Punk songs female vocals
 

Some of my fav's;

Edith Nylon-Edith Nylon
Siouxsie & Banshees-Love In A Void
Blondie-Detroit 442
Avengers-Teenage Rebel
Suburban Lawns-Janitor
X-Nausea
Bags-Survive
Au Pairs-Dear John
Vice Squad-Latex Love
Shop Assistants-I Don't Want To Be Friends With You

I'm sure I'm forgetting a bunch.

Shop Assistants Punk? CD86!

Anything from the Distillers and Bikini Kill.

I have their debut E.P but unsure whether they have actually released anything else.

Slant 6, people, Slant 6 ..

Damn. That was really, really, really good!

they also have an LP from 08 and a CD from 09 with both the 7" & LP on it

I have been searching for more info about these but drawn a blank. Got any links?

appalachian terror unit - greenwashing (2008).rar
"greenwashing" LP

Appalachian Terror Unit - It's Far From ****ing Over-2009-rH.zip
'"it's far from ****ing over" cd

Appreciated. Do I get kudos for knowing them? ;)

Patti Smith

Crass - Penis Envy
I can't believe nobody mentioned this yet... the whole album is done with female vocals.

I can't believe no one has mentioned The Distillers yet

Actually, the Distillers were mentioned on the first page. I love Brody's voice, even though I think she's kind of a ****ty person.

Wendy O of the Plasmatics, though if you want to get technical, she isn't really "punk".

Kathleen Hannah of Bikini Kill

Also, Star F_cking Hipsters on the album Until We're Dead has shared female/male vocals.

So they were, My mistake, and I agree with you about Wendy O

Hey. We all make mistakes. At least you weren't huffy about it. (:

Kind of OT, but I would SO do Wendy O.

Ha Ha I would do Wendy O aswell, You should check out a band from the UK called The Joy Formidable.

I think you'd like them

Why, because she left her dbag husband?

The thing about her husband is actually pretty funny. People usually fall into two sides of the spectrum on the issue if they give a ****, and those are the Brody-is-a-whore side and the Brody-is-completely-effin-faultless side.

I'm somewhere inbetween. To me she's another industry fame-leecher, but she still has enough talent of her own to scrape by without Daddy Armstrong. Also, divorce was pretty much inevitable... not many people get into relationships at 15, especially with someone 15 years their senior, and expect it to last long.

Tim is another story. Sometimes I'd love to strangle him.

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I hate Tim Armstrong, she is much MUCH MUCH more talented than he ever was.

Tim Armstrong is a functionally retarded racist.

my personal favorites are

Your Phone's off The Hook but You're Not - X
Deep - Yellow Machinegun
Number One Chicken - Red Aunts
Orphans - Teenage Jesus and the Jerks
Lost Again - Dancehall Crashers (a little bit of a stretch....still has some punk roots)
Killing Floor - Naked Aggression
Lullaby/Chuck - Blatz
Blood One - Bikini Kill
Bata Motel - Crass

also some Nausea and Spitboy songs

:O
When Tim was in Operation Ivy he was great..but Rancid pretty much blows.

Brody has a great voice and sounds exactly like Courtney Love..
and if Hole is considered punk Courtney has a great voice.

Yeah Tim was great in Op Ivy but that was more about Jesse Michaels than it was Tim Armstrong...not to mention he was writing intelligent lyrics at 17 which is a bfd, Tim could never, not even at 40something be as brilliant of a writer as Jesse was (and probably is, never listened much to Common Rider) but back on target, Brody's voice is excellent, but even comparing her to Courtney Love...meh she's like her vocally but her lyrics are much more intense and emotional and cohesive than Love's are, and much better than anything Tim ever wrote. I think Tim just doesn't have it in him to write like that, he's an okay musician but he's not really a good lyricist. Whereas Brody isn't exactly the best guitarist but her lyrics are undoubtedly better than Tim.

I love the Pain Teens. Really screwed up Texas noise.

that song is incredible....

y'all should seriously pay attention to Tumorattitude on this one.

I like Slant 6 because her voice sounds sweet but also not too pretty.

The Distiller's vocalist has a great raw sounding voice, nice and deep, though it always sounds the same in all the songs of hers I've heard.

The Bikini Kill vocalist's voice sounds screechy and thin to me...though she's got good anger. Her songs remind me of chalk on a chalkboard. I...don't care for her voice much. :( Even though I admire what she's saying, and that she's saying it.

