POLL - The WEAKEST LINK of FEMALE FRONTED BANDS - ROUND 1

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  • goldrushgoldrush everybody knows this is nowhere Posts: 7,578
    The Cranberries
    I always loved this song and video
    “Do not postpone happiness”
    (Jeff Tweedy, Sydney 2007)

    “Put yer good money on the sunrise”
    (Tim Rogers)
  • lastchild11lastchild11 Posts: 1,306
    Paramore
    Go ahead and declare Heart the winners 😄
    Dallas TX 10/17/00
    Oklahoma City 4/3/03
    Dallas TX 6/9/03
    Memphis TN 6/20/09 (Eddie)
    Kansas City MO 4/3/10
    Little Rock AR 8/28/10 (Eddie, WM3 rally)
    St Louis MO 7/1/11 (Eddie)
    Dallas TX 11/15/12 (Eddie)
    Tulsa OK 11/18/12 (Eddie)
    Tulsa OK 11/19/12 (Eddie)
    Dallas TX 11/15/13
    Oklahoma City 11/16/13
    Tulsa OK 10/8/14
    St Louis MO 9/18/22
    Oklahoma City 9/20/22
    Ft Worth TX 9/13/23
    Ft Worth TX 9/15/23


  • brianluxbrianlux Moving through All Kinds of Terrain. Posts: 42,306
    Evanescence
    Go ahead and declare Heart the winners 😄

    I hadn't noticed they were doing so well.  I would never have even thought of Heart being the best female fronted band, but now that I think of it, I guess they were pretty big mega-stars in the 80's.  They certainly were on the radio a lot.  Never got into their music, myself.
    "Pretty cookies, heart squares all around, yeah!"
    -Eddie Vedder, "Smile"

    "Try to not spook the horse."
    -Neil Young













  • Paramore
    To be honest, I am picking this band because I don’t know anything by them. Maybe I know a song and don't know it’s them though who knows. 

    I personally think The Cranberries and No Doubt are the best of the bunch. Will be interesting to see the ending. 
    Sweet dreams are made  of this?
    Here Comes The Rain Again?
    Would I lie to You?
    Okay I know the first one! But yeah, had no idea who it was by. I actually associate it with Marilyn Manson’s cover mostly haha
    I hated him for ruining that song.  i refused to listen to him for a while.  Then I heard The Beautiful People and I forgave him.
  • hihobibohihobibo Tampa, FL Posts: 1,111
    The Dead Weather
    hihobibo said:
    I like to go into the these thinking who are the two who would make my finals, and being surprised at the actual results. 

    My guess is it goes down to Heart and No Doubt with Heart winning. 
    I think The Pretenders have a good chance of making the finals. 
    Agree, but based on Soundgarden being runners up in the other poll, I was thinking a 90s Ska band would go further. 
  • dankinddankind Posts: 20,839
    Evanescence
    To be honest, I am picking this band because I don’t know anything by them. Maybe I know a song and don't know it’s them though who knows. 

    I personally think The Cranberries and No Doubt are the best of the bunch. Will be interesting to see the ending. 
    Sweet dreams are made  of this?
    Here Comes The Rain Again?
    Would I lie to You?
    Okay I know the first one! But yeah, had no idea who it was by. I actually associate it with Marilyn Manson’s cover mostly haha
    I hated him for ruining that song.  i refused to listen to him for a while.  Then I heard The Beautiful People and I forgave him.
    I wonder if all Evan Rachel Wood needs to do is listen to “The Beautiful People” to forgive him….
    I SAW PEARL JAM
  • bbiggsbbiggs Posts: 6,952
    Would Fleetwood Mac fit in this category?  I know Stevie Nicks joined the band later and not sure if she is considered to front the band. 
  • MedozKMedozK Tennessee Posts: 9,210
    bbiggs said:
    Would Fleetwood Mac fit in this category?  I know Stevie Nicks joined the band later and not sure if she is considered to front the band. 
    Yea, I thought about them. I know Stevie and Christine McVie did a lot, but so did Lindsey Buckingham so that is why I pretty much left them off the list.
  • Paramore
    dankind said:
    To be honest, I am picking this band because I don’t know anything by them. Maybe I know a song and don't know it’s them though who knows. 

