Women Who Rock

donsimon76, finally someone posting real Rock women. Taylor Momsen of The pretty reckless sounds good too.

Lzzy Hale of Halestorm!

Floor Jansen of Nightwish!

Beth Hart!

Aretha Franklin, Kim Gordon (Sonic Youth), Tina Weymouth (Talking Heads), Kim Deal (Pixies), Exene Cervenka (X), Poison Ivy (The Cramps)

Nandi Bushell is only 12 and she rocks harder than a lot of adult men. Look her up.

Just a thought:

Should men and women athletes compete with each other, or their abilities appraised separately? I know a gal who is an excellent pool player, but that’s not quite a sport. How about weightlifting? Lots of sports benefit from physical strength, so men obviously have the advantage.

Men’s and women’s singing voices are very different in nature, and imo must appraised by gender. The male range is of course lower than that of the female, so it’s easier for a woman to reach very high notes. Women’s hands are different from men’s, and in the playing of piano the longer span of a man’s hands affords a definite advantage. Conversely, when it comes to electronic assembly, women are highly valued. Smaller, more nimble hands and fingers than most men.

I’ve known a few female drummers, and their lesser physical strength (compared to males) is a definite disadvantage. But they often play with great sensitivity and taste. Very unmasculine ;-) .

Women who "rock". Rock being the operative word. So far, at least half of those mentioned can not in any way be considered rock and roll artists. My list would include... Amy Lee, Grace Potter, Loise Post and Nina Gordon from Veruca Salt, Sandra Nasic from Guano Apes (awesome band from Germany) and lets throw in Maria Zardoya of the Marias for good measure. Any more from this century that could be added would be interesting.

What happened to any kind of sense of humor on this site. The Miley Cyrus mention was hilarious. Mine was in much worse taste lol.

 

First off, I'm not overly enamoured of the concept of "women who rock.

However,

@sgreg1 - Miley Cyrus absolutely rocks. I don't buy her stuff but she does rock, especially live.

More specifically, on topic, Strange Kind of Women are an excellent Deep Purple tribute band who, by definition, rock and in practice, do too.

Oops, my 4:00 post neglected to include Jazz with Blues and Country. And then there’s Opera!

@sgreg1: I took that as a joke. I hope I wasn’t mistaken!

I spit the milk out my mouth when I saw someone list Miley Cyrus. Boy how far this forum has fallen. 

Beth Hart and Floor Jansen of Nightwish!

Barbara Streisand, Betty Middler and Liza Minelli. After that female rock was dead.

@bdp24 Well, at least you admit it. Essentially saying, “It’s fun to segregate things based on biological factors people don’t choose.” Knock yourself out, I guess.

I was asking a legit, good-faith question. That’s kind of the essence of this entire forum. I don’t understand this proclivity to separate artists by gender and/or race.  It doesn’t make sense to me.

A description of this inquiry as, “a guy taking himself too seriously” says more about the responder than the inquirer.

“Whattya think — will this post be removed?” - Don’t flatter yourself with a contrived position of martyrdom

@tylermunns - indeed, and if they are good with it, so am I, and it often applies to more than just artists, too. 

Because woman aren’t usually thought of as performing Rock ’n’ Roll, but of Pop music, or if really good Blues or Country. What’s the harm in celebrating woman who Rock? Kind of a fun topic imo. Don’t take everything so seriously ;-) .

I regularly separate artists by ethnicity (I prefer to use that term rather than race. We’re all in the human race). If blacks and whites are considered together, we whites don’t stand a chance. Blacks have an unfair advantage ;-) . Whatta ya think---will this post be removed?

 

@larsman  Instead of, “artists,” people will often insert (irrelevant descriptor) before the word, “artist.”

You might be able to say that about many marginalized demographics....

Yet another weird, inexplicably segregation-keen (gender-wise) thread.  
“Female”-this, “women”-that… 
I never see “male”-this, or “men”-that threads here. Why?  
It seems like “male” artists are seen as…artists.  
However, it seems like female artists are seen as…”female artists.” Why?  
Gender has never once played a remote factor in determining what music I like, how I listen to music, or anything like that. 
What is all this about?

Well if you watch the documentary , you'll see ,,,,,,,,

Miley Cyrus

Fantastic @mofimadness, I'm gonna search for it right now. Thanks!

@bdp24...most of your list is talked about on the docuseries.

Not sure where this thread got off track, but I didn't ask for a list of Women Who Rock, I just wanted to share the info on the docuseries...

 

Sheesh, there are sure some with shallow roots and/or short memories.

 

Sister Rosetta Tharpe (a fantastic guitar player)

Rose Maddox (Rockabilly, Hillbilly)

Ruth Brown (a hero of Bonnie Raitt)

Etta James (ditto)

LaVerne Baker

Irma Thomas

Mavis Staples

Wanda Jackson (a red hot Rockabilly singer)

Brenda Lee

Arlene Smith (of The Chantels. Listen to their amazing "Maybe")

Ronnie Spector

Tina Turner

Jackie DeShannon

Darlene Love

Dusty Springfield

Janis Joplin

Merry Clayton (she sings "Rape! Murder!" in "Gimme Shelter". Hair-raising!)

Linda Ronstadt

Bonnie Raitt

Lou Ann Barton

 

That’ll do for starters

 

Sue Foley

Samantha Fish

Carolyn Wonderland

Marcia Ball

 

 

Tina Turner absolutely... perhaps the best ever, imo.

recently discovered Larkin Poe sisters

Sinead O'Conner, Bjork, Sheryl Crow, Annie Lennox, Fiona Apple, Kathleen Hanna, Stevie Nicks,Sarah McLachlan, Chaka Khan, Alanis Morissette, Kate Bush, Janis Joplin, Amy Winehouse, Tina Turner, Cyndi Lauper, Grace Slick, Patti Smith, PJ Harvey, Bonnie Raitt, Pat Benatar, Courtney Love, Tori Amos, Joan Armatrading ect. ect.

Must be a short series because let's face it, there are only 4: Chrissie Hynde, Ann Wilson, Joan Jett, and Blondie (Deborah Harry)!