Early/Mid 90s + female artists

[douglasb]

I was filing some vinyl last night and was struck by just how great the earlier half of the 90s were for female musicians:

Breeders / Belly / Elastica / Mazzy Star / L7 / Hole / Come / Sugarcubes / Curve / Babes In Toyland / Echobelly / Sleeper / Veruca Salt / Throwing Muses / Juliana Hatfield / Mazzy Star / Bikini Kill (+all the other Riot Grrl bands) / Madder Rose.

There are still obviously a large number of women making music but it seems to have slipped back a bit in terms of visibility. With the emphasis on 'emo' / nu-metal and the new wave of Brit bands it's all become pretty 'male' again.

There are a few women 'upfront' (Brody Dalle, all the Euro-goths) but I wonder if there are as many role models that would encourage our sisters to start bands and make music themselves. I mean Sleater-Kinney have been going for about a decade.

D.

[tkraines]

I'm familiar with the Breeders / Elastica / Hole and Sleeper

But not really the others....

Can you suggest any BIG tracks of theirs I could hunt out.

[Whiting]

No PJ Harvey ? :suspect:

[Gorky]

or Lush

[douglasb]

I'm familiar with the Breeders / Elastica / Hole and Sleeper

But not really the others....

Can you suggest any BIG tracks of theirs I could hunt out.

Veruca Salt: Seether
Mazzy Star: Fade Into You
Sugarcubes: Birthday
L7: Pretend We're Dead
Madder Rose: Panic On / Car Song
Belly: Seal My Fate
Juliana Hatfield: Universal Heartbeat / Spin The Bottle
Curve: Ten Little Girls
Echobelly: Great Things
Huggy Bear: Her Jazz

Hope that keeps you going. And PJ Harvey: "Dress"! :)

[evilsly]

I'm familiar with the Breeders / Elastica / Hole and Sleeper

But not really the others....

Can you suggest any BIG tracks of theirs I could hunt out.


Belly - Feed the Tree
Echobelly - Insomniac
Mazzy Star - Into Dust
L7 - Pretend we're Dead
Curve - Fait Accompli
Juliana Hatfield - probably all of the 'become what you are' album
Madder Rose - Car Song
Throwing Muses - Shark

I'd also throw in the obscure 'Thrum' with 'So Glad'

and the not so obscure Tori Amos - 'Cornflake Girl'

[tkraines]

Cheers doodies

[tkraines]

or Lush

I LOVE LUSH!

[ohood]

The first Le Tigre (self-titled) album would be worth a look. :)

[tkraines]

I quite like the current Le tigre album too.

[NicolaUK]

A big Breeders fan here, don't forget The Amps, Kelley Deal 6000.

Stereolab
Combustible Edison
Drugstore

[kohoutec]

Try and seek out L7's performance on The Tube all those years ago... ;)

[Kirs-tea]

Hole and Elastica were my faves :thumbs:

[GK]

I was filing some vinyl last night and was struck by just how great the earlier half of the 90s were for female musicians:

Breeders / Belly / Elastica / Mazzy Star / L7 / Hole / Come / Sugarcubes / Curve / Babes In Toyland / Echobelly / Sleeper / Veruca Salt / Throwing Muses / Juliana Hatfield / Mazzy Star / Bikini Kill (+all the other Riot Grrl bands) / Madder Rose.

There are still obviously a large number of women making music but it seems to have slipped back a bit in terms of visibility. With the emphasis on 'emo' / nu-metal and the new wave of Brit bands it's all become pretty 'male' again.

There are a few women 'upfront' (Brody Dalle, all the Euro-goths) but I wonder if there are as many role models that would encourage our sisters to start bands and make music themselves. I mean Sleater-Kinney have been going for about a decade.

D.

You've just listed my record collection ! Jeez - 'Coast is Clear' by Curve live really was a trip and a half. Ah, the memories ! 'Bruise Violet' by the Babes in tiny Stoke Wheatsheaf as the windows were melting !

Was it you who made the insightful comments eralier in the year about how demotivating it must be for young women when they see the annual blokes-with-guitars lists that masquerade as music festivals ? Quite.

I saw the mighty Sleater-Kinney again last week (you'd think they were on their first album not their umpteenth) and once more it struck me just how dull the alternative music scene is when it's going through one of its duller phases - usually typified by a plethora of dull males in thrall to the Beatles with little sense of drama or emotion.

Love your list - may I add Stereolab, Sidi Bou Said, Flinch and Thrum ? :thumbs:

[Nathan-Wind]

Female associated artists that are worth a gander...
Queen Adreena (Ex Daisy Chainsaws Katie Jane Garside & Crispin Gray), Le Tigre (Kathleen Hannah of Bikini Kill), Auf Der Maur (Melissa, the bassist in Hole), Katastrophy Wife (Kat Bjelland from Babes in Toyland), The Start (Aimee Echo from Human Waste Project), Nina Nastasia, Little Whores on The Prairie, The Dresden Dolls, X Ray Spex, Devilish Presley, Bearsuit, Thee Merry Widow, The Raincoats, Roxy Saint, Rasputina... & Shampoo :)

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