Great music by women

Given that you might well enjoyed my offering.

Thanks for that MotherPeresA I didn't know about her! What a fucking great song

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Apologies if she's already been mentioned (I doubt she has) but you should check out Teri GenderBender. I've met and she's amazing, and a real feminist rocker. She performs as Les Butcherettes.

conversationswithbianca.com/2013/10/25/teri-gender-bender-interview/

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Never a bad time to listen to this

Just looking for a protector
God never reached out in time
There's love, there is a saviour
But that ain't no love of mine

Not enough appreciation for this wonderful song:

(By cool I mean gazing into a camera normally).

Tracy Chapman.
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Was it never enough that we should simply want to be together?
Was it never enough that we should simply want to be together?
Together, together, together

And the person in London Grammar I mean is their talent and the woman. She is magnificent.

Nina Simone is one of my mother's favourites.
Laura Marling has some great music!
London Grammar - singer songwriter is from near me and went to school 2 minutes away from where I live (plus, more importantly, very talented)
Wolf Alice - even better

Time to die
Time to kill
Time will fly
Time will heal
All for love
All for you
God's a judge
Love is true

I'm listening to the first Bananarama album ("Deep Sea Skiving") for the first time in years. It's worth a listen - more New Wave meets girl group than their later, SAW stuff.

The Belle Starrs were from the same period, and are also worth a listen.

there is brilliant collaborative work amongst women in the country/alt country/bluegrass music scene.

Thanks Lass and for the suggestions! Though I have a genre I mainly listen to I still enjoy songs in a variety (and have discovered some fantastic ones thanks to this thread) and that's exactly the sort of thing I love hearing about and discovering. Looking forward to listening to those songs and am keen to hear more about the artists!

My favourite Joni Mitchell songs...

Both 'Both Sides Now'

Help Me:

For Free and Rainy Night House from Ladies of the Canyon

NoLove It's probably not really your thing but there is brilliant collaborative work amongst women in the country/alt country/bluegrass music scene.

Emmylou Harris , Linda Ronstadt ,Bonnie Raitt and Dolly Parton have been friends for decades and there are other wonderful women such as Iris DeMent, Gillian Welsh, and Alison Krause who all work together.

Harris and Ronstadt were part of the LA Laurel Canyon scene in the 70s along with the likes of Joni Mitchell, Jackson Browne, The Eagles, James Taylor and Crosby, Stills and Nash.

Joni Mitchell however was a bit of a "man's woman" and never worked collaboratively with the other women.

Soapy Water is fantastic. One of their less well known songs, but is wonderful. Have you heard Silk? This is a wonderful performance of it:

She is. This is another song she wrote (she was already a prolific singer/songwriter at 13): she is on the piano and sings the first verse

Oh I see why you were asking about Trainspotting. I liked Soapy Water. I hadn't heard it before.

Alice is the friend you have mentioned before? Very, very sad.

I live in Scotland but I don't think of myself as a Scotswoman. I'm one of the minority of people who tick "British" on forms rather than Scottish !

Interesting! I would probably tick "Londoner" on such a form if I got the chance in future!

Regarding Trainspotting the books are very good I think. I like the films as well but I'm biased with the second as it culminates with "Silk" by Wolf Alice (who I am quite eveidently obsessed with).

Lass, as a Scotswoman (I think), do you like the Trainspotting films?

I saw the first one and it is clever and funny but I didn't like it. I didn't see the second one.

I've never read any Irvine Welsh. I'm told he was brilliant in the first book but it has been downhill ever since to a cesspool of coarseness and misogyny.

As a person I dislike him a lot. He made a fortune out of recounting tales of the Edinburgh underclass and then decamped to Amsterdam and New York where he lectures people like me (whom he despises) about the elitism of the Edinburgh Festival and why Scotland should be independent.

I live in Scotland but I don't think of myself as a Scotswoman. I'm one of the minority of people who tick "British" on forms rather than Scottish !