POLL - The WEAKEST LINK of FEMALE FRONTED BANDS - ROUND 4

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  • HughFreakingDillon
    HughFreakingDillon Winnipeg Posts: 39,546
    The Cranberries
    I know her band is also her namesake, but I've always been a big fan of Melissa Auf der Maur's solo work. She's got 2 albums out, the first one had a few cowrites with Josh Homme, and her second (a concept record with a cd, movie, and comic book) had a rare duet with Glenn Danzig. 
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  • MedozK
    MedozK Tennessee Posts: 9,212
    mrussel1 said:
    mfc2006 said:
    tempo_n_groove said:
    Johnny Abruzzo said:
    tempo_n_groove said:
    Johnny Abruzzo said:
    tempo_n_groove said:
    Johnny Abruzzo said:
    Yeah, also Mazzy Star, Beach House, Joan Jett/Blackhearts...
    No Joan Jett.  No names of the person in the band or you'd have a ton more.

    Mazzy Star?  meh...
    Sounds like someone who hasn't spun a Mazzy Star album all the way through.
    25 years ago yeah.
    That's, like, all the music we talk about here...
    I did mention the Yeah yeah yeahs.  Karen O rocks.  I listen to a bunch of newer bands.
    Awesome band. I've also mentioned Heartless Bastards, Kills, Dead Weather....lots of great stuff out there.
    Alabama Shakes (although I think it's just Brittany on her own now) and Florence and the Machine are both excellent as well.

    I saw Florence open before Pearl Jam in Atlanta in 2012.  She was exceptional.  I was a fan, but boy did she have some super fans.  There were weeping high school and college girls all over the place.  It looked like a Beatles show in the mid-60s or Johnny Ray or something. 
    Yea, that was a good day. I enjoyed Garbage that day also.
  • mrussel1
    mrussel1 Posts: 30,887
    The Cranberries
    MedozK said:
    mrussel1 said:
    mfc2006 said:
    tempo_n_groove said:
    Johnny Abruzzo said:
    tempo_n_groove said:
    Johnny Abruzzo said:
    tempo_n_groove said:
    Johnny Abruzzo said:
    Yeah, also Mazzy Star, Beach House, Joan Jett/Blackhearts...
    No Joan Jett.  No names of the person in the band or you'd have a ton more.

    Mazzy Star?  meh...
    Sounds like someone who hasn't spun a Mazzy Star album all the way through.
    25 years ago yeah.
    That's, like, all the music we talk about here...
    I did mention the Yeah yeah yeahs.  Karen O rocks.  I listen to a bunch of newer bands.
    Awesome band. I've also mentioned Heartless Bastards, Kills, Dead Weather....lots of great stuff out there.
    Alabama Shakes (although I think it's just Brittany on her own now) and Florence and the Machine are both excellent as well.

    I saw Florence open before Pearl Jam in Atlanta in 2012.  She was exceptional.  I was a fan, but boy did she have some super fans.  There were weeping high school and college girls all over the place.  It looked like a Beatles show in the mid-60s or Johnny Ray or something. 
    Yea, that was a good day. I enjoyed Garbage that day also.
    Nice!  Didn't know you were there.  I think that was the Ludicrous day as well, where he spent the whole show telling us how he traveled the world and did this and did that.  It was a good set other than him, who I didn't think was all that great.  

    Foos the night before were great, especially brining Joan Jett up on stage as well.  I don't like festivals but hat was a good one.  
  • Johnny Abruzzo
    Johnny Abruzzo Philly Posts: 12,392
    Eurythmics
    tempo_n_groove said:
    Johnny Abruzzo said:
    tempo_n_groove said:
    Johnny Abruzzo said:
    tempo_n_groove said:
    Johnny Abruzzo said:
    Yeah, also Mazzy Star, Beach House, Joan Jett/Blackhearts...
    No Joan Jett.  No names of the person in the band or you'd have a ton more.

    Mazzy Star?  meh...
    Sounds like someone who hasn't spun a Mazzy Star album all the way through.
    25 years ago yeah.
    That's, like, all the music we talk about here...
    I did mention the Yeah yeah yeahs.  Karen O rocks.  I listen to a bunch of newer bands.
    Same here but these contests have been mostly stuff that's pretty old. It's fine, we are old and our common band is old...
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  • tempo_n_groove
    tempo_n_groove Posts: 41,499
    The Cranberries
    Johnny Abruzzo said:
    tempo_n_groove said:
    Johnny Abruzzo said:
    tempo_n_groove said:
    Johnny Abruzzo said:
    tempo_n_groove said:
    Johnny Abruzzo said:
    Yeah, also Mazzy Star, Beach House, Joan Jett/Blackhearts...
    No Joan Jett.  No names of the person in the band or you'd have a ton more.

    Mazzy Star?  meh...
    Sounds like someone who hasn't spun a Mazzy Star album all the way through.
    25 years ago yeah.
    That's, like, all the music we talk about here...
    I did mention the Yeah yeah yeahs.  Karen O rocks.  I listen to a bunch of newer bands.
    Same here but these contests have been mostly stuff that's pretty old. It's fine, we are old and our common band is old...
    Well it is best all time.  Newer groups can't have the throne just yet.
  • 1ThoughtKnown
    1ThoughtKnown Posts: 6,155
    The Pretenders
    Glad the garbage was finally taken out. Was starting to reek in here. 

