Women of Rock N Roll: Gen-X Alternative Edition

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5/2/2022 3:15:06 AM

Remember these bands/artists? I'm guessing most of these women featured are in their mid 50s to early 60s today, and most of them probably don't shave their armpits, but back in the 90s these were some pretty solid songs from the Alternative genre. Totally forgot about all of these artists until Howard Stern played a clip in his opening segment from Veruca Salt and a few months later Tracy Bonham. I went to Youtube and then fell down a rabbit hole. Here's what I came up with.

What female songs/artists do you remember from that era?

PJ Harvey - Down By The Water
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lbq4G1Tj…

Tracy Bonham - Mother Mother
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2Xi8NvSe…

Veruca Salt - Volcano Girls
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qyVSKydU…

Bjork - Army of Me
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jPeheoBa…

Garbage - Androgyny
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8I2S_29I…
(who would of thought they were 20 years ahead of their time)

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Huntsman
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3 years ago
Courtney Love and her band, Hole, is another one from that era.
SirLapdancealot
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3 years ago
Liz Phai - Supernova
https://youtu.be/tM60GAPIXTY

Heather Nova - Walk This World
https://youtu.be/ji73VzXyGKE
SirLapdancealot
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3 years ago
^Liz Phair
ElDuderino_AZ
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3 years ago
That Veruca Salt song is awesome. I love the Lithium station on satellite radio.

The Breeders - Cannonball

Meredith Brooks - Bitch

Alannis Morisette - pretty much anything from Jagged Little Pill

The 90s had some pretty great chick rock. But my favorite was The Cranberries - Zombie. I still crank that up every time I hear it.

https://youtu.be/6Ejga4kJUts

Although... I think Miley Cyrus was born a couple decades too late. She could have been a 90s alt rock queen. When I saw that she was doing a song with the guys from Pearl Jam and Soundgarden for a Chris Cornell tribute, I checked it out just to piss myself off; I knew it'd be terrible. Only thing is....it wasn't. She did Say Hello To Heaven and damn that girl has some pipes. I was impressed.

https://youtu.be/EEO3rVk2__Q
ElDuderino_AZ
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3 years ago
And sort of off topic because it's not 90s chick rockers, but I'd you want to hear some bad ass covers of 90s rock songs, check out the covers done by Aaron Lewis from Staind and Corey Taylor from Slipknot. Ho-ly shit. Those dudes put 90s rock on a pedestal and do it justice..
SirLapdancealot
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3 years ago
^^^ RIP Dolores O'Riordan 😢
ElDuderino_AZ
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3 years ago
Aimee Allen - I'm Not Your Girlfriend

https://youtu.be/I0XE3-xeBbQ

That was early 2000s, but same style, and the first time I heard it I was driving in the afternoon and thought damn that song was kinda hot..
SirLapdancealot
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3 years ago
Tori Amos - Crucify
https://youtu.be/9ipCKIxdHTs

Cocteau Twins - Heaven or Las Vegas
https://youtu.be/6KnYw4EwYGc
ElDuderino_AZ
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3 years ago
Some of the other lesser-known names but recognizable songs

Elastica - Connection
https://youtu.be/ilKcXIFi-Rc

Luscious Jackson - Naked Eye
https://youtu.be/0NhqN0KcWAE

Plus Sonic Youth, L7, and....fuck...I can't remember the name but the singer's voice is really breathy, like the actress Joey Lauren Adams
ElDuderino_AZ
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3 years ago
First time I heard Evanescence - Bring Me to Life, I thought it was Ms. Tori Amos rocking out with Linkin Park.

Really liked Sinead O'Connor's cover of Nothing Compares...and then I hear Chris Cornell's version.
SirLapdancealot
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3 years ago
Belly - Super Connected
https://youtu.be/6KnYw4EwYGc

Belly - Gepetto
https://youtu.be/SBi676v4Gs4
SirLapdancealot
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3 years ago
Sneaker Pimps - 6 Underground
https://youtu.be/2eBZqmL8ehg
SirLapdancealot
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3 years ago
Belly - Super Connected (wrong link earlier)
https://youtu.be/YRWC5YueHnM
ElDuderino_AZ
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3 years ago
SNEAKER PIMPS! Yes!!!! That's the one where the girl sounds like Joey Lauren Adams!!
founder
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3 years ago
4 Non Blondes - What's going on?
SirLapdancealot
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3 years ago
Mazzy Star - Fade Into You
https://youtu.be/YRWC5YueHnM
SirLapdancealot
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3 years ago
^^^https://youtu.be/ImKY6TZEyrI
ElDuderino_AZ
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3 years ago
Mazzy Star and 4 Non Blondes, amen.
SirLapdancealot
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3 years ago
Siouxsie and the Banshees - Kiss Them for Me

https://youtu.be/mm_7oUvpMV8
drewcareypnw
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3 years ago
Hope Sandoval, Kristin hersch, tonya Donnelly, Liz phair, Jody Bleyle, Kaia Wilson, and Donna fucking Dresch, Lois maffeo, heather lewis, Amelia fletcher, Kat Bjelland, Kim shattuck, Lisa marr, Georgia Hubley, Kim Warnick, and Lydia lunch!
ElDuderino_AZ
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3 years ago
Letters to Cleo - Here and Now

https://youtu.be/5w2YLdjxS_M

Maybe the biggest one nobody's mentioned so far: No Doubt. When Tragic Kingdom came out when I was in 9th or 10th grade, I had a massive crush on Gwen Stefani. My buddy waa partial tobNatalie Imbruglia.

