Y'see, you're not pretending at all there.

Some of these bands are great. Others just have a few good songs. I could up the mix if needed. Also there is a comp/series called Girls In The Garage which is pretty good.

BORT COMPILATION # 15
BORT HITS ON CHICKS VOLUME: BLACK EYE

1. L7 - shove
2. muffs - agony
3. prissteens - the hound
4. beautys - some things never change
5. lunachicks - jerk of all trades
6. wives - wives
7. bikini kill - new radio
8. grown ups - nick and nick
9. 7 year bitch - 8-ball deluxe
10. rondelles - revenge!
11. team dresch - freewheel
12. butchies - more rock more talk
13. buck - sucker
14. squatweiler - john henry
15. tilt - leanin like a barn
16. veruca salt - shimmer
17. dickless - the c word
18. jack acid - parents are really weird
19. bratmobile - die
20. the need - american woman

I saw them live way back when. So awesome, and yet so terrible.

Then I guess you're not going to elaborate on this statement, either.

Veruca Salt is one of my favorite all girl bands. American Thighs is a great record.

Awesome, thanks.

props to Bort for getting Team Dresch in the discussion. Anything from Chainsaw records is worth a look.

And I'm with Rads on The Donnas; great when they were trying pretty successfully to be the grrrl Ramones. Beyond awful when they moved on to being Motley Crue-AC/DC with menstrual cycles.

was veruca salt ever an all-girl band? nina's brother was the original drummer. and when he left, a guy named stacy joined the band. and then at some point there was another drummer named jimmy. and now the guitar player's a guy.

I typed that bit without thinking, I meant mostly girl band.

So I'm listening to some Runaways songs... I guess it had been too long since I'd heard "Cherry Bomb". Yeah, I think they're a good suggestion. (Sorry to doubt you there, Todd.) Still a little more '70s hard rock than I like, but there's no real reason not to include them.

And guys - mostly girl still counts. More girls than guys. (So yeah, X-Ray Spex shouldn't be on my original list, I know.)

candy slice

anyway, in case you couldn't tell, that mix is super old. some of my current favorites

Full Of Fancy - their album Sweet Baby Jesus made my year end list in '07 and I probably love it more now than I did back then.

Listen to Polly-O String Theory on myspace - http://www.myspace.com/fulloffancy

I was at this show!



The Soviettes - I don't know anything about them but their albums I, II, III (IV is forthcoming) are all great.

Fanny

when i saw them in '03 or '04, a band called n-factorial opened. soviettes' singer is a math teacher, so she was real into that opener.

Now that you've destroyed my lack of record sales definer, I'm completely lost. Sleater Kinney sounds 100% more hard rock than the Runaways to me.

If the Go-Gos are included, why not the Bangles?

They're making a movie about the Runaways as we speak.

Were The Bangles originally a punk band? Honest question - haven't looked them up yet.

Look, I'm not saying "definitely not" for anything, and I wasn't saying that for The Runaways. You wanna dispute anything I've said, that's great, but don't make it out like I've made this impossibly confusing. OK, so you think Sleater-Kinney sounds more hard rock and The Runaways. Alright. To me, The Runaways, while amateurish, still carry the '70s hard rock sound pretty heavily. Sleater-Kinney is more punk-informed '90s alt-rock, but maybe that's essentially the same thing.

If you want to actually - gasp - turn this into a discussion by disputing other people's claims and asserting your own opinion of what this should be, that's great. That's exactly what I was trying to do. Please don't act like I'm somehow making that too difficult or painful for you.

Already filmed, LRR. Have seen the trailer for it multiple times. Kristen Stewart & Dakota Fanning* star.

*So close to legal.

Heart

New York Dolls

Relax Drink. I didn't mean to make it seem like it was too difficult or painful - I was really just fecking around with what seems like very arbitrary categorical limitations. No harm intended. I think the B-52s should count because their contributor with a penis is less male than any of the girls in the bands mentioned.

SK sound punk the same way Pearl Jam sound punk.

I would not classify The Bangles as punk, myself. But, to the point above... if the Go-Gos are, then, why not?
But, they are all girls. And that first record is great.

Didn't Malc McLaren have some all female Dolls type band at some point? Who am I thinking of?

Really? Even their earlier stuff? Granted, I haven't listened to any of that in a really, really long time, so maybe they do.