    Now to separate the contenders from the pretenders 👊

  • mrussel1
    mrussel1 Posts: 30,887
    The Cranberries
    1ThoughtKnown said:
    Glad the garbage was finally taken out. Was starting to reek in here. 

    Now to separate the contenders from the pretenders 👊

    hissssssssss
  • 1ThoughtKnown
    1ThoughtKnown Posts: 6,155
    The Pretenders
    Lot of band names being thrown about. Some others I enjoy are Rough Trade (Carol Pope was a trailblazer), Belly, Siouxsie and the Banshees, L7, Concrete Blonde, 4 Non Blondes. 


  • pjhawks
    pjhawks Posts: 12,935
    Eurythmics
    10,000 Maniacs 
  • brianlux
    brianlux Moving through All Kinds of Terrain. Posts: 43,664
    Heart
    Heart is beating the Pretenders this round?  This place... :lol:
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  • OffSheGoes35
    OffSheGoes35 Posts: 3,517
    Heart
    brianlux said:
    Heart is beating the Pretenders this round?  This place... :lol:
    Just vote and don't look back. Anything else is bringing on the heartbreak.  💔
  • OffSheGoes35
    OffSheGoes35 Posts: 3,517
    Heart
    I don't mean every round. I'm talking about when the Weakest Link gods are smiting your ass. 
  • 1ThoughtKnown
    1ThoughtKnown Posts: 6,155
    The Pretenders
    brianlux said:
    Heart is beating the Pretenders this round?  This place... :lol:
    The Pretenders are awful. Not Garbage awful…. but pretty damn close. 
  • F Me In The Brain
    F Me In The Brain this knows everybody from other commets Posts: 31,831
    Eurythmics
    1ThoughtKnown said:
    brianlux said:
    Heart is beating the Pretenders this round?  This place... :lol:
    The Pretenders are awful. Not Garbage awful…. but pretty damn close. 
    Heart is much better, to me, as well.
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  • mrussel1
    mrussel1 Posts: 30,887
    The Cranberries
    1ThoughtKnown said:
    brianlux said:
    Heart is beating the Pretenders this round?  This place... :lol:
    The Pretenders are awful. Not Garbage awful…. but pretty damn close. 
    Awful??  That's crazy talk.  Listen to Learning to Crawl to start.  That album is wonderful.  There's one 'meh' song on it, but otherwise fantastic.  
  • Poncier
    Poncier Posts: 17,894
    Eurythmics
    mrussel1 said:
    1ThoughtKnown said:
    brianlux said:
    Heart is beating the Pretenders this round?  This place... :lol:
    The Pretenders are awful. Not Garbage awful…. but pretty damn close. 
    Awful??  That's crazy talk.  Listen to Learning to Crawl to start.  That album is wonderful.  There's one 'meh' song on it, but otherwise fantastic.  
    Or the first album.

    This is not "awful":

    https://youtu.be/ivH-5et5qQ8

    https://youtu.be/TEYGyfkULB0

    https://youtu.be/HH6Nvo-RllM
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  • HughFreakingDillon
    HughFreakingDillon Winnipeg Posts: 39,546
    The Cranberries
    see, this is what I love about these threads. now I'm going to go listen The Pretenders, a band I have literally never listened to by choice. 
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  • mrussel1
    mrussel1 Posts: 30,887
    The Cranberries
    Poncier said:
    mrussel1 said:
    1ThoughtKnown said:
    brianlux said:
    Heart is beating the Pretenders this round?  This place... :lol:
    The Pretenders are awful. Not Garbage awful…. but pretty damn close. 
    Awful??  That's crazy talk.  Listen to Learning to Crawl to start.  That album is wonderful.  There's one 'meh' song on it, but otherwise fantastic.  
    Or the first album.

    This is not "awful":

    https://youtu.be/ivH-5et5qQ8

    https://youtu.be/TEYGyfkULB0

    https://youtu.be/HH6Nvo-RllM
    Yes also a great record!
  • tempo_n_groove
    tempo_n_groove Posts: 41,499
    The Cranberries
    1ThoughtKnown said:
    Lot of band names being thrown about. Some others I enjoy are Rough Trade (Carol Pope was a trailblazer), Belly, Siouxsie and the Banshees, L7, Concrete Blonde, 4 Non Blondes. 


    Short careers though no?  Not a lot of staying power.
  • 1ThoughtKnown
    1ThoughtKnown Posts: 6,155
    edited January 2022
    The Pretenders
    tempo_n_groove said:
    1ThoughtKnown said:
    Lot of band names being thrown about. Some others I enjoy are Rough Trade (Carol Pope was a trailblazer), Belly, Siouxsie and the Banshees, L7, Concrete Blonde, 4 Non Blondes. 


    Short careers though no?  Not a lot of staying power.
    I didn’t say the should be added to the list. Just some female-fronted bands that I listen to and deserve a little recognition 👍

    I do believe Siouxsie and the Banshees were around for 20 years… good band 
    Post edited by 1ThoughtKnown on
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