Bikini Kill wdc 1992:

The screechy thing is kind of the entire point, Veg. Its not for everybody. Her voice gets annoying after a while, but Kathleen Hannah (Bikini Kill vocalist) is in an electroclash band and sings slightly less obnoxiously.

If you listen to music for lyrics that resonate with you politically, Le Tigre works.

i had to ween myself off of Le Tigre....once i hear them they stay in my head for months (esp. that song and the song about Cassavetes)

thanks for the relapse.....:)

Start listening to a variety of electroclash or techno? Left some suggestions on your page.

Kathleen Hanna's voice just seemed screechier than the other examples in this thread!

Hmm, the singing in "Hot Topic" by Le Tigre sounded so childlike and melodic to me that I thought the song could be considered soul, if it weren't for the drum pattern and a bit of distorted guitar. Their singing didn't seem to have much edge and made the song sound very tame...although of course the topic is good! :)
I'll try listening to some more of their stuff. Maybe there's something harsher. I probably just prefer a punk sound to electroclash.

Thank you for mentioning electroclash, by the way. I'd never heard of that genre before, Oh Wise and Knowledgable Tumor.

Kathleen Hanna is a twat, Riot Grrl was a ****ty movement

The female crust bands > Riot Grrl

They had better ideas and much more important things to say than LOOK I HAVE A VAGINA LET ME SHOW YOU IT RECLAIMING MY SEXUALITY AYAYAYAYAYAYAYAY

IMO Vi Subversa of Poison Girls was a much better feminist figure, as she was a housewife/mother and knew of both sides, rather than Kathleen Hanna spouting off her bull****

The voice is one of the key reasons I like Slant 6. They were just an unpretentious band who used their talents well .. and liked punk rock

I disagree. Maybe your point about Poison Girls is a good one but I wouldn't know because I never heard of them until now.

But I definitely knew about Bikini Kill and had respect for them. As for Riot Grrl - I dunno. The girls I knew at the time didn't need that kind of thing to feel 'empowered' but I bet a lot of girls all over the place had never even thought about standing up against viral small-town-style sexism until they heard Bikini Kill et al

I was about to mention this

Somehow...probably due to focusing on college studies...I managed to miss the whole Riot Grrrl feminist punk movement in the 1990s. I didn't even know it existed until...today!

Paloma said she felt Riot Grrrl was a ****ty movement, and you, Engine, think it was probably helpful to women. I'm curious about what led you both to have such a difference of opinion.

Paloma, what about the Riot Grrrl movement did you think was ****ty? I actually don't know anything about it other than the opinions you and Engine gave and what I've read on Wikipedia. I think it is interesting that "Riot grrrls took a growling double or triple r, placing it in the word girl, as a way to take back the derogatory use of the term."

I like when music connects with social movements and history rather than just being pure entertainment, so now I'm more curious about all the bands that considered themselves part of the Riot Grrrl movement.

All or Nothing HC
Bikini Kill
Bratmobile
Grut
Toy Attica
I Object
Vice Squad
Naked Aggress
Bruise Violet

and my favorite right now is definately Blatz

Oh jesus. Fighting over which feminist movement is better is like fighting over which sect of Christianity is better. They both had a message with a slightly different twist. I don't give a s*** who is "better" but I know that not all women have the same experiences so some related to one or the other. I related to the riot girl movement.

more bands:

GRUK
A.P.P.L.E.
DIRT
THE SLITS
HUGGY BEAR
ABRUPT
MANKIND?
CRASS
POSION GIRLS
45 GRAVE
THE VOIDS
FOR F*** SAKE
BRUISE VIOLET (broke up)
SKARP
SECRET SECT
THE GRUPS
SECRET CERVIX
FLEAS AND LICE
CONTRAVENE
BLACK BIRD RAUM
RIOT THIS
ARCTIC FLOWERS
A PRETTY MESS
INDUSTRIA
END IS NOW
SIN REMEDIO
THE POTENTIAL LUNATICS
KILLER LOW LIFE
and the list goes on...


and the type of band it is that a girl is in doesn't matter in the punk scene. if the girl has a brain and voices their own opinions, not the media's, it's good enough and inspires other females to empower themselves and try to make this world a more equal place. if you discourage a female band, your discouraging the future.

Rriot Grrl, your username and posts above make me think you'll know the answer to this...

Were there just two main feminist punk music movements...the "female crust punk" bands and the "Riot Grrl" movement? How do you feel the two movements' song messages differed? I haven't heard enough of their music to know yet. And what made you relate to the riot grrl movement more than the crust movement?

I agree with the idea of not wanting to discourage any band because of its particular feminist political message, partly for the reason you mention!