Music!

[juliet]

Have been downloading lots of music from assorted female rock/punk types, & some Riot Grrl stuff (specifically: Joan Jett, the Raincoats, L7, Patti Smith, & X-Ray Spex, which admittedly I already had a bit of). It is all rather fine. I fear this has been a Hideous Gap in my musical knowledge (bad feminist! no biscuit!) which I should update forthwith.

Which has led me to think: having just requested book recommendations, I should now request music recommendations. So - recommend me music! One track (or artist, but if possible give a particularly good track) you think I should know but might not.

(particularly pleased to have found both this track & 'Cruel To Be Kind', also by the Raincoats, which are both on the 10 Things I Hate About You soundtrack & I like v much)

Comments

[andyroyal.livejournal.com]

If you're looking for Riot Grrl type stuff, try Babes in Toyland - Hansel and Gretel. If you're downloading more L7, make sure you get Fast and Frightening.

[boyofbadgers.livejournal.com]

In a similar vein to your downloads?

Ooh, good film...

[angelmine.livejournal.com]

That's my evening viewing sorted, thank you!

Oh, do you actually have the 10 Things I Hate About You soundtrack btw? If not I could make you a copy?

[juliet]

If you know of anything similar you'd recommend, sure. But actually I'm looking for Anything Interesting.

Re: Ooh, good film...

[juliet]

No, & yes, that'd be great!

It is a top film. The first time I saw it was in LA, when I was travelling round the southwest US on my own. I liked it sufficiently that I wound up going back in to see it again (plus I didn't much like LA & was quite happy to spend an entire afternoon inside a nice comfortable cinema) :-)

[juliet]

Cool, cheers! (am looking for that, but also for anything else people can recommend)

Burning as I type :-)

[angelmine.livejournal.com]

Where might I find your postal address?

And can I add your travels to the list of things I want to talk to you for hours about...

[burnyourbones.livejournal.com]

Magic Dirt - Amoxycillin

Julie Ruin - I Wanna Know What Love Is

Kleenex-LiLiPUT - AintYou

Note for concerned readers

[angelmine.livejournal.com]

Is obviously CD that is burning not me!

[boyofbadgers.livejournal.com]

In a similarish vein: '460' by Tsunami. Indie rock Riot Grrls who wrote the fanzine. Sample lyric: 'Wouldn't it be more fun if prejudice was something I could have opinions on, and not something I have to live with?'

[weatherpixie.livejournal.com]

The Waitresses
The Slits
Sleater Kinney
Geraldine Fibbers
Lush
Cadallaca (SK spin off)
Aimee Mann
Daisy Chainsaw

All female, not all RiotGrrl ...

[fluffymormegil.livejournal.com]

Death In June - "Rose Clouds of Holocaust"

Re: Burning as I type :-)

[juliet]

Address is here. Thank you lots!

I am always happy to talk about the travelling, sometimes too much so :-) As well as the US trip (featuring, among other things, the 'nearly getting killed driving across a mountain in the snow' story & the 'inadvertently smuggling drugs into the US' story), I spent 6 weeks in India a couple of years ago, as well. I *so* want to go back.

Hours talking sounds good anyway :-)

[juliet]

Sadly cannot find them online, boo. Possibly I could borrow off you?

[catsgomiaow.livejournal.com]

The Land 2-CD set of Patti Smith is v good (a kind of best-of affair). But if you have the capacity to brrrrn (heh!:)) you can borrow this off me plus assorted sleater-kinney/le tigre albums! (the first le tigre album is WICKED)

[juliet]

I was trying to download some The Slits already (have now succeeded); already know Sleater Kinney & the Waitresses; *love* Lush; saw Daisy Chainsaw live, I think at the Phoenix Festival in 1994 (though I only know Love Your Money, really - have just downloaded some more stuff). Haven't heard Geraldine Fibbers, Cadallaca, or Aimee Mann - will go investigate, cheers!

[boyofbadgers.livejournal.com]

No problem. Remind me next time you see me/are going to be in Islington.

[weatherpixie.livejournal.com]

Cadallaca is one of the girls from SK and a some other girls.

Four beers later used to be available as a download somewhere...

[ijgrieve.livejournal.com]

'Cruel To Be Kind' is originally by Nick Lowe. I've got the female-fronted cover of this song as well, but I've got the artist down as 'Letters To Cleo' instead of the Raincoats. Are there two different versions or is my artist wrong?

[barrysarll.livejournal.com]

'Forbidden Colours' - David Sylvian and Ryuichi Sakamoto.

[mankylarry.livejournal.com]

Bikini Kill
Huggy Bear
Hormone Rage
Tribe 8
Chicks on Speed
Le Tigre
Electralane

Manky

[juliet]

A quick Google suggests that Letters to Cleo does the version on the '10 Things I Hate About You' soundtrack (this fits with my recollection of watching the credits to find out the band).

[wanders off to see if she can find the Nick Lowe version]

[mankylarry.livejournal.com]

Girlschool
Runaways
Lydia Lunch
Gils at our Best
UT
Bush Tetras
Siousxie Soux

Manky

[d-floorlandmine.livejournal.com]

Not particularly Riot Grrl, but rather good:

Linda Perry (solo stuff, and 4 Non Blondes) - the album is In Flight, and all the tracks from it are great.
Sunshot (but if you find any online, please tell me, as I only have the live album)

[the23.livejournal.com]

new wet kojak - this is the usa

[caescarna.livejournal.com]

Veruca Salt. "Seether." from "American Thighs."

I'm surprised no-one has mentioned this so far, as it's a classic of the genre and one of Kauket's favourites.