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Feministy music

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DemisRoussos · 01/10/2014 11:35

Hello all. I'm prompted to write this post as my personal circs have recently changed, meaning that I am spending much more time listening to music in the car and while working at home (aka MNing). I've also been learning a little about the Women's Liberation Music Archive.

I would love to know what songs/pieces of music inspire you in a feministy way, partly to enable me to create some new Spotify playlists, but also because it's always fascinating and a real privilege to read about other people's personal relationship with music.

"Feministy music" can be defined anyway you like. For me, it's not just music with overtly feminist lyrics, but perhaps songs where a knowledge of the performer's life adds an extra emotional impact to their performance or a sense of connection, or maybe songs sung from a uniquely female perspective? Maybe even songs that just make you want to high-kick around the kitchen and make you feel braver about facing the world in some way? I don't think it matters if the original context of the song is un-feministy.

I'll go first:

and

All together now: "don't wanna see your face, don't wanna hear your words, why don't you just (f* off)" Grin
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DemisRoussos · 04/10/2014 21:17

Thanks, Elizabeth Mitchell has gone down very well with the DCs

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gamescompendium · 03/10/2014 18:19

Katy Perry Roar
Joan Jett I love Rock n Roll

Not explicitly feminist but if you want folky music for kids Elizabeth Mitchell is great.

DemisRoussos · 03/10/2014 09:29

Any particular Morrissey tracks? I must admit, as a former Smiths-obsessed teenager, I've been put off a bit in recent years by how much of a total pillock he seems to be Smile

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gabrielleagogo · 02/10/2014 22:04

Morrissey!

DemisRoussos · 02/10/2014 12:06

Yes and you can store music offline on a phone/iPad and listen when you have no internet (like in the car). Amazeballs Grin

Honestly it's saved me so much money (tho obvs you don't own the music forever like you do with CDs)

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QisforQcumber · 02/10/2014 11:19

For £9.99 I can stream and play anywhere and I even get a 30 day free trial. Is this real? Why do I not know about this?[Outoftouchsmiley] Thank you Demis Thanks

DemisRoussos · 02/10/2014 10:48

Q - you need to get on Spotify! It's saved me a fortune Smile

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DemisRoussos · 02/10/2014 10:47

Yes Peggy Seeger, I have recently been listening to a lot of her stuff (and my DDs seem to really like it too). We've spent the last two summers listening to a lot of Fishermen's Friends, which the kids love singing along to but there are some dodgy lyrics about visiting women in different ports etc so not ideal from a feminist pov. Young kids generally like folk, don't they? Songs that tell a story.

Haven't listened to all suggested artists yet but so far am really enjoying Mary Prankster Smile

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QisforQcumber · 02/10/2014 09:06

Have we had Bad Reputation - Joan Jett?. My itunes account is taking a hammering here, please keep them coming Blush

falafelburger · 02/10/2014 02:23

Very old skool, but Gonna Be An Engineer by Peggy Seeger is brilliant, as is tons of other stuff by her, and she provides a family connection with the wonderful Kirsty MacColl.

If you want something well intentioned but toe-curlingly awful, then rev up Right On Sister by the Tom Robinson Band.

I'm showing my age.

DemisRoussos · 01/10/2014 21:55

Hmm, not possible to change Spotify username, don't want to out myself, so can't share the playlist Hmm

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MiniTheMinx · 01/10/2014 18:55

PJ Harvey - man size,

YonicScrewdriver · 01/10/2014 18:51
Grin

Second Feed The Tree

Echo belly - Great Things

DemisRoussos · 01/10/2014 18:15

I so need to put all these tracks on a cassette and hand draw an inlay card Grin

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MoreCrackThanHarlem · 01/10/2014 18:03

Bikini Kill- Rebel Girl or Don't need you
Huggy Bear- Her Jazz
Hole- My Beautiful Son
Liz Phair- 6ft1
PJ Harvey- Sheela-na-gig
Juliana Hatfield- Dame with a rod
Belly- Feed the Tree
L7- Shitlist

TheWanderingUterus · 01/10/2014 17:51

Bat for lashes-
Glass

Skunk Anansie-

Weak
Brazen- weep
twisted- everyday hurts

TheWanderingUterus · 01/10/2014 17:45

Hard to narrow it down but:

Veruca Salt -
So Weird
Volcano Girls

The Gits - Second Skin

Suffrajets -
Worthy
Feel it

Bastard Fairies - Dirty Sexy kill Kill

Firstaidkit- My silver Lining

Pink-

stupid Girls
Raise your Glass
Fucking Perfect
so what
conversations with my 13 year old self

Queenadreena - suck

The Donnas - Dancing with Myself (cover)

Meredith Brooks - Bitch

Juliette and the Licks- Sticky Honey

Divinyls- I touch myself

Lush - ladykillers

Neko Case- Pretty Girls

PenguinsIsSleepDeprived · 01/10/2014 17:37

Not inspire as in uplifting, but inspire as in 'give a kick up the arse'. Chocolate Girl by Deacon Blue.

crossparsley · 01/10/2014 17:28

Not overtly political, but Nanci Griffith, especially The Last of the True Believers album - very real somehow. Iris Dement, Infamous Angel and the album after that, sorry can't remember the name. Both of them have what some would consider "challenging" voices, but to me they sound lovely and true.

Harper Valley PTA - Jeannie C Reilly
Irma Thomas - ooh anything, but Times Have Changed is an anthem

YonicScrewdriver · 01/10/2014 17:24

Book marking whilst I find you a previous relevant thread.

PetulaGordino · 01/10/2014 17:15

but not "underneath it all"

FuckOffWeasel · 01/10/2014 17:11

No Doubt- Just a girl.

DemisRoussos · 01/10/2014 16:34

Would those who have recommended artists rather than tracks like to suggest a particular song to go on the playlist?

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DemisRoussos · 01/10/2014 16:32

Thanks for more suggestions, the more the merrier! No-one is intruding at all, quite the opposite.

Once kids are in bed I'll set up a public Spotify playlist and will report back when it's done.

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