    I personally think The Cranberries and No Doubt are the best of the bunch. Will be interesting to see the ending. 
    Sweet dreams are made  of this?
    Here Comes The Rain Again?
    Would I lie to You?
    Okay I know the first one! But yeah, had no idea who it was by. I actually associate it with Marilyn Manson’s cover mostly haha
    I hated him for ruining that song.  i refused to listen to him for a while.  Then I heard The Beautiful People and I forgave him.
    I wonder if all Evan Rachel Wood needs to do is listen to “The Beautiful People” to forgive him….
    If she ain't forgiving Kobe Bryant then I think it's a no for Manson too.
  • HobbesHobbes Pacific Northwest Posts: 6,428
    Evanescence
    hihobibo said:
    hihobibo said:
    I like to go into the these thinking who are the two who would make my finals, and being surprised at the actual results. 

    My guess is it goes down to Heart and No Doubt with Heart winning. 
    I think The Pretenders have a good chance of making the finals. 
    Agree, but based on Soundgarden being runners up in the other poll, I was thinking a 90s Ska band would go further. 
    Soundgarden would probably be runners up in this poll too had they been included.
  • DewieCoxDewieCox Posts: 11,430
    edited December 2021
    Evanescence
    No Fleetwood Mac?
  • Garbage


    2 posts up…. 
  • Evanescence
    JPPJ84 said:
    brianlux said:
    Too many I don't know (4) this round.  Sorry to not see the Go Go's here, but no complaints.
    See y'all next round.
    Throw a dart.  :)
    I took your advice 
    The dart knows all.
  • Evanescence
    No Cardigans? 

    HOW COULD THEY NOT COME TO YOUUUUUR MIIIIINNNDNDNNDDNDNNDNNDDDD


    I didn’t know they were Swedish.  Love Fool was their hit over here. I assumed they were a one hit wonder. 
    They really evolved from that. If you listen to their later albums before breaking up... or stopping at least. 

    Nina Persson did some solo stuff afterwards under the namn "A camp", like this Neil Young coveeeeeeeer. 

    Where's our Ace of Base update?
  • F Me In The BrainF Me In The Brain this knows everybody from other commets Posts: 31,383
    Hole
    Evanescence and Paramore are two I would put in top 5.  One album by Paramore is fantastic, one of my favorites from whatever year it came out.
    Lol...these are funny to see.

    Too poppy 'for' me.  That Misery Business song is just dreadful.  I thought it was Avril Lavigne the first time I heard it.
    I don't share your opinion.
    Just listened to Misery Business again and I dig it.  Yes, there is a woman singing....yes, she is singing about revenge on another chick.  If you take out the singing and just listen to the music?
    (I like the singing ...that gal can sing the shit out of it, she has go be in the top tier of voices I like.). 

    That music is badass. 
    It rocks.
      I can easily say I like the music from Misery Business more than almost every song on Gigaton, as much as I love Pearl Jam.  

    S'ok, different strokes for different folks.
    The love he receives is the love that is saved
  • GlowGirlGlowGirl New York, NY Posts: 11,144
    edited December 2021
    Paramore
    Was Jefferson Airplane ever considered for this poll? They have a few good classic songs that everyone seems to know.
  • MedozKMedozK Tennessee Posts: 9,210
    GlowGirl said:
    Was Jefferson Airplane ever considered for this poll? They have a few good classic songs that everyone seems to know.
    Yea, they were on my short list, just wanted to stay a little more current with the groups.
  • brianluxbrianlux Moving through All Kinds of Terrain. Posts: 42,306
    Evanescence
    I would not include Fleetwood Mac because they started out as an all male band led by Peter Green and later led by Mick Fleetwood.
    Jefferson Airplane was started by Marty Balin and Paul Kantner and had two female singers, Signe Toly Anderson and Gace Slick, both of whom were considered co-lead singers with Balin, so it would be a stretch to refer to them as a female led band.
    Two "all-girl" bands, The Bangles and Go Go's would for sure fit the category.
    "Pretty cookies, heart squares all around, yeah!"
    -Eddie Vedder, "Smile"

