Favorite All-Female Bands
 

Which All-Female Bands and Songs are your favorites?

I was thinking of a way to honor the Saudi Arabian women (and their female and male supporters) struggling for equality by daring to drive cars last Friday, a simple action that puts them at risk of incarceration and loss of employment because they are defying a sexist fatwa forbidding women from driving: http://www.nytimes.com/2011/06/18/wo...t/18saudi.html

I realized recently that around 9 out of 10 songs on the radio are performed exclusively by men. It is as if the musical roads are jam-packed with men! I decided to start this thread because I'd like to learn more about the women who are drivers and mechanics of their own music, much like women who are drivers and mechanics of their own cars.

Although other threads exist for Riot Grrrl bands and for bands with female singers, I don't see a thread dedicated exclusively to all-female bands of any genre. Now we have one.

Last night while enjoying a slice of Americana at a dingy, drab, and delightfully dated roller skating rink, I looked over music selections available for request and was happy to see The Go-Go's "Our Lips Are Sealed" as one of the options. (Justin Bieber of "Baby Baby" fame was playing at the time, so I decided to give the roller skating tweens a blast from my past.)

The Go-Go's "made history as the first all-female band that both wrote their own songs and played their own instruments to top the Billboard album charts" (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Go-Go's). Here are three Go-Go's songs I liked in the 80's and still do:

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The Go-Go's - "Our Lips Are Sealed"
[I looked up the lyrics for the first time today because I've been wondering all these years what some of them were. I found out, to my disappointment, that what I thought were the coolest lyrics ever, "Hush my darling, don't you cry; fallen angel, mortalized" are actually "Hush my darling, don't you cry; quiet angel, forget their lies." I think I'll just pretend they are singing my version, which is much better! :D]



The Go-Go's - "Head Over Heels"
[This is my favorite song by The Go-Go's]



The Go-Go's - "Vacation"

When it comes to All Female Bands, I feel like most people just mention The Runaways and Fanny doesn't get any recognition.

Courtesy of Wiki.

Fanny - Charity Ball

Fanny - Butter Boy

Fanny - I've had it

Babes In Toyland and L7.

The Raincoats:


Shonen Knife:


Slant 6:


L7:


Harry Crews:


Cub:

This thread needs some metal. KITTIE!







They kick so much ass.

and some more:

Drain (aka Drain STH):

Drain STH is all female? I didn't know and I love me some Kittie!

pretty sure you guys remember The Donnas
I honestly didn't know they were around since the early 90s I just remember their hits from 2000s

Astarte - an all-girl black metal band from Greece.

The Organ

and


Sleater-Kinney

and



All on the definite top list.

cibbo matto