Women of Rock N Roll: Gen-X Alternative Edition

Courtney Love and her band, Hole, is another one from that era.

Liz Phai - Supernova youtu.be

Heather Nova - Walk This World youtu.be

^Liz Phair

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.

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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.

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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..

^^^ RIP Dolores O'Riordan 😢

Aimee Allen - I'm Not Your Girlfriend

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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..

Tori Amos - Crucify youtu.be

Cocteau Twins - Heaven or Las Vegas youtu.be

Some of the other lesser-known names but recognizable songs

Elastica - Connection youtu.be

Luscious Jackson - Naked Eye youtu.be

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

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.

Belly - Super Connected youtu.be

Belly - Gepetto youtu.be

Sneaker Pimps - 6 Underground youtu.be

Belly - Super Connected (wrong link earlier) youtu.be

SNEAKER PIMPS! Yes!!!! That's the one where the girl sounds like Joey Lauren Adams!!

4 Non Blondes - What's going on?

Mazzy Star - Fade Into You youtu.be

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Mazzy Star and 4 Non Blondes, amen.

Siouxsie and the Banshees - Kiss Them for Me

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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!

Letters to Cleo - Here and Now

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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.

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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. youtu.be

Sleep to Dream! youtu.be

Throwing Muses - Bright Yellow Gun youtu.be

10,000 Maniacs - These are Days youtu.be

Sleater-Kenney - Jumpers

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Sonic Youth - Kool Thing

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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.

Joan Jett.

Patty Smythe and Scandal - I am the Warrior

^ this thread is gen x edition. Party Smythe was a boomer

Belinda Carlisle

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Tiffany

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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.

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.

Tiffany; scroll down for photos:

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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.

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Belinda Carlisle lead singer of the Go Go's

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I remember one song "we got big feet" or something

Actually in The Rock Hall of Fame

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Chrissy Hynde.

There are only two legit female rockers

Lita Ford and Pat Benatar

HM to Ann and Nancy Wilson

Yeah lotta good music in there.

Who are the rocker chicks today? crickets

@ Muddy - Listen yourself to some Octane...

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

Just to name a few.....

“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.”

I'm glad someone got it.... :)

Thanks Shai

Consolidated (featuring the Yeastie Girls) - You Suck

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@ Shai: One of those "Excuse me, while I kiss this guy" songs....

One more of today's rock chicks: Courtney LaPlante of Spiritbox

And this babe. She plays lead when Alice Cooper tours; saw the show up in Canada; fantastic:

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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.