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Posted: **Mon Oct 17, 2005 12:36 pm**

Deerhoof is great. I haven't seen them live, but uh.. yeah, the fact that I vouch for them probably reinforces whatever opinion you have of them after that last post.

Posted: **Mon Oct 17, 2005 12:41 pm**

I'll vouch for Deerhoof too. They're pretty incredible. A bit uncomfortable at first, but as soon as you acquire the taste you'll be glad you did.

Posted: **Mon Oct 17, 2005 1:27 pm**

Yeah - chicks have their uses I suppose, but music-wise (Bjork and PJ Harvey notwithstanding) most are pretty ordinary. I like video-clips where they shake their tits and that, though.

Posted: **Mon Oct 17, 2005 2:08 pm**

susan tedeschi

Posted: **Mon Oct 17, 2005 2:09 pm**

Breeders

Posted: **Mon Oct 17, 2005 2:27 pm**

jb wrote:Breeders

dude that's not very nice. they prefer to be called "women".

geez.

Posted: **Mon Oct 17, 2005 2:29 pm**

sarah mclachlan
lucinda williams
queen latifah

Posted: **Mon Oct 17, 2005 3:05 pm**

Kim Deal will always be a Pixie to me. And Deerhoof makes some beautiful songs. I think they're gorgeous.

Posted: **Mon Oct 17, 2005 4:24 pm**

Kasey Chambers
Kathleen Edwards
Patty Griffin
Patty Larkin
Julie Miller
Jonatha Brooke
Gillian Welch
Aimee Mann

Posted: **Mon Oct 17, 2005 4:25 pm**

I guess it transpires that the point of this thread is that a thread like this is pointless.

Oh, i am so deep when i am drunk

Posted: **Mon Oct 17, 2005 5:25 pm**

Bow wow wow.
X-Ray Spex.
The Plasmatics, feat. the Toughest Woman In the World, R.I.P.
Juliet (Lewis) and the Licks actually rock too.
The Selector.
Jane County and the Electric Chairsâ€”well, does she count? She started out as Wayne County before the sex change.

Posted: **Mon Oct 17, 2005 11:49 pm**

Jen Trynin has released two great albums. Unfortunately, her first "Cockamamie" released about the same time that Alanis was getting all the attention.

Martha (sister of Rufus) Wainwright's debut has been a constant listen for me since it released.

Posted: **Tue Oct 18, 2005 4:07 pm**

The Spazzys
Christa Hughes
The Widow Jones

all awesome Aus female singers and songwriters.

I also got hooked onto Avenue D, two female singers and some guy who writes the music.

Posted: **Tue Oct 18, 2005 9:59 pm**

I can't believe no one's mentioned Wendy Carlos!

The Aislers Set

Or underappreciated Cibo Matto

Jenny Toomey (when she sings Franklin Bruno songs)

Margo Guryan (Responsible for one of my all-time favorite albums)

Of course, The Shaggs

Anna Oxygen

Tulip Sweet & Her Trail of Tears

Princess Superstar

Patty Donahue of the Waitresses

The wonderful Lucia Pamela

Astrud Gilberto

Dear Nora

Nancy Sinatra!

Posted: **Tue Oct 18, 2005 10:45 pm**

Carol Cleveland Sings!

Posted: **Wed Oct 19, 2005 3:07 pm**

Egg wrote:I can AIM transfer you some females that you probably like.

forget working in the vineyards, if you can do that i'm sure there's some lonely guys out there who will pay you a fortune for this service.
-bill

Posted: **Wed Oct 19, 2005 6:47 pm**

Did anybody say Melt Banana yet?

Posted: **Wed Oct 19, 2005 7:53 pm**

Ha ha! I don't know if they rock, but they do squeek and shreek quite well! Spencer likes the Soviettes, so they must rock!

Posted: **Thu Oct 20, 2005 10:50 am**

Tanya Donnelly (formerly of Throwing Muses, now solo)
Siouxie Sioux (formerly of Siouxie & the Banshees, Creatures)
Some French punk band named "La Doubt" (or maybe that's just one of their songs. I'm useless, memory-wise, and they only put out vinyl, the fiends. Spelling possibly incorrrect)
Hazel O'Connor (punk, her "Breaking Glass" [1980?] album is fucking brilliant, IMNSHO)
Laurie Anderson is god, though listening-tastes-wise, for you she may be one of those small volcano gods that throw pumice all over a mexican farm's back forty, as in, way distant and removed from your daily life. Rent "Home of the Brave" if you can find it, for the best possible introduction to the magic that is she.

Posted: **Thu Oct 20, 2005 12:44 pm**

Rabid Garfunkel wrote:Tanya Donnelly (formerly of Throwing Muses, now solo)

Speaking of Throwing Muses, I can't believe no one's mentioned Kristin Hersh yet.

Posted: **Thu Oct 20, 2005 1:24 pm**

Albatross wrote:
Rabid Garfunkel wrote:Tanya Donnelly (formerly of Throwing Muses, now solo)
Speaking of Throwing Muses, I can't believe no one's mentioned Kristin Hersh yet.

Duhhhhhh, that was who I was thinking of.

Add Throwing Muses to the list.

Posted: **Fri Dec 30, 2005 3:17 pm**

Egg is right... Without any guidance as to what you like, it's hard to pick for you.

That said, I'm happy to throw some heretofor unmentioned double-x folks into the ring

(Where they can wrastle in jello and pull eachother's hair):

The Geraldine Fibbers Raucous w/ interesting instrumentation... Cellos and whathaveyou...I prefer their first album / eps

Nina Nastasia Folky w/ evocative lyrics... also uses great instrumentation. I like "The Blackened Air"

Veda Hille Can be all over the map, musically, but tends toward the folky...(But, dude! She played with DOA! So she must rock, too!)

Meredith Monk Uhhh... now I'm pushing the definition of "Rock" but since y'all have already thrown in Diamanda, Deerhoof, and Laurie Anderson, we ought to include her. I don't love everything she does, but the song "Gotham Lullabye" (on "Dolmen Music" I think?) is fabu.

The Places or Amy Annelle I actually haven't heard Amy's recorded solo stuff, but her stuff with the Places was fantastic. Folky with full band. May be hard to get though... start here: http://www.hushrecords.com

The Dresden Dolls Surely everyone knows about these guys already...

Quasi gets my vote over Slayer Kitty (heh) for best band featuring Janet Weiss.

Mirah I don't love most of Mirah's stuff, but her crazy wild-western tinged "Cold Cold Water" deserves attention.

I know I'm missing people... and I'm primarily picking bands where the gals are up front... with the exception of Quasi. If I think of others will amend.

I also second many already mentioned-- K. Hirsch, J. Mitchell, etc...

--Em

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