.
She also did a lot of vocals and, I think, writing for SY.
Considering the music they made, I think Kim Gordon deserves credit on every front because her bass playing was kinda perfect for SY (underdeveloped but with soul/intuition that added to the band), she did other worthy things besides bass (her weird untalented vocals are also a plus in my book) and, uh, she's a girl - so extra credit?
Regardless of all that: of course YES to Sonic Youth
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I'd just like to add that when I say that I admired her because she was female in a rock band, I don't mean to say that girls deserve extra credit because of their gender. Females shouldn't get extra kudos just because they are female, because then it kind-of comes out as saying that girls are rubbish at music so any girl who manages to make some kind of audible noise on an instrument deserves credit.
I meant that in the late 70s - 80s especially, although still today, rock music is generally a domain still dominated by men and for a long time in history it was not often that you saw a gutsy and determined girl rock out on stage with such passion and making such noise. Also as a female myself, seeing Kin in Sonic Youth made her an icon much more relatable to me than any other male rockstars.
(Engine, I'm not criticising anything you said, in fact I agree with you entirely, but your post just reminded me that I should just make this known!
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