    "Try to not spook the horse."
    -Neil Young













  • Evanescence
    MedozK said:
    GlowGirl said:
    Was Jefferson Airplane ever considered for this poll? They have a few good classic songs that everyone seems to know.
    Yea, they were on my short list, just wanted to stay a little more current with the groups.
    I think you're going to have to cough up the long list this time, MedozK. Give us a list of every female band, every genre, every country...so we know that you were thorough in your consideration. Thank you in advance.
  • OffSheGoes35OffSheGoes35 Posts: 3,516
    edited December 2021
    Evanescence
    Don't forget Jem and The Holograms or Josie and The Pussycats either. 
  • MedozKMedozK Tennessee Posts: 9,210
    MedozK said:
    GlowGirl said:
    Was Jefferson Airplane ever considered for this poll? They have a few good classic songs that everyone seems to know.
    Yea, they were on my short list, just wanted to stay a little more current with the groups.
    I think you're going to have to cough up the long list this time, MedozK. Give us a list of every female band, every genre, every country...so we know that you were thorough in your consideration. Thank you in advance.

  • brianluxbrianlux Moving through All Kinds of Terrain. Posts: 42,306
    Evanescence
    MedozK said:
    GlowGirl said:
    Was Jefferson Airplane ever considered for this poll? They have a few good classic songs that everyone seems to know.
    Yea, they were on my short list, just wanted to stay a little more current with the groups.
    I think you're going to have to cough up the long list this time, MedozK. Give us a list of every female band, every genre, every country...so we know that you were thorough in your consideration. Thank you in advance.

    Only problem is, this forum format only allows so many options for poll.  And MK's knowledge of music is about as vast as anyone we've seen on these forums.

    I will say though, for fun it would have been interesting to include the often unjustly maligned The Shaggs.  Rolling Stone described them as sounding like "lobotomized Trapp Family singers".  Years later, they  "rediscovered" by Frank Zappa and others who saw their music as being far more complex with "melodic lines and structures to the freed jazz compositions of Ornette Coleman".  Interesting stuff worth checking out!

    "Pretty cookies, heart squares all around, yeah!"
    -Eddie Vedder, "Smile"

    "Try to not spook the horse."
    -Neil Young













  • JPPJ84JPPJ84 Hamburg, Germany Posts: 3,464
    The Dead Weather
    dankind said:
    The Sounds are a good Swedish one, too. 

    Their first two albums are great! (I don’t have any beyond that.)
    dankind said:
    The Sounds are a good Swedish one, too. 

    Their first two albums are great! (I don’t have any beyond that.)
    Oh I loved the sounds! Saw them at a festival in Germany 15 years ago or so 
  • Evanescence
    MedozK said:
    MedozK said:
    GlowGirl said:
    Was Jefferson Airplane ever considered for this poll? They have a few good classic songs that everyone seems to know.
    Yea, they were on my short list, just wanted to stay a little more current with the groups.
    I think you're going to have to cough up the long list this time, MedozK. Give us a list of every female band, every genre, every country...so we know that you were thorough in your consideration. Thank you in advance.

    :lol:
  • Paramore
    Evanescence and Paramore are two I would put in top 5.  One album by Paramore is fantastic, one of my favorites from whatever year it came out.
    Lol...these are funny to see.

    Too poppy 'for' me.  That Misery Business song is just dreadful.  I thought it was Avril Lavigne the first time I heard it.
    I don't share your opinion.
    Just listened to Misery Business again and I dig it.  Yes, there is a woman singing....yes, she is singing about revenge on another chick.  If you take out the singing and just listen to the music?
    (I like the singing ...that gal can sing the shit out of it, she has go be in the top tier of voices I like.). 

    That music is badass. 
    It rocks.
      I can easily say I like the music from Misery Business more than almost every song on Gigaton, as much as I love Pearl Jam.  

    S'ok, different strokes for different folks.
    Gigaton is a steamy pile to me as well as Misery business...  That era of pop punk metal, whatever you call it was not my thing at all.  I went two ways, harder and indy.  Bands like LCD, Matt & Kim, Dillinger, Killswitch were on heavy rotation.  That whole EMO movement was just bad to me.  Fall Out Boy, All American Rejects and Panic at the Disco being the outliers for me.  Those bands moved the needle.

    You mention the music.  Some of the bands had their moments and parts of songs had awesome music.  Not everything though.  
  • Evanescence
    brianlux said:
    MedozK said:
    GlowGirl said:
    Was Jefferson Airplane ever considered for this poll? They have a few good classic songs that everyone seems to know.
    Yea, they were on my short list, just wanted to stay a little more current with the groups.
    I think you're going to have to cough up the long list this time, MedozK. Give us a list of every female band, every genre, every country...so we know that you were thorough in your consideration. Thank you in advance.

    Only problem is, this forum format only allows so many options for poll.  And MK's knowledge of music is about as vast as anyone we've seen on these forums.

    I will say though, for fun it would have been interesting to include the often unjustly maligned The Shaggs.  Rolling Stone described them as sounding like "lobotomized Trapp Family singers".  Years later, they  "rediscovered" by Frank Zappa and others who saw their music as being far more complex with "melodic lines and structures to the freed jazz compositions of Ornette Coleman".  Interesting stuff worth checking out!

    I've been feeling shitty lately, so I've been sticking with my comfort bands/artists lately. Today, it's Tori Amos. Maybe when I feel more experimental I will give them a try.  :)
  • GlowGirlGlowGirl New York, NY Posts: 11,144
    Paramore
    brianlux said:
    MedozK said:
    GlowGirl said:
    Was Jefferson Airplane ever considered for this poll? They have a few good classic songs that everyone seems to know.
    Yea, they were on my short list, just wanted to stay a little more current with the groups.
    I think you're going to have to cough up the long list this time, MedozK. Give us a list of every female band, every genre, every country...so we know that you were thorough in your consideration. Thank you in advance.

    Only problem is, this forum format only allows so many options for poll.  And MK's knowledge of music is about as vast as anyone we've seen on these forums.

    I will say though, for fun it would have been interesting to include the often unjustly maligned The Shaggs.  Rolling Stone described them as sounding like "lobotomized Trapp Family singers".  Years later, they  "rediscovered" by Frank Zappa and others who saw their music as being far more complex with "melodic lines and structures to the freed jazz compositions of Ornette Coleman".  Interesting stuff worth checking out!

    I've been feeling shitty lately, so I've been sticking with my comfort bands/artists lately. Today, it's Tori Amos. Maybe when I feel more experimental I will give them a try.  :)
    Sorry to hear that @OffSheGoes35. I hope you feel better soon. I know I also have bands that make me feel better when I listen to them. BTW - Tori Amos is awesome!!

  • Paramore
    brianlux said:
    MedozK said:
    GlowGirl said:
    Was Jefferson Airplane ever considered for this poll? They have a few good classic songs that everyone seems to know.
    Yea, they were on my short list, just wanted to stay a little more current with the groups.
    I think you're going to have to cough up the long list this time, MedozK. Give us a list of every female band, every genre, every country...so we know that you were thorough in your consideration. Thank you in advance.

    Only problem is, this forum format only allows so many options for poll.  And MK's knowledge of music is about as vast as anyone we've seen on these forums.

    I will say though, for fun it would have been interesting to include the often unjustly maligned The Shaggs.  Rolling Stone described them as sounding like "lobotomized Trapp Family singers".  Years later, they  "rediscovered" by Frank Zappa and others who saw their music as being far more complex with "melodic lines and structures to the freed jazz compositions of Ornette Coleman".  Interesting stuff worth checking out!

    I've been feeling shitty lately, so I've been sticking with my comfort bands/artists lately. Today, it's Tori Amos. Maybe when I feel more experimental I will give them a try.  :)
    Bells for her.  My go to Tori song.
  • mrussel1mrussel1 Posts: 29,826
    Hole
    What I'm going to love about this poll is that the Pretenders are destined to win.  First, they're awesome.  Second, Chrissy is from Cleveland.  Third, and most importantly, she is literally the female Tom Petty, who is fresh off his US win.  Perfect transition by Kev.  





  • Evanescence
    GlowGirl said:
    Sorry to hear that @OffSheGoes35. I hope you feel better soon. I know I also have bands that make me feel better when I listen to them. BTW - Tori Amos is awesome!!

    Bells for her.  My go to Tori song.
    Thank you both. :rose::rose:
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