https://youtu.be/VV1XWJN3nJo
sinclair
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3 years ago
Sheryl Crowe was huge in the 90's and that was probably her best decade of music in her whole career.

I'm surprised no one said Fiona Apple yet.

How about the chick metal band Drain STH? Okay, they were a gimmick and never got huge. https://youtu.be/Q7thNPgvU6M
SirLapdancealot
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3 years ago
Sleep to Dream!
https://youtu.be/L9Wnh0V4HMM
SirLapdancealot
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3 years ago
Throwing Muses - Bright Yellow Gun
https://youtu.be/pZ5FpXLOh-Q
SirLapdancealot
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3 years ago
10,000 Maniacs - These are Days
https://youtu.be/Z-HLxpWGCzc
datinman
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3 years ago
Sleater-Kenney - Jumpers

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vZA_7Ftt…
datinman
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3 years ago
Sonic Youth - Kool Thing

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SDTSUwIZ…

I saw Sonic Youth at The Outhouse in Lawrence KS back in the day. It was a punk rock club before it was a strip club. I fell in love with Kim Gordon that night.
Call.Me.Ishmael
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3 years ago
Joan Jett.
skibum609
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3 years ago
Patty Smythe and Scandal - I am the Warrior
48-Cowboy
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3 years ago
^ this thread is gen x edition. Party Smythe was a boomer
crazyjoe
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3 years ago
Belinda Carlisle

https://youtu.be/NOGEyBeoBGM
crazyjoe
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3 years ago
Tiffany

https://youtu.be/w6Q3mHyzn78
gammanu95
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3 years ago
Pink and Gwen Stefani. They both began in the 90s, although Pink in particular peaked in early '00s.

Joan Jett peaked in the late 70s and early 80s as some weird kind of pop punk lite. She may have been releasing nostalgia albums in the 90s, but she was definitely not part of that scene.
Call.Me.Ishmael
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3 years ago
Patty Smyth's peak was between the mid 1980s and 1990s. Belinda Carlisle is only a year younger than Smyth. Sheryl Crow is 60.

And all of their careers more-or-less peaked in the GenX time frame.
Longball300
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3 years ago
Tiffany; scroll down for photos:

https://celeb.gate.cc/tiffany-darwish/ga…
gammanu95
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3 years ago
Ishmael is right about Sheryl Crow BUT, since she peaked in the late 90s (I remember 'cause I was in college), she qualifies for the original topic of this conversation akthough was more easy listening than alternative.

I have no fucking clue who Belinda Carlisle or Patty Smithe are.
Eltriste
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3 years ago
Paulina Rubio
Longball300
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3 years ago
Belinda Carlisle lead singer of the Go Go's

https://celeb.gate.cc/belinda-carlisle/g…

I remember one song "we got big feet" or something
Longball300
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3 years ago
Actually in The Rock Hall of Fame

https://www.rockhall.com/inductees/go-go…
skibum609
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3 years ago
Chrissy Hynde.
motorhead
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3 years ago
There are only two legit female rockers

Lita Ford and Pat Benatar

HM to Ann and Nancy Wilson
Muddy
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3 years ago
Yeah lotta good music in there.

Who are the rocker chicks today? *crickets*
Longball300
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3 years ago
@ Muddy - Listen yourself to some Octane...

Lzzy Hale
Taylor Momsen
Dorothy
The Warning
Plush
Amy Lee (still)
Lilith Czar

Just to name a few.....
shailynn
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3 years ago
“I remember one song "we got big feet" or something”

Fucking longball… laughing my ass off at my phone and my wife asked what I’m laughing at, “oh nothing honey.”
Longball300
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3 years ago
I'm glad someone got it.... :)

Thanks Shai
ElDuderino_AZ
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3 years ago
Consolidated (featuring the Yeastie Girls) - You Suck

https://youtu.be/BoyUUu1rPhE
Longball300
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3 years ago
@ Shai: One of those "Excuse me, while I kiss this guy" songs....

One more of today's rock chicks: Courtney LaPlante of Spiritbox
Longball300
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3 years ago
And this babe. She plays lead when Alice Cooper tours; saw the show up in Canada; fantastic:

https://www.nitastrauss.com/
48-Cowboy
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3 years ago
The tittle of the thread says GEN X rocker girls. Why are you boomers posting boomer girl singers that nobody has ever heard of. You guys have bad reading comprehension.

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