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

DewieCox

Evanescence

No Fleetwood Mac?

1ThoughtKnown

Garbage

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OffSheGoes35

Evanescence

JPPJ84 said:

OffSheGoes35 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.

OffSheGoes35

Evanescence

Spiritual_Chaos said:

1ThoughtKnown said:

Spiritual_Chaos said:

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 Brain

Hole

tempo_n_groove said:

F Me In The Brain said:

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.

GlowGirl

Paramore

Was Jefferson Airplane ever considered for this poll? They have a few good classic songs that everyone seems to know.

MedozK

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.

brianlux

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.

OffSheGoes35

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.

OffSheGoes35

Evanescence

Don't forget Jem and The Holograms or Josie and The Pussycats either. 

MedozK

OffSheGoes35 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.

brianlux

Evanescence

OffSheGoes35 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!

JPPJ84

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 

OffSheGoes35

Evanescence

MedozK said:

OffSheGoes35 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.

tempo_n_groove

Paramore

F Me In The Brain said:

tempo_n_groove said:

F Me In The Brain said:

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.  

OffSheGoes35

Evanescence

brianlux said:

OffSheGoes35 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. 

GlowGirl

Paramore

OffSheGoes35 said:

brianlux said:

OffSheGoes35 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!!

tempo_n_groove

Paramore

OffSheGoes35 said:

brianlux said:

OffSheGoes35 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.

mrussel1

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.  

OffSheGoes35

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!!

tempo_n_groove said:

Bells for her.  My go to Tori song.

Thank you both. :rose